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Manuel Bibes
Manuel Bibès (born 1976) is a French physicist and CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire Albert Fert, a pioneer of oxitronics who received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2025.
Manuel Cardona Castro
Manuel Cardona Castro (1934–2014) was a Spanish-born condensed matter physicist known for optical spectroscopy of solids and for founding the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.
Manuel Endres
Manuel Endres is a German-born experimental physicist, professor of physics at Caltech since 2021, who builds optical tweezer arrays of individually controlled atoms for quantum science.
Manuel Peimbert
Manuel Peimbert is a Mexican astronomer at UNAM known for work on planetary nebulae and the temperature-fluctuation (t²) formalism, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Mara Prentiss
Mara Prentiss, born 1959, is an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for creating atom lithography, which uses light to pattern atoms into features tens of nanometers wide.
Marc A. Kastner
Marc A. Kastner is a Canadian-born condensed matter physicist, Donner Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for pioneering the semiconductor single-electron transistor and its Kondo effect.
Marc Bockrath
Marc Bockrath is an experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at The Ohio State University, known for transport studies of carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Marc D Levenson
Marc D Levenson is an American physicist known for pioneering squeezed-light and quantum nondemolition experiments in optical fibers at IBM, and for the phase-shifting mask that improved optical lithography.
Marc Davis (astronomer)
Marc Davis is an American astronomer and cosmologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, who led the first galaxy redshift survey and co-led the DEEP surveys on the Keck telescopes.
Marc Henneaux
Marc Henneaux (born 1955) is a Belgian theoretical physicist who directed the International Solvay Institutes from 2004 and held the Collège de France chair in fields, strings, and gravity from 2020.
Marc Kamionkowski
Marc Kamionkowski is an American theoretical cosmologist, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1997 prediction that CMB polarization could reveal primordial gravitational waves.
Marc Mézard
Marc Mézard (born 1957) is a French theoretical physicist known for the cavity method, developed with Parisi and Virasoro, and a professor at Bocconi University since 2022.
Marc Victor Gorenstein
Marc Victor Gorenstein is an American astrophysicist who co-authored the 1977 detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole with George Smoot and Richard Muller at Berkeley.
Marcel Agueros
Marcel Agüeros is an American observational astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University who studies how the rotation and magnetic activity of low-mass stars change with age.
Marcel den Nijs
Marcel den Nijs is a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, co-author of the 1982 TKNN paper that explained the quantized Hall conductance using topological concepts.
Marcel Minnaert
Marcel Minnaert (1893–1970) was a Belgian-born Dutch astronomer who directed the Utrecht Observatory from 1937 to 1963 and created the Photometric Atlas of the Solar Spectrum.
Marcel Schein
Marcel Schein (1902–1960) was a Slovak-born American experimental physicist who became professor at the University of Chicago and studied cosmic rays and mesotron production with balloon flights.
Marcello Conversi
Marcello Conversi (1917–1988) was an Italian experimental physicist who led the 1946–47 Rome cosmic-ray experiment showing the muon is not the Yukawa nuclear-force particle, and later directed the building of CEP, the first Italian electronic computer.
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, is a Brazilian theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College who won the 2019 Templeton Prize and argues a theory of everything is impossible.
Marcia J. Rieke
Marcia J. Rieke, born 1951, is an American infrared astronomer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and principal investigator of the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam camera.
Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki
Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki (Martynas Počobutas-Odlianickis, 1728–1810) was a Jesuit astronomer who directed the Vilnius University Observatory from 1764 to 1807, served as rector of Vilnius University from 1780 to 1799, and created the constellation Taurus Poniatovii.
Marco Polini
Marco Polini is an Italian condensed matter physicist known for work on graphene, electron hydrodynamics, and quantum batteries, and a professor at the University of Pisa.
Marco Tavani
Marco Tavani is an Italian astrophysicist at INAF-IAPS in Rome, Principal Investigator of the AGILE gamma-ray satellite and President of INAF from 2020 to 2024.
Marcos Rigol
Marcos Rigol is a theoretical physicist and Distinguished Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, known for a 2008 Nature paper showing how isolated quantum systems thermalize.
Marcus Müller
Marcus Müller is a German theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Göttingen since 2008, known for simulations and self-consistent field theory of polymer and membrane systems.
Margaret Burbidge
Margaret Burbidge, née Peachey (1919–2020), was a British-American observational astronomer at UC San Diego, known for the 1957 B²FH paper on stellar element synthesis and pioneering quasar spectroscopy.
Margaret Geller
Margaret Geller is an American astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for mapping the cosmic web and discovering the Great Wall of galaxies.
Margaret Kivelson
Margaret Kivelson (born 1928) is an American space physicist at UCLA who used spacecraft magnetometers to discover Ganymede's magnetic field and hidden oceans on Jupiter's moons.
Margaret Murnane
Margaret M. Murnane is an Irish-born optical physicist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and JILA, known for tabletop X-ray sources from ultrafast lasers and the 2022 Isaac Newton Medal.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Göppert Mayer was a German-born American physicist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for the nuclear shell model, becoming the second woman to win it.