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Lyman James Briggs
Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963) was an American physicist who directed the National Bureau of Standards from 1933 to 1945 and chaired the Advisory Committee on Uranium.
Lyman Page
Lyman Page, born 1957, is an experimental cosmologist and Princeton professor who measures the cosmic microwave background, co-investigated the WMAP satellite, and founded the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
Lyman Spitzer
Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University who proposed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1946, invented the stellarator fusion device, and is the namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Lyn Evans
Lyn Evans, full name Lyndon Rees Evans, is a Welsh accelerator physicist born in 1945 who designed and led the 14-year construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Lynford L. Goddard
Lynford L. Goddard is an American electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working on lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and sensors, and a 2008 PECASE recipient.
M. Brian Maple
M. Brian Maple, full name Merrill Brian Maple, is an American experimental condensed matter physicist at UC San Diego known for research on superconductivity and magnetism.
M. Cristina Marchetti
M. Cristina Marchetti is an Italian-born American theoretical physicist, a founder of the field of active matter, and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara since 2018.
M. J. Seaton
M. J. Seaton, full name Michael John Seaton (1923–2007), was a British atomic physicist and astronomer who spent his career at University College London and is called the "Father of Atomic Astrophysics".
M. Stanley Livingston
M. Stanley Livingston (Milton Stanley Livingston, 1905–1986) was an American accelerator physicist who co-invented the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence and helped demonstrate strong focusing in 1952.
M. Suhail Zubairy
M. Suhail Zubairy, born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1952, is a University Distinguished Professor of physics at Texas A&M University known for quantum optics research and a graduate textbook.
M. van der Klis
Michiel van der Klis, born 1953, is a Dutch astrophysicist who discovered quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries and was professor at the University of Amsterdam.
M. Zahid Hasan
M. Zahid Hasan is a condensed matter physicist and Eugene Higgins Professor at Princeton University, known for the experimental discovery of topological insulators and Weyl semimetals.
Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (1929–2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer at Caltech who in 1963 identified the redshift of 3C 273, showing that quasars are distant, extraordinarily luminous objects.
Maciej Lewenstein
Maciej Lewenstein, born in Warsaw in 1955, is a Polish theoretical physicist in quantum optics and ultracold atoms, best known for the 1994 Lewenstein model of high-harmonic generation.
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Maggie Aderin-Pocock, born Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock in 1968, is a British space scientist who co-presents the BBC's The Sky at Night and was made a Dame in 2024.
Mahito Kohmoto
Mahito Kohmoto is a Japanese condensed matter physicist at the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, co-author of the 1982 TKNN paper explaining quantized Hall conductance topologically.
Maiken H. Mikkelsen
Maiken H. Mikkelsen, also known as Maiken Mikkelsen, is a physicist who leads nanophotonics research at Duke University, known for plasmonic nanoantennas and ultrafast single-photon sources.
Majed Chergui
Majed Chergui is a Moroccan-born physicist recognized for pioneering ultrafast X-ray and deep-UV spectroscopy. He is Professor Emeritus at EPFL and leads the CHIRAX project in Trieste, Italy.
Maki Kawai
Maki Kawai is a Japanese surface chemist known for single-molecule studies with the scanning tunneling microscope and president of Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences since 2022.
Makoto Kobayashi
Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese particle theorist, born in Nagoya in 1944, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting a third family of quarks.
Makoto Miyoshi
Makoto Miyoshi is a Japanese radio astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, first author of the 1995 Nature paper that weighed the black hole in galaxy NGC 4258.
Malcolm A LeCompte
Malcolm A. LeCompte is an American scientist, former Naval flight officer, and co-director of the Comet Research Group, a principal researcher in the Younger Dryas impact debate.
Malcolm Longair
Malcolm Longair (born 1941) is a Scottish astronomer and high energy astrophysicist who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland and headed the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005.
Malcolm R. Beasley
Malcolm R. Beasley, born 1940, is an American condensed matter physicist known for work on superconductivity in thin films, for SQUID magnetometers, and for leadership roles at Stanford University.
Malte C. Gather
Malte C. Gather is a German physicist working on organic electronics and biophotonics, known for creating the first biological living laser from a single cell.
Malvin Ruderman
Malvin Ruderman (1927–2024) was an American astrophysicist at Columbia University, best known for showing that neutron stars have solid crusts and explaining pulsar glitches as starquakes.
Mandar M. Deshmukh
Mandar M. Deshmukh, also known as Mandar Deshmukh, is an Indian condensed matter physicist at TIFR Mumbai, a 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner working on 2D materials.
Manfred Sigrist
Manfred Sigrist is a Swiss theoretical condensed matter physicist, now an emeritus professor at ETH Zurich, best known for his 1998 theory of time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in Sr2RuO4.
Manijeh Razeghi
Manijeh Razeghi is an Iranian-born physicist and electrical engineer who pioneered MOCVD growth of III-V semiconductors, produced the first commercial fiber-optic telecom lasers, and leads Northwestern's Center for Quantum Devices.
Manne Siegbahn
Manne Siegbahn, full name Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn, was a Swedish physicist who won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research in X-ray spectroscopy at Lund and Uppsala.