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Ida Noddack

Ida Noddack, born Ida Eva Tacke, was a German chemist who co-discovered the element rhenium in 1925 and, in 1934, became the first to propose nuclear fission.

Ido Kaminer

Ido Kaminer is an Israeli physicist and professor at the Technion who heads the AdQuanta lab and is known as a creator of free-electron quantum optics, plus the Ramanujan Machine for generating conjectures about fundamental constants.

Ifan E. L. Stephens

Ifan E. L. Stephens is a professor of electrochemistry at Imperial College London, known for oxygen reduction catalysts in fuel cells, benchmarking iridium dissolution, and lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis.

Ifor Samuel

Ifor Samuel is a physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of St Andrews since 2000, where he founded and directs the Organic Semiconductor Centre.

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe

Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe (1942–2022) was a Venezuelan-born hydrologist who founded ecohydrology, the study of hydrologic controls on the biota, and won the 2002 Stockholm Water Prize.

Igor A. Abrikosov

Igor A. Abrikosov (Абрикосов, Игорь Анатольевич) is a Russian-born theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Linköping University since 2003, known for simulating materials under extreme pressures.

Igor Aharonovich

Igor Aharonovich is an Australian-based physicist and professor at the University of Technology Sydney who leads a quantum nanophotonics laboratory studying single-photon emitters in wide-bandgap materials.

Igor Bray

Igor Bray is an Australian atomic and molecular collision physicist known for the convergent close-coupling method for electron-atom scattering, and Head of Physics and Astronomy at Curtin University since 2010.

Igor Dmitrievitch Ado

Igor Dmitrievitch Ado (Игорь Дмитриевич Адо) was a Soviet mathematician who spent his life in Kazan and proved Ado's theorem, that every finite-dimensional Lie algebra has a faithful finite-dimensional representation.

Igor Frenkel

Igor Frenkel is a Russian-born American mathematician, the Sol Goldman Family Professor at Yale, known for the Frenkel–Kac construction and the moonshine module; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Igor Klebanov

Igor R. Klebanov is a Soviet-born American theoretical physicist, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University, known for the AdS/CFT correspondence and the 2002 higher-spin O(N) duality.

Igor Larrosa

Igor Larrosa is a Spanish organic chemist who holds the Chair in Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester, working on C–H activation and ruthenium and palladium catalysis.

Igor Lubomirsky

Igor Lubomirsky is an Israeli materials chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for showing in 2010 that water freezes differently on positively and negatively charged surfaces.

Igor Muševič

Igor Muševič, also known as Igor Musevic, is a Slovenian physicist at the University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute known for using topological defects in liquid crystals to self-assemble colloids and tie microscopic knots.

Igor Novikov (astrophysicist)

Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, born 1935 in Moscow, is a Russian astrophysicist known for the white hole hypothesis, black hole X-ray theory, and the self-consistency principle.

Igor Rodnianski

Igor Rodnianski is a Princeton mathematician working on partial differential equations and general relativity, known for the bounded L2 curvature theorem and the 2023 Clay Research Award.

Igor S. Aranson

Igor S. Aranson, also known as Igor Aranson, is a physicist working on active matter and swimming bacteria, and a Huck Chair Professor at Pennsylvania State University since 2017.

Igor Shafarevich

Igor Shafarevich (1923–2017) was a Russian mathematician who solved the inverse Galois problem for solvable groups, headed algebra at the Steklov Institute, and was a prominent Soviet dissident.

Igor Shiklomanov

Igor Shiklomanov, born Igor Alekseevich Shiklomanov, was a Russian hydrologist who directed the State Hydrological Institute in St Petersburg from 1981 until his death in 2010.

Igor Tyutin

Igor Viktorovich Tyutin (Игорь Тютин, 1940–2026) was a Russian theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Institute, the T in BRST quantization, developed independently in a 1975 preprint.

Igor V. Alabugin

Igor V. Alabugin is a Russian-born physical organic chemist at Florida State University since 2000, known for stereoelectronic effects, enediyne photochemistry, and the 2016 book Stereoelectronic Effects.

Igor Y. Tamm

Igor Y. Tamm (Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm, 1895 to 1971) was a Soviet theoretical physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Cherenkov effect.

Igor Žutić

Igor Žutić, also published as Igor Zutic, is a condensed-matter theorist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, best known for the 2004 review Spintronics: Fundamentals and Applications.

Ihm Ji-soon

Jisoon Ihm is a South Korean theoretical condensed-matter physicist, known for the 1979 momentum-space formalism for the total energy of solids and for pioneering computational materials physics.

Ikuei Moritani

Ikuei Moritani, also recorded as Ichiro Moritani, was a chemist who with Yuzo Fujiwara observed in 1967 the palladium-catalyzed reaction of benzene with olefins now called the Fujiwara–Moritani reaction.

Ikuo Kushiro

Ikuo Kushiro (久城 育夫, born 1934) is a Japanese experimental petrologist whose high-pressure experiments established how mantle peridotite melts to form basalt and andesite magmas.

Il´ja M. Frank

Il´ja M. Frank, also known as Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining the Cherenkov effect.

Ilan Marek

Ilan Marek (אילן מרק, born 1963 in Haifa) is a Franco-Israeli chemist at the Technion known for copper-mediated carbometalation and carbon–hydrogen bond activation, elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Ildar Ibragimov

Ildar Ibragimov (Ильдар Абдуллович Ибрагимов, born 1932) is a Russian mathematician in probability theory, known for Ibragimov mixing, the martingale central limit theorem, and asymptotic estimation theory.

Ilissa B Ocko

Ilissa B. Ocko is an American climate scientist studying methane and other short-lived climate pollutants, a Senior Climate Scientist at Spark Climate Solutions and an IPCC AR7 Lead Author.