Physical and mathematical scientists

Michael F. Lappert

Michael F. Lappert (1928–2014) was a British inorganic chemist, born in Brno, who fled to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and pioneered low-valent main-group chemistry at Sussex.

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Michael F. Toney

Michael F. Toney is an American electrochemist known for using synchrotron X-ray methods to study battery interfaces, and a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2020.

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday (1791–1867) was an English physicist and chemist at the Royal Institution in London who discovered electromagnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, and benzene.

Michael Fekete, born Mihály Fekete (1886–1957), was a Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician who founded mathematical research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is known for Fekete points and the transfinite diameter.

Michael Ference Jr.

Michael Ference Jr. (born 1911) was an American experimental physicist who served as Chief Scientist at the U.S. Army's Evans Signal Laboratory from 1946 to 1953.

Michael Finnis

Michael William Finnis is a British materials scientist at Imperial College London, known for the 1984 Finnis–Sinclair interatomic potential for transition metals and for atomic-scale modeling of interfaces.

Michael Flatte

Michael E. Flatté is a physicist, F. Wendell Miller Professor at the University of Iowa, who works on spintronics, quantum sensing, and solid-state quantum computing.

Michael Fleischhauer

Michael Fleischhauer is a German theoretical physicist and professor at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, known for dark-state polaritons, slow light, and Rydberg blockade theory, and recipient of the 2025 Herbert Walther Award.

Michael Francis Tompsett

Michael Francis Tompsett is a British-born physicist who invented uncooled thermal imaging, developed CCD cameras at Bell Labs, and holds the first CCD imager patent.

Michael Freedman

Michael Freedman (born 1951, Los Angeles) is an American mathematician who proved the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture, won the 1986 Fields Medal, and leads Microsoft's topological quantum computing program.

Michael Fuhrer

Michael S. Fuhrer is an Australian-based experimental condensed matter physicist, a professor at Monash University and director of the ARC Centre of Excellence FLEET, known for work on graphene and 2D materials.

Michael G. Bosilovich

Michael G. Bosilovich is an American research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who specializes in atmospheric reanalysis, focusing on Earth's water and energy cycles and the MERRA-2 reanalysis.

Michael G. Crandall

Michael G. Crandall, born in 1940, is an American mathematician who originated viscosity solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations and proved foundational results on nonlinear semigroups and bifurcation.

Michael G. Hauser

Michael G. Hauser is an American astronomer who led DIRBE on NASA's COBE, the instrument that discovered the cosmic infrared background, and later served as Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Michael Ghil

Michael Ghil is a climate scientist and applied mathematician, emeritus professor at UCLA and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, known as a founder of theoretical climate dynamics.

Michaël Gillon

Michaël Gillon (born 1974 in Liège) is a Belgian astrophysicist at the University of Liège, best known for leading the discovery of the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system.

Michael Grätzel

Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist and professor at EPFL who directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and co-invented the dye-sensitized solar cell, the Grätzel cell.

Michael Green (British theoretical physicist)

Michael Green, full name Michael Boris Green, is a British theoretical physicist who, with John Schwarz, proved in 1984 that superstring theories are anomaly-free, launching the first superstring revolution.

Michael Gurnis

Michael Gurnis is a geophysicist and Caltech's Smits Professor of Geophysics, known for showing that mantle convection and subduction drive dynamic topography and the flooding of continents.

Michael H Hecht (MIT scientist)

Michael H. Hecht is Associate Director at MIT's Haystack Observatory, principal investigator of MOXIE on NASA's Perseverance rover, and a leader of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Michael H. Bergin

Michael H. Bergin, full name Michael Howard Bergin, is an atmospheric aerosol scientist and environmental engineer who is the Sternberg Family Professor at Duke University.

Michael H. Hart

Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist whose 1978 and 1979 papers introduced the continuously habitable zone, the region around a star where liquid water can persist.

Michael Harris (mathematician)

Michael Harris is an American number theorist and Columbia University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022, known for work on the Langlands program.

Michael Heidelberger

Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991) was an American immunologist and organic chemist, often called the father of modern immunology, who showed with Oswald Avery in 1923 that pneumococcal antigens are polysaccharides.

Michael Horne (American physicist)

Michael Horne (1943–2019) was an American physicist who co-authored the 1969 CHSH inequality, which made quantum entanglement testable in the laboratory, and the GHZ state, while teaching at Stonehill College.

Michael I. Bird

Michael I. Bird, also published as Michael Bird, is an isotope geochemist and Distinguished Professor at James Cook University's Cairns campus, known for the pyrogenic carbon cycle.

Michael J. Behrenfeld

Michael J. Behrenfeld is an American biological oceanographer and professor at Oregon State University, known for the VGPM model and satellite studies of ocean productivity and plankton.

Michael J. D. Powell

Michael J. D. Powell (1936–2015) was a British numerical analyst, professor at Cambridge, known for the DFP formula, Powell's method, and derivative-free solvers like COBYLA.

Michael J. Follows

Michael J. Follows is an oceanographer at MIT who models marine microbial communities, leading the Darwin Project and CBIOMES and winning the 2023 Huntsman Award.