Physical and mathematical scientists

Melissa K. Gardner

Melissa K. Gardner is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Minnesota who studies how proteins control the mechanics and dynamics of microtubules during cell division.

Melville Wolfrom

Melville Wolfrom was an American carbohydrate chemist who spent his career at Ohio State University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950.

Melvin Hochster

Melvin Hochster is an American mathematician known for his work in commutative algebra, including tight closure theory, at the University of Michigan from 1977 to 2022.

Melvin Lax

Melvin Lax (1922–2002) was an American theoretical physicist, a pioneer in quantum optics, known for the quantum theory of laser fluctuations and the Lax-Onsager regression theorem.

Melvin Schwartz

Melvin Schwartz (1932–2006) was an American experimental particle physicist who co-discovered the muon neutrino in the 1962 Brookhaven experiment, sharing the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Melvin Spencer Newman

Melvin Spencer Newman (1908–1993) was an American organic chemist at Ohio State University known for the Newman projection, a notation for viewing molecules down carbon–carbon bonds.

Melvin E. Stern (1929–2010) was an American physical oceanographer, a founding father of geophysical fluid dynamics, known for discovering salt fingers and for the monograph Ocean Circulation Physics.

Melvyn J. Shochet

Melvyn J. Shochet is an American experimental particle physicist at the University of Chicago who led the CDF collaboration to the 1995 discovery of the top quark.

Menahem Max Schiffer

Menahem Max Schiffer (1911–1997) was a German-born American mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford from 1952 to 1977, known for the variational method in univalent function theory called the Schiffer variation.

Menny Shalom

Menny Shalom (Hebrew: מני שלום) is an Israeli solid-state chemist and professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who develops carbon nitride and nickel-based electrocatalysts for renewable energy.

Mercedeh Khajavikhan

Mercedeh Khajavikhan is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California working on non-Hermitian, topological photonics, and nanolasers, known for the first PT-symmetric laser.

Sep 20, 2026

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, born 1957 in Thessaloniki, Greece, is a Greek-born American inorganic chemist at Northwestern University known for thermoelectric materials, halide perovskite solar cells, and radiation detectors.

Merle Tuve

Merle Tuve (1901–1982) was an American experimental physicist who built an early accelerator-based nuclear physics program and led development of the radio proximity fuze in World War II.

Merril Eisenbud

Merril Eisenbud (1915–1997) was an American environmental health scientist, founding director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Health and Safety Laboratory, author of Environmental Radioactivity, and New York City's first Environmental Protection Administrator.

Mervin Joe Kelly

Mervin Joe Kelly (1894–1971) was an American industrial physicist whose Bell Labs career ran from 1918 to 1959, ending as president and chairman of the board.

Oct 22, 2026

Metal-free electrocatalysis

Metal-free electrocatalysis is the acceleration of electrochemical reactions at electrodes made without metal atoms, usually carbon materials, begun in 2009 as an alternative to platinum catalysts.

Mete Atature

Mete Atatüre is a Turkish-born quantum physicist specializing in solid-state quantum optics, known for spin-photon quantum interfaces in quantum dots, and has led Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory since 2023.

Meton of Athens

Meton of Athens, son of Pausanias, was a 5th-century BC Athenian astronomer who introduced the Metonic cycle, 19 tropical years equaling 235 lunar months, at Athens in 432 BC.

Meyer Abraham Girshick

Meyer Abraham Girshick (1908–1955) was an American statistician, professor at Stanford from 1948, known for work in sequential analysis and, with David Blackwell, the 1954 book Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions.

Micaiah John Muller Hill

Micaiah John Muller Hill (1856–1929) was a British mathematician who held chairs at Birmingham and University College London, known for Hill's spherical vortex and Hill's tetrahedra.

Micha Perles

Micha Perles (Hebrew: מיכה אשר פרלס), born 1936, is an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for the Perles configuration, Gale diagrams, and the Sauer–Perles–Shelah lemma.

Michael A. Bevan

Michael A. Bevan is a Johns Hopkins professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering known for measuring nanoscale colloidal interactions and light-controlled assembly of colloidal materials.

Michael A. Duncan

Michael A. Duncan is an American physical chemist at the University of Georgia since 1983, known for infrared spectroscopy of metal ion complexes and laser vaporization cluster sources.

Michael A. Hickner

Michael A. Hickner is an American materials scientist who works on ion-containing polymers, electrochemical membranes, and additive manufacturing; he spent 2007 to 2022 at Penn State and joined Michigan State University in January 2023.

Michael A. Nielsen

Michael A. Nielsen is a physicist who co-authored the standard quantum computing textbook with Ike Chuang, then left academia to advocate open science and tools for thought.

Michael A. Robb

Michael A. Robb, also published as M. A. Robb, is a theoretical and computational chemist who holds the Chair in Chemistry at Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Michael A. Wulder

Michael A. Wulder is a Canadian senior research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British Columbia, known for national forest mapping using Landsat satellite data.

Michael Aizenman

Michael Aizenman, born 1945 in Russia, is the Thomas D. Jones Professor of Mathematical Physics at Princeton, known for rigorous results on disorder and phase transitions.

Michael Anthony Zingale

Michael Anthony Zingale is an American computational astrophysicist at Stony Brook University who models thermonuclear burning in white dwarfs and neutron stars, and received a Presidential Early Career Award.