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Max Lemme
Max C. Lemme is a German electrical engineer and nanoelectronics researcher who heads the Chair of Electronic Devices at RWTH Aachen University and directs AMO GmbH.
Max Planck
Max Planck (1858–1947) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Berlin University, who originated quantum theory in 1900 and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Seddig
Max Seddig (1877–1963) was a German physicist whose chronophotographic Brownian motion measurements, published in 1907 and 1908, tested Einstein's 1905 theory; he spent most of his career at Frankfurt.
Max Steenbeck
Max Steenbeck (1904–1981) was a German physicist whose betatron stability condition enabled the first particle accelerators and who developed the gas ultracentrifuge for uranium enrichment in the Soviet atomic program.
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist and MIT professor who moved from precision cosmology to AI safety, known for the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and four-level multiverse taxonomy.
Max von Laue
Max von Laue was a German physicist who discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals in 1912, proving X-rays are waves, and received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Wolf
Max Wolf (1863–1932) was a German astronomer, professor at Heidelberg and director of the Königstuhl Observatory, who pioneered photographic asteroid discovery and found 228 asteroids, including the first Jupiter Trojan, 588 Achilles.
Maximilian Haider
Maximilian Haider (born 1950, Freistadt, Austria) is an Austrian physicist who built the first working aberration corrector for the transmission electron microscope in 1997 and shared the 2020 Kavli Prize.
Mehran Kardar
Mehran Kardar, born in Tehran, is a theoretical physicist and Francis Friedman Professor at MIT, co-originator of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and winner of the 2025 Boltzmann Medal.
Melanie Schnell
Melanie Schnell is a German physical chemist at Kiel University and DESY who studies rotational spectroscopy of cold molecules and microwave detection of molecular chirality.
Melba Phillips
Melba Newell Phillips was an American nuclear physicist who co-discovered the Oppenheimer–Phillips process and, fired in 1952 for refusing to testify, became the first female president of the AAPT.
Melissa K. Gardner
Melissa K. Gardner is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studies how proteins control the mechanics and dynamics of microtubules during cell division.
Melvin Lax
Melvin Lax (1922–2002) was an American theoretical physicist, a pioneer in quantum optics, known for the quantum theory of laser fluctuations and the Lax-Onsager regression theorem.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz (1932–2006) was an American experimental particle physicist who co-discovered the muon neutrino in the 1962 Brookhaven experiment, sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Melvyn J. Shochet
Melvyn J. Shochet is an American experimental particle physicist at the University of Chicago who led the CDF collaboration to the 1995 discovery of the top quark.
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Mercedeh Khajavikhan is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California working on non-Hermitian, topological photonics, and nanolasers, known for the first PT-symmetric laser.
Merle Tuve
Merle Tuve (1901–1982) was an American experimental physicist who built an early accelerator-based nuclear physics program and led development of the radio proximity fuze in World War II.
Mervin Joe Kelly
Mervin Joe Kelly (1894–1971) was an American industrial physicist whose Bell Labs career ran from 1918 to 1959, ending as president and chairman of the board.
Mete Atature
Mete Atatüre is a Turkish-born quantum physicist specializing in solid-state quantum optics, known for spin-photon quantum interfaces in quantum dots, and has led Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory since 2023.
Meton of Athens
Meton of Athens, son of Pausanias, was a 5th-century BC Athenian astronomer who introduced the Metonic cycle, 19 tropical years equaling 235 lunar months, at Athens in 432 BC.
Michael A. Bevan
Michael A. Bevan is a Johns Hopkins professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering known for measuring nanoscale colloidal interactions and light-controlled assembly of colloidal materials.
Michael A. Nielsen
Michael A. Nielsen is a physicist who co-authored the standard quantum computing textbook with Ike Chuang, then left academia to advocate open science and tools for thought.
Michael Aizenman
Michael Aizenman, born 1945 in Russia, is the Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton, known for rigorous results on disorder and phase transitions.
Michael Anthony Zingale
Michael Anthony Zingale is an American computational astrophysicist at Stony Brook University who models thermonuclear burning in white dwarfs and neutron stars, and received a Presidential Early Career Award.
Michael Arthur Moore
Michael Arthur Moore is a British theoretical physicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Manchester, a Royal Society Fellow known for the droplet scaling theory of spin glasses.
Michael Cates
Michael E. Cates is a British theoretical physicist who has been the 19th Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge since 2015, working on soft matter and active matter.
Michael Coey
Michael Coey (1945–2025) was a Belfast-born experimental physicist at Trinity College Dublin, a world leader in magnetism and spintronics who discovered the first interstitial permanent magnet, Sm₂Fe₁₇N₃.
Michael Crommie
Michael F. Crommie is an American condensed matter physicist, professor at UC Berkeley and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for quantum corrals and graphene nanoribbons.
Michael Dine
Michael Dine is an American theoretical particle physicist at UC Santa Cruz, known for the invisible axion, dynamical supersymmetry breaking, and work on string theory and cosmology.
Michael Duff (theoretical physicist)
Michael James Duff is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London who coined the term p-brane and whose work on supergravity and duality helped lay the groundwork for M-theory.