Physical and mathematical scientists

Keith A. Kvenvolden

Keith A. Kvenvolden, born 1930 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is an American organic geochemist known for Murchison meteorite amino-acid research at NASA and gas hydrate studies at the USGS.

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Keith A. Nelson

Keith A. Nelson is an American physical chemist at MIT known for ultrafast optics and terahertz spectroscopy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.

Keith A. Olive

Keith A. Olive is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota who works on big bang nucleosynthesis, particle dark matter, and inflation, winning the 2018 Hans A. Bethe Prize.

Keith J. Beven is a British hydrologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, known for TOPMODEL and the GLUE uncertainty methodology and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2017.

Keith Brueckner

Keith Brueckner (1924–2014) was an American theoretical physicist whose 1955 linked-cluster work founded Brueckner theory of nuclear matter; he was the founding chair of physics at UC San Diego.

Keith Edward Bullen

Keith Edward Bullen (1906–1976) was a New Zealand-born seismologist and mathematical geophysicist, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney, known for his 1936 Earth density model.

Keith Fagnou

Keith Fagnou (1971–2009) was a Canadian organic chemist at the University of Ottawa known for developing palladium-catalyzed direct arylation, which forms carbon–carbon bonds without prefunctionalized arenes.

Keith Hodgson

Keith Hodgson (born 1947) is an American chemist, a Stanford professor and SLAC photon science researcher who pioneered synchrotron X-ray studies of metalloprotein metal centers, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Keith J. Stevenson

Keith J. Stevenson is an American physical electrochemist who studied at Utah and was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 2000 to 2015.

Keith Moffatt

Keith Moffatt, born in Edinburgh in 1935, is a British mathematician and fluid dynamicist, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge, known for magnetohydrodynamics, dynamo theory, and topological fluid dynamics.

Keith P. Shine

Keith P. Shine, also known as Keith Shine, is Emeritus Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science at the University of Reading, known for identifying radiative forcing.

Keith R. Briffa

Keith R. Briffa, also known as Keith Briffa, was a British dendroclimatologist at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, who used tree rings to reconstruct past summer temperatures.

Keith Runcorn

Keith Runcorn, full name Stanley Keith Runcorn, was a British geophysicist (1922–1995) whose paleomagnetic studies gave early evidence for continental drift, and who inferred from Apollo samples that the Moon once had a magnetic field.

Keith Schwab

Keith Schwab is an experimental physicist and Caltech professor of applied physics working on quantum nanomechanics and superfluid helium-4 devices, including resonator cooling toward the quantum ground state.

Keith Usherwood Ingold

Keith Usherwood Ingold was a Canadian research chemist at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa who pioneered quantitative free-radical chemistry and established vitamin E as a potent antioxidant.

Keith William Morton

Keith William Morton, known as Bill Morton, is a British mathematician known for numerical analysis of partial differential equations and the 1967 text Difference Methods for Initial-Value Problems.

Keith Woerpel

Keith Woerpel is an American organic chemist, the Margaret & Herman Sokol Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at New York University, known for the Woerpel model of oxocarbenium ion stereochemistry.

Kelin Wang

Kelin Wang (王克林) is a Chinese Canadian research geophysicist at the Geological Survey of Canada's Pacific Geoscience Centre in British Columbia, known for subduction-zone earthquake and tsunami hazard research.

Kelin X. Whipple

Kelin X. Whipple is an American geomorphologist at Arizona State University who studies how climate and tectonics shape mountains, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Kelli Humbird

Kelli Humbird is an American design physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory whose machine-learning methods guide fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility; she received a 2025 PECASE award.

Kelsey Houston-Edwards

Kelsey Houston-Edwards is an American mathematician and science communicator who wrote and hosted PBS's Infinite Series, earned a 2018 Cornell PhD in probability, and writes for Quanta Magazine.

Kelsey Johnson

Kelsey Johnson is an astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia, known for research on star formation and founding Dark Skies, Bright Kids.

Ken C. Macdonald

Ken C. Macdonald is an American marine geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for mapping mid-ocean ridge segmentation and co-discovering black smoker vents.

Ken Caldeira

Ken Caldeira is an American climate and energy scientist known for work on ocean acidification, coral reef calcification, climate sensitivity, solar geoengineering, and the design of deeply decarbonized energy systems.

Ken Freeman

Ken Freeman, born Kenneth Charles Freeman in 1940, is an Australian astronomer at Mount Stromlo Observatory who was among the first to show spiral galaxies contain dark matter.

Ken O. Buesseler

Ken O. Buesseler is an American marine radiochemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who studies radioactive elements in the ocean and led research on Fukushima's release into the Pacific.

Ken Pounds

Ken Pounds (Kenneth A. Pounds) is a British physicist who founded the University of Leicester's Space Research Group in 1960 and became known for work on X-ray reflection from accretion disks.

Ken R. Czerwinski

Ken R. Czerwinski is an American radiochemist and full professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, known for work on rutherfordium, technetium, and actinide chemistry.

Ken Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond, born 1942 in Astoria, Oregon, is an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley known for siderophore iron transport, supramolecular assemblies, and MRI contrast agents; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.