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Knut Ångström
Knut Ångström (1857–1910) was a Swedish physicist at Uppsala University who built the standard instruments for measuring solar radiation, and whose 1900 carbon dioxide experiment set back greenhouse climate theory for decades.
Knut Lundmark
Knut Lundmark was a Swedish astronomer who pioneered extragalactic distance measurement, published the first velocity–distance diagram for spiral nebulae, and directed Lund Observatory from 1929.
Knut Urban
Knut Urban, born 1941 in Stuttgart, is a German physicist at Forschungszentrum Jülich who made aberration-corrected electron microscopy practical, winning the Wolf and Kavli prizes.
Koen Vandewal
Koen Vandewal is a Belgian physicist and full professor at Hasselt University, where he chairs the physics department and is known for quantifying voltage losses in organic solar cells.
Koichi Mizushima
Koichi Mizushima (水島公一) is a Japanese physicist who, in John Goodenough's Oxford laboratory in 1980, discovered the lithium cobalt oxide cathode on which the lithium-ion battery rests.
Kōichirō Nishikawa
Kōichirō Nishikawa (西川公一郎; 1949–2018) was a Japanese particle physicist who pioneered long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, proposing and leading K2K and founding T2K, work honored by the Breakthrough Prize.
Konrad Bleuler
Konrad Bleuler (1912–1992) was a Swiss physicist and mathematician, professor of theoretical physics at Bonn, known for the Gupta–Bleuler formalism for quantizing the electromagnetic field.
Konstantin Batygin
Konstantin Batygin, born in Moscow in 1986, is a Caltech professor of planetary science best known for the Planet Nine hypothesis, proposing a distant unseen planet.
Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov, also known as Kostya Novoselov, is a Russian-British physicist who isolated graphene at Manchester in 2004, winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Andre Geim.
Konstantin Y. Bliokh
Konstantin Y. Bliokh is a theoretical physicist working on spin–orbit interactions of light and wave momentum, an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Centre since 2024.
Kornelius Nielsch
Kornelius Nielsch is a German physicist and materials scientist, born in Hamburg in 1973, who directs the Institute for Metallic Materials at IFW Dresden and teaches at TU Dresden.
Kostas Kostarelos
Kostas Kostarelos is a nanomedicine researcher and professor in Barcelona and Manchester, known for liposomes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene as medical materials and for analyzing the nanoscale COVID-19 vaccines.
Kostya Ostrikov
Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov is a physicist who pioneered the field of plasma nanoscience, using low-temperature plasmas for nanotechnology, and has been a professor at Queensland University of Technology since 2015.
Kotaro Honda
Kotaro Honda (本多光太郎), 1870 to 1954, was a Japanese physicist and metallurgist who invented KS magnet steel in 1917, the strongest permanent-magnet material of its time.
Kristian Birkeland
Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) was a Norwegian physicist whose 1896 solar-particle theory of the aurora founded space plasma physics, and who co-invented the Birkeland–Eyde nitrogen fixation process behind Norsk Hydro's fertilizer industry.
Krzysztof Belczyński
Krzysztof Belczyński was a Polish theoretical astrophysicist who predicted stellar black hole masses and merger rates later confirmed by the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.
Krzysztof Gawedzki
Krzysztof Gawedzki, also Krzysztof Gawędzki, was a Polish-French mathematical physicist at ENS Lyon who proved the first intermittency results in turbulence and shared the 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize.
Krzysztof Pachucki
Krzysztof Pachucki is a Polish theoretical physicist at the University of Warsaw whose 1996 Lamb-shift theory for muonic hydrogen enabled extracting the proton charge radius from spectroscopy.
Kunioki Mima
Kunioki Mima (三間 圀興, 1945–2025) was a Japanese plasma physicist who co-discovered the Hasegawa–Mima equation, directed Osaka University's Institute of Laser Engineering, and won the Hannes Alfvén and Edward Teller prizes.
Kurt Binder
Kurt Binder (1944–2022) was an Austrian statistical physicist who pioneered Monte Carlo simulation as a tool of theoretical physics, introduced the Binder cumulant, and won the Boltzmann Medal.
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer, born 1956, is a German statistical physicist who developed the Kremer-Grest bead-spring model and led polymer theory at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Kurt Lehovec
Kurt Lehovec was a Bohemian-born American physicist who patented p–n junction isolation, letting many transistors share one silicon die, and helped explain the first LEDs.
Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik (1923–1983) was a German theoretical physicist who shaped quantum field theory through the LSZ formalism and the Callan–Symanzik equation, winning the 1981 Max Planck Medal.
Kyle Cranmer
Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose statistical framework enabled the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.
Kyle M. Shen
Kyle M. Shen is a Canadian-American condensed matter physicist at Cornell University, where he directs LASSP and combines oxide molecular beam epitaxy with ARPES to create and probe quantum materials.
L. Jan Anton Koster
L. Jan Anton Koster is a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen, full professor of novel semiconductors and devices since 2022, studying organic semiconductor charge transport.
Ladislaus Laszlo Marton
Ladislaus Laszlo Marton (1901–1979) was a Hungarian-born physicist who built one of the first electron microscopes in Brussels and recorded the first biological electron microscope images in 1934.
Ladislaus Marton
Ladislaus Marton (1901–1979 or 1980) was a Hungarian-born physicist who took the first electron micrographs of biological material and warned in 1934 that electron beams destroy cells.
Lan Yang
Lan Yang is an electrical engineer and Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, working in nanophotonics and plasmonics.
Lapo Bogani
Lapo Bogani is an Italian experimental physicist and chemist working on molecular magnetism, molecular spintronics, and graphene nanoribbon quantum devices, chair at the University of Florence since 2023.