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Louis Slotin
Louis Alexander Slotin (1910–1946) was a Canadian physicist at Los Alamos who assembled the first atomic bomb's core and died nine days after a criticality accident in 1946.
Louis Taillefer
Louis Taillefer (born 1959) is a Canadian experimental condensed-matter physicist known for work on unconventional superconductors, and a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke until 2025.
Louis V. Pirsson
Louis V. Pirsson was an American geologist and petrologist, professor at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, and co-developer of the quantitative classification of igneous rocks published in 1902 and 1903.
Louis Winslow Austin
Louis Winslow Austin (1867–1932) was an American physicist who researched long-range radio transmission and, with Louis Cohen, derived the Austin–Cohen formula, heading a Navy radio laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards from 1908.
Lowell Stott
Lowell Stott is a paleoceanographer and climate scientist, professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California since 1989, known for deep-sea studies of past climate change.
Lu Jeu Sham
Lu Jeu Sham is a Hong Kong-born condensed matter theorist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, and one of the three founders of density functional theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Luc Berger
Luc Berger, born 1933 in Morges, Switzerland, is a Swiss condensed matter physicist and emeritus Carnegie Mellon professor known for theories of current-induced magnetic torques.
Lucian M. Walkowicz
Lucian M. Walkowicz is an astronomer and educator known for research on stellar flares, leadership in the LSST survey, and work on the ethics of space exploration.
Luciano Maiani
Luciano Maiani (born 1941) is an Italian theoretical particle physicist, the M in the GIM mechanism that predicted the charm quark, and CERN Director-General from 1999 to 2003.
Luciano Rezzolla
Luciano Rezzolla is an Italian relativistic astrophysicist who has held the chair of theoretical astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2013, studying black holes and neutron stars.
Lucien Le Cam
Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000) was a French statistician at the University of California, Berkeley, who built the modern theory of asymptotic statistics, including local asymptotic normality.
Lucien Szpiro
Lucien Szpiro (1941–2020) was a French mathematician best known for Szpiro's conjecture comparing the discriminant and conductor of an elliptic curve, and for proving the Shafarevich conjecture over function fields.
Lucio Frydman
Lucio Frydman is an NMR and MRI spectroscopist, professor at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, known for MQMAS solid-state NMR and ultrafast single-scan multidimensional NMR.
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer is an Italian-born computational astrophysicist at the University of Zurich, known for proposing a merger-driven direct-collapse mechanism for supermassive black hole formation in a 2010 Nature paper.
Lucjan Böttcher
Lucjan Böttcher (Lucjan Emil Böttcher) was a Polish mathematician, born in Warsaw in 1872, who pioneered complex dynamics and gave his name to Böttcher's theorem and coordinate.
Ludovic Berthier
Ludovic Berthier is a French CNRS physicist, since 2024 at ESPCI Paris, known for work on the glass transition, dynamic heterogeneities, and the 2017 swap Monte Carlo algorithm.
Ludvig Edman
Ludvig Edman is a Swedish professor of physics at Umeå University, known for his research on light-emitting electrochemical cells and for co-founding the company LunaLEC.
Ludvig Faddeev
Ludvig Faddeev (Людвиг Фаддеев, 1934–2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist known for the Faddeev equations, the Faddeev–Popov method, and the quantum inverse scattering method.
Ludwig Bieberbach
Ludwig Bieberbach (1886–1982) was a German mathematician, a student of Klein and Hilbert, whose 1916 conjecture shaped complex analysis and who became the leading ideologue of Nazi-era "German mathematics."
Ludwig Biermann
Ludwig Biermann (1907–1986) was a German theoretical astrophysicist who inferred the solar wind from comet tails in 1951 and originated the Biermann battery mechanism for cosmic magnetic fields.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist, born in Vienna in 1844, who founded statistical mechanics, derived the Boltzmann equation, and gave entropy a probabilistic interpretation.
Ludwig Gattermann
Ludwig Gattermann (1860–1920) was a German chemist at Heidelberg and Freiburg who gave his name to two formylation reactions and to the textbook Die Praxis des organischen Chemikers.
Ludwig Maurer
Ludwig Maurer (1859–1927) was a German mathematician who worked on Lie groups and invariant theory, taught at Strasbourg and Tübingen, and lent his name to the Maurer-Cartan forms.
Ludwig Stickelberger
Ludwig Stickelberger was a German mathematician who earned his doctorate in Berlin in 1874 and became a professor at Freiburg im Breisgau, best known for the Stickelberger theorem.
Ludwik Adamowicz
Ludwik Adamowicz is a quantum chemist at the University of Arizona known for state-selective multireference coupled-cluster methods, a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Ludwik Leibler
Ludwik Leibler, born 1951 in Warsaw, is a Polish-born French chemist and theoretical physicist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris, known for self-healing rubber, vitrimers, and nanoparticle tissue adhesives.
Luigi Ambrosio
Luigi Ambrosio, born in Alba, Italy, in 1963, is an Italian mathematician at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, known for calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, and optimal transport.
Luigi Cavallo
Luigi Cavallo is an Italian computational chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, known for the percent buried volume descriptor and computer-aided design of catalytic pockets.
Luigi Cremona
Luigi Cremona (1830–1903) was an Italian mathematician who gave his name to the Cremona transformation and Cremona group, and founded the Italian school of geometry.
Luigi Fantini
Luigi Fantini (1895–1978) was an Italian archivist and speleologist who founded the Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese, explored the gypsum caves of the Bolognese Apennines, and left about 1,300 photographic plates.