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Mary Celine Fasenmyer
Mary Celine Fasenmyer was an American mathematician and Sister of Mercy whose 1946 University of Michigan dissertation introduced Sister Celine's method, a mechanical procedure underlying computerized proofs of hypergeometric identities.
Mary K. Gaillard
Mary K. Gaillard (1939–2025) was an American theoretical particle physicist whose prediction of the charm quark's mass helped establish the Standard Model; she joined UC Berkeley's physics faculty in 1981 as its first woman.
Mary L. Good
Mary L. Good (Mary Lowe Good, 1931–2019) was an American inorganic chemist who led industrial research at AlliedSignal and served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology.
Mary Lou Zoback
Mary Lou Zoback is an American geophysicist and seismologist known for the World Stress Map, a 28-year USGS career, and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
Mary the Jewess
Mary the Jewess, also Maria Hebraea or Maria the Prophetess, was an alchemist of Roman Egypt credited with the water bath, the tribikos still, and the kerotakis.
Mary Tsingou
Mary Tsingou, later Mary Tsingou Menzel, was an American mathematician and programmer at Los Alamos National Laboratory who coded and ran the 1955 Fermi–Pasta–Ulam computation, which opened the field of nonlinear science.
Mary Wheeler
Mary Wheeler is an American applied mathematician who developed numerical methods for flow in porous media at UT Austin and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Maryam Mirzakhani (مریم میرزاخانی)
Maryam Mirzakhani (مریم میرزاخانی), born 1977 in Tehran, was an Iranian mathematician at Stanford University who in 2014 became the first woman to receive the Fields Medal.
Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox (1947–2021) was an American physical organic chemist known for pioneering organic photo-electrochemistry and serving as chancellor of NC State and UC San Diego.
Maryna Viazovska (Марина Сергіївна В'язовська)
Maryna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician who proved in 2016 that the E8 lattice gives the densest sphere packing in eight dimensions, winning the 2022 Fields Medal.
Mas Subramanian
Mas Subramanian (Munirpallam Appadorai Subramanian) is an Indian solid-state chemist who accidentally discovered YInMn blue in 2009, the first new inorganic blue pigment in more than two centuries.
Masaaki Tanaka
Masaaki Tanaka (田中 雅明) is a Japanese physicist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tokyo since 2008, known for room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors and spin–orbit torque switching.
Masahiro Irie
Masahiro Irie (入江 正浩) is a Japanese photochemist and specially appointed professor at Rikkyo University, known for inventing diarylethenes in 1985, photochromic molecules whose states last over 1,000 years.
Masahiro Miura
Masahiro Miura (三浦 雅博) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Osaka University known for palladium and copper catalysis that forms new bonds directly at aromatic C–H bonds.
Masahiro Murakami
Masahiro Murakami (村上 正浩) is a Japanese organic chemist who held the Chair of Synthetic Chemistry at Kyoto University until retiring in 2022, known for catalytic carbon–carbon bond cleavage.
Masahiro Terada
Masahiro Terada (寺田眞浩) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at Tohoku University, known for chiral Brønsted acid organocatalysts and the 2010 Mukaiyama Award.
Masahiro Watanabe
Masahiro Watanabe (渡部雅浩) is a Japanese climate scientist and professor at the University of Tokyo who has led the MIROC climate model for over two decades.
Masahito Ochiai
Masahito Ochiai (落合 正仁), born 1948, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor emeritus of Tokushima University, known for hypervalent organoiodine chemistry and the 2011 metal-free amination of alkanes.
Masahito Ueda
Masahito Ueda (上田 正仁) is a Japanese theoretical physicist at the University of Tokyo known for work on ultracold atomic gases, quantum information, and non-Hermitian topology.
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Masakatsu Shibasaki (柴崎正勝) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist known for bifunctional asymmetric catalysis with heterobimetallic BINOL complexes, used in industrial routes to drugs including Tamiflu and sitagliptin.
Masaki Azuma
Masaki Azuma (東 正樹) is a Japanese solid state chemist, a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo known for high-pressure synthesis of functional transition-metal oxides.
Masaki Kashiwara
Masaki Kashiwara (柏原正樹), born 1947, is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University known for D-modules and crystal bases of quantum groups, and winner of the 2025 Abel Prize.
Masaki Sano
Masaki Sano (佐野 雅己) is a Japanese physicist known for experiments in nonequilibrium statistical physics, soft matter, and active matter, including topological defects in cell cultures.
Masami Nakagawa
Masami Nakagawa was a Japanese theoretical particle physicist of the Sakata school at Nagoya University, co-author of the 1962 MNS paper that proposed neutrino flavor mixing and oscillation.
Masanobu Uchiyama
Masanobu Uchiyama (内山 真伸) is a Japanese chemist, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences since 2010, known for hetero-bimetallic "ate" complex chemistry and deprotonative metalation.
Masaru Kuno
Masaru K. Kuno, known as Masaru Kuno, is an American materials chemist and professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies semiconductor nanocrystals, nanowires, and perovskite solar cells.
Masataka Nakazawa
Masataka Nakazawa (中沢正隆), born in 1952, is a Japanese optical communications researcher at Tohoku University whose erbium-doped fiber amplifier and soliton transmission work underpin global submarine cables, earning the 2023 Japan Prize.
Masatake Haruta
Masatake Haruta (春田 正毅) was a Japanese chemist at Tokyo Metropolitan University who founded heterogeneous gold catalysis with his 1987 discovery that gold nanoparticles catalyze CO oxidation.
Masato Sagawa
Masato Sagawa (佐川眞人), born 1943 in Tokushima, Japan, is a Japanese materials scientist who invented the sintered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnet in 1982, now used in electric-vehicle motors and wind turbines.
Masatoshi Koshiba
Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴昌俊) was a Japanese experimental particle physicist at the University of Tokyo who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting cosmic neutrinos.