Physical and mathematical scientists

Kate Marvel

Kate Marvel (Katherine D. Marvel) is an American climate scientist and science communicator known for work on cloud feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and detection of human influence on climate.

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, known as K. R. Sreenivasan, is a fluid dynamicist who studies turbulence and has been a University Professor at New York University since 2009.

Kateri A. Ahrendt is an American organic chemist, first author of the 2000 paper documenting the first highly enantioselective organocatalytic Diels–Alder reaction, cited by the 2021 Nobel Prize background.

Katerina Chatziioannou

Katerina Chatziioannou is a theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Caltech who studies neutron-star matter and tests of general relativity with LIGO gravitational-wave data.

Katharina J. Franke

Katharina J. Franke is a physicist and professor at Freie Universität Berlin who studies single magnetic atoms and molecules on superconducting surfaces with low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy.

Katharina Landfester

Katharina Landfester, born 1969 in Bochum, is a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, known for the miniemulsion process.

Katharine Hayhoe

Katharine Hayhoe, born 1972, is an atmospheric scientist, Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy, and Texas Tech professor known for communicating climate science through shared values.

Katharine Mach

Katharine J. Mach is an American climate scientist known for research on climate change and armed conflict and on managed retreat, the planned movement of people out of hazardous places.

Katharine Tibbetts

Katharine Moore Tibbetts is an American chemist and Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University whose research combines ultrafast laser spectroscopy of molecules with pulsed laser synthesis of nanomaterials; she received a PECASE award in 2019.

Katharine Venable Cashman

Katharine Venable Cashman is an American volcanologist, born 1954, known for her 2017 Science review proposing that magma is stored in vertically extensive systems spanning the whole crust.

Katherine Allstadt

Katherine (Kate) Allstadt is an American research geophysicist with the USGS Landslide Hazards Program in Golden, Colorado, known for using seismic recordings to study landslides, debris flows, and lahars.

Katherine de Kleer

Katherine de Kleer is a planetary scientist and professor at Caltech who studies volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io; she received the 2024 Harold C. Urey Prize.

Katherine Freese

Katherine Freese is an American theoretical cosmologist and astroparticle physicist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for natural inflation, dark matter detection, and the book The Cosmic Cocktail.

Katherine H. Freeman

Katherine H. Freeman is an American isotope geochemist at Penn State who reconstructs ancient climates from organic molecules and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.

Katherine Mack

Katherine (Katie) Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist who studies dark matter, wrote The End of Everything, and holds the Hawking Chair at Perimeter Institute.

Katherine Mirica

Katherine A. Mirica is a Ukrainian-born chemist and tenured associate professor at Dartmouth College who designs conductive metal–organic frameworks for portable, low-power detection of gases and biomolecules.

Kathleen C. Taylor

Kathleen C. Taylor is an American physical chemist who joined General Motors in 1970, researched automotive exhaust catalysis, and received the American Chemical Society's 1989 Garvan Medal.

Kathrin Fenner

Kathrin Fenner, born 1972 in Zürich, is a Swiss environmental chemist at Eawag who studies how organic contaminants transform in the environment and leads the enviPath biotransformation database.

Kathryn Moler

Kathryn Moler is a Stanford professor of applied physics known for scanning SQUID microscopy of superconductors and topological materials; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Kathryn Whaler

Kathryn (Kathy) Whaler is a British geophysicist, Professor of Geophysics at Edinburgh since 1994, the first woman elected to a UK geophysics chair and IUGG president.

Katrina J. Edwards

Katrina J. Edwards (1968–2014) was an American geomicrobiologist, professor at the University of Southern California, and founding director of C-DEBI, who showed that microbes thrive in rocks beneath the seafloor.

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Katsuhiko Ariga

Katsuhiko Ariga (有賀克彦) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and materials scientist. He is known for pioneering layer-by-layer assembly and nanoarchitectonics at NIMS and the University of Tokyo.

Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋勝子)

Katsuko Saruhashi (猿橋勝子) was a Japanese geochemist who traced nuclear fallout in seawater and was the first woman to earn a chemistry PhD from the University of Tokyo.

Katsumi Kaneko

Katsumi Kaneko (金子克美) is a Japanese materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Shinshu University since 2014, known for adsorption science, nanoporous carbons, and energy storage research.

Katsumi Midorikawa

Katsumi Midorikawa (緑川克美) is a Japanese physicist at RIKEN whose 2002 high-output attosecond pulse laser became an international standard; he led the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics from 2018 to 2023.

Kay Behrensmeyer

Anna K. ("Kay") Behrensmeyer is an American taphonomist and paleoecologist, a Smithsonian research curator since 1981, known for pioneering taphonomy and her long-running Amboseli bone study in Kenya.

Kay Severin

Kay Severin (born 1967) is a German supramolecular and inorganic chemist who has been a full professor at EPFL in Lausanne since 2009, leading its Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry.

Kaye D. Lathrop

Kaye Don Lathrop was an American nuclear physicist known for discrete-ordinates, or Sn, methods; he won the 1976 E. O. Lawrence Award for neutron transport computer codes.

Kayvan R. Keshari

Kayvan R. Keshari, also published as Kayvan Rahimi Keshari, is a biochemist and professor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who studies cancer metabolism and hyperpolarized MRI.