Physical and mathematical scientists

Luis Caffarelli

Luis Caffarelli is an Argentine-American mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin who works on partial differential equations and won the 2023 Abel Prize.

Luis Campos (organic chemist)

Luis Campos, also known as Luis M. Campos, is an American organic chemist at Columbia University working on polymer synthesis and organic electronic materials, honored with a 2015 PECASE.

Luís D. Carlos

Luís D. Carlos (born 1964) is a Portuguese physicist and Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, known for luminescence nanothermometry, reading temperature from light at the nanoscale.

Luís Echegoyen

Luis Echegoyen is an American chemist known for his work on fullerene electrochemistry and endohedral metallofullerenes, carbon cages that trap metal atoms or clusters inside.

Luis F. Rodríguez

Luis F. Rodríguez, also known as Luis Felipe Rodríguez, is a Mexican radio astronomer at UNAM who discovered the first microquasars in the Milky Way.

Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine biochemist who discovered sugar nucleotides and their role in carbohydrate biosynthesis, winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry while directing a research institute in Buenos Aires for forty years.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez (Luis Alvarez) was an American experimental physicist at Berkeley who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for the hydrogen bubble chamber.

Luisa De Cola

Luisa De Cola is an Italian supramolecular chemist known for luminescent host–guest systems and zeolite-based optical materials, and since 2020 a professor at the University of Milan.

Luisa Torsi

Luisa Torsi is an Italian chemist, full professor of Chemistry at the University of Bari Aldo Moro since 2005, known for organic transistor biosensors and single-molecule detection.

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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer

Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881–1966) was a Dutch mathematician and logician who founded modern topology, proving the fixed-point theorem, and founded intuitionism, which rejects the law of excluded middle.

Lukas J. Gooßen

Lukas J. Gooßen is a German organic chemist, born 1969 in Bielefeld, who holds the Evonik Chair of Organic Chemistry at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and is known for decarboxylative cross-coupling.

Lukas Novotny

Lukas Novotny (Lukáš Novotný), born 1966 in Czechoslovakia, is a Czech-born physicist, Professor of Photonics at ETH Zurich, known for near-field microscopy, optical antennas, and nanoparticle levitation.

Luna Leopold

Luna Leopold (1915–2006) was an American hydrologist and geomorphologist, son of Aldo Leopold, who led the USGS Water Resources Division, taught at Berkeley, and turned river science quantitative.

Luping Yu

Luping Yu is a chemist who spent his career as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago until retiring in 2024, known for donor–acceptor semiconducting polymers for organic solar cells.

Luqiao Liu

Luqiao Liu is a physicist and associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT who works on spintronics, known for a 2012 Science paper on the giant spin Hall effect of tantalum.

Luther P. Eisenhart

Luther P. Eisenhart (1876–1965) was an American mathematician who spent his entire career at Princeton University, working in differential geometry and tensor analysis, and served as president of the American Mathematical Society.

Lutz Ackermann

Lutz Ackermann is a German chemist and professor at the University of Göttingen since 2007, known for C–H activation and electrocatalysis, and winner of the 2017 Leibniz Prize.

Lutz Greb

Lutz Greb is an inorganic chemist who has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2022, working on Lewis superacids and silicon chemistry.

Lutz H. Gade

Lutz H. Gade (born 1963) is a German inorganic chemist, chair of inorganic chemistry at the University of Heidelberg since 2003, known for Boxmi ligands for enantioselective catalysis.

Lydéric Bocquet

Lydéric Bocquet (born 1968) is a French physicist who studies nanofluidics, water and ion flow in nanometer channels, and holds a chair at the Collège de France.

Lyle Isaacs

Lyle Isaacs, born 1969 in New York City, is an American supramolecular chemist and professor at the University of Maryland known for cucurbit[n]uril molecular containers.

Lyman C. Craig

Lyman C. Craig (1906–1974) was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute who invented countercurrent distribution, used to isolate antibiotics, insulin, and vitamins before modern chromatography.

Lyman James Briggs

Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963) was an American physicist who directed the National Bureau of Standards from 1933 to 1945 and chaired the Advisory Committee on Uranium.

Lyman Page

Lyman Page, born 1957, is an experimental cosmologist and Princeton professor who measures the cosmic microwave background, co-investigated the WMAP satellite, and founded the Atacama Cosmology Telescope.

Lyman Spitzer

Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University who proposed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1946, invented the stellarator fusion device, and is the namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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Lyn Evans

Lyn Evans, full name Lyndon Rees Evans, is a Welsh accelerator physicist born in 1945 who designed and led the 14-year construction of CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

Lynden Archer

Lynden A. Archer is an American chemical engineer at Cornell University, where he is dean of engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for battery research.

Lyndon Frederick Small

Lyndon Frederick Small (1897–1957) was an American chemist who led drug addiction research at the University of Virginia and NIH, developing the painkiller metopon, a morphine derivative about three times as potent as morphine.

Lynford L. Goddard

Lynford L. Goddard is an American electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working on lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and sensors, and a 2008 PECASE recipient.