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Manos Mavrikakis

Manos Mavrikakis is a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who designs catalysts from first-principles calculations, with awards including the 2019 Gabor A. Somorjai Award.

Manuel Alcarazo

Manuel Alcarazo (born 1978 in Alcalá de Guadaíra, Spain) is a Spanish chemist, professor of organic chemistry at Göttingen since 2015, known for cationic phosphine ligands and gold catalysis.

Manuel Bibes

Manuel Bibès (born 1976) is a French physicist and CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire Albert Fert, a pioneer of oxitronics who received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2025.

Manuel Cardona Castro

Manuel Cardona Castro (1934–2014) was a Spanish-born condensed matter physicist known for optical spectroscopy of solids and for founding the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.

Manuel Endres

Manuel Endres is a German-born experimental physicist, professor of physics at Caltech since 2021, who builds optical tweezer arrays of individually controlled atoms for quantum science.

Manuel Peimbert

Manuel Peimbert is a Mexican astronomer at UNAM known for work on planetary nebulae and the temperature-fluctuation (t²) formalism, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1987.

Mara Prentiss

Mara Prentiss, born 1959, is an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for creating atom lithography, which uses light to pattern atoms into features tens of nanometers wide.

Marc A. Hillmyer

Marc A. Hillmyer is an American polymer chemist at the University of Minnesota, a faculty member since 1997, known for sustainable polymers and nanoporous materials.

Marc A. Kastner

Marc A. Kastner is a Canadian-born condensed matter physicist, Donner Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for pioneering the semiconductor single-electron transistor and its Kondo effect.

Marc Bockrath

Marc Bockrath is an experimental condensed matter physicist and Professor of Physics at The Ohio State University, known for transport studies of carbon nanotubes and graphene.

Marc Chaussidon

Marc Chaussidon is a French isotope geochemist and cosmochemist at the CNRS who studies meteorites and ancient rocks, and directed the Institut de physique du globe de Paris from 2016.

Marc D Levenson

Marc D Levenson is an American physicist known for pioneering squeezed-light and quantum nondemolition experiments in optical fibers at IBM, and for the phase-shifting mask that improved optical lithography.

Marc Davis (astronomer)

Marc Davis is an American astronomer and cosmologist, Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, who led the first galaxy redshift survey and co-led the DEEP surveys on the Keck telescopes.

Marc F. P. Bierkens

Marc F. P. Bierkens (born 1965) is a Dutch hydrologist, professor of Earth Surface Hydrology at Utrecht University and Deltares researcher, known for global groundwater depletion estimates and the PCR-GLOBWB model.

Marc Fontecave

Marc Fontecave is a French bioinorganic chemist who studies metalloenzymes and develops bioinspired catalysts for water splitting and carbon dioxide conversion, holding a Collège de France chair since 2008.

Marc Henneaux

Marc Henneaux (born 1955) is a Belgian theoretical physicist who directed the International Solvay Institutes from 2004 and held the Collège de France chair in fields, strings, and gravity from 2020.

Marc J. J. Vrakking

Marc J. J. Vrakking, or Marc Vrakking, is a Dutch physicist working on attosecond science and director at the Max Born Institute in Berlin since 2010.

Marc Kamionkowski

Marc Kamionkowski is an American theoretical cosmologist, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1997 prediction that CMB polarization could reveal primordial gravitational waves.

Marc Koper

Marc Koper, full name Marc T. M. Koper (born 1967), is a Dutch electrochemist, professor of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry at Leiden University, and specialist in electrocatalytic CO2 conversion.

Marc M. Hirschmann

Marc M. Hirschmann is an American experimental petrologist and geochemist at the University of Minnesota, known for work on mantle melting and deep Earth cycles of water and carbon.

Marc Mézard

Marc Mézard (born 1957) is a French theoretical physicist known for the cavity method, developed with Parisi and Virasoro, and a professor at Bocconi University since 2022.

Marc Robert

Marc Robert is a French molecular electrochemist and Distinguished Professor at Sorbonne Université, known for molecular electro- and photocatalytic reduction of CO2 and N2, including light-driven methane formation from CO2.

Marc Suchard

Marc A. Suchard is a physician and computational statistician at UCLA who develops Bayesian methods for inferring evolutionary history and applies large-scale analysis to electronic health records for drug safety.

Marc Tiffeneau

Marc Tiffeneau (Marc Pierre Adolphe Émile Tiffeneau, 1873–1945) was a French chemist and pharmacist, professor and dean at Paris, known for the Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement published in 1937.

Marc Vendrell

Marc Vendrell is a Spanish-born chemical biologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for activatable fluorescent probes that image enzyme activity in cancer and inflammation.

Marc Victor Gorenstein

Marc Victor Gorenstein is an American astrophysicist who co-authored the 1977 detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole with George Smoot and Richard Muller at Berkeley.

Marc Yor

Marc Yor (1949–2014) was a French probabilist at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, known for work on Brownian local times and Asian option pricing.

Marcel Agueros

Marcel Agüeros is an American observational astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University who studies how the rotation and magnetic activity of low-mass stars change with age.

Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger (1927–2016) was a French differential geometer who classified Riemannian holonomy groups, proved the quarter-pinching sphere theorem, and directed IHÉS from 1985 to 1994.

Marcel den Nijs

Marcel den Nijs is a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, co-author of the 1982 TKNN paper that explained the quantized Hall conductance using topological concepts.