Physical and mathematical scientists

Lawrence Bragg

Lawrence Bragg, also known as William Lawrence Bragg, was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg.

Lawrence C. Evans

Lawrence C. Evans, born 1949, is an American mathematician at UC Berkeley known for nonlinear partial differential equations and his graduate textbook Partial Differential Equations.

Lawrence D. Brown

Lawrence D. Brown (1940–2018) was an American statistician, Miers Busch Professor at Wharton, known for decision theory, admissibility of estimators, and his 1996 nonparametric equivalence paper.

Lawrence F. Dahl

Lawrence F. Dahl (1929–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who determined the X-ray structures of transition-metal cluster compounds, from simple carbonyls to record palladium clusters.

Lawrence Grossman

Lawrence Grossman, born 1946 in Toronto, is a cosmochemist at the University of Chicago known for calculating mineral condensation sequences and showing CAIs are the Solar System's oldest solids.

Lawrence H. Aller

Lawrence H. Aller (1913–2003) was an American astronomer who specialized in the chemical analysis of planetary nebulae and stellar atmospheres, and a UCLA professor from 1962.

Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Lawrence Joseph Henderson (1878–1942) was an American biochemist and physiologist at Harvard whose 1908 blood-buffering formula became the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation, and who wrote The Fitness of the Environment (1913).

Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who taught at Yale, Case Western Reserve, and Arizona State, predicted dark energy in 1995, and wrote A Universe from Nothing.

Lawrence M. Wein

Lawrence M. Wein is an American operations research scientist, the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor Emeritus at Stanford, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, known for biodefense and health-care models.

Lawrence O. Brockway

Lawrence O. Brockway (Lawrence Olin Brockway, 1907–1979) was an American physical chemist who established gas-phase electron diffraction for determining molecular structures, first as a doctoral student of Linus Pauling at Caltech.

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Lawrence Que

Lawrence Que, Jr. is an American bioinorganic chemist at the University of Minnesota known for work on nonheme iron oxygen activation and bio-inspired oxidation catalysis.

Lawrence R. Hafstad

Lawrence R. Hafstad (1904–1993) was an American nuclear physicist who helped demonstrate uranium fission in 1939, proved the radar proximity fuze feasible, and led the Atomic Energy Commission's reactor program.

Lawrence R. Sita

Lawrence R. Sita is an American inorganic and materials chemist, a professor at the University of Maryland since 2002 known for nitrogen fixation catalysis and living polymerization of polyolefins.

Lawrence S. Bartell

Lawrence S. Bartell (1923–2017) was an American physical chemist at the University of Michigan who used electron diffraction and electron holography to determine the shapes of free molecules.

Lawrence Shepp

Lawrence Shepp was an American mathematician and statistician who developed the Shepp–Logan filter and phantom for CT image reconstruction, spending most of his career at Bell Laboratories.

Lawrence T. Scott

Lawrence T. Scott, born 1944, is an American organic chemist and emeritus professor at Boston College who led the first rational chemical synthesis of buckminsterfullerene.

Lazar Lyusternik

Lazar Lyusternik, also known as Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik, was a Soviet mathematician and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences, known for the Lyusternik–Schnirelmann category and the three geodesics theorem.

Lazarus Fletcher

Sir Lazarus Fletcher (1854–1921) was a British mineralogist and museum director who led the British Museum (Natural History) and wrote an influential 1891 memoir on the optical indicatrix.

Lazarus Fuchs

Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs (1833–1902) was a German mathematician, a pupil of Weierstrass, who characterized the Fuchsian class of linear differential equations; Poincaré named Fuchsian functions in his honor.

Lea Nienhaus

Lea Nienhaus is a chemist known for solid-state perovskite-sensitized photon upconversion, turning infrared light into visible light; she has been an associate professor at Rice University since 2024.

Lee Alvin DuBridge

Lee Alvin DuBridge was an American experimental physicist and founding director of the MIT Radiation Laboratory during World War II, and president of Caltech from 1946 to 1969.

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Lee Cronin (chemist)

Leroy "Lee" Cronin is Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, working on machine learning for chemistry, the Chemputer, assembly theory, and the origin of life.

Lee Greenawald

Lee Greenawald is an American occupational safety scientist and analytical chemist who led NIOSH's respirator testing branch, researched fentanyl protection through gloves, and received a PECASE in 2025.

Lee Grodzins

Lee Grodzins (1926–2025) was an American nuclear physicist who co-measured the neutrino's helicity, taught at MIT for 40 years, and co-founded the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Lee Hartmann

Lee Hartmann is an American astronomer at the University of Michigan who studies star and planet formation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Lee Irvin Smith

Lee Irvin Smith (1891–1973) was an American organic chemist who spent his forty-year career at the University of Minnesota and first synthesized the tocopherols, the vitamin E family.

Lee R. Cambrea

Lee R. Cambrea is an American research chemist at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California, who received a 2011 PECASE award.

Lee R. Kump

Lee R. Kump is an American geoscientist and biogeochemist at Penn State known for work on the carbon cycle, mass extinctions, and atmospheric oxygen, and dean from 2017 to 2026.

Leeor Kronik

Leeor Kronik (ליאור קרוניק) is an Israeli theoretical chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for density functional theory and optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals.