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Kristopher McNeill
Kristopher McNeill, born 1970 in Tucson, Arizona, is an environmental chemist who has been Professor of Environmental Chemistry at ETH Zurich since 2009, after a decade at the University of Minnesota.
Krzysztof Belczyński
Krzysztof Belczyński was a Polish theoretical astrophysicist who predicted stellar black hole masses and merger rates later confirmed by the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.
Krzysztof Gawedzki
Krzysztof Gawedzki, also Krzysztof Gawędzki, was a Polish-French mathematical physicist at ENS Lyon who proved the first intermittency results in turbulence and shared the 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize.
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski is a polymer chemist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, teaching there since 1985, best known for discovering atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) in 1994 and winning the 2011 Wolf Prize.
Krzysztof Pachucki
Krzysztof Pachucki is a Polish theoretical physicist at the University of Warsaw whose 1996 Lamb-shift theory for muonic hydrogen enabled extracting the proton charge radius from spectroscopy.
Krzysztof Szalewicz
Krzysztof Szalewicz is a Polish-born American physicist at the University of Delaware known for co-developing symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) and predicting molecular crystal structures from first principles.
Kui Yu
Kui Yu (余睽) is a materials chemist who studies how colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and magic-size clusters form, and a professor at Sichuan University since 2014.
Kun Na
Kun Na (나건) is a South Korean professor of biomedical chemical engineering at the Catholic University of Korea, known for polymeric biomaterials and drug delivery research.
Kunihiko Kodaira
Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦, 1915–1997) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on complex manifolds and algebraic varieties, and in 1954 became the first Japanese recipient of the Fields Medal.
Kunioki Mima
Kunioki Mima (三間 圀興, 1945–2025) was a Japanese plasma physicist who co-discovered the Hasegawa–Mima equation, directed Osaka University's Institute of Laser Engineering, and won the Hannes Alfvén and Edward Teller prizes.
Kuo‐Wei Huang
Kuo-Wei Huang, known professionally as Andy Huang, is a Taiwanese chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who works on catalysis, electrocatalysis, and formic acid as an energy carrier.
Kurt Alder
Kurt Alder (1902–1958) was a German chemist who, with his teacher Otto Diels, discovered the Diels–Alder reaction and shared the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it.
Kurt Bennewitz
Kurt Bennewitz (1886–1964) was a German physical chemist, professor at Jena from 1927 and later at Würzburg and Stuttgart, nominated for the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Kurt Binder
Kurt Binder (1944–2022) was an Austrian statistical physicist who pioneered Monte Carlo simulation as a tool of theoretical physics, introduced the Binder cumulant, and won the Boltzmann Medal.
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian-born logician and mathematician best known for the incompleteness theorems, proving that no consistent system of arithmetic can prove its own consistency.
Kurt Heegner
Kurt Heegner was a German high school teacher and radio engineer whose 1952 proof of the class number one problem was vindicated after his death.
Kurt Hensel
Kurt Hensel (1861–1941) was a German mathematician and student of Kronecker who became professor at Marburg in 1902, introduced the p-adic numbers in 1897, and proved Hensel's lemma.
Kurt Hirsch
Kurt August Hirsch (1906–1986) was a German-born British mathematician who pioneered polycyclic group theory and gave his name to the Hirsch number and Hirsch–Plotkin radical.
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer, born 1956, is a German statistical physicist who developed the Kremer-Grest bead-spring model and led polymer theory at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck, born 1941 in Utrecht, is a Dutch-born Australian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at ANU known for reconstructing ice-volume and sea-level history, winning the 2012 Balzan Prize.
Kurt Lehovec
Kurt Lehovec was a Bohemian-born American physicist who patented p–n junction isolation, letting many transistors share one silicon die, and helped explain the first LEDs.
Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler (1903–1988) was a German-born mathematician, a central figure in transcendence theory who gave his name to Mahler's method, the Mahler measure, and a classification of transcendental numbers.
Kurt Mislow
Kurt Mislow was a German-born American stereochemist who held the Hugh Stott Taylor Professorship at Princeton University, pioneered modern chirality theory, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser is a geomicrobiologist and professor at the University of Alberta known for research on banded iron formations, the textbook Introduction to Geomicrobiology, and founding the journal Geobiology.
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901–1982) was a German-American applied mathematician who joined Richard Courant at NYU in 1937 and shaped the modern theory of partial differential equations.
Kurt Peters (chemist)
Kurt Peters (1897–1978) was an Austrian chemist who trained under Walther Nernst, helped convert methane to acetylene, and served as rector of the Vienna Institute of Technology.
Kurt Reidemeister
Kurt Reidemeister (1893–1971) was a German mathematician who proved the Reidemeister moves characterizing equivalent link diagrams, wrote the 1932 standard work Knotentheorie, and defined Reidemeister torsion in 1935.
Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik (1923–1983) was a German theoretical physicist who shaped quantum field theory through the LSZ formalism and the Callan–Symanzik equation, winning the 1981 Max Planck Medal.
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan is an environmental toxicologist and analytical chemist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, known for 2001 surveys showing perfluorinated chemicals had spread worldwide.
Kwabena Bediako
Kwabena Bediako is a Ghanaian-born chemist who studies electrocatalysis and two-dimensional materials as an associate professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.