Physical and mathematical scientists

Makoto Fujita

Makoto Fujita (藤田誠), born 1957, is a Japanese coordination chemist at the University of Tokyo known for self-assembled molecular cages and the crystalline sponge method for X-ray analysis.

Makoto Kobayashi

Makoto Kobayashi is a Japanese particle theorist, born in Nagoya in 1944, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting a third family of quarks.

Makoto Kumada

Makoto Kumada (熊田誠, 1920–2007) was a Japanese organometallic chemist at Kyoto University, known as the father of polysilane chemistry and for the 1972 Kumada coupling.

Makoto Miyoshi

Makoto Miyoshi is a Japanese radio astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, first author of the 1995 Nature paper that weighed the black hole in galaxy NGC 4258.

Malcolm A LeCompte

Malcolm A. LeCompte is an American scientist, former Naval flight officer, and co-director of the Comet Research Group, a principal researcher in the Younger Dryas impact debate.

Malcolm Chisholm

Malcolm Chisholm (1945–2015) was a British-born inorganic chemist who became a leading figure in metal–metal multiple bond chemistry, holding posts at Princeton, Indiana University, and Ohio State.

Malcolm Dole (1903–1990) was an American chemist who spent nearly 40 years at Northwestern University, discovered the Dole effect in atmospheric oxygen isotopes, and showed in 1947 that radiation crosslinks polyethylene.

Malcolm Green (inorganic chemist)

Malcolm Green (1936–2020) was a British inorganic chemist at Oxford, a leading figure in organometallic chemistry who named the agostic bond and devised the Covalent Bond Classification of ligands.

Malcolm H. Levitt

Malcolm H. Levitt, born 1957 in Hull, England, is a British NMR spectroscopist and professor at Southampton, known for composite pulses, long-lived spin states, and endofullerenes.

Malcolm Longair

Malcolm Longair (born 1941) is a Scottish astronomer and high energy astrophysicist who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland and headed the Cavendish Laboratory from 1997 to 2005.

Malcolm R. Beasley

Malcolm R. Beasley, born 1940, is an American condensed matter physicist known for work on superconductivity in thin films, for SQUID magnetometers, and for leadership roles at Stanford University.

Malcolm T. McCulloch

Malcolm T. McCulloch, born 1950, is an Australian isotope geochemist at the University of Western Australia known for using coral skeletons to reconstruct the Great Barrier Reef's environmental history.

Malin Falkenmark

Malin Falkenmark (1925–2023) was a Swedish hydrologist who devised the Falkenmark indicator, one of the most used water scarcity indices, and introduced the green water and blue water distinction.

Malin Pinsky

Malin L. Pinsky is a biologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz who studies how ocean life shifts and adapts to climate change, informing fisheries management and conservation.

Malo L. J. Hautus

Malo L. J. Hautus (Matheus Lodewijk Johannes Hautus, born 1940) is a Dutch mathematician and emeritus professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for the Hautus test.

Malte C. Gather

Malte C. Gather is a German physicist working on organic electronics and biophotonics, known for creating the first biological living laser from a single cell.

Malvin Ruderman

Malvin Ruderman (1927–2024) was an American astrophysicist at Columbia University, best known for showing that neutron stars have solid crusts and explaining pulsar glitches as starquakes.

Mamoru Tobisu

Mamoru Tobisu (鳶巣守) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at The University of Osaka, known for single-carbon atom transfer reactions, β-lactam synthesis, and nickel-catalyzed C–O bond activation.

Mandar M. Deshmukh

Mandar M. Deshmukh, also known as Mandar Deshmukh, is an Indian condensed matter physicist at TIFR Mumbai, a 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner working on 2D materials.

Mandë Holford

Mandë Holford is a marine chemical biologist who studies the venoms of predatory marine snails as a source of peptide-based drugs for pain and cancer.

Manfred M. Kappes

Manfred M. Kappes (born 1957 in Bonn) is a German physical chemist and KIT professor known for determining gold cluster ion structures and separating metallic from semiconducting carbon nanotubes.

Manfred M. Mayer

Manfred M. Mayer (1916–1984) was a German-born American immunochemist at Johns Hopkins University, regarded as a founder of complement research and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979.

Manfred R. Strecker

Manfred R. Strecker, also known as Manfred Strecker, is a German geoscientist, Professor and Chair of Geology at the University of Potsdam since 1995, studying tectonics, climate, and erosion in mountain belts.

Manfred Scheer

Manfred Scheer (born 1955) is a German inorganic chemist who held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Regensburg and is known for phosphorus and arsenic chemistry.

Manfred Sigrist

Manfred Sigrist is a Swiss theoretical condensed matter physicist, now an emeritus professor at ETH Zurich, best known for his 1998 theory of time-reversal symmetry-breaking superconductivity in Sr2RuO4.

Manfred Stamm

Manfred Stamm is a German polymer physicist and materials scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden, known for work on polymer surfaces, thin films, interfaces, and neutron reflectometry.

Manfred T. Reetz

Manfred T. Reetz (1943–2026) was a German organic chemist who directed the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung from 1991 to 2011 and pioneered directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes.

Manijeh Razeghi

Manijeh Razeghi is an Iranian-born physicist and electrical engineer who pioneered MOCVD growth of III-V semiconductors, produced the first commercial fiber-optic telecom lasers, and leads Northwestern's Center for Quantum Devices.

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Manjul Bhargava

Manjul Bhargava, born in 1974, is a Canadian-American number theorist at Princeton University who won the 2014 Fields Medal for new methods in the geometry of numbers.