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Karl Leo
Karl Leo is a German physicist at TU Dresden known for organic semiconductor doping, OLEDs, and organic solar cells, and winner of the 2021 European Inventor Award.
Karl Menger
Karl Menger (1902–1985) was an Austrian-American mathematician, born in Vienna and later a professor in Chicago, who helped found dimension theory, introduced the Menger sponge, and proved Menger's theorem in graph theory.
Karl Miescher
Karl Miescher (1892–1974) was a Swiss chemist who spent his career at the pharmaceutical company Ciba in Basel and led the 1948 total synthesis of estrone.
Karl O. Christe
Karl O. Christe (1936–2026) was a German-born American inorganic and fluorine chemist at the University of Southern California, known for the first chemical synthesis of elemental fluorine.
Karl Paul Link
Karl Paul Link (1901–1978) was an American biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who isolated dicumarol from spoiled sweet clover and developed the anticoagulant warfarin.
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician who founded modern statistics at University College London, introducing the chi-squared test and the correlation coefficient.
Karl Reinhardt (German mathematician)
Karl August Reinhardt (1895–1941) was a German mathematician, professor at Greifswald, who classified plane-tiling polygons, named Reinhardt polygons, and completed part of Hilbert's eighteenth problem in 1928.
Karl Sigmund
Karl Sigmund, born 1945 in Lower Austria, is an Austrian mathematician and pioneer of evolutionary game theory who taught at the University of Vienna from 1974 to 2013.
Karl Stein (mathematician)
Karl Stein (1913–2000) was a German mathematician, professor at Munich from 1955, whose 1951 definition of Stein manifolds became a foundational object of complex geometry.
Karl Uno Ingard
Karl Uno Ingard, known as K. Uno Ingard, was a Swedish-born physicist and acoustician who spent his career at MIT, working in acoustics and plasma physics.
Karl von Auwers
Karl Friedrich von Auwers (1863–1939) was a German organic chemist who coined the term stereochemistry in 1888 and directed the chemical institutes at Greifswald and Marburg.
Karl W. Butzer
Karl W. Butzer (1934–2016) was a German-born American geographer and geoarchaeologist who pioneered geoarchaeology, studied ancient Egypt's environment, and taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
Karl Weierstraß
Karl Weierstraß (Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass) was a German mathematician, born in Ostenfelde in 1815 and working in Berlin, who rebuilt analysis on arithmetical foundations and constructed the theory of complex functions.
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt is a German inorganic and bioinorganic chemist, a Max Planck director in Mülheim from 1994, known for high-valent iron and manganese complexes, metalloenzyme models, and noninnocent ligands.
Karl Ziegler
Karl Ziegler was a German chemist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Giulio Natta for polymer discoveries and directed the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim.
Karl Zsigmondy
Karl Zsigmondy (1867–1925) was an Austrian mathematician who spent his career at the Vienna Technische Hochschule and is known for Zsigmondy's theorem on primitive prime divisors.
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer
Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer (1899–1957) was a German physical chemist who discovered the spin isomers of hydrogen with Paul Harteck in 1929 and became the first director of the Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry in Göttingen.
Karl-Hermann Geib
Karl-Hermann Geib (1908–1949) was a German physical chemist who in 1943 developed the dual-temperature Girdler sulfide process for producing heavy water, developed in parallel with Jerome S. Spevack.
Karlheinz Schwarz
Karlheinz Schwarz is an Austrian quantum chemist and professor at TU Wien, co-developer of WIEN2k, a widely used code for calculating the electronic structure of solids.
Karol Borsuk
Karol Borsuk (1905–1982) was a Polish mathematician of the Warsaw School who founded the theory of retracts, proved the Borsuk–Ulam theorem, and posed Borsuk's conjecture.
Karol Grela
Karol Grela (born 1970, Warsaw) is a Polish chemist at the University of Warsaw known for designing ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts, including the commercially sold Grela catalyst.
Karol Olszewski
Karol Stanisław Olszewski was a Polish chemist and physicist, professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, who in 1883 with Zygmunt Wróblewski first liquefied oxygen and nitrogen.
Károly Than
Károly Than (Carl von Than, Than Károly) was a Hungarian chemist who discovered carbonyl sulfide and is regarded as the founder of modern Hungarian scientific chemistry.
Karsten Meyer (chemist)
Karsten Meyer is a German inorganic and coordination chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic and General Chemistry at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2006, after serving at UC San Diego.
Karsten Pruess
Karsten Pruess is a German-trained theoretical physicist and reservoir engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, best known as chief author of the TOUGH2 simulator family.
Karsten Reuter
Karsten Reuter (born 1970) is a theoretical chemist known for first-principles multiscale modeling of heterogeneous catalysis, directing the Fritz-Haber-Institut Theory Department in Berlin since 2020.
Karthish Manthiram
Karthish Manthiram is a chemical engineer and Bren Professor at Caltech known for electrocatalysis and lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction to ammonia, recognized by the 2025 Infosys Prize.
Kartik A. Srinivasan
Kartik A. Srinivasan is a NIST Fellow and physicist working on integrated quantum photonics, known for chip-based single-photon and entangled-photon sources, frequency combs, and the 2022 NIST Stratton Award.
Kary B. Mullis
Kary B. Mullis (1944–2019) was an American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for copying DNA, winning half of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Kasper Moth‐Poulsen
Kasper Moth-Poulsen (born 1978 in Copenhagen) is a Danish-Swedish chemist known for molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage, and an ICREA research professor in Barcelona since 2021.