Physicists and astronomers

Steven A. Kivelson

Steven A. Kivelson is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist, the Prabhu Goel Family Professor at Stanford University, known for work on stripes and electronic liquid-crystal phases in doped Mott insulators.

Steven Balbus

Steven Balbus is an American astrophysicist at Oxford who showed in 1991 that weak magnetic fields make accretion disks turbulent, sharing the 2013 Shaw Prize.

Steven C. Erwin

Steven C. Erwin is an American theoretical physicist at the US Naval Research Laboratory who works on semiconductor surfaces and doped nanocrystals, known for a 2005 Nature paper.

Steven Chu

Steven Chu, also known as Zhu Diwen, is an American physicist who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for cooling and trapping atoms with laser light.

Steven Cowley

Sir Steven Cowley is a British theoretical physicist studying plasma turbulence who directs the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and led the UK Atomic Energy Authority from 2009 to 2016.

Steven E. Koonin

Steven E. Koonin is an American theoretical physicist who was Caltech's provost from 1995 to 2004, BP's chief scientist, and the Department of Energy's Under Secretary for Science.

Steven G. Louie

Steven G. Louie is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist and nanoscientist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for the ab initio GW method.

Steven Girvin

Steven M. Girvin is an American theoretical physicist, Sterling Professor at Yale since 2024, known for the fractional quantum Hall effect and circuit QED, the standard superconducting quantum computer architecture.

Steven Peil

Steven Peil is a physicist who, with Gerald Gabrielse at Harvard, demonstrated quantum jumps of a one-electron cyclotron in 1999, the platform behind the most precise electron magnetic moment measurements.

Steven R. Furlanetto

Steven R. Furlanetto is a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA whose research centers on cosmic reionization, the first galaxies, and the hydrogen 21-centimeter signal.

Steven R. White

Steven R. White is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of California, Irvine, known as the inventor of the density matrix renormalization group, published in 1992.

Steven Squyres

Steven W. Squyres is an American planetary scientist who served nearly twenty years as principal investigator for the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, then became Blue Origin's chief scientist in 2019.

Steven T. Cundiff

Steven T. Cundiff is an American experimental physicist in ultrafast optics and spectroscopy, a University of Michigan professor since 2015 and a JILA fellow known for frequency combs and multidimensional coherent spectroscopy.

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (1933–2021) was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for unifying the weak and electromagnetic forces and helped build the Standard Model.

Stewart E. Miller

Stewart E. Miller is an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs known for his 1969 introduction of integrated optics and his systems research toward optical-fiber transmission.

Stijn Wuyts

Stijn Wuyts is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Bath, holding the Hiroko Sherwin Chair in Extragalactic Astronomy and studying galaxy formation and evolution.

Stirling Colgate

Stirling Colgate (1925–2013) was an American physicist and astrophysicist who led Castle Bravo diagnostics, modeled core-collapse supernovae, and proposed Type I supernovae as standard candles for cosmology.

Stuart D. Bale

Stuart D. Bale is an American space physicist, professor at UC Berkeley and head of its Space Sciences Laboratory, known for research on solar-wind turbulence and magnetic reconnection.

Stuart J. Freedman

Stuart J. Freedman was an American experimental nuclear and particle physicist at UC Berkeley, best known for the first test of Bell's inequality and for leading neutrino experiments.

Stuart L. Shapiro

Stuart L. Shapiro is an American theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a pioneer of numerical relativity who co-developed the BSSN formulation and won the 2017 Hans A. Bethe Prize.

Stuart Parkin

Stuart Parkin is a British-born physicist who pioneered spintronic materials, winning the 2014 Millennium Technology Prize and directing the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics.

Stuart Wyithe

Stuart Wyithe, also known as J. Stuart B. Wyithe, is an Australian theoretical astrophysicist who studies the earliest galaxies and supermassive black holes, and is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at ANU.

Subir Sachdev

Subir Sachdev is a condensed matter theorist, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard, known for quantum phase transitions, quantum magnetism, and the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of metals without quasiparticles.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), known as Chandra, was an Indian-born American astrophysicist at the University of Chicago who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Sudip Chakravarty

Sudip Chakravarty is a condensed matter theorist, Distinguished Professor of Physics at UCLA since 1989, known for explaining the bell-shaped transition-temperature curve of copper oxide superconductors.

Sukyoung K. Yi

Sukyoung K. Yi (이석영) is a South Korean astrophysicist and Underwood Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, known for the widely used Yonsei–Yale (Y2) stellar isochrones.

Sulayman al-Mahri

Sulayman al-Mahri (سليمان المهري) was a Yemeni sea captain and nautical astronomer from Shihr, active in the early 16th century, counted the second Arab navigational geographer after Ahmad ibn Majid.

Supriyo Datta

Supriyo Datta is an electrical engineer and Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor at Purdue University whose group pioneered the NEGF method for quantum transport and proposed the Datta–Das spin transistor.

Suraj N. Gupta

Suraj N. Gupta, also Suraj Narayan Gupta, was an Indian-born theoretical physicist who created the Gupta–Bleuler formalism in 1950 and quantized the gravitational field in 1952.