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Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896–1980) was a Polish mathematician who axiomatized the closure operator, proved the classic planarity criterion for graphs, and led the rebuilding of Polish mathematics after World War II.
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (1902–1959) was a Polish mathematician and professor at the Warsaw Polytechnic known for the Zarankiewicz problem and his crossing number conjecture for complete bipartite graphs.
Kazuaki Ishihara
Kazuaki Ishihara (石原一彰), born 1963, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for asymmetric catalysis, including hafnium-catalyzed esterification and hypoiodite catalysis reported in Science.
Kazuhiko Maeda
Kazuhiko Maeda (前田 和彦) is a Japanese chemist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for oxynitride photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen and oxygen with visible light.
Kazuhiko Nishijima
Kazuhiko Nishijima (西島和彦, 1926–2009) was a Japanese theoretical particle physicist who, with Tadao Nakano and independently of Murray Gell-Mann, discovered the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula relating hadron charge to strangeness, paving the way to the quark model.
Kazuhiko Takai
Kazuhiko Takai (髙井 和彦, born 1954 in Tokyo) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Okayama University since 2005, known for the Takai olefination and organosodium cross-coupling chemistry.
Kazuhiro Takanabe
Kazuhiro Takanabe (高鍋和広) is a Japanese catalysis researcher, professor of chemical system engineering at the University of Tokyo since 2018, known for quantitative photocatalysis and green hydrogen work.
Kazuhito Hashimoto
Kazuhito Hashimoto (橋本和仁, born 1955) is a Japanese materials chemist at the University of Tokyo known for titanium dioxide photocatalysis and self-cleaning surfaces, and president of the Japan Science and Technology Agency since 2022.
Kazunari Domen
Kazunari Domen (堂免 一成, born 1953) is a Japanese chemist, a University Professor at the University of Tokyo, known for particulate photocatalysts that split water into hydrogen using sunlight.
Kazunari Matsuda
Kazunari Matsuda is a Japanese physicist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute of Advanced Energy, known for optical studies of carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional semiconductors.
Kazunari Shibata
Kazunari Shibata (柴田 一成) is a Japanese solar astrophysicist at Kyoto University known for his unified model of solar flares and the discovery of superflares.
Kazunari Yoshizawa
Kazunari Yoshizawa (吉澤一成) is a Japanese theoretical and computational chemist at Kyoto University's Fukui Institute, known for an orbital rule for molecular electron transport and catalyst design.
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則)
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則) is a Japanese polymer chemist known for block copolymer micelles for drug delivery, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Kazuo Akagi
Kazuo Akagi (赤木 和夫) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Ritsumeikan University, known for synthesizing helical polyacetylene and winning the Chemical Society of Japan Award.
Kazuo Takimiya
Kazuo Takimiya (瀧宮 和男) is a Japanese organic materials chemist, professor at Tohoku University and a RIKEN group director, known for the high-mobility semiconductors BTBT and DNTT.
Kazuoki Azuma
Kazuoki Azuma (吾妻 一興) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at Miyagi University of Education known for the Azuma–Hoeffding inequality, a 1967 tail bound for martingales.
Kazushi Kanoda
Kazushi Kanoda (鹿野田 一司) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist, a University of Tokyo professor since 1999, known for NMR studies of organic molecular conductors.
Kazushi Mashima
Kazushi Mashima (真島和志), born 1957, is a Japanese organometallic chemist and Specially Appointed Professor at Osaka University, known for cerium cluster catalysis and asymmetric hydrogenation.
Kazuya Kikuchi
Kazuya Kikuchi (菊地 和也) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Distinguished Professor at Osaka University, known for fluorogenic no-wash protein-labeling tags and core-shell nanoparticle 19F MRI probes.
Kazuyuki Kuroda
Kazuyuki Kuroda (黒田 一幸) is a Japanese inorganic materials chemist at Waseda University in Tokyo, known for mesoporous silica, oriented mesoporous films, and his nanotectonics design program.
Ke Zhao
Ke Zhao (柯召, 1910–2002) was a Chinese mathematician at Sichuan University, a founder of modern number theory and combinatorics in China, co-author of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem.
Keary M. Engle
Keary M. Engle is an American chemist and professor at Scripps Research known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization and alkene dicarbofunctionalization, and dean of graduate studies since 2024.
Kees Posthumus
Kees Posthumus, full name Kornelis Posthumus (1902–1972), was a Dutch chemist and second rector magnificus of Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven whose 1968 'nota Posthumus' shaped Dutch higher-education reform in the 1970s.
Kei Hirose
Kei Hirose (廣瀬敬, born 1968) is a Japanese high-pressure geophysicist at the University of Tokyo, known for the 2004 discovery of post-perovskite and for laser-heated diamond-anvil cell experiments reaching Earth's center conditions.
Keiiti Aki
Keiiti Aki (1930–2005) was a Japanese-born seismologist, professor at MIT and USC, who created the seismic moment concept behind the moment magnitude scale, pioneered seismic tomography, and co-authored Quantitative Seismology.
Keiji Maruoka
Keiji Maruoka (丸岡 啓二, born 1953) is a Japanese organic chemist at Kyoto University known for designing the chiral phase-transfer catalysts sold as the Maruoka Catalyst.
Keiji Morokuma
Keiji Morokuma (諸熊奎治, 1934–2017) was a Japanese theoretical chemist who developed the ONIOM multiscale method, taught at Emory University, and won the 2008 Imperial Prize.
Keisuke Goda
Keisuke Goda (合田 圭介) is a Japanese photonics and biomedical optics researcher, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo since 2012, known for ultrafast optical imaging and intelligent image-activated cell sorting.
Keisuke Suzuki
Keisuke Suzuki (鈴木啓介) is a Japanese organic chemist known for the total synthesis of complex natural products, winner of the 2015 Japan Academy Prize and a Japan Academy member since 2018.
Keisuke Tajima
Keisuke Tajima (但馬 敬介) is a Japanese organic electronics researcher who leads a polymer research team at RIKEN, known for his 2011 Nature Materials study of organic solar cell interfaces.