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Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Ornstein, also known as Leonard Salomon Ornstein, was a Dutch theoretical physicist who held the Utrecht chair of mathematical physics from 1915 and gave his name to the Ornstein–Zernike equation and the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process.
Leonard R. MacGillivray
Leonard R. MacGillivray is a Canadian supramolecular chemist and crystal engineer known for template-controlled solid-state reactions, and a Canada Excellence Research Chair at Sherbrooke since 2023.
Leonard Susskind
Leonard Susskind, also known as Lenny Susskind, is an American theoretical physicist and Felix Bloch professor at Stanford, known for string theory, black hole complementarity, and the holographic principle.
Leonard T. Troland
Leonard T. Troland, also known as Leonard Thompson Troland, was an American physicist who coined "photon" as a unit of retinal illumination and led the Optical Society of America.
Leone Spiccia
Leone Spiccia (1957–2016) was an Australian inorganic chemist, Professor of Chemistry at Monash University, known for dye-sensitized solar cell electrolytes, bioinspired water-oxidation catalysis, and nanomaterials for cancer imaging.
Leonhard Grill
Leonhard Grill is an Austrian physical chemist and professor at the University of Graz who studies single molecules on surfaces and won the first Nanocar Race in 2017.
Leonid Brekhovskikh
Leonid Brekhovskikh (1917–2005) was a Soviet and Russian acoustical oceanographer who discovered the underwater sound channel in 1946 and wrote Waves in Layered Media, the standard reference on wave propagation in layered media.
Leonid Dubrovinsky
Leonid Dubrovinsky (born 1961) is a high-pressure mineral physicist and professor at the University of Bayreuth known for generating static pressures beyond 1 terapascal in the laboratory and synthesizing new materials there.
Leonid Keldysh
Leonid Keldysh (Леонид Келдыш) was a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow, known for the Keldysh diagram technique, the Keldysh parameter, and the Franz–Keldysh effect.
Leonid Levitov
Leonid S. Levitov is a Russian-born theoretical condensed matter physicist and professor of physics at MIT, known for leviton current pulses, graphene valley currents, and electron hydrodynamics.
Leonid Mandelstam
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (Леонид Исаакович Мандельштам, 1879–1944) was a Soviet physicist who co-discovered the Raman effect in 1928 and founded the Moscow school of radiophysics and oscillation theory.
Leonid Vaserstein
Leonid Vaserstein is a Russian-born mathematician, emeritus professor at Penn State, known for the stable rank of rings and the Wasserstein distance used in machine learning.
Leonidas Alaoglu
Leonidas Alaoglu (1914–1981) was a Canadian-born mathematician, born in Red Deer, Alberta, to Greek parents, known for the Banach–Alaoglu theorem and a 1944 paper with Paul Erdős that left an open problem in number theory.
Leonor Michaelis
Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949) was a German-born biochemist and physician who, with Maud Menten, derived the Michaelis–Menten constant in 1913 and later worked at the Rockefeller Institute.
Leopold Gegenbauer
Leopold Gegenbauer (1849–1903) was an Austrian mathematician who held chairs at Czernowitz, Innsbruck, and Vienna, and is known for the Gegenbauer polynomials, which unify the Legendre and Chebyshev families.
Leopold Horner
Leopold Horner (1911–2005) was a German organic chemist and professor at the University of Mainz, namesake of the Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons olefination, a widely used reaction for forming carbon–carbon double bonds.
Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld (1898–1968) was a Polish theoretical physicist who co-authored the Born–Infeld theory, the Einstein–Infeld–Hoffmann equations, and the popular book The Evolution of Physics with Einstein.
Leopold Löwenheim
Leopold Löwenheim (1878–1957) was a German schoolteacher and mathematician in Berlin who proved in 1915 the first significant metalogical theorem, now known as the Löwenheim–Skolem theorem.
Leopold Ruzicka
Leopold Ruzicka (Leopold Ružička, 1887–1976) was a Croatian-born Swiss chemist at ETH Zurich who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on terpenes and synthesized testosterone.
Leopold Vietoris
Leopold Vietoris (1891–2002) was an Austrian mathematician at the University of Innsbruck whose name is attached to the Mayer–Vietoris sequence, the Vietoris–Begle theorem, and the Vietoris–Rips complex.
Leopoldo Máximo Falicov
Leopoldo Máximo Falicov (1933–1995) was an Argentine-born theoretical physicist who led the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley and introduced the Falicov–Kimball model of metal–insulator transitions in 1969.
Leroy Chang
Leroy Chang (张立纲, Zhang Ligang; 1936–2008) was a Chinese-born American condensed-matter physicist who spent three decades at IBM turning the semiconductor superlattice and resonant tunneling into working devices.
Leslie Greengard
Leslie Greengard is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute and director at the Flatiron Institute, known for the fast multipole method.
Leslie Leiserowitz
Leslie Leiserowitz, born 1934 in Johannesburg, is an Israeli chemist and crystallographer at the Weizmann Institute whose work showed how molecular chirality controls crystal shape and nucleation.
Leslie M. Schoop
Leslie M. Schoop is a solid state chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for the topological semimetal ZrSiS and the square-net design principle for topological materials.
Lester Andrews
Lester Andrews, born 1942, is an American physical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of Virginia known for matrix-isolation infrared spectroscopy and the first compounds bonding uranium to noble gases.
Lester Germer
Lester Halbert Germer (1896–1971) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, with Clinton Davisson, first demonstrated the wave properties of the electron in 1927, confirming de Broglie's hypothesis.
Lester R. Ford
Lester R. Ford, born Lester Randolph Ford, was an American mathematician known for Ford circles and for Automorphic Functions (1929), the first English treatise on automorphic functions.
Letian Dou
Letian Dou is a materials chemist and chemical engineer known for hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (OSiPs), Paul & Phyllis Fireman Professor of Chemistry at Emory University since 2025 after Purdue.
Leticia Cugliandolo
Leticia Cugliandolo, born 1965 in Argentina, is an Argentine statistical physicist at Sorbonne Université in Paris, known for aging and effective temperature in glassy systems.