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Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally is an American materials scientist who held named surface science chairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for quantitative surface diffraction, thin-film growth studies, and silicon nanomembranes.
Max Koecher
Max Koecher (1924–1990) was a German mathematician who held chairs at Munich and Münster, known for the Koecher principle in Siegel modular forms and for Jordan-algebra methods applied to bounded symmetric domains.
Max Lemme
Max C. Lemme is a German electrical engineer and nanoelectronics researcher who heads the Chair of Electronic Devices at RWTH Aachen University and directs AMO GmbH.
Max Little
Max Little is an applied mathematician at the University of Birmingham known for algorithms that detect Parkinson's disease from voice recordings, and for the 2012 Parkinson's Voice Initiative.
Max M. Hansmann
Max M. Hansmann (Max Martin Hansmann) is an organic chemist and full professor of organic chemistry at TU Dortmund University since 2023, known for isolating the first room-temperature stable diazoalkenes.
Max Margules
Max Margules (1856–1920) was an Austrian meteorologist at the Vienna Meteorological Institute, a founder of theoretical meteorology known for his frontal-slope formula and storm energy analysis.
Max Mason
Max Mason was an American mathematician and scientific administrator, president of the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1936.
Max Noether
Max Noether (1844–1921) was a German mathematician who led the algebraic-geometric school at Erlangen, proved the AF + BG theorem, and was the father of Emmy Noether.
Max Planck
Max Planck (1858–1947) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Berlin University, who originated quantum theory in 1900 and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Seddig
Max Seddig (1877–1963) was a German physicist whose chronophotographic Brownian motion measurements, published in 1907 and 1908, tested Einstein's 1905 theory; he spent most of his career at Frankfurt.
Max Steenbeck
Max Steenbeck (1904–1981) was a German physicist whose betatron stability condition enabled the first particle accelerators and who developed the gas ultracentrifuge for uranium enrichment in the Soviet atomic program.
Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark is a Swedish-American physicist and MIT professor who moved from precision cosmology to AI safety, known for the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and four-level multiverse taxonomy.
Max Tishler
Max Tishler (1906–1989) was an American industrial chemist who spent 32 years at Merck, developing commercial syntheses of penicillin, cortisone, and vitamins before teaching at Wesleyan University.
Max Volmer
Max Volmer (1885–1965) was a German physical chemist at the Technische Hochschule Berlin known for the Butler–Volmer equation, the Volmer–Weber growth mode, and classical nucleation theory.
Max von Laue
Max von Laue was a German physicist who discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals in 1912, proving X-rays are waves, and received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Wolf
Max Wolf (1863–1932) was a German astronomer, professor at Heidelberg and director of the Königstuhl Observatory, who pioneered photographic asteroid discovery and found 228 asteroids, including the first Jupiter Trojan, 588 Achilles.
Max Wyss
Max Wyss is a seismologist, Caltech PhD of 1970 and Wadati Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, known for his 1981 multiple asperity model for earthquake prediction.
Maxim Kontsevich
Maxim Kontsevich (Максим Концевич), born 1964 in the USSR, is a French mathematician at IHÉS who won the Fields Medal in 1998 for work on moduli spaces of curves.
Maxime Bôcher
Maxime Bôcher (1867–1918) was an American mathematician at Harvard who worked on potential theory, differential equations, and algebra, and founded the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
Maximilian Haider
Maximilian Haider (born 1950, Freistadt, Austria) is an Austrian physicist who built the first working aberration corrector for the transmission electron microscope in 1997 and shared the 2020 Kavli Prize.
May Nyman
May Nyman is an American materials chemist, the Terence Bradshaw Chemistry Professor at Oregon State University since 2012, known for polyoxometalates and the first niobium heteropolyanions.
Megan Cleveland
Megan Cleveland is an American research biologist at NIST's Applied Genetics Group who develops reference materials for clinical diagnostics and won a 2025 PECASE award.
Megan Thielges
Megan Thielges is an American analytical chemist at Indiana University Bloomington who develops two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy to study protein dynamics and received a PECASE award.
Mehran Kardar
Mehran Kardar, born in Tehran, is a theoretical physicist and Francis Friedman Professor at MIT, co-originator of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation and winner of the 2025 Boltzmann Medal.
Mei Hong
Mei Hong is an American biophysical chemist and MIT professor who uses solid-state NMR spectroscopy to study membrane proteins, including the influenza M2 proton channel and tau fibrils.
Meir Lahav
Meir Lahav (born 1936, Sofia, Bulgaria) is an Israeli chemist at the Weizmann Institute known for his work, with Leslie Leiserowitz, on the crystal forms of organic molecules.
Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell is a complexity scientist and AI researcher at the Santa Fe Institute, known for the Copycat analogy program and her books on complexity and artificial intelligence.
Melanie S. Sanford
Melanie S. Sanford is an American organometallic and inorganic chemist who has spent her career at the University of Michigan, known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization, new fluorination chemistry, and electrolytes for redox-flow batteries.
Melanie Schnell
Melanie Schnell is a German physical chemist at Kiel University and DESY who studies rotational spectroscopy of cold molecules and microwave detection of molecular chirality.
Melba Phillips
Melba Newell Phillips was an American nuclear physicist who co-discovered the Oppenheimer–Phillips process and, fired in 1952 for refusing to testify, became the first female president of the AAPT.