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Masaya Notomi

Masaya Notomi is a Japanese nanophotonics researcher at NTT Basic Research Laboratories, known for light propagation in strongly modulated photonic crystals and attojoule all-optical switching.

Masaya Sawamura

Masaya Sawamura (澤村 正也; 1961–2026) was a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Hokkaido University known for catalytic asymmetric synthesis, organometallic chemistry, and ligand design.

Masayoshi Nagata

Masayoshi Nagata was a Japanese algebraic geometer at Kyoto University who disproved Hilbert's 14th problem in 1958, proved the compactification theorem, and taught Fields Medalist Shigefumi Mori.

Masayoshi Watanabe

Masayoshi Watanabe (渡邉 正義), born 1954, is a Japanese electrochemist known for pioneering research on ionic liquids and solvate ionic liquids for battery electrolytes at Yokohama National University.

Masayuki Inoue

Masayuki Inoue (井上 将行) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo since 2007, best known for the 2010 total synthesis of polytheonamide B.

Massimiliano Di Ventra

Massimiliano Di Ventra is a theoretical physicist, professor at UC San Diego since 2004, known for MemComputing, the ionic Coulomb blockade, and DNA sequencing by tunneling.

Massimo Olivucci

Massimo Olivucci is an Italian computational photochemist, a professor at the University of Siena and Bowling Green State University, known for conical intersections and rhodopsin studies.

Masuzo Shikata

Masuzo Shikata (志方益三, 1895–1964) was a Japanese chemist who co-invented the polarograph with Jaroslav Heyrovský in Prague in 1924, then published the first polarographic study of an organic substance, nitrobenzene, in 1925.

Mathew Carey Lea

Mathew Carey Lea (1823–1897), usually published as M. Carey Lea, was an American chemist who worked from a private laboratory in Philadelphia, studied silver halide photography, and founded mechanochemistry.

Mathew M. Maye

Mathew M. Maye is an American chemist and nanoscientist who chairs chemistry at Syracuse University and won a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Mathias Kläui

Mathias Kläui is a condensed-matter physicist who studies spintronics and magnetism in thin films, including domain walls and skyrmions, and has been a professor at Mainz since 2011.

Mathias Lerch

Mathias Lerch, born Matyáš Lerch, was a Czech mathematician known for the Lerch transcendent and Lerch zeta function, who won the Paris Academy of Sciences Grand Prize in 1900.

Mathieu Orfila

Mathieu Orfila, full name Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger (1787–1853), was a Spanish-born, French-naturalized physician and chemist regarded as the father of modern toxicology.

Matias Zaldarriaga

Matias Zaldarriaga, born 1971 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine-born cosmologist and Richard Black Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, known for his 1997 CMB polarization work.

Mats G. L. Gustafsson

Mats G. L. Gustafsson (1960–2011) was a Swedish-born physicist who pioneered structured illumination microscopy and super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, working at UC San Francisco and Janelia.

Mats R. Andersson

Mats R. Andersson, also published as Mats Andersson, is a polymer chemist who designs conjugated polymers for organic solar cells and directs nanoscience at Flinders University in Adelaide.

Matt O'Dowd (astrophysicist)

Matt O'Dowd (Matthew John O'Dowd) is an astrophysicist, associate professor at CUNY Lehman College, and host and writer of the weekly PBS Space Time YouTube series.

Matteo Cargnello

Matteo Cargnello (born 1984) is an Italian-born chemical engineer, associate professor of chemical engineering at Stanford since 2023, known for work on catalyst deactivation and stability.

Matteo Lucchini

Matteo Lucchini, born 1984 in Angera, Italy, is an Italian physicist at Politecnico di Milano who leads attosecond beamlines studying ultrafast electron dynamics in solids.

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis, born 1971, is a chemist and distinguished professor at UC Berkeley, chair of chemistry since 2018, known for site-selective protein bioconjugation and virus-templated materials for drug delivery.

Matthew Bailes

Matthew Bailes is an Australian astrophysicist at Swinburne University of Technology, co-discoverer of the first fast radio burst in 2007, who won the 2023 Shaw Prize and the 2024 Prime Minister's Prize for Science.

Matthew Bogyo

Matthew G. Bogyo is a Stanford professor of pathology and microbiology known for co-establishing activity-based protein profiling, which measures enzyme activity directly in living tissue.

Matthew C. Hansen

Matthew C. Hansen is a University of Maryland remote sensing scientist known for the 2013 Science global forest change maps and GLAD near-real-time deforestation alerts.

Matthew D Disney

Matthew D Disney is an American chemical biologist and Chair of Chemistry at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute in Jupiter, Florida, known for designing small-molecule drugs that target RNA.

Matthew Dietrich

Matthew Dietrich is an American atomic physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who made the first measurement of the radium-225 electric dipole moment and won a 2017 PECASE award.

Matthew England

Matthew England is an Australian climate scientist and oceanographer, Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at UNSW Sydney, known for Southern Ocean modeling and explaining the global warming hiatus.

Matthew F. Pusey

Matthew F. Pusey is a British quantum information theorist at the University of York, first author of the 2012 Pusey–Barrett–Rudolph theorem on the reality of the quantum state.

Matthew G. Jackson

Matthew G. Jackson is an American geochemist who uses isotope geochemistry to study Earth's mantle, known for finding Earth's oldest mantle material beneath Baffin Island.

Matthew Gaunt

Matthew J. Gaunt is a chemist who holds the 1702 Yusuf Hamied Professorship of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, researching C–H activation and photoredox catalysis.

Matthew Gomez

Matthew Gomez is an American plasma physicist and distinguished member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, known for leading the first integrated MagLIF fusion experiments and a PECASE award.