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Mark R. Krumholz

Mark R. Krumholz, also known as Mark Reuben Krumholz, is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist at the Australian National University, known for work on star formation and the interstellar medium.

Mark Reid

Mark Reid is an American radio astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a pioneer of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and leader of the BeSSeL Survey.

Mark Rzchowski

Mark Rzchowski is an American condensed matter experimentalist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for complex-oxide thin films, oxide interfaces, and spin transport.

Mark Saffman

Mark Saffman is an American atomic physicist and quantum information scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Rydberg blockade gate mechanism and neutral-atom quantum computing.

Mark V. Hurwitz

Mark V. Hurwitz is an American experimental astrophysicist at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory who led NASA's CHIPS satellite, launched in 2003, and won a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award.

Mark Vogelsberger

Mark Vogelsberger is a German theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at MIT who works on galaxy formation and dark matter, and led the Illustris and IllustrisTNG universe simulations.

Mark William Keller

Mark William Keller is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who works in mesoscopic physics and quantum metrology and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2000.

Marko Lončar

Marko Lončar is an electrical engineer and nanophotonics researcher, the Tiantsai Lin Professor at Harvard known for thin-film lithium niobate photonics and diamond quantum nanophotonics.

Markus Antonietti

Markus Antonietti (born 1960) is a German chemist who has directed the Colloid Chemistry department at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam since 1993.

Markus Arndt

Markus Arndt, born 1965 in Germany, is a physicist and Full Professor of Quantum Nanophysics at the University of Vienna, known for matter-wave interference of ever larger molecules.

Markus Aspelmeyer

Markus Aspelmeyer, born 1974 in Schongau, Germany, is a quantum physicist and pioneer of optomechanics who led the 2021 measurement of gravity between millimeter-sized masses.

Markus B. Raschke

Markus B. Raschke is a physicist working in nonlinear and ultrafast nano-optics, professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and a JILA fellow since 2016.

Markus Fierz

Markus Fierz (1912–2006) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, Pauli's successor at ETH Zürich, known for his 1939 spin-statistics proof, the Fierz identity, and Fierz–Pauli theory.

Markus Greiner

Markus Greiner is an experimental atomic physicist and Harvard professor who developed the quantum gas microscope, simulates condensed matter with ultracold atoms, and co-founded QuEra Computing.

Markus K. Oberthaler

Markus K. Oberthaler (born 1968) is an experimental physicist, professor at Heidelberg University since 2003, known for entanglement in Bose–Einstein condensates and a quantum field simulator of curved spacetime.

Markus V. Pessa

Markus V. Pessa, also known as Markus Pessa, was a Finnish physicist and optoelectronics researcher who pioneered molecular beam epitaxy of compound semiconductors in Europe and led Tampere's semiconductor laser industry.

Marlan O. Scully

Marlan O. Scully is an American laser physicist known for the quantum theory of the laser and lasing without inversion, and a professor at Texas A&M University.

Marshall Rosenbluth

Marshall Rosenbluth (1927–2003) was an American plasma physicist and fusion researcher, called "the dean of plasma physics," who derived the Rosenbluth formula and won the National Medal of Science.

Marta Volonteri

Marta Volonteri, born 1974, is an Italian astrophysicist, Directrice de recherche at CNRS and the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris since 2012, who studies massive black hole formation and evolution.

Martha P. Haynes

Martha P. Haynes is an American radio astronomer and Cornell professor known for mapping galaxy distribution via neutral hydrogen, co-leading the ALFALFA survey, and winning the 1989 Henry Draper Medal.

Martijn Kemerink

Martijn Kemerink (born 1970 in Hengelo, Netherlands) is a Dutch applied physicist who studies charge transport in organic semiconductors and solar cells, and has been a professor at Heidelberg University since 2019.

Martin Aeschlimann

Martin Aeschlimann, born in 1957, is an experimental physicist and professor at RPTU Kaiserslautern known for ultrafast nanooptics, time-resolved photoemission, and femtosecond magnetism, including a 2007 Nature paper on adaptive control of nano-optical fields.

Martin B. Plenio

Martin B. Plenio, born 1968 in Kassel, Germany, is a German theoretical physicist working on quantum information, quantum optics, and quantum biology at Ulm University.

Martin Bizzarro

Martin Bizzarro, born 1967 in Montreal, is a Canadian-born cosmochemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen who dates the earliest solar system through meteorite isotope studies.

Martin Deutsch

Martin Deutsch (1917–2002) was an Austrian-American physicist at MIT who discovered positronium, the electron-positron atom, in 1951 and headed MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science from 1973 to 1979.

Martin Gutzwiller

Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014) was a Swiss-born theoretical physicist who spent his career at IBM, known for the Gutzwiller projection in correlated-electron physics and the trace formula founding quantum chaos.

Martin Harwit

Martin Harwit, born 1931 in Prague, is a Czechoslovak-born American infrared astronomer who built the first rocket-borne liquid-helium-cooled telescopes and wrote Cosmic Discovery in 1981.

Martin Heimbeck

Martin Heimbeck is a German-born American research physicist leading advanced sensing work at the Army Aviation & Missile Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a 2017 PECASE recipient.

Martin J. Klein

Martin J. Klein (1924–2009) was an American physicist turned historian of modern physics at Yale, best known as general editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Martin Kaltenbrunner

Martin Kaltenbrunner is a physicist working in soft matter and flexible electronics, Full Professor and Head of Soft Matter Physics at Johannes Kepler University Linz since 2019.