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Matias Zaldarriaga
Matias Zaldarriaga, born 1971 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born cosmologist and Richard Black Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, known for his 1997 CMB polarization work.
Mats G. L. Gustafsson
Mats G. L. Gustafsson (1960–2011) was a Swedish-born physicist who pioneered structured illumination microscopy and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, working at UC San Francisco and Janelia.
Matt O'Dowd (astrophysicist)
Matt O'Dowd (Matthew John O'Dowd) is an astrophysicist, associate professor at CUNY Lehman College, and host and writer of the weekly PBS Space Time YouTube series.
Matteo Lucchini
Matteo Lucchini, born 1984 in Angera, Italy, is an Italian physicist at Politecnico di Milano who leads attosecond beamlines studying ultrafast electron dynamics in solids.
Matthew Bailes
Matthew Bailes is an Australian astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology, co-discoverer of the first fast radio burst in 2007, who won the 2023 Shaw Prize and the 2024 Prime Minister's Prize for Science.
Matthew Dietrich
Matthew Dietrich is an American atomic physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who made the first measurement of the radium-225 electric dipole moment and won a 2017 PECASE award.
Matthew F. Pusey
Matthew F. Pusey is a British quantum information theorist at the University of York, first author of the 2012 Pusey–Barrett–Rudolph theorem on the reality of the quantum state.
Matthew Gomez
Matthew Gomez is an American plasma physicist and distinguished member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, known for leading the first integrated MagLIF fusion experiments and a PECASE award.
Matthew J. Holman
Matthew J. Holman is an American astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, credited with discovering moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Matthew J. Paszek
Matthew J. Paszek is a biological physicist at Cornell University who studies the mechanobiology of the cellular glycocalyx and received an NIH New Innovator Award in 2015.
Matthew P. A. Fisher
Matthew P. A. Fisher, born 1960, is a condensed matter physicist and professor at UC Santa Barbara known for deconfined quantum criticality and strongly correlated electrons.
Matthew R. Bate
Matthew R. Bate (born 1969) is a New Zealand numerical astrophysicist at the University of Exeter who simulates the formation of stars, brown dwarfs, and planets.
Matthias Batzill
Matthias Batzill is a professor of physics at the University of South Florida in Tampa who studies metal-oxide surfaces for photocatalysis and gas sensing, and graphene and other two-dimensional materials.
Matthias Rief
Matthias Rief is a physicist and Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich who leads its Chair of Molecular Biophysics, known for single-molecule force spectroscopy of protein folding.
Matthias Schindler
Matthias Schindler is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of South Carolina who uses effective field theories to study hadronic parity violation, earning a 2013 DOE Early Career Award.
Matthias Troyer
Matthias Troyer is an Austrian computational physicist, ETH Zurich professor from 1998 to 2019, known for the ALPS libraries and the sign problem, now Technical Fellow at Microsoft Quantum.
Matthias Vojta
Matthias Vojta is a German theoretical condensed-matter physicist, professor at TU Dresden since 2010, known for work on quantum phase transitions, strongly correlated electron systems, and frustrated magnetism.
Maura Hagan
Maura Hagan is an American space physicist known for her work on solar atmospheric tides and for developing the Global Scale Wave Model at NCAR.
Maura McLaughlin
Maura McLaughlin is an American astrophysicist and professor at West Virginia University who co-discovered rotating radio transients, the first fast radio burst, and evidence of a gravitational-wave background.
Maurice Couette
Maurice Couette (1858–1943) was a French physicist and a father of modern rheology whose 1890 Paris thesis on liquid friction gave fluid mechanics the concentric-cylinder viscometer and Taylor–Couette flow.
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie (1875–1960), was a French experimental physicist who pioneered X-ray spectroscopy, discovered the corpuscular spectra of the elements, and trained a generation of French physicists.
Maurice Françon
Maurice Françon (1913–1996) was a French engineer-physicist who spent his career at the Institut d'Optique in Paris, working on phase contrast, polarization interferometry, coherence, and holography, and winning the Optical Society's C.E.K. Mees Medal in 1981.
Maurice Goldhaber
Maurice Goldhaber (1911–2011) was an Austrian-born American nuclear physicist known for measuring the neutron's mass and establishing the neutrino's helicity, and director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1961.
Maurice Hamy
Maurice Hamy (1861–1936) was a French astronomer at the Paris Observatory who worked on the figure of planets and precision instruments, winning the Prix Lalande in 1895.
Maurice Loewy
Maurice Loewy, born Moritz Löwy (1833, Vienna – 1907, Paris), was an Austrian-born French astronomer who directed the Paris Observatory from 1896 and produced the Atlas photographique de la Lune with Pierre-Henri Puiseux.
Mauro Nisoli
Mauro Nisoli is an Italian physicist at Politecnico di Milano, born in 1965, who invented hollow-fiber pulse compression in 1996 and leads attosecond research there.
Maury Tigner
Maury Tigner is an American accelerator physicist and Cornell's Hans A. Bethe Professor Emeritus, known for applying superconductivity to particle accelerators and leading CESR's design.
Max Abraham
Max Abraham (1875–1922) was a German theoretical physicist who proposed the rigid-sphere electron theory, gave his name to the Abraham–Lorentz force and the Abraham–Minkowski controversy, and spent his last decade opposing Einstein's relativity theory.
Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who coined the term quantum mechanics, formulated the Born rule, and won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally is an American materials scientist who held named surface science chairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for quantitative surface diffraction, thin-film growth studies, and silicon nanomembranes.