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Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown, born 1965, is an American planetary astronomer at Caltech best known for discovering Eris and other large Kuiper belt objects, which led to Pluto's 2006 reclassification.
Michael E. Fisher
Michael E. Fisher (1931–2021) was a British theoretical physicist best known for his work on critical phenomena and phase transitions, including the epsilon expansion and finite-size scaling theory.
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was an English physicist and chemist at the Royal Institution in London who discovered electromagnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, and benzene.
Michael Ference Jr.
Michael Ference Jr. (born 1911) was an American experimental physicist who served as Chief Scientist at the U.S. Army's Evans Signal Laboratory from 1946 to 1953.
Michael Finnis
Michael William Finnis is a British materials scientist at Imperial College London, known for the 1984 Finnis–Sinclair interatomic potential for transition metals and for atomic-scale modeling of interfaces.
Michael Flatte
Michael E. Flatté is a physicist, F. Wendell Miller Professor at the University of Iowa, who works on spintronics, quantum sensing, and solid-state quantum computing.
Michael Fleischhauer
Michael Fleischhauer is a German theoretical physicist and professor at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, known for dark-state polaritons, slow light, and Rydberg blockade theory, and recipient of the 2025 Herbert Walther Award.
Michael Francis Tompsett
Michael Francis Tompsett is a British-born physicist who invented uncooled thermal imaging, developed CCD cameras at Bell Labs, and holds the first CCD imager patent.
Michael Fuhrer
Michael S. Fuhrer is an Australian-based experimental condensed matter physicist, a professor at Monash University and director of the ARC Centre of Excellence FLEET, known for work on graphene and 2D materials.
Michael G. Hauser
Michael G. Hauser is an American astronomer who led DIRBE on NASA's COBE, the instrument that discovered the cosmic infrared background, and later served as Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Michaël Gillon
Michaël Gillon (born 1974 in Liège) is a Belgian astrophysicist at the University of Liège, best known for leading the discovery of the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system.
Michael Green (British theoretical physicist)
Michael Green, full name Michael Boris Green, is a British theoretical physicist who, with John Schwarz, proved in 1984 that superstring theories are anomaly-free, launching the first superstring revolution.
Michael H Hecht (MIT scientist)
Michael H. Hecht is Associate Director at MIT's Haystack Observatory, principal investigator of MOXIE on NASA's Perseverance rover, and a leader of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Michael H. Hart
Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist whose 1978 and 1979 papers introduced the continuously habitable zone, the region around a star where liquid water can persist.
Michael Horne (American physicist)
Michael Horne (1943–2019) was an American physicist who co-authored the 1969 CHSH inequality, which made quantum entanglement testable in the laboratory, and the GHZ state, while teaching at Stonehill College.
Michael J. Whelan
Michael J. Whelan, also known as Michael John Whelan, was a British electron microscopist who pioneered TEM of crystal defects and won the 1988 Hughes Medal with Archibald Howie.
Michael James Manfra
Michael James Manfra is an experimental condensed matter physicist at Purdue University known for the 2020 observation of anyonic braiding statistics and ultra-clean gallium arsenide devices.
Michael Johnson (astrophysicist)
Michael Johnson is a Smithsonian astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics who co-led the Event Horizon Telescope imaging of black holes and won the 2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize.
Michael Kelly (New Zealand-born British semiconductor physicist)
Michael Kelly is a New Zealand-born British semiconductor physicist, inaugural Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge from 2002 to 2016, known for research on nanoscale device manufacturability.
Michael Köhl
Michael Köhl, born in 1975, is a physicist at the University of Bonn known for experiments on ultracold Fermi gases, including the first observed pairing pseudogap in a two-dimensional Fermi gas.
Michael Merrifield
Michael Merrifield is a British astronomer specializing in the kinematics and evolution of nearby galaxies, Professor of Astronomy at Nottingham from 1999 to 2024 and a founding Sixty Symbols contributor.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist, Catalyst Professor at Harvard SEAS since 2001, known for sonoluminescence theory, droplet breakup, and machine learning for science.
Michael Pepper
Sir Michael Pepper is a British condensed-matter physicist who pioneered research on semiconductor nanostructures. He turned low-dimensional electron systems into a working laboratory for quantum physics.
Michael Perryman
Michael Perryman is a British astronomer, born 1954 in Luton, who led the European Space Agency's Hipparcos and Gaia astrometry missions and shared the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
Michael Radermacher
Michael Radermacher is a German-trained physicist who co-credited with Joachim Frank the Random Conical Tilt method in electron microscopy, cited in the 2017 Nobel Prize background.
Michael Romalis
Michael V. Romalis is a professor of physics at Princeton University working in atomic physics and quantum sensing, best known for the spin-exchange-relaxation-free magnetometer he introduced in 2002.
Michael Rowan-Robinson
Michael Rowan-Robinson, born 1942, is a British astronomer at Imperial College London known for his work on the 1983 IRAS infrared satellite mission and cosmology.
Michael S. Turner
Michael S. Turner is an American theoretical cosmologist at the University of Chicago, a founder of particle astrophysics who coined the term "dark energy" in 1998.
Michael Sheetz
Michael Patrick Sheetz (1946–2025) was an American cell biologist who co-discovered the motor protein kinesin, pioneered mechanobiology, founded Singapore's Mechanobiology Institute, and won the Lasker, Wiley, and Massry Prizes.
Michael Shelley (applied mathematician)
Michael J. Shelley is an American applied mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute who studies complex and active fluids, biophysics, and the fluid mechanics of living cells.