Physical and mathematical scientists

Martin R. Palmer

Martin R. Palmer is a geochemist and Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Southampton since 2000, known for seawater strontium isotopes and boron isotope paleo-pH work.

Martin Rees

Martin Rees, also known as M. J. Rees, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist who has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and studies black holes and galaxy formation.

Martin Ryle

Sir Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer at Cambridge who invented aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first awarded for astronomical research.

Martin Saunders (chemist)

Martin Saunders is an American chemist who spent 67 years on the Yale faculty, pioneered NMR methods, and trapped noble gases and small molecules inside fullerene cages.

Martin Schadt

Martin Schadt, born 1938 in Liestal, Switzerland, is a Swiss physicist who co-invented the twisted nematic liquid-crystal effect at Roche in 1970, the basis of LCDs.

Martin Schröder (chemist)

Martin Schröder is a British coordination and materials chemist at the University of Manchester, where he was dean from 2015 to 2025, known for porous metal-organic frameworks for gas capture.

Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997) was a German-born American astronomer, Higgins Professor at Princeton from 1950 to 1979, who made stellar evolution quantitative and pioneered balloon-borne telescopes above the atmosphere.

Martin van Hecke

Martin van Hecke, born 1967 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physicist, professor at Leiden University and group leader at AMOLF, known for programmable, shape-shifting mechanical metamaterials.

Martin Wainwright (statistician)

Martin J. Wainwright is a Canadian-trained statistician and information theorist, Cecil H. Green Professor at MIT since 2022 and director of its Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.

Martin Wegener

Martin Wegener is a German physicist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology known for 3D laser-printed photonic and mechanical metamaterials, including invisibility cloaks working at optical wavelengths.

Martin Weitz

Martin Weitz is a German experimental physicist and professor at the University of Bonn, known for the Bose–Einstein condensate of photons reported in Nature in 2010.

Martin White (cosmologist)

Martin White is a theoretical cosmologist, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley who works on the cosmic microwave background, galaxy formation, and dark energy.

Martin Wild

Martin Wild is a professor at ETH Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science known for his work on global dimming and brightening, including his 2005 Science paper.

Martin Wilhelm Kutta

Martin Wilhelm Kutta (1867–1944) was a German mathematician who gave the classical fourth-order Runge–Kutta method for solving differential equations and, independently of Zhukovsky, the airfoil lift theorem.

Martin Z. Bazant

Martin Z. Bazant is an American chemical engineer, mathematician, and physicist at MIT known for theories of electrochemical transport, including coupled ion–electron transfer in lithium iron phosphate batteries.

Martin Zdenek Bazant

Martin Zdenek Bazant is a chemical engineer and applied mathematician at MIT, known for theoretical electrochemistry, battery modeling, and a 2021 indoor COVID-19 transmission guideline.

Martin Zirnbauer

Martin R. Zirnbauer, born 1958 in Moosburg, Germany, is a German theoretical physicist at the University of Cologne, known for the Altland–Zirnbauer symmetry classes and the tenfold-way classification of topological insulators and superconductors.

Martin Zwierlein

Martin Zwierlein is an experimental physicist at MIT who studies ultracold fermionic atoms and quantum gas microscopy, known for demonstrating superfluidity in a strongly interacting Fermi gas.

Martina H. Stenzel

Martina H. Stenzel, Professor Martina Stenzel, is an Australian polymer chemist and ARC Laureate Fellow at UNSW Sydney known for complex polymer architectures and nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery.

Martinus J.G. Veltman

Martinus J.G. Veltman (1931–2021) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerardus 't Hooft for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.

Martinus Theodorus van Genuchten

Martinus Theodorus ("Rien") van Genuchten, born 1945 in the Netherlands, is a Dutch soil hydrologist whose 1980 equation for unsaturated soils has gathered more than 30,000 citations.

Martyn Clark

Martyn Clark is a hydrologist and Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary, known for the CAMELS data set and the FUSE and SUMMA modeling frameworks.

Martyn Poliakoff

Sir Martyn Poliakoff is a British chemist at the University of Nottingham who pioneered supercritical fluids as cleaner solvents and fronts the Periodic Table of Videos.

Marvin Chodorow

Marvin Chodorow (1913–2005) was an American applied physicist at Stanford University whose klystron research raised microwave power from watts to megawatts, powering the SLAC accelerator.

Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley, known for pseudopotential methods that predict materials' properties before they are made in a laboratory.

Marvin Leonard Goldberger

Marvin Leonard Goldberger, known as Murph Goldberger, was an American theoretical physicist who worked on dispersion relations and scattering theory and led Caltech from 1978 to 1987.

Mary B. Chan‐Park

Mary B. Chan-Park (Chan Bee Eng, Mary) is a Singapore-based materials chemist at Nanyang Technological University known for antimicrobial polymers, hydrogels, and carbon nanotube composites.

Mary Beth Wilhelm

Mary Beth Wilhelm is an American astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center who studies how biomarkers survive on Mars and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Mary Cartwright

Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright was a British mathematician known for work on complex function theory and, with J. E. Littlewood, an early discovery of chaos in the forced van der Pol equation.