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Kenneth Bainbridge
Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (1904–1996) was an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for designing precision mass spectrographs and for directing the Trinity test, the first nuclear detonation, in 1945.
Kenneth C. Kulander
Kenneth C. Kulander was an American computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who pioneered numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for atoms in intense laser fields.
Kenneth Case
Kenneth Case (1923–2006) was an American theoretical physicist known for work in neutron transport theory and plasma physics, and for wartime service on the Manhattan Project.
Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth G. Wilson (Kenneth Geddes Wilson) was an American theoretical physicist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of critical phenomena and phase transitions.
Kenneth George Budden
Kenneth George Budden (1915–2005) was a British theoretical physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, a leading contributor to magnetoionic theory at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.
Kenneth Greisen
Kenneth Greisen (1918–2007) was an American experimental cosmic-ray physicist at Cornell University who predicted the GZK cutoff in 1966 and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Kenneth J. Schafer
Kenneth J. Schafer is a theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physicist at Louisiana State University known for foundational work in strong-field physics, high-harmonic generation, and attosecond pulses.
Kenneth Kellermann
Kenneth Kellermann (born 1937) is an American radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory who helped develop very long baseline interferometry and led the Very Long Baseline Array.
Kenneth L. Walker
Kenneth L. Walker is an American optical fiber engineer who spent 21 years at Bell Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
Kenneth Martin O'Hara
Kenneth Martin O'Hara is an American experimental atomic physicist, formerly Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, known for ultracold fermionic lithium-6 gases, Efimov physics, and a 2005 PECASE award.
Kenneth Mees
Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1882–1960) was a British-born photographic scientist who founded and directed the Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York, from 1912 until his retirement in 1955.
Kenneth Ross MacKenzie
Kenneth Ross MacKenzie (1912–2002) was an American experimental physicist at UCLA who co-discovered astatine in 1940, engineered cyclotron radiofrequency systems, and created the MacKenzie bucket plasma source.
Kenneth S. Schweizer
Kenneth S. Schweizer is an American materials theorist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for PRISM, his 1987 statistical mechanical theory of polymer melts.
Kenneth Watson (physicist)
Kenneth Marshall Watson (1921–2023) was an American theoretical physicist, a UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, known for scattering theory.
Kensuke Hirata
Kensuke Hirata is a Japanese physicist at the University of Tokyo who was first author of Kamiokande-II's landmark papers on the 1987 supernova neutrino burst and solar neutrinos.
Kent Ford (astronomer)
W. Kent Ford Jr. (April 8, 1931 – June 18, 2023) was an American astronomer and instrumentalist at Carnegie's DTM whose image-tube spectrograph enabled Vera Rubin's evidence for dark matter.
Kerry J. Vahala
Kerry J. Vahala is an American applied physicist and electrical engineer at Caltech, known for ultra-high-Q optical microresonators on semiconductor chips, optical frequency microcombs, and cavity optomechanics.
Kerson Huang
Kerson Huang (1928–2016) was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist and MIT professor emeritus whose 1957 hard-sphere Bose gas work with C. N. Yang produced the Lee–Huang–Yang correction, and whose statistical mechanics textbooks remained in worldwide use.
Kevin Zahnle
Kevin Zahnle is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center since 1988, known for photochemical modeling of planetary atmospheres, impact processes, and atmospheric escape.
Kian Ping Loh
Kian Ping Loh, known as Professor Loh Kian Ping, is a Singapore-based chemist at the National University of Singapore working on graphene and two-dimensional materials.
Kin Fai Mak
Kin Fai Mak is a condensed matter experimental physicist known for studies of atomically thin 2D materials and, since 2024, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.
Kinsey Anderson
Kinsey Anderson (1926–2012) was an American space physicist and UC Berkeley professor who built balloon, rocket, and satellite instruments to study Earth's aurora, solar flares, and the solar wind.
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who co-founded the LIGO project and shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct observation of gravitational waves.
Kishan Dholakia
Kishan Dholakia is an optical physicist and biophotonics researcher at the University of Adelaide known for using shaped light beams to trap and image microscopic particles.
Klaas‐Jan Tielrooij
Klaas-Jan Tielrooij is a nanoscientist who leads the Ultrafast Dynamics in Nanoscale Systems group, founded at ICN2 in Barcelona in 2018, and became Full Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2026.
Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs (Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs, 1911–1988) was a German-born theoretical physicist who passed atomic bomb secrets from Los Alamos to the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1949.
Klaus Hepp
Klaus Hepp (born 1936) is a theoretical physicist, professor at ETH Zurich from 1967 to 2002, known for a rigorous proof of the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk renormalization theorem.
Klaus Kern
Klaus Kern is a German physicist who directs the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and won the 2008 Leibniz Prize for his work on nanostructures.
Klaus Mølmer
Klaus Mølmer is a Danish theoretical physicist in quantum optics and professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, known for the Mølmer–Sørensen gate for trapped ions.
Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing, born in 1943, is a German physicist who discovered the quantum Hall effect in 1980 and received the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for it.