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Kwang S. Kim

Kwang S. Kim, also known as Kwang Soo Kim, is a South Korean theoretical and computational chemist at UNIST who designs functional nanomaterials and nanodevices by quantum-chemical calculation.

Kwangyeol Lee

Kwangyeol Lee (이광렬) is a South Korean chemist who joined Korea University in Seoul in 2003, working on nanocrystal synthesis and electrocatalysts for water splitting and fuel cells.

Ky Fan

Ky Fan (樊畿, 1914–2010) was a Chinese-American mathematician at UC Santa Barbara known for the Ky Fan inequalities, Ky Fan norms, and the 1972 minimax inequality.

Kyeng Min Park

Kyeng Min Park (박경민) is a South Korean supramolecular chemist known for cucurbituril host–guest chemistry, including a supramolecular latching system for protein imaging; he has taught at Daegu Catholic University since 2021.

Kyle Anderson (chemist)

Kyle W. Anderson is an American research chemist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who leads its HDX-MS program for biopharmaceutical analysis and won a 2025 PECASE.

Kyle Cranmer

Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose statistical framework enabled the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.

Kyle M. Shen

Kyle M. Shen is a Canadian-American condensed matter physicist at Cornell University, where he directs LASSP and combines oxide molecular beam epitaxy with ARPES to create and probe quantum materials.

Kyoko Nozaki

Kyoko Nozaki (野崎京子) is a Japanese chemist known for homogeneous catalysis and organometallic chemistry, a professor at the University of Tokyo since 2003 who designs molecular catalysts that put carbon dioxide to use.

Kyoung-Shin Choi

Kyoung-Shin Choi (최경신) is a South Korean electrochemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for bismuth vanadate photoanodes for solar water splitting.

Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou

Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou, also known as K.C. Nicolaou, is a Cypriot-born American organic chemist known for the total synthesis of Taxol and other complex natural products.

L. J. Lander

L. J. Lander (Leon J. Lander) was an American mathematician who, with T. R. Parkin, found in 1966 the first counterexample to Euler's sum of powers conjecture.

L. Jan Anton Koster

L. Jan Anton Koster is a Dutch physicist at the University of Groningen, full professor of novel semiconductors and devices since 2022, studying organic semiconductor charge transport.

L. Kent Thomas

L. Kent Thomas, born Leonard Kent Thomas, was an American petroleum engineer who spent 40 years developing reservoir simulators at Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

L. M. Milne-Thomson

L. M. Milne-Thomson (Louis Melville Milne-Thomson, 1891–1974) was a British applied mathematician, professor at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, known for Theoretical Hydrodynamics and the circle theorem.

L. R. Ford, Jr.

L. R. Ford, Jr., full name Lester Randolph Ford, Jr. (1927–2017), was an American mathematician at RAND who co-founded network flow theory with Fulkerson and devised the Ford–Johnson sorting algorithm.

L.E. Borgman

L.E. Borgman (Leon E. Borgman, 1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer at the University of Wyoming, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Ladislaus Laszlo Marton

Ladislaus Laszlo Marton (1901–1979) was a Hungarian-born physicist who built one of the first electron microscopes in Brussels and recorded the first biological electron microscope images in 1934.

Ladislaus Marton

Ladislaus Marton (1901–1979 or 1980) was a Hungarian-born physicist who took the first electron micrographs of biological material and warned in 1934 that electron beams destroy cells.

Lai-Sang Young

Lai-Sang Young, born 1952, is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute known for her work on chaos and dynamical systems, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Lai‐Sheng Wang

Lai-Sheng Wang is an experimental physical chemist who became chair of chemistry at Brown University in 2019, known for golden buckyballs, the Au20 gold pyramid, and all-boron fullerenes.

Lajos Pósa (Hungarian mathematician)

Lajos Pósa is a Hungarian mathematician who collaborated with Paul Erdős as a teenager and created the Pósa method of weekend mathematics camps for gifted children.

Lan Yang

Lan Yang is an electrical engineer and Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, working in nanophotonics and plasmonics.

Lapo Bogani

Lapo Bogani is an Italian experimental physicist and chemist working on molecular magnetism, molecular spintronics, and graphene nanoribbon quantum devices, chair at the University of Florence since 2023.

Larry A. Wasserman

Larry A. Wasserman is a statistician and machine learning researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016 and author of All of Statistics.

Larry E. Overman

Larry E. Overman, born in 1943, is an American organic chemist at the University of California, Irvine, known for the Overman rearrangement and over 100 total syntheses of natural products.

Larry Gold

Larry Gold is an American molecular biologist affiliated with SomaLogic in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Colorado, known for SELEX and the SOMAmer-based SomaScan proteomics platform.

Larry Guth

Larry Guth is an American mathematician and Claude E. Shannon Professor at MIT whose work spans metric geometry, harmonic analysis, and combinatorics, including the Kakeya and Erdős distinct distances problems.

Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr, born 1948, is an American computational scientist who founded NCSA at Illinois and Calit2 at UC San Diego, and pioneered quantified-self health research.

Lars Ahlfors

Lars Ahlfors was a Finnish mathematician who worked in complex analysis and Riemann surfaces, won one of the first two Fields Medals in 1936, and taught at Harvard from 1946 to 1977.

Lars Bildsten

Lars Bildsten is an American theoretical astrophysicist who directs the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara and studies stellar explosions and gravitational waves.