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Lingjun Li
Lingjun Li (李灵军) is an analytical chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for discovering more than 500 novel neuropeptides and for TEMI, a single-cell-resolution mass spectrometry imaging method.
Linnea M. Avallone
Linnea M. Avallone is an American atmospheric chemist known for airborne instruments measuring trace gases and cirrus clouds, now NSF Chief Officer for Research Facilities.
Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (1901–1994) was an American chemist who helped establish quantum chemistry and molecular biology, winning the 1954 Chemistry and 1962 Peace Nobel Prizes.
Lior Elbaz
Lior Elbaz is an Israeli electrochemist and full professor at Bar-Ilan University whose research on precious-metal-free fuel-cell catalysts led him to found the Israeli Fuel Cells Consortium in 2016.
Lipman Bers
Lipman Bers (1914–1993) was a Latvian-born American mathematician who worked on Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory, and Kleinian groups, and presided over the American Mathematical Society in 1975–76.
Lipót Fejér
Lipót Fejér, born Weisz Leopold, was a Hungarian mathematician whose 1900 theorem on the Cesàro summability of Fourier series reopened trigonometric-series theory; with Frigyes Riesz, he founded a school of Hungarian mathematics.
Lisa Kewley
Lisa Kewley is an Australian astronomer who studies how galaxies formed and evolved over 12 billion years, and has directed the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian since 2022.
Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist at Harvard University, best known for the Randall–Sundrum model proposing a warped extra dimension to explain gravity's weakness.
Lisa Tauxe
Lisa Tauxe is a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for reconstructing the past intensity of Earth's magnetic field; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (1878–1968) was an Austrian-born physicist who gave the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission with Otto Frisch, though the 1944 Nobel Prize went to Otto Hahn alone.
Liu Chao-Han
Liu Chao-Han (刘兆汉) is a Taiwanese space and radio scientist who pioneered GPS radio occultation for weather monitoring and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Liu Dongsheng
Liu Dongsheng (刘东生; 1917–2008) was a Chinese geologist known as the father of loess, who turned China's Loess Plateau deposits into a continuous 2.5-million-year climate record, winning the Tyler Prize in 2002.
Liviu M. Mirica
Liviu M. Mirica is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist who has been the Lycan Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2019, known for nickel and palladium catalysis.
Llewellyn Thomas
Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas was a British-born American theoretical physicist known for Thomas precession and the Thomas–Fermi model, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1958.
Lloyd Berkner
Lloyd Berkner (1905–1967) was an American geophysicist and electrical engineer who built the first automatic ionospheric observatories and proposed the International Geophysical Year of 1957–1958.
Lloyd D Keigwin
Lloyd D Keigwin is a paleoceanographer and Senior Scientist in Geology and Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for reconstructing past Atlantic ocean circulation from deep-sea sediments.
Lloyd Hollenberg
Lloyd Hollenberg is an Australian quantum physicist at the University of Melbourne, elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2018, known for silicon quantum computing and diamond quantum sensing.
Lloyd N. Trefethen
Lloyd N. Trefethen, known as Nick Trefethen, is a numerical analyst, Professor of Applied Mathematics at Harvard since 2023 after 26 years at Oxford, known for pseudospectra and Chebfun.
Lloyd S. Cluff
Lloyd S. Cluff (died 2019) was an American earthquake geologist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978, who led earthquake risk management at PG&E.
Lluís Torner
Lluís Torner (born 1961) is a Catalan physicist in optics and photonics who founded and directed the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona from 2002.
Loh Teck Peng
Loh Teck Peng (罗德平), often published as Teck-Peng Loh, is a Malaysia-born organic chemist and Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, known for green chemistry.
Long Ju
Long Ju is an experimental condensed-matter physicist at MIT who studies electron correlations in atomically thin materials, known for the first fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene.
Lonnie G. Thompson
Lonnie G. Thompson is an American paleoclimatologist at The Ohio State University who founded tropical alpine paleoclimatology, recovering ice cores from Kilimanjaro, the Andes, and the Himalayas, and won the National Medal of Science in 2007.
Loránd Eötvös
Loránd Eötvös (Eötvös Loránd, 1848–1919) was a Hungarian physicist who measured the equality of inertial and gravitational mass and invented the Eötvös torsion balance used in oil prospecting.
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin, born William Thomson, was a Belfast-born physicist who founded the absolute temperature scale named the kelvin and taught at Glasgow for 53 years.
Lord Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh, born John William Strutt, was a British physicist who worked on acoustics, optics, and gases, discovered argon, and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Loren David Walensky
Loren David Walensky is a chemical biologist and pediatric oncologist, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber researcher, known for hydrocarbon-stapled peptides and BAX activation studies.
Loren N. Pfeiffer
Loren N. Pfeiffer is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Princeton University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, known for growing the world's purest gallium arsenide crystals.
Lorenz S. Cederbaum
Lorenz S. Cederbaum is a German theoretical chemist, born in 1946, who has spent his career at Heidelberg University and is known for the MCTDH method and interatomic Coulombic decay.
Lorenzo A. Richards
Lorenzo A. Richards (Lorenzo Adolph Richards, 1904–1993) was an American soil physicist with the USDA who formulated the Richards equation and built practical instruments for measuring soil water.