Physical and mathematical scientists

Ken-ichi Uchida

Ken-ichi Uchida (内田健一) is a Japanese condensed-matter physicist who pioneered spin caloritronics, known for the 2008 spin Seebeck effect and 2018 anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect.

Ken‐ichi Shimizu

Ken-ichi Shimizu (清水研一, born 1971) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Hokkaido University's Institute for Catalysis, working on heterogeneous catalysis and catalyst design.

Ken'ichi Honda

Ken'ichi Honda (本多健一) was a Japanese chemist who discovered with Akira Fujishima that ultraviolet light on titanium dioxide splits water, and won the 2004 Japan Prize.

Ken'ichi Nomoto (野本憲一) is a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist known for supernova theory and stellar nucleosynthesis, a Senior Scientist at Kavli IPMU and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

Kendall N. Houk

Kendall N. Houk, publishing as K. N. Houk, is an American theoretical and computational organic chemist at UCLA, known for pericyclic reaction theory, stereoselectivity models, and enzyme design.

Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一, 1918–1998) was a Japanese theoretical chemist, professor at Kyoto University, who created frontier orbital theory and shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann.

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Kenichi Iga (伊賀健一)

Kenichi Iga (伊賀健一) is a Japanese electrical engineer, former president of Tokyo Institute of Technology, and inventor of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), proposed in 1977.

Kenichiro Itami

Kenichiro Itami (伊丹健一郎, born 1971) is a Japanese organic chemist, formerly professor at Nagoya University and now Chief Scientist at RIKEN, known for C–H activation and synthesizing carbon nanobelts.

Kenji Bekki

Kenji Bekki is a computational astrophysicist and professor at ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, known for supercomputer simulations of galaxy and star cluster formation.

Kenji Fukaya

Kenji Fukaya (深谷賢治, born 1959 in Yokohama) is a Japanese mathematician at Tsinghua University, best known for the Fukaya category and winner of the 2025 Shaw Prize.

Kenji Watanabe

Kenji Watanabe (渡邊賢司) is a Japanese physicist at NIMS in Tsukuba known for growing the high-purity hexagonal boron nitride crystals used worldwide as substrates for two-dimensional materials.

Kenkichi Iwasawa

Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917–1998) was a Japanese mathematician who founded Iwasawa theory, the study of class-group growth in infinite towers of number fields, and proved the Iwasawa decomposition of Lie groups.

Kenneth A. Dawson

Kenneth A. Dawson is an Irish-based physical chemist and Full Professor at University College Dublin, known for founding the biomolecular corona concept in a 2012 Nature Nanotechnology review.

Kenneth A. Farley

Kenneth A. Farley (born 1964) is an American isotope geochemist, W.M. Keck Professor at Caltech, known for apatite helium thermochronology and as Mars 2020 Perseverance project scientist.

Kenneth B. Crozier

Kenneth B. Crozier, also known as Kenneth Crozier, is a physicist and professor of physics and electronic engineering at the University of Melbourne who researches nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical trapping.

Kenneth B. Eisenthal

Kenneth B. Eisenthal (1933–2024) was an American physical chemist at Columbia University who pioneered second harmonic generation for studying molecules at liquid and aqueous interfaces.

Kenneth B. Wiberg

Kenneth B. Wiberg (Kenneth Berle Wiberg, 1927–2026) was an American physical organic chemist at Yale University known for strained small-ring compounds and the Wiberg bond index.

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Kenneth Bainbridge

Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (1904–1996) was an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for designing precision mass spectrographs and for directing the Trinity test, the first nuclear detonation, in 1945.

Kenneth C. Kulander

Kenneth C. Kulander was an American computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who pioneered numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for atoms in intense laser fields.

Kenneth Carslaw

Kenneth Carslaw is a British atmospheric scientist, Professor at the University of Leeds, known for the GLOMAP global aerosol model and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.

Kenneth Case

Kenneth Case (1923–2006) was an American theoretical physicist known for work in neutron transport theory and plasma physics, and for wartime service on the Manhattan Project.

Kenneth Creer

Kenneth Creer (1925–2020) was a British geophysicist who pioneered palaeomagnetism, compiling the first apparent polar wander path in 1954, the first physical test of continental drift.

Kenneth D. Jordan

Kenneth D. Jordan, also published as K. D. Jordan, is an American theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Pittsburgh known for work on water clusters and temporary anions.

Kenneth D. Karlin

Kenneth D. Karlin is an American bioinorganic chemist, the Ira Remsen Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for synthetic models of copper and heme-copper oxygen-processing proteins.

Kenneth F. Schulz

Kenneth F. Schulz is an epidemiologist and clinical-trials methodologist, Distinguished Scientist at FHI 360 in Durham, North Carolina, and first author of the CONSORT 2010 reporting guidelines for randomized trials.

Kenneth G. Caulton

Kenneth G. Caulton was an American inorganic and organometallic chemist who spent his career at Indiana University Bloomington, known for transition metal hydride chemistry and C–H and C–F bond activation.

Kenneth G. Wilson

Kenneth G. Wilson (Kenneth Geddes Wilson) was an American theoretical physicist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of critical phenomena and phase transitions.

Kenneth George Budden

Kenneth George Budden (1915–2005) was a British theoretical physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, a leading contributor to magnetoionic theory at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.

Kenneth Greisen

Kenneth Greisen (1918–2007) was an American experimental cosmic-ray physicist at Cornell University who predicted the GZK cutoff in 1966 and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.