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Lei Xing
Lei Xing is a medical physicist at Stanford University who directs its Medical Physics Division, leads the Xing Laboratory, and works on artificial intelligence, imaging, and radiation oncology.
Lei Zhu
Lei Zhu is a polymer scientist and professor at Case Western Reserve University known for high-dielectric-constant and ferroelectric polymers, including fluorine-free ferroelectric polymers reported in Science in 2025.
Leif Hammarström
Leif Hammarström, born 1964 in Uppsala, is a Swedish physical chemist and Professor of Chemical Physics at Uppsala University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer and artificial photosynthesis.
Leigh Canham
Leigh Canham (Leigh Trevor Canham) is a British solid state physicist who showed in 1990 that porous silicon emits visible red light, and later that silicon can be medically biodegradable.
Leland John Haworth
Leland John Haworth (1904–1979) was an American experimental physicist who directed Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1948 to 1961 and the National Science Foundation from 1963 to 1969.
Lene V. Hau
Lene V. Hau, also known as Lene Vestergaard Hau, is a Danish physicist at Harvard who led experiments slowing light to 17 m/s in 1999 and stopping it in 2001.
Lennard Fisk
Lennard Fisk is an American space physicist at the University of Michigan, known for his 1974 theory of anomalous cosmic rays and his service as a NASA associate administrator.
Lennart Carleson
Lennart Carleson, born 1928 in Stockholm, is a Swedish mathematician who proved Carleson's theorem on Fourier series in 1966, solved the corona problem, and received the 2006 Abel Prize.
Lennart Lindegren
Lennart Lindegren, born 1950 in Sweden, is a Swedish astronomer at Lund Observatory who established the data-reduction methods for ESA's Hipparcos and Gaia missions, sharing the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.
Lennart von Post
Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post (1884–1951) was a Swedish geologist who introduced the quantitative pollen diagram, reconstructing postglacial vegetation and climate history from fossil pollen in peat bogs.
Lennox Cowie
Lennox Cowie is a British astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, known for deep Keck surveys of faint galaxies and work on the submillimetre background.
Leo A. Paquette
Leo A. Paquette (1934–2019) was an American organic chemist at Ohio State University best known for the first synthesis of dodecahedrane in 1982 and over 50 total syntheses.
Leo August Pochhammer
Leo August Pochhammer (1841–1920) was a German mathematician who taught at the University of Kiel and is known for the Pochhammer symbol, the Pochhammer function, and the generalized hypergeometric function.
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland, also known as Leo Hendrik Baekeland, was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper and Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic.
Leo Blitz
Leo Blitz (1945–2022) was an American radio astronomer, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, and director of its Radio Astronomy Laboratory, known for work on molecular clouds and black-hole masses.
Leo Brewer
Leo Brewer (1919–2005) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Leo C.M. de Maeyer
Leo C.M. de Maeyer (1927–2014) was a Belgian physical chemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, developing chemical relaxation techniques with Manfred Eigen.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki (江崎玲於奈), born in Osaka in 1925, is a Japanese semiconductor physicist known for the tunnel diode and the semiconductor superlattice, winning the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Leo Goldberg
Leo Goldberg (1913–1987) was an American astronomer known for pioneering studies of the sun from space, including the first recognition of coronal holes in solar wind data.
Leo Goodman
Leo Goodman (1928–2020) was an American statistician and sociologist who transformed categorical data analysis, taught at Chicago and Berkeley, and gave his name to Goodman–Kruskal Lambda, Gamma, and Tau.
Leo Graetz
Leo Graetz (1856–1941) was a German physicist at the University of Munich known for the Graetz number, the Graetz problem, and the Graetz bridge rectifier.
Leo Groß
Leo Gross is a German physicist at IBM Research Zurich who leads its atom and molecule manipulation group and pioneered bond-resolving AFM with CO-functionalized tips in 2009.
Leo Harrington
Leo Anthony Harrington is a mathematical logician and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Paris–Harrington theorem and work in recursion theory and set theory.
Leo Hollberg
Leo W. Hollberg is an American physicist known for precision laser spectroscopy and the chip-scale atomic clock, developed at NIST in Boulder before he joined Stanford in 2011.
Leo Kadanoff
Leo Kadanoff (1937–2015) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago whose 1966 block-spin work explained universality and laid the basis for the renormalization group.
Leo Lesquereux
Leo Lesquereux (1806–1889) was a Swiss-born American bryologist and paleobotanist who described the fossil floras of North America's coal measures and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1864.
Leo Moser
Leo Moser (1921–1970) was an Austrian-born Canadian mathematician at the University of Alberta who published over 100 papers and posed the worm problem and the Moser spindle.
Leo Murata
Leo Murata is a Japanese analytic number theorist at Meiji Gakuin University, known for Murata's constant, about 2.8264, from his work on least primitive roots.
Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Leo P. Kouwenhoven (born 1963) is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor at TU Delft and QuTech, known for spin qubits and Majorana bound states.
Leo Radom
Leo Radom, born 1944 in Shanghai, is an Australian computational quantum chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney known for Gaussian theory extensions and radical thermochemistry.