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Margaret Melhase
Margaret Melhase, later Margaret Melhase Fuchs, was an American nuclear chemist who discovered cesium-137 in 1941 as a 20-year-old UC Berkeley undergraduate under Glenn Seaborg; wartime secrecy kept her credit unknown until 1994.
Margaret Murnane
Margaret M. Murnane is an Irish-born optical physicist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and JILA, known for tabletop X-ray sources from ultrafast lasers and the 2022 Isaac Newton Medal.
Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Catherine Perey (1909–1975) was a French radiochemist who discovered francium, element 87, in 1939, and remains the only woman to have discovered a chemical element as sole author.
Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos was a Greek-born chemical engineer and Tufts University professor who pioneered single-atom metal catalysis and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Göppert Mayer was a German-born American physicist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for the nuclear shell model, becoming the second woman to win it.
Maria Hasse
Maria Hasse, also known as Maria-Viktoria Hasse, was a German mathematician who held the algebra chair at TU Dresden and worked in graph theory and category theory.
Maria Pia Solèr
Maria Pia Solèr is a mathematician and later actuary known for Solèr's theorem, the 1995 result that certain orthomodular spaces are real, complex, or quaternionic Hilbert spaces.
Maria T. Zuber
Maria T. Zuber is an American planetary geophysicist at MIT who maps the gravity and topography of the Moon, Mars, and Mercury, and led NASA's GRAIL lunar mission.
María Vallet‐Regí
María Vallet-Regí, born 1946 in Las Palmas, is a Spanish chemist and emerita professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, a pioneer of mesoporous silica drug delivery.
Maria-Christina White
M. Christina White is an organic chemist and Lycan Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for small-molecule iron and manganese catalysts that oxidize C–H bonds.
Marian Danysz
Marian Danysz (1909–1983) was a Polish physicist who, with Jerzy Pniewski, discovered the first hypernucleus in Warsaw in 1952, opening the field of hypernuclear physics.
Marian Paluch
Marian Paluch is a Polish physicist and professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice who studies the molecular dynamics of glass-forming liquids and amorphous drugs by dielectric spectroscopy.
Marian Smoluchowski
Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917) was a Polish physicist who, independently of Albert Einstein, created the theory of Brownian motion and is regarded as a founder of stochastic physics.
Marie Alfred Cornu
Marie Alfred Cornu (1841–1902) was a French physicist, professor at the École Polytechnique, remembered for the Cornu spiral and precision measurements of the speed of light.
Marie Curie
Marie Curie, born Maria Sklodowska, was a Polish-born physicist and chemist who pioneered radioactivity, discovered polonium and radium, and won Nobel Prizes in 1903 and 1911.
Marie Georges Humbert
Marie Georges Humbert (1859–1921) was a French mathematician, professor at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, known for the Appell–Humbert theorem and Humbert surfaces.
Marie Sklodowska
Marie Skłodowska, known as Marie Skłodowska-Curie, was a Polish-born chemist and physicist who discovered the elements polonium and radium, isolated radium, and won the 1903 and 1911 Nobel Prizes.
Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp (1920–2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, with Bruce Heezen at Columbia University, created the first scientific maps of the ocean floor.
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat
Marie-Antoinette Tonnelat, née Baudot (1912–1980), was a French theoretical physicist and historian of science who linked relativistic gravitation to the graviton and became a full professor at the Sorbonne in 1956.
Marie-France Vignéras
Marie-France Vignéras, born in 1946 in Bordeaux, is a French mathematician and professor emerita at Université Paris Cité, known for her work on p-adic groups and the Langlands program.
Marietta Blau
Marietta Blau (1894–1970) was an Austrian nuclear physicist who developed the photographic nuclear emulsion method and, with Hertha Wambacher, discovered in 1937 the disintegration stars, the first evidence that cosmic rays break apart atomic nuclei.
Marilyn L. Fogel
Marilyn L. Fogel (1952–2022) was an American isotope geochemist who pioneered stable-isotope biogeochemistry, spent 33 years at the Carnegie Institution, and was called the "isotope queen."
Marilyn Raphael
Marilyn Raphael is a Trinidad and Tobago-born climatologist at UCLA known for research on Antarctic sea ice variability, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Marilyne Stains
Marilyne Stains is a French-trained chemistry education researcher who studies what happens in university STEM classrooms, formerly at Nebraska and Virginia, and a PECASE recipient.
Marin Alexe
Marin Alexe is a physicist who works on ferroelectricity and complex oxide thin films and holds the Chair of Functional Materials at the University of Warwick.
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne (1588–1648) was a French Minim friar, mathematician, and music theorist who compiled the first list of Mersenne primes and coordinated a vast scholarly correspondence network.
Marin Soljačić
Marin Soljačić, born 1974 in Zagreb, Croatia, is a Croatian-American MIT physicist known for the 2007 wireless-power demonstration behind WiTricity and for landmark experiments in topological photonics.
Marina A. Petrukhina
Marina A. Petrukhina is an American-based coordination chemist at the University at Albany, SUNY, known for studies of buckybowls, curved molecular nanographenes, and their metal complexes.
Marina Huerta
Marina Huerta is an Argentine theoretical physicist at CONICET and the Centro Atómico Bariloche who studies entanglement entropy in quantum field theory and quantum gravity.
Marina Ratner
Marina Ratner (Марина Ратнер, 1938–2017) was a Russian-born American mathematician at UC Berkeley who worked in ergodic theory and proved the Raghunathan conjectures, a milestone in homogeneous dynamics.