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Leticia González (theoretical chemist)
Leticia González, born 1971 in Madrid, is a Spanish theoretical chemist and professor at the University of Vienna, best known for developing the SHARC surface-hopping method for photochemistry.
Lev Bregman
Lev Meerovich Bregman (Лев Меерович Брегман) was a Soviet and Israeli mathematician who introduced the Bregman divergence, now standard in machine learning, and proved Bregman's theorem on matrix permanents.
Lev Gor'kov
Lev Petrovich Gor'kov (Лев Горьков; 1929–2016) was a Soviet-born Russian and American theoretical physicist of the Landau school, best known for the Gor'kov equations, which put superconductivity theory on a microscopic footing.
Lev Landau (Лев Давидович Ландау)
Lev Davidovich Landau was a Soviet theoretical physicist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theories of condensed matter, especially liquid helium.
Lev Okun
Lev Borisovich Okun (Лев Борисович Окунь) was a Russian theoretical particle physicist at ITEP in Moscow who coined the term "hadron" in 1962 and campaigned against relativistic mass.
Lev P. Pitaevskii
Lev P. Pitaevskii, also known as Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii, was a Soviet and Italian theoretical physicist, co-namesake of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation governing ultracold Bose gases.
Lev Petrovich Gorkov
Lev Petrovich Gorkov (Лев Петрович Горьков; 1929–2016) was a Soviet and American theoretical physicist who in 1959 derived the Ginzburg–Landau equations of superconductivity from BCS theory, founding the GLAG framework.
Lev Pontryagin
Lev Pontryagin, also known as Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, was a Soviet mathematician who, though blind from age fourteen, created the Pontryagin characteristic classes and the maximum principle.
Lev Schnirelmann
Lev Schnirelmann, also known as Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (Лев Генрихович Шнирельман), was a Soviet mathematician who created Schnirelmann density and made the first unconditional progress on Goldbach's problem.
Lev Shubnikov
Lev Shubnikov (Лев Шубников) was a Soviet low-temperature physicist who worked in Leiden from 1926 to 1930, founded the first Soviet cryogenic laboratory in Kharkiv, and died in the purges in 1937.
Lewis Boss
Lewis Boss (1846–1912) was an American astronomer who directed the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, from 1876, and compiled the Preliminary General Catalogue of 6188 stars in 1910.
Lewis Fry Richardson
Lewis Fry Richardson (1881–1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, and pacifist who pioneered numerical weather forecasting and later compiled quantitative statistics on the causes of war.
Lewis G. Longsworth
Lewis G. Longsworth was an American chemist and biochemist who spent his entire career, 1928 to 1970, at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, known for electrophoresis and diffusion measurements.
Lewis H. Nosanow
Lewis H. Nosanow is a physicist who co-suggested in 1976 that spin-polarized hydrogen stays a gas at any temperature, launching the search for Bose–Einstein condensation.
Lewis Hastings Sarett
Lewis Hastings Sarett was an American organic chemist at Merck & Co. who achieved the first synthesis of cortisone in 1944, during World War II.
Lewis J. Fetters
Lewis J. Fetters (1936–2023) was an American polymer chemist, professor at the University of Akron from 1967 to 1983 and then a Senior Research Associate at Exxon Research and Engineering.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892) was an American amateur astronomer who pioneered astronomical photography and stellar spectroscopy, made superior diffraction gratings, and was an original National Academy of Sciences member.
Li Ye (mathematician)
Li Ye (李冶, 1192–1279) was a Chinese mathematician and writer, one of the four great mathematicians of the Song–Yuan period, who wrote the earliest surviving works on tianyuan shu.
Liang Fu
Liang Fu (傅亮) is a Chinese-American condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at MIT, known for the theoretical prediction of topological insulators and Majorana fermion proposals.
Liang Jiang
Liang Jiang is a quantum information scientist and professor of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago since 2019, known for quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Libai Huang
Libai Huang is a physical chemist, Tarpo Professor at Purdue University, known for ultrafast microscopy that images exciton and hot-carrier transport in perovskites and 2D materials.
Lifeng Chi
Lifeng Chi (迟力峰, born 1957) is a Chinese surface physical chemist known for on-surface chemical reactions and molecular self-assembly, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician elected in 2021.
Liming Dai
Liming Dai is a materials scientist and Scientia Professor at UNSW Sydney known for carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts, opened by his 2009 Science paper on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes beating platinum.
Liming Zhang
Liming Zhang (张立明) is an organic chemist known for his work in homogeneous gold catalysis, including Au(I)/Au(III) redox catalysis, and a professor at UC Santa Barbara.
Lin Fanghua
Lin Fanghua (林芳华) is a Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the mathematical theory of liquid crystals and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen is a chemist at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory known for time-resolved X-ray studies of the structures molecules take after absorbing light.
Lin Yan
Lin Yan is an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, on its professional staff since 2000, who studies infrared extragalactic astronomy and time-domain transients.
Lincoln Wolfenstein
Lincoln Wolfenstein (1923–2015) was an American particle theorist at Carnegie Mellon University known for the superweak hypothesis, the MSW effect, and the Wolfenstein parametrization of the CKM matrix.
Linda Ness
Linda Ann Ness is an American mathematician who earned her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1975 under David Mumford and is known for the Kempf–Ness theorem.
Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is an American planetary scientist, principal investigator of NASA's Psyche mission to a metal asteroid, and since 2025 director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley.