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Maria T. Zuber
Maria T. Zuber is an American planetary geophysicist at MIT who maps the gravity and topography of the Moon, Mars, and Mercury, and led NASA's GRAIL lunar mission.
Marian Danysz
Marian Danysz (1909–1983) was a Polish physicist who, with Jerzy Pniewski, discovered the first hypernucleus in Warsaw in 1952, opening the field of hypernuclear physics.
Marian Paluch
Marian Paluch is a Polish physicist and professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice who studies the molecular dynamics of glass-forming liquids and amorphous drugs by dielectric spectroscopy.
Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was a Polish physicist who, independently of Albert Einstein, created the theory of Brownian motion and is regarded as a founder of stochastic physics.
Marie Alfred Cornu
Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902) was a French physicist, professor at the École Polytechnique, remembered for the Cornu spiral and precision measurements of the speed of light.
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat, née Baudot (1912–1980), was a French theoretical physicist and historian of science who linked relativistic gravitation to the graviton and became a full professor at the Sorbonne in 1956.
Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau (1894–1970) was an Austrian nuclear physicist who developed the photographic nuclear emulsion method and, with Hertha Wambacher, discovered in 1937 the disintegration stars, the first evidence that cosmic rays break apart atomic nuclei.
Marin Alexe
Marin Alexe is a physicist who works on ferroelectricity and complex oxide thin films and holds the Chair of Functional Materials at the University of Warwick.
Marin Soljačić
Marin Soljačić, born 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a Croatian-American MIT physicist known for the 2007 wireless-power demonstration behind WiTricity and for landmark experiments in topological photonics.
Marina Huerta
Marina Huerta is an Argentine theoretical physicist at CONICET and the Centro Atómico Bariloche who studies entanglement entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.
Mario Acuña
Mario Acuña (1940–2009) was an Argentine-born American space physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who measured the magnetic fields of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars.
Mário G. Silveirinha
Mário G. Silveirinha is a Portuguese physicist working on metamaterials, plasmonics, and topological photonics, and a Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.
Mario Hamuy
Mario Hamuy is a Chilean astronomer whose Calán/Tololo supernova survey contributed to the 1998 discovery of the accelerating universe; he won Chile's National Exact Sciences Prize in 2015.
Mario Livio
Mario Livio, born 1945 in Bucharest, Romania, is an astrophysicist who studied supernovae at the Space Telescope Science Institute and wrote eight popular science books.
Mário Schenberg
Mário Schenberg, born Mário Schönberg, was a Brazilian theoretical physicist (1914–1990) who co-discovered the Urca process of stellar collapse and formulated the Schenberg–Chandrasekhar limit with Chandrasekhar.
Marjolein Dijkstra
Marjolein Dijkstra is a Dutch computational physicist and Professor of Computational Condensed Matter at Utrecht University, a pioneer in active particles and winner of the 2025 Physica Prize.
Mark A. Kasevich
Mark A. Kasevich is an American experimental atomic physicist and Stanford professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022, known for light-pulse atom interferometry and precision quantum sensing.
Mark Azbel
Mark Azbel, or Mark Yakovlevich Azbel (1932–2020), was a Soviet-born Israeli condensed-matter physicist known for the Azbel–Kaner cyclotron resonance and the Azbel–Hofstadter problem, and a leading refusenik who emigrated to Israel in 1977.
Mark B. Wise
Mark B. Wise (1953–2026) was a Canadian-born theoretical particle physicist who spent his career at Caltech, known for heavy quark effective theory and proposing axions as dark matter.
Mark Bailey (astronomer)
Mark Edward Bailey is an English astronomer known for work on the origin and dynamical evolution of comets, and Director of Armagh Observatory from 1995 to 2016.
Mark C. Herrmann
Mark C. Herrmann is an American plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who directed the National Ignition Facility and led the 2022 experiments achieving fusion ignition and scientific breakeven.
Mark Dean (computer engineer)
Mark Dean is an American computer engineer who holds three of the nine patents on the original IBM PC, co-invented the ISA bus, and holds more than 40 patents.
Mark E. J. Newman
Mark E. J. Newman is a physicist at the University of Michigan known for network science, including the Girvan–Newman community detection method and the textbook Networks.
Mark E. Welland
Mark E. Welland, born in 1955, is a British nanoscientist at the University of Cambridge who established the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre and was knighted in 2011.
Mark G. Raizen
Mark G. Raizen is an American experimental physicist at the University of Texas at Austin whose lab observed non-exponential quantum tunnelling decay and measured a Brownian particle's velocity.
Mark I. Stockman
Mark I. Stockman (M. I. Stockman) was a Soviet-born American theoretical physicist at Georgia State University who co-founded quantum nanoplasmonics and proposed the spaser, a nanoscale counterpart of the laser.
Mark J. Kushner
Mark J. Kushner is an American computational plasma physicist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to low-temperature plasmas.
Mark M. Phillips
Mark M. Phillips is an American astronomer whose 1993 Phillips relation made Type Ia supernovae precise distance markers, enabling the 1998 discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating.
Mark O. Robbins
Mark O. Robbins (1956–2020) was an American condensed matter and statistical physicist at Johns Hopkins University who used molecular dynamics simulations to explain the atomic origins of friction, adhesion, and earthquakes.
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant (Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant) was an Australian nuclear physicist who discovered nuclear fusion between heavy-hydrogen nuclei and helped set the Manhattan Project in motion.