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Maureen E. Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo, born 1959, is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for the Uplift-Weathering Hypothesis linking Himalayan uplift to the ice ages.
Maurice Auslander
Maurice Auslander (1926–1994) was an American mathematician and Brandeis University professor who reshaped commutative algebra and representation theory, co-creating almost split sequences with Idun Reiten and proving classic results on regular local rings with David Buchsbaum.
Maurice Brookhart
Maurice Brookhart is an American organometallic chemist known for late-transition-metal olefin polymerization catalysts and the agostic bond, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Maurice Couette
Maurice Couette (1858–1943) was a French physicist and a father of modern rheology whose 1890 Paris thesis on liquid friction gave fluid mechanics the concentric-cylinder viscometer and Taylor–Couette flow.
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie (1875–1960), was a French experimental physicist who pioneered X-ray spectroscopy, discovered the corpuscular spectra of the elements, and trained a generation of French physicists.
Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing (1906–1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who used seismic methods to study the ocean floor, discovered the SOFAR channel, and founded the Lamont Geological Observatory.
Maurice Françon
Maurice Françon (1913–1996) was a French engineer-physicist who spent his career at the Institut d'Optique in Paris, working on phase contrast, polarization interferometry, coherence, and holography, and winning the Optical Society's C.E.K. Mees Medal in 1981.
Maurice Gignoux
Maurice Gignoux (1881–1955) was a French geologist who directed the geology laboratory of the University of Grenoble for over 25 years and wrote Géologie stratigraphique, translated worldwide.
Maurice Goldhaber
Maurice Goldhaber (1911–2011) was an Austrian-born American nuclear physicist known for measuring the neutron's mass and establishing the neutrino's helicity, and director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1961.
Maurice Hamy
Maurice Hamy (1861–1936) was a French astronomer at the Paris Observatory who worked on the figure of planets and precision instruments, winning the Prix Lalande in 1895.
Maurice Kendall
Sir Maurice George Kendall (1907–1983) was a British statistician who introduced the rank correlation coefficient Kendall's tau in 1938, wrote The Advanced Theory of Statistics, and was knighted in 1974.
Maurice Loewy
Maurice Loewy, born Moritz Löwy (1833, Vienna – 1907, Paris), was an Austrian-born French astronomer who directed the Paris Observatory from 1896 and produced the Atlas photographique de la Lune with Pierre-Henri Puiseux.
Maurice Lugeon
Maurice Lugeon (1870–1953) was a Swiss geologist based in Lausanne, chief proponent of the nappe theory of Alpine tectonics and founder of the Lugeon test for rock permeability.
Maurice René Fréchet
Maurice René Fréchet (1878–1973) was a French mathematician who founded metric space theory in his 1906 thesis, helped create functional analysis, and became a leader in French probability and statistics.
Maurice Sion
Maurice Sion (1927–2018) was a mathematician at the University of British Columbia whose 1958 minimax theorem, generalizing von Neumann's, remains standard in game theory, optimization, and machine learning.
Maurice Stacey
Maurice Stacey (1907–1994) was a British carbohydrate chemist who helped synthesize vitamin C in 1932 and led the chemical side of the Birmingham atomic-energy project in the Second World War.
Maurice-Marie Janot
Maurice-Marie Janot (1903–1978) was a French pharmacist and chemist who held Paris's chair of galenic pharmacy from 1941 to 1974 and co-founded the Institut de chimie des substances naturelles.
Maurício Matos Peixoto
Maurício Matos Peixoto (1921–2019) was a Brazilian mathematician known for Peixoto's Theorem, which showed structurally stable flows are generic on surfaces, and for co-founding IMPA.
Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato is an Italian organic chemist known for the Prato reaction, the standard method for functionalizing fullerenes, and for work on carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Mauro Nisoli
Mauro Nisoli is an Italian physicist at Politecnico di Milano, born in 1965, who invented hollow-fiber pulse compression in 1996 and leads attosecond research there.
Mauro Pasta
Mauro Pasta is Professor of Applied Electrochemistry at the University of Oxford, working on lithium metal anodes and solid-state batteries, and won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Prize in 2025.
Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone (1885–1977) was an Italian mathematician known for Picone's identity and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem, who founded the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo.
Maury Tigner
Maury Tigner is an American accelerator physicist and Cornell's Hans A. Bethe Professor Emeritus, known for applying superconductivity to particle accelerators and leading CESR's design.
Max A. Woodbury
Max A. Woodbury was a mathematician and statistician whose name is attached to the Woodbury matrix identity, completed in a 1950 report at Princeton's Statistical Research Group.
Max Abraham
Max Abraham (1875–1922) was a German theoretical physicist who proposed the rigid-sphere electron theory, gave his name to the Abraham–Lorentz force and the Abraham–Minkowski controversy, and spent his last decade opposing Einstein's relativity theory.
Max August Zorn
Max August Zorn (1906–1993) was a German-born American algebraist who published Zorn's lemma in 1935 and proved the structure theorem for semisimple alternative rings and the uniqueness of the octonions.
Max Bodenstein
Max Bodenstein (1871–1942) was a German physical chemist regarded as a founder of chemical kinetics, who introduced the chain reaction, the steady-state approximation, and the Bodenstein number.
Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who coined the term quantum mechanics, formulated the Born rule, and won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Coleman
Max L. Coleman is an isotope geochemist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading and a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on stable-isotope biosignatures and the search for life on Mars.
Max Dehn
Max Dehn (1878–1952) was a German-American mathematician who solved Hilbert's third problem, launched the study of finitely presented groups, and ended his career at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.