Physical and mathematical scientists

Mark E. Davis

Mark E. Davis is an American chemical engineer and emeritus Caltech professor, elected to all three US National Academies, known for zeolite catalysis and the 2010 first demonstration of RNA interference in humans.

Mark E. J. Newman

Mark E. J. Newman is a physicist at the University of Michigan known for network science, including the Girvan–Newman community detection method and the textbook Networks.

Mark E. Meyerhoff

Mark E. Meyerhoff is an American analytical chemist, the Philip J. Elving Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, known for chemical sensors and nitric oxide-releasing polymers.

Mark E. Tuckerman

Mark E. Tuckerman is a theoretical and computational chemist, Professor of Chemistry at New York University, best known for introducing the Nosé–Hoover chains thermostat method.

Mark E. Welland

Mark E. Welland, born in 1955, is a British nanoscientist at the University of Cambridge who established the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre and was knighted in 2011.

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Mark Edward Thompson

Mark Edward Thompson is an American inorganic chemist at the University of Southern California whose phosphorescent iridium OLED materials, developed with Stephen Forrest, are used in displays worldwide.

Mark Ellingham

Mark Norman Ellingham is a graph theorist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, known for work on graph embeddings and the Ellingham–Horton graphs, which answered a conjecture of W. T. Tutte.

Mark Embree

Mark Embree is a mathematician at Virginia Tech working in numerical linear algebra and spectral theory, co-author of the 2005 monograph Spectra and Pseudospectra with Lloyd Trefethen.

Mark Freidlin

Mark Iosifovich Freidlin, born 1938 in Moscow, is a Russian-American probability theorist who co-founded Freidlin–Wentzell theory of small random perturbations of dynamical systems, used in physics, biology, and economics.

Mark G. Raizen

Mark G. Raizen is an American experimental physicist at the University of Texas at Austin whose lab observed non-exponential quantum tunnelling decay and measured a Brownian particle's velocity.

Mark Goresky

Mark Goresky is a mathematician best known as co-creator, with Robert MacPherson, of intersection homology, a homology theory for singular spaces that restores Poincaré duality.

Mark Grinstaff

Mark W. Grinstaff is a chemist and biomedical engineer at Boston University working on biodegradable polymers and drug delivery, co-founding companies whose products are used in clinics.

Mark I. Stockman

Mark I. Stockman (M. I. Stockman) was a Soviet-born American theoretical physicist at Georgia State University who co-founded quantum nanoplasmonics and proposed the spaser, a nanoscale counterpart of the laser.

Mark Inghram

Mark Inghram (1919–2003) was an American physicist and mass spectrometrist at the University of Chicago who discovered more than a dozen isotopes and supported Patterson's determination of the Earth's age.

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Mark J. Kushner

Mark J. Kushner is an American computational plasma physicist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for contributions to low-temperature plasmas.

Mark J. MacLachlan

Mark J. MacLachlan is a Canadian materials chemist and professor at the University of British Columbia, known for chiral nematic mesoporous silica films templated with cellulose nanocrystals.

Mark Kac

Mark Kac (1914–1984) was a Polish-American mathematician who pioneered mathematical probability, known for the Feynman–Kac formula, the Erdős–Kac theorem, and "Can one hear the shape of a drum?"

Mark Krasnoselsky

Mark Krasnoselsky (Марк Александрович Красносельский, 1920 to 1997) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who helped found nonlinear analysis, known for his fixed point theorem and the Krasnosel'skii–Mann iteration.

Mark Krein

Mark Grigorievich Krein (1907–1989) was a Soviet mathematician in functional analysis and operator theory who built a research center at Odessa University and won the 1982 Wolf Prize.

Mark L. Brusseau

Mark L. Brusseau is an American environmental scientist and professor at the University of Arizona known for foundational work on nonequilibrium solute transport and PFAS retention and vadose-zone migration models.

Mark Lautens

Mark Lautens is a Canadian organic chemist at the University of Toronto, where he joined the faculty in 1987, known for palladium and nickel catalysis that makes drug-like molecules with less waste.

Mark M. Phillips

Mark M. Phillips is an American astronomer whose 1993 Phillips relation made Type Ia supernovae precise distance markers, enabling the 1998 discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating.

Mark Naimark

Mark Aronovich Naimark (1909–1978) was a Soviet mathematician considered a founder of functional analysis, known for the 1943 Gelfand–Naimark theorem, the Naimark dilation theorem, and the GNS construction.

Mark O. Robbins

Mark O. Robbins (1956–2020) was an American condensed matter and statistical physicist at Johns Hopkins University who used molecular dynamics simulations to explain the atomic origins of friction, adhesion, and earthquakes.

Mark Oliphant

Mark Oliphant (Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant) was an Australian nuclear physicist who discovered nuclear fusion between heavy-hydrogen nuclei and helped set the Manhattan Project in motion.

Mark Pagani

Mark Pagani (died 2016) was an organic geochemist and paleoclimatologist at Yale University who reconstructed atmospheric CO2 over 50 million years and directed the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.

Mark Pinsker

Mark Semenovich Pinsker (Марк Семёнович Пинскер, 1925–2003) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician at Moscow's Institute for Information Transmission Problems, known for Pinsker's inequality and the Pinsker factor.

Mark R. Krumholz

Mark R. Krumholz, also known as Mark Reuben Krumholz, is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist at the Australian National University, known for work on star formation and the interstellar medium.

Mark Reid

Mark Reid is an American radio astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a pioneer of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and leader of the BeSSeL Survey.