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Marcel J. E. Golay
Marcel J. E. Golay (1902–1989) was a Swiss-born mathematician, physicist, and information theorist who discovered the perfect Golay codes and invented the Golay infrared detector and capillary chromatography column.
Marcel Minnaert
Marcel Minnaert (1893–1970) was a Belgian-born Dutch astronomer who directed the Utrecht Observatory from 1937 to 1963 and created the Photometric Atlas of the Solar Spectrum.
Marcel Nicolet
Marcel Nicolet (1912–1996) was a Belgian geophysicist who studied the ionosphere and upper-atmosphere chemistry, taught at the Université de Bruxelles, and served as Secretary General of the International Geophysical Year.
Marcel Riesz
Marcel Riesz (1886–1969) was a Hungarian-born mathematician who spent nearly his whole career in Sweden, known for Riesz means, the Riesz potential, and the Riesz–Thorin interpolation theorem.
Marcel Schein
Marcel Schein (1902–1960) was a Slovak-born American experimental physicist who became professor at the University of Chicago and studied cosmic rays and mesotron production with balloon flights.
Marcel Vogel
Marcel Joseph Vogel (1917–1991) was an American research chemist who held 32 patents at IBM, including a magnetic disk coating, before founding a private psychic-research laboratory.
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920–1996) was a French mathematician, professor at the Sorbonne and member of the Academy of Sciences, known for formal language theory, combinatorics on words, and his late-life mathematical critique of Darwinian evolution.
Marcella Bonchio
Marcella Bonchio is an Italian chemist, Full Professor at the University of Padova since 2013, who leads research on polyoxometalate catalysts for artificial photosynthesis, solar fuels, and CO2 reduction.
Marcellin Berthelot
Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) was a French chemist who founded modern thermochemistry, invented the bomb calorimeter, and synthesized organic compounds in the laboratory, helping end the vital-force doctrine.
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule (1861–1942) was a French paleontologist who held the chair of paleontology at Paris's natural history museum and reconstructed the first nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton, found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in 1908.
Marcello Conversi
Marcello Conversi (1917–1988) was an Italian experimental physicist who led the 1946–47 Rome cosmic-ray experiment showing the muon is not the Yukawa nuclear-force particle, and later directed the building of CEP, the first Italian electronic computer.
Marcelo Gleiser
Marcelo Gleiser, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, is a Brazilian theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College who won the 2019 Templeton Prize and argues a theory of everything is impossible.
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg
Marcetta Y. Darensbourg is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, known for modeling hydrogenase active sites.
Marcey L. Waters
Marcey L. Waters is a bioorganic chemist at UNC Chapel Hill who studies molecular recognition of histone modifications and won the 2023 Vincent du Vigneaud Award.
Marcia J. Rieke
Marcia J. Rieke, born 1951, is an American infrared astronomer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory and principal investigator of the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam camera.
Marcia McNutt
Marcia McNutt is an American geophysicist and the first woman to direct the U.S. Geological Survey and to serve as president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki
Marcin Poczobutt-Odlanicki (Martynas Počobutas-Odlianickis, 1728–1810) was a Jesuit astronomer who directed the Vilnius University Observatory from 1764 to 1807, served as rector of Vilnius University from 1780 to 1799, and created the constellation Taurus Poniatovii.
Marcin Stępień
Marcin Stępień, born 1977 in Wrocław, is a Polish organic chemist and professor at the University of Wrocław known for curved aromatic molecules and heterocyclic nanographenes.
Marco Polini
Marco Polini is an Italian condensed matter physicist known for work on graphene, electron hydrodynamics, and quantum batteries, and a professor at the University of Pisa.
Marco Tavani
Marco Tavani is an Italian astrophysicist at INAF-IAPS in Rome, Principal Investigator of the AGILE gamma-ray satellite and President of INAF from 2020 to 2024.
Marcos Rigol
Marcos Rigol is a theoretical physicist and Distinguished Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, known for a 2008 Nature paper showing how isolated quantum systems thermalize.
Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy is a British mathematician at Oxford, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science since 2008, known for research on zeta functions of groups and for books like The Music of the Primes.
Marcus Müller
Marcus Müller is a German theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Göttingen since 2008, known for simulations and self-consistent field theory of polymer and membrane systems.
Marcus Weck
Marcus Weck, born in Berlin in 1968, is a German-born polymer chemist and Professor of Chemistry at New York University whose group studies supramolecular polymers, colloidal assembly, and catalysis.
Margaret A. Tolbert
Margaret A. Tolbert is an American atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for explaining how polar stratospheric clouds activate chlorine in the Antarctic ozone hole.
Margaret Brimble
Margaret Brimble is a New Zealand synthetic medicinal chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, known for the Rett syndrome drug trofinetide, approved in 2023.
Margaret Burbidge
Margaret Burbidge, née Peachey (1919–2020), was a British-American observational astronomer at UC San Diego, known for the 1957 B²FH paper on stellar element synthesis and pioneering quasar spectroscopy.
Margaret Geller
Margaret Geller is an American astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for mapping the cosmic web and discovering the Great Wall of galaxies.
Margaret H. Wright
Margaret H. Wright is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for numerical optimization, including the barrier trajectory method, and for serving as SIAM's first woman President.
Margaret Kivelson
Margaret Kivelson (born 1928) is an American space physicist at UCLA who used spacecraft magnetometers to discover Ganymede's magnetic field and hidden oceans on Jupiter's moons.