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Jürgen P. Rabe
Jürgen P. Rabe is a German experimental physicist, professor of the physics of macromolecules at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 1994 and founding director of IRIS Adlershof.
Juri Poutanen
Juri Poutanen is a Finnish astronomer, professor and director of Tuorla Observatory at the University of Turku, working on accreting black holes and X-ray polarimetry.
Juri Toomre
Juri Toomre is an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a JILA fellow since 1974, known for research on the Sun's interior through convection, dynamos, and helioseismology.
Justin C. Kasper
Justin C. Kasper is an experimental space plasma physicist who led the SWEAP instrument on NASA's Parker Solar Probe and won a 2010 PECASE award.
Justin J. Hagerty
Justin J. Hagerty is an American geoscientist specializing in lunar geochemistry and remote sensing who directed the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, from 2018 to 2024.
Justin Stevens
Justin Stevens is an American nuclear physicist at William & Mary who won the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award and leads GlueX detector work at Jefferson Lab.
K. Alex Müller
K. Alex Müller (Karl Alexander Müller) was a Swiss physicist at IBM Zurich who co-discovered high-temperature superconductivity in 1986 and won the 1987 Nobel Prize.
K. Birgitta Whaley
K. Birgitta Whaley (K. B. Whaley), born 1956, is an American-based theoretical chemical physicist at UC Berkeley, director of its Quantum Information and Computation Center, known for decoherence-free subspaces.
K. Ferdinand Braun
K. Ferdinand Braun (Karl Ferdinand Braun) was a German physicist who invented the cathode-ray tube and shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marconi.
K. Uno Ingard
K. Uno Ingard, born Karl Uno Ingard (1921–2014), was a Swedish-born physicist and acoustician who spent his career at MIT working in acoustics and plasma physics.
Kai M. Siegbahn
Kai M. Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist at Uppsala University who won half of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing high-resolution electron spectroscopy, known as ESCA.
Kai Zuber
Kai Zuber is a German experimental nuclear and neutrino physicist, professor at TU Dresden, who proposed the COBRA experiment in 2001 and shared the 2016 Breakthrough Prize for neutrino physics.
Kai‐Ming Ho
Kai-Ming Ho is a condensed matter physicist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University and a senior scientist at Ames Laboratory, known for the first complete three-dimensional photonic band gap.
Kam-Biu Luk
Kam-Biu Luk (陸錦標) is an experimental particle physicist who co-led the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment, which made the first definitive measurement of θ13 in 2012.
Kamran Behnia
Kamran Behnia is a condensed-matter physicist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris who studies heat and charge transport in quantum materials, from bismuth to liquid helium-3.
Kang L. Wang
Kang L. Wang, also known as Kang Wang, is a Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for topological spintronics, using topological insulators to switch magnetization with small currents.
Kang-Kuen Ni
Kang-Kuen Ni is a Harvard professor of chemistry and physics known for creating the first ultracold gas of polar molecules and performing the first molecular quantum operations.
Karen Jean Meech
Karen Jean Meech is an American planetary astronomer and astrobiologist at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy, best known for leading the study of ʻOumuamua, the first known interstellar object.
Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan
Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan, known as K. S. Krishnan, was an Indian experimental physicist who co-discovered the Raman effect with C. V. Raman in 1928 and founded the National Physical Laboratory of India.
Karina Morgenstern
Karina Morgenstern is a German physical chemist, professor of Physical Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum since 2012, known for imaging and manipulating individual molecules on metal surfaces.
Karl Börjesson
Karl Börjesson, born 1982, is a professor of chemistry at the University of Gothenburg working at the border of chemistry and physics on strong exciton–photon coupling, triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion, and covalent organic framework films.
Karl Compton
Karl Compton (1887–1954) was an American physicist known for electron physics and photoelectric-effect research, a Princeton professor, and MIT's ninth president from 1930 to 1948.
Karl Friedrich Küstner
Karl Friedrich Küstner (1856–1936) was a German astronomer, director of the Bonn Observatory from 1891 to 1925, and the first to demonstrate the Earth's polar motion experimentally.
Karl Glazebrook
Karl Glazebrook, born 1965, is a British-born observational astronomer at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, known for establishing massive galaxies existed three billion years after the Big Bang.
Karl Gordon Henize
Karl Gordon Henize (1926–1993) was an American astronomer who compiled catalogs of southern-hemisphere emission-line stars and nebulae and flew on the 1985 Spacelab 2 shuttle mission.
Karl Herzfeld
Karl Herzfeld was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist who founded the relaxation theory of ultrasonic sound absorption, taught at the Catholic University of America, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1960.
Karl K. Berggren
Karl K. Berggren is an MIT electrical engineer working on superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors and nanofabrication; in 2025 he became faculty head of electrical engineering at MIT.
Karl Lark-Horovitz
Karl Lark-Horovitz, born Karl Horovitz (1892–1958), was an Austrian-born American physicist who built Purdue's physics department and whose germanium research laid groundwork for the transistor.
Karl Uno Ingard
Karl Uno Ingard, known as K. Uno Ingard, was a Swedish-born physicist and acoustician who spent his career at MIT, working in acoustics and plasma physics.
Kartik A. Srinivasan
Kartik A. Srinivasan is a NIST Fellow and physicist working on integrated quantum photonics, known for chip-based single-photon and entangled-photon sources, frequency combs, and the 2022 NIST Stratton Award.