Physical and mathematical scientists

Mark S. Daskin

Mark S. Daskin is an American operations researcher known for facility location modeling and supply chain design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Mark Saffman is an American atomic physicist and quantum information scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Rydberg blockade gate mechanism and neutral-atom quantum computing.

Mark Simons

Mark Simons is an American geophysicist at Caltech who uses satellite radar and GPS to study earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers, and was NASA JPL's Chief Scientist from 2017 to 2023.

Mark Stephen Daskin

Mark Stephen Daskin is an American operations researcher known for facility location modeling and supply chain design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Mark Stradiotto

Mark Stradiotto (born 1972) is a Canadian organometallic chemist at Dalhousie University, known for the DalPhos ligands that make nickel a practical alternative to palladium in cross-coupling catalysis.

Mark V. Hurwitz

Mark V. Hurwitz is an American experimental astrophysicist at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory who led NASA's CHIPS satellite, launched in 2003, and won a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award.

Mark Vogelsberger

Mark Vogelsberger is a German theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at MIT who works on galaxy formation and dark matter, and led the Illustris and IllustrisTNG universe simulations.

Mark William Keller

Mark William Keller is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who works in mesoscopic physics and quantum metrology and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2000.

Mark Z. Jacobson

Mark Z. Jacobson is an American atmospheric scientist at Stanford University known for computer modeling of air pollution and climate, and for 100% wind-water-solar energy roadmaps.

Markku Kulmala

Markku Kulmala, born 1958 in Forssa, Finland, is a Finnish physicist and Academician of Science at the University of Helsinki known for research on atmospheric aerosols and new-particle formation.

Marko Lončar

Marko Lončar is an electrical engineer and nanophotonics researcher, the Tiantsai Lin Professor at Harvard known for thin-film lithium niobate photonics and diamond quantum nanophotonics.

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Marko Petkovšek

Marko Petkovšek (1955–2023) was a Slovenian mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Ljubljana, known for Petkovšek's algorithm for hypergeometric recurrences and the book A=B with Wilf and Zeilberger.

Markus Antonietti

Markus Antonietti (born 1960) is a German chemist who has directed the Colloid Chemistry department at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam since 1993.

Markus Arndt

Markus Arndt, born 1965 in Germany, is a physicist and Full Professor of Quantum Nanophysics at the University of Vienna, known for matter-wave interference of ever larger molecules.

Markus Aspelmeyer

Markus Aspelmeyer, born 1974 in Schongau, Germany, is a quantum physicist and pioneer of optomechanics who led the 2021 measurement of gravity between millimeter-sized masses.

Markus B. Raschke

Markus B. Raschke is a physicist working in nonlinear and ultrafast nano-optics, professor of physics and chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and a JILA fellow since 2016.

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Markus Fierz

Markus Fierz (1912–2006) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, Pauli's successor at ETH Zürich, known for his 1939 spin-statistics proof, the Fierz identity, and Fierz–Pauli theory.

Markus Greiner

Markus Greiner is an experimental atomic physicist and Harvard professor who developed the quantum gas microscope, simulates condensed matter with ultracold atoms, and co-founded QuEra Computing.

Markus K. Oberthaler

Markus K. Oberthaler (born 1968) is an experimental physicist, professor at Heidelberg University since 2003, known for entanglement in Bose–Einstein condensates and a quantum field simulator of curved spacetime.

Markus Meuwly

Markus Meuwly is a Swiss computational and theoretical physical chemist, Full Professor at the University of Basel since 2014 and adjunct professor at Brown University, known for PhysNet.

Markus Niederberger

Markus Niederberger is a materials chemist who has been a full professor at ETH Zurich since 2017, known for the benzyl alcohol route to metal oxide nanoparticles.

Markus Ralser

Markus Ralser is a biochemist who studies metabolism using proteomics and quantitative mass spectrometry, leading biochemistry at Charité Berlin and a group at the Francis Crick Institute.

Markus Reiher

Markus Reiher (born 1971) is a German theoretical chemist and professor at ETH Zurich, known for the DMRG method for transition-metal systems and for quantum computing applied to chemistry.

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Markus Rost

Markus Rost (born 1958 in Nürnberg) is a German mathematician known for Rost theory, cycle modules, and the Rost invariant, key to the proof of the Milnor and Bloch–Kato conjectures.

Markus V. Pessa

Markus V. Pessa, also known as Markus Pessa, was a Finnish physicist and optoelectronics researcher who pioneered molecular beam epitaxy of compound semiconductors in Europe and led Tampere's semiconductor laser industry.

Markus W. Ribbe

Markus W. Ribbe is a biochemist and Chancellor's Professor at UC Irvine known for work on nitrogenase, including a 2012 Science paper on the origin of its carbide ion.

Marlan O. Scully

Marlan O. Scully is an American laser physicist known for the quantum theory of the laser and lasing without inversion, and a professor at Texas A&M University.

Marland P. Billings

Marland Pratt Billings was an American structural geologist and Harvard professor best known for Structural Geology, the first geologic map of New Hampshire, and regional studies.

Marsha Berger

Marsha Berger is an American computational scientist and Professor Emerita at NYU's Courant Institute, known for adaptive mesh refinement, Cartesian mesh generation, and the Clawpack and GeoClaw codes.