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Kohei Tamao
Kohei Tamao (玉尾 皓平), born 1942, is a Japanese organosilicon and organoboron chemist, professor at Kyoto University, known for the Tamao oxidation, the Kumada–Tamao coupling, and silole electron-transport materials.
Kohji Matsumoto
Kohji Matsumoto (松本耕二) is a Japanese analytic number theorist, long a professor at Nagoya University, known for zeta-function value-distribution theory and for the Matsumoto zeta-function, a class of polynomial Euler products.
Koichi Mizushima
Koichi Mizushima (水島公一) is a Japanese physicist who, in John Goodenough's Oxford laboratory in 1980, discovered the lithium cobalt oxide cathode on which the lithium-ion battery rests.
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一), born 1959 in Toyama City, Japan, is a Japanese analytical chemist at Shimadzu who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for soft laser desorption.
Koichiro Harada
Koichiro Harada (原田耕一郎) is a Japanese mathematician in finite group theory who gave his name, with Simon Norton, to the Harada–Norton group, a sporadic simple group.
Kōichirō Nishikawa
Kōichirō Nishikawa (西川公一郎; 1949–2018) was a Japanese particle physicist who pioneered long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments, proposing and leading K2K and founding T2K, work honored by the Breakthrough Prize.
Koichiro Oshima
Koichiro Oshima (大嶌 幸一郎) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for cobalt-catalyzed cross-coupling of alkyl halides with Grignard reagents and triethylborane-initiated radical reactions.
Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi (1925–2019) was a Japanese organic chemist at Columbia University who determined structures of biologically active natural products and developed the exciton chirality method.
Konrad Bates Krauskopf
Konrad Bates Krauskopf (1910–2003) was an American geochemist who spent his career at Stanford University, did seminal work on trace metals in seawater, and wrote the textbook Introduction to Geochemistry.
Konrad Bleuler
Konrad Bleuler (1912–1992) was a Swiss physicist and mathematician, professor of theoretical physics at Bonn, known for the Gupta–Bleuler formalism for quantizing the electromagnetic field.
Konrad Tiefenbacher
Konrad Tiefenbacher is an organic chemist, professor at the University of Basel and ETH Zürich since 2016, known for running terpene cyclizations and β-selective glycosylations inside self-assembled molecular capsules.
Konstantin Batygin
Konstantin Batygin, born in Moscow in 1986, is a Caltech professor of planetary science best known for the Planet Nine hypothesis, proposing a distant unseen planet.
Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov, also known as Kostya Novoselov, is a Russian-British physicist who isolated graphene at Manchester in 2004, winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Andre Geim.
Konstantin Y. Bliokh
Konstantin Y. Bliokh is a theoretical physicist working on spin–orbit interactions of light and wave momentum, an Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Centre since 2024.
Koop Lammertsma
Koop Lammertsma is a Dutch organophosphorus and computational chemist, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg, known for low-valent phosphorus chemistry and the 2021 International Arbuzov Prize.
Kornelius Nielsch
Kornelius Nielsch is a German physicist and materials scientist, born in Hamburg in 1973, who directs the Institute for Metallic Materials at IFW Dresden and teaches at TU Dresden.
Kosmas Prassides
Kosmas Prassides is a Greek-born solid-state chemist, educated at Oxford, known for work on molecular superconductivity in fullerides, including record 38 K superconductivity in Cs3C60.
Kostas Kostarelos
Kostas Kostarelos is a nanomedicine researcher and professor in Barcelona and Manchester, known for liposomes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene as medical materials and for analyzing the nanoscale COVID-19 vaccines.
Kostya Ostrikov
Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov is a physicist who pioneered the field of plasma nanoscience, using low-temperature plasmas for nanotechnology, and has been a professor at Queensland University of Technology since 2015.
Kotaro Honda
Kotaro Honda (本多光太郎), 1870 to 1954, was a Japanese physicist and metallurgist who invented KS magnet steel in 1917, the strongest permanent-magnet material of its time.
Kozaburo Fujimura
Kozaburo Fujimura (藤村幸三郎) is a Japanese puzzle creator and mathematics teacher, born in Osaka in 1903, who posed the Kobon triangle problem in his 1978 book The Tokyo Puzzles.
Krijn P. de Jong
Krijn P. de Jong, also known as K.P. de Jong, is a Dutch materials chemist and emeritus professor of inorganic chemistry and catalysis at Utrecht University, born in 1954.
Krishnan Raghavachari
Krishnan Raghavachari is an Indian-born theoretical and computational chemist, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, best known as principal author of the CCSD(T) method, the gold standard of quantum chemistry.
Kristian Birkeland
Kristian Birkeland (1867–1917) was a Norwegian physicist whose 1896 solar-particle theory of the aurora founded space plasma physics, and who co-invented the Birkeland–Eyde nitrogen fixation process behind Norsk Hydro's fertilizer industry.
Kristian Sommer Thygesen
Kristian Sommer Thygesen, also published as Kristian S. Thygesen, is a computational materials scientist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark, leading the open C2DB database of 2D materials.
Kristie Boering
Kristie Boering is an atmospheric chemist and Templeton Professor at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for isotope tracers of atmospheric chemistry.
Kristin DeWitt
Kristin DeWitt, known as Kristy DeWitt, is an American physical chemist who led IARPA chemical-detection programs and joined the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in 2021.
Kristin Persson
Kristin A. Persson is a professor of materials science at UC Berkeley and, since 2011, director of the Materials Project, an open database of computed materials properties.
Kristin Poinar
Kristin Poinar is an American glaciologist at the University at Buffalo who models meltwater flow through the Greenland Ice Sheet, combining modeling, fieldwork, and deep learning.
Kristina B. Katsaros
Kristina B. Katsaros is a Swedish-born atmospheric scientist known for air-sea interaction research and satellite microwave remote sensing of cyclones, directing NOAA's AOML from 1997 to 2003.