Physical and mathematical scientists

Kerry Emanuel

Kerry Emanuel, born 1955, is an American climate scientist and Professor Emeritus at MIT, the first to predict that hurricanes would intensify as the climate warms.

Kerry J. Vahala is an American applied physicist and electrical engineer at Caltech, known for ultra-high-Q optical microresonators on semiconductor chips, optical frequency microcombs, and cavity optomechanics.

Kerry Sieh

Kerry Sieh is an American geophysicist known for proposing the buried Australasian impact crater in southern Laos and for founding the Earth Observatory of Singapore.

Kerson Huang

Kerson Huang (1928–2016) was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist and MIT professor emeritus whose 1957 hard-sphere Bose gas work with C. N. Yang produced the Lee–Huang–Yang correction, and whose statistical mechanics textbooks remained in worldwide use.

Kevin Burgess (chemist)

Kevin Burgess is a chemist and Rachal Chair in Chemistry at Texas A&M University who designs peptidomimetics, small molecules imitating protein surfaces, targeting receptors like TrkC in metastatic cancer.

Kevin Burke (geophysicist)

Kevin Burke (1929–2018) was a British-born geologist and geophysicist, professor at the University of Houston, who coined the term Wilson cycle and studied mantle plumes.

Kevin Burton

Kevin W. Burton is an isotope geochemist and Professor of Geochemistry at Durham University since 2007, known for applying rhenium-osmium isotope measurements to mantle rocks and ocean sediments.

Kevin C. Jones

Kevin C. Jones is a British environmental chemist, Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, known for research on persistent organic pollutants and for establishing passive air sampling networks across Europe.

Kevin Corlette

Kevin Corlette is an American differential geometer at the University of Chicago whose 1988 theorem on harmonic metrics underpins non-abelian Hodge theory and proved Archimedean superrigidity for rank-one lattices.

Kevin E. Trenberth

Kevin E. Trenberth, born 1944 in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a climate scientist and Distinguished Scholar at NCAR known for work on Earth's energy budget and ocean heat content.

Kevin Ford (mathematician)

Kevin Ford is an American analytic number theorist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, best known for solving Erdős's multiplication table problem in 2008.

Kevin M. Rosso

Kevin M. Rosso is a Battelle Fellow geochemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, who studies mineral–water interfaces and leads its DOE geochemistry program.

Kevin Pagel

Kevin Pagel is a German chemist and full professor at the Free University Berlin and the Fritz Haber Institute, known for ion mobility–mass spectrometry of carbohydrates.

Kevin R. Arrigo

Kevin R. Arrigo is a biological oceanographer who leads Stanford's Ocean Biogeochemistry Lab and reported in 2020 that Arctic Ocean primary production rose 57 percent between 1998 and 2018.

Kevin Zahnle

Kevin Zahnle is a planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center since 1988, known for photochemical modeling of planetary atmospheres, impact processes, and atmospheric escape.

Keywan Riahi

Keywan Riahi is an energy-systems and integrated assessment modeler who directs the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program at IIASA and coordinated the RCPs and SSPs.

Kian Ping Loh

Kian Ping Loh, known as Professor Loh Kian Ping, is a Singapore-based chemist at the National University of Singapore working on graphene and two-dimensional materials.

Kieron Burke

Kieron Burke is a theoretical chemist and physicist at UC Irvine, best known as co-creator of the 1996 PBE density functional, a standard of computational chemistry.

Kilian Muñiz

Kilian Muñiz (1970–2020) was a German-Spanish organic chemist and ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia in Tarragona, known for catalytic alkene diamination.

Kim R. Dunbar

Kim R. Dunbar is an inorganic chemist at Texas A&M University since 1999 whose research spans molecule-based magnetic materials, anion–π interactions, and dirhodium compounds for cancer therapy.

Kimihiko Hirao

Kimihiko Hirao (平尾公彦), born 1945 in Niihama, Japan, is a Japanese theoretical chemist known for the SAC method, multireference perturbation theory, and long-range-corrected density functionals.

Kimihisa Yamamoto

Kimihisa Yamamoto (山元公寿) is a Japanese polymer and materials chemist, professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for phenylazomethine dendrimers and the atom hybrid method.

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Kin Fai Mak

Kin Fai Mak is a condensed matter experimental physicist known for studies of atomically thin 2D materials and, since 2024, a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter.

Kingsley Charles Dunham

Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham (1910–2001) was a British geologist, Professor of Geology at Durham University and Director of the Institute of Geological Sciences from 1967 to 1975.

Kinsey Anderson

Kinsey Anderson (1926–2012) was an American space physicist and UC Berkeley professor who built balloon, rocket, and satellite instruments to study Earth's aurora, solar flares, and the solar wind.

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Kip Thorne

Kip Thorne is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who co-founded the LIGO project and shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct observation of gravitational waves.

Kirk A. Peterson

Kirk A. Peterson is an American theoretical chemist at Washington State University known for developing correlation consistent Gaussian basis sets, including relativistic sets for heavy elements.

Kirk Bryan (oceanographer)

Kirk Bryan is an oceanographer who led ocean modeling at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and co-created the first coupled atmosphere–ocean climate model with Syukuro Manabe in 1969.

Kirk S. Schanze

Kirk S. Schanze is an American chemist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, known for conjugated polyelectrolytes and for founding ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.