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Michael Stewart Witherell
Michael Stewart Witherell is an American experimental particle physicist who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Michael Tinkham
Michael Tinkham (1928–2010) was an American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Harvard whose work spanned superconductivity, magnetism, and mesoscopic systems, and who wrote the classic textbook Introduction to Superconductivity.
Michael Urbakh
Michael Urbakh (Урбах Михаил Изович) is an Israeli chemical physicist and nanotribologist, emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University, known for the 2004 Nature paper on friction's nonlinear nature.
Michael Victor Berry
Michael Victor Berry, born 1941, is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol, best known for discovering the geometric phase, called the Berry phase.
Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927–2019) was a British physicist and crystallographer at the University of York whose MULTAN software solved many of the world's crystal structures.
Michał Gryziński
Michał Gryziński was a Polish physicist at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Świerk near Otwock, best known for a classical theory of atomic collisions and the free-fall atomic model.
Michał Kamieński
Michał Kamieński (1879–1973) was a Polish astronomer, remembered as the nestor of Polish astronomy and founder of the Polish school of cometary research, who directed the University of Warsaw Observatory from 1923.
Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson is a physicist and pioneer of silicon photonics, the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University, known for slot waveguides and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
Michel Brune
Michel Brune (born 1964) is a French experimental physicist and CNRS Research Director who co-leads the cavity QED team at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris.
Michel della Negra
Michel della Negra, born 1942, is a French experimental particle physicist who took part in the W and Z boson discovery at CERN and the Higgs boson discovery.
Michel Gaudin (mathematical physicist)
Michel Gaudin (1931–2023) was a French mathematical physicist at the CEA in Saclay, a founder of random matrix theory and the Bethe-ansatz solution of quantum many-body models.
Michel H. Devoret
Michel H. Devoret, born in Paris in 1953, is a French quantum physicist who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for macroscopic quantum tunnelling in an electric circuit.
Michel Hénon
Michel Hénon (1931–2013) was a French mathematician and astronomer at the Observatoire de Nice, known for the Hénon map and its strange attractor and the Hénon–Heiles model of chaos.
Michel Julliere
Michel Julliere is a French physicist at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes credited with the first report of tunneling magnetoresistance in a 1975 paper.
Michel Mayor
Michel Mayor is a Swiss astronomer who codiscovered 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet around a sunlike star, and won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Michele Ceriotti
Michele Ceriotti is an Italian computational physical chemist who leads the Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling at EPFL, known for i-PI and machine-learning interatomic potentials such as PET-MAD.
Michele Dougherty
Michele Dougherty is a South African-born space physicist and Professor at Imperial College London who led Cassini's magnetometer, revealing Enceladus's atmosphere, and became the first female Astronomer Royal in 2025.
Michèle Léduc
Michèle Léduc is a French CNRS physicist at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris who co-led the group that produced one of the first two Bose–Einstein condensates of metastable helium in 2001.
Michele Parrinello
Michele Parrinello, born 1945 in Messina, Italy, is an Italian and Swiss physicist known for the Car–Parrinello method, the Parrinello–Rahman barostat, and metadynamics, with over 150,000 citations.
Michelle Borkin
Michelle Borkin is an American data visualization researcher who combines astronomy and medical imaging, known for founding Harvard's Astronomical Medicine Project and leading Glue, used by the James Webb Telescope team.
Michelle Thompson (planetary scientist)
Michelle Thompson is a planetary scientist at Purdue University who studies space weathering on the Moon and asteroids, serving on the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions.
Mickael Tanter
Mickael Tanter, born in 1970, is a French physicist at Inserm known for ultrafast ultrasound imaging, shear-wave elastography, and functional ultrasound imaging of brain activity.
Mickey G. Chiu
Mickey G. Chiu is a nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who studies the strong force with the PHENIX detector and won a 2007 PECASE award.
Miers Fisher Longstreth
Miers Fisher Longstreth (1819–1891) was an American astronomer and physician, a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences, known for an 1850 lunar longitude formula.
Miguel Alcubierre
Miguel Alcubierre, also known as Miguel Alcubierre Moya, is a Mexican physicist at UNAM's Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares known for the 1994 warp drive metric and numerical relativity.
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (Argentine physicist)
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (1940–2021) was an Argentine theoretical physicist whose Virasoro algebra became a backbone of string theory; he later co-built spin glass theory with Giorgio Parisi.
Miguel Morales
Miguel Morales, also known as Miguel Morales-Silva, is a Puerto Rican computational condensed-matter physicist who won a 2013 PECASE at Lawrence Livermore for high-pressure hydrogen studies.
Mihajlo Pupin
Mihajlo Pupin (Михајло Пупин), 1858–1935, was a Serbian-American physicist and inventor at Columbia University whose loading coils made long-distance telephony practical; he also won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography.
Miho Janvier
Miho Janvier is a French solar and space physicist at ESA's ESTEC, known for 3D models of solar flares and her roles on the Solar Orbiter mission.
Mikael C. Rechtsman
Mikael C. Rechtsman is a Canadian-born physicist and professor at Pennsylvania State University known for the 2013 photonic Floquet topological insulator experiment and four-dimensional quantum Hall physics.