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Fritz Foerster
Fritz Foerster (1866–1931) was a German chemist who built the Dresden Technische Hochschule into a leading center of electrochemistry and wrote the standard German textbook on the electrochemistry of aqueous solutions.
Fritz Goos
Fritz Goos was a German physicist at the National Physical Institute in Hamburg who, with Hilda Hänchen, first demonstrated the Goos–Hänchen effect, a small lateral shift of light under total internal reflection, in 1947.
Fritz Haber
Fritz Haber was a German physical chemist who won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, and who supervised Germany's first poison-gas attack in World War I.
Fritz Hofmann (chemist)
Fritz Hofmann (Friedrich Carl Albert Hofmann; 1866–1956) was a German chemist at Bayer who first made synthetic rubber on a technical scale, receiving a patent in 1909.
Fritz John
Fritz John (1910–1994) was a German-born American mathematician at New York University known for work on partial differential equations and ill-posed problems, and for the John ellipsoid.
Fritz Kögl
Fritz Kögl was a German organic chemist (1897–1959) who spent his career at Utrecht University, where he identified the plant growth hormone heteroauxin as indole-3-acetic acid in 1934 and crystallized biotin in 1936.
Fritz Kröhnke
Fritz Kröhnke (1903–1981) was a German chemist and professor in Berlin and Freiburg whose Kröhnke pyridine synthesis, discovered with Wilfried Zecher at Giessen in 1961, remains in use.
Fritz Laves
Fritz Laves (1906–1978) was a German-Swiss crystallographer who showed that the Laves phases, a large class of AB₂ intermetallic compounds, arise from close packing of atoms.
Fritz London
Fritz Wolfgang London (1900–1954) was a German-American theoretical physicist who founded quantum chemistry with Walter Heitler in 1927 and, with his brother Heinz, wrote the first theory of superconductivity.
Fritz Noether
Fritz Noether (1884–1941) was a German applied mathematician who worked on hydrodynamics, turbulence, and singular integral equations, and was executed in the Soviet Union in 1941 on fabricated espionage charges.
Fritz Peter
Fritz Peter was a German mathematician and schoolteacher who earned a Göttingen doctorate under Max Born and proved the Peter–Weyl theorem of 1927 with Hermann Weyl.
Fritz Plato
Fritz Plato (1858–1938) was a German chemist and director of the German Institute of Weights and Measures whose 1900 tables gave brewing the degrees Plato scale.
Fritz Pregl
Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) was an Austrian chemist and physician at Graz University who founded quantitative organic microanalysis, analyzing milligram samples, and won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Fritz Schönhöfer
Fritz Schönhöfer (1892–1965) was a German industrial chemist who worked at Bayer and is documented in the German biographical record only through the malaria-research circle of the pharmacologist Werner Schulemann.
Fritz Strassmann
Fritz Strassmann (1902–1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn, identified barium in neutron-irradiated uranium in December 1938, the decisive step in the discovery of nuclear fission.
Fritz Ursell
Fritz Ursell (1923–2012) was a British applied mathematician who first proved the existence of trapped modes in water waves, analyzed the Kelvin ship-wave pattern, and introduced the Ursell number.
Fritz Vögtle
Fritz Vögtle (1939–2017) was a German organic chemist, professor and director of the Kekulé Institute at Bonn, whose 1978 cascade molecules opened dendrimer chemistry and whose group templated catenanes, rotaxanes, and knots.
Fritz Weigert
Fritz Weigert (1876–1947) was a German-British photochemist, professor of photochemistry at Leipzig from 1914 until his 1935 dismissal, known for the Weigert effect of photo-induced anisotropy.
Fritz Zwicky
Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974) was a Swiss astronomer at Caltech who inferred dark matter in the Coma cluster in 1933 and co-predicted neutron stars with Walter Baade.
Fujita Akimi
Fujita Akimi (藤田 あき美) is a Japanese astrophysicist and lecturer at Shinshu University who earned a Ph.D. at Columbia and simulates starburst-driven winds and metal enrichment in dwarf galaxies.
Fumio Hirata
Fumio Hirata (平田 文男) is a Japanese theoretical chemist known for the RISM family of liquid-state theories describing solvation by statistical mechanics, implemented in software such as AMBER.
Fumio Koyama
Fumio Koyama is a Japanese photonics researcher at the Institute of Science Tokyo known for the first continuous room-temperature operation of surface-emitting lasers, used in data centers and face recognition.
Fusakichi Ōmori
Fusakichi Ōmori (大森房吉, 1868–1923) was a Japanese seismologist, professor at Tokyo Imperial University, who formulated the 1894 aftershock decay law and designed the Omori seismometer.
G. Alexander Mills
G. Alexander Mills, born George Alexander Mills (1914–2004), was a Canadian-born American chemist in industrial catalysis who worked with Eugene Houdry and led the University of Delaware's catalysis center.
G. Julius Vancsó
G. Julius Vancsó (Vancsó Gyula) is a Hungarian-born Dutch materials scientist who held the polymer chair at the University of Twente from 1995, now emeritus.
G. K. Surya Prakash
G. K. Surya Prakash, born in Bangalore in 1953, is an Indian-born American organofluorine chemist at USC known for the Prakash reagent and the Methanol Economy.
G. M. B. Dobson
G. M. B. Dobson, Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson, was an English physicist at Oxford who built the Dobson spectrophotometer and the Dobson unit for measuring atmospheric ozone.
G. N. Ramachandran
Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran (1922–2001) was an Indian physicist and crystallographer who proposed the triple-helical structure of collagen and introduced the Ramachandran plot, still the standard tool for validating protein structures.
G. N. Watson
G. N. Watson, George Neville Watson, was an English mathematician who wrote the standard treatise on Bessel functions, co-authored Modern Analysis with Whittaker, and proved the Rogers–Ramanujan identities.
G. Robert Meyerhoff
G. Robert Meyerhoff is a mathematician at Boston College who earned his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1981 under William Thurston and studies hyperbolic 3-manifolds and their volumes.