Physical and mathematical scientists

Michael J. Hopkins

Michael J. Hopkins, born 1958 in Alexandria, Virginia, is an American algebraic topologist and Harvard professor known for the nilpotence theorem, topological modular forms, and solving the Kervaire invariant problem.

Michael J. Krische

Michael J. Krische is an American chemist holding the Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Texas at Austin, known for developing catalytic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions driven by hydrogenation.

Michael J. MacCoss

Michael J. MacCoss is a University of Washington professor of genome sciences known for quantitative mass spectrometry and stable isotope-based protein measurement, and a 2007 PECASE recipient.

Michael J. Prather

Michael J. Prather is an atmospheric chemist at UC Irvine, known for chemical transport models of ozone and greenhouse gases and the 2025 aviation climate study.

Michael J. S. Dewar

Michael J. S. Dewar (1918–1997) was a British-American theoretical chemist who made molecular orbital methods practical for organic chemistry, developing MINDO, MNDO, and AM1 and the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model.

Michael J. Sailor

Michael J. Sailor is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, best known for his research on porous silicon.

Michael J. Therien

Michael J. Therien, also known as Michael Therien, is a chemist who holds the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professorship of Chemistry at Duke University, appointed in 2009.

Michael J. Turmon

Michael J. Turmon is a researcher in statistical pattern recognition and machine learning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, best known for software that tracks solar active regions.

Michael J. Whelan

Michael J. Whelan, also known as Michael John Whelan, was a British electron microscopist who pioneered TEM of crystal defects and won the 1988 Hughes Medal with Archibald Howie.

Michael J. Zaworotko

Michael J. Zaworotko, born in Wales in 1956, is a crystal engineer and Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering at the University of Limerick, known as a pioneer of metal-organic frameworks.

Michael James Manfra

Michael James Manfra is an experimental condensed matter physicist at Purdue University known for the 2020 observation of anyonic braiding statistics and ultra-clean gallium arsenide devices.

Michael Jeremy Todd

Michael Jeremy Todd is a Cornell operations researcher known for algorithms in linear and convex programming, including interior-point methods; he shared the 2003 John von Neumann Theory Prize.

Michael Johnson (astrophysicist)

Michael Johnson is a Smithsonian astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics who co-led the Event Horizon Telescope imaging of black holes and won the 2024 New Horizons in Physics Prize.

Michael Karas

Michael Karas (born 1952) is a German physical chemist at Goethe University Frankfurt who, as a postdoc with Franz Hillenkamp, co-discovered MALDI, making mass spectrometry of proteins routine.

Michael Kasha

Michael Kasha (1920–2013) was a Ukrainian-American chemical physicist and photochemist at Florida State University, best known for the Kasha rule in molecular photophysics and the triplet-state origin of phosphorescence.

Michael Kelly (New Zealand-born British semiconductor physicist)

Michael Kelly is a New Zealand-born British semiconductor physicist, inaugural Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge from 2002 to 2016, known for research on nanoscale device manufacturability.

Michael Köhl

Michael Köhl, born in 1975, is a physicist at the University of Bonn known for experiments on ultracold Fermi gases, including the first observed pairing pseudogap in a two-dimensional Fermi gas.

Michael L. Bender

Michael L. Bender is an American geochemist known for pioneering ice core gas-isotope geochemistry, a National Academy of Sciences member who taught at Princeton from 1997 to 2015.

Michael L. Klein

Michael L. Klein is a British-born theoretical and computational chemist, Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University, known for molecular simulation and the TIP4P water model.

Michael M. Haley

Michael M. Haley, born 1965, is an American organic and materials chemist at the University of Oregon known for stable open-shell indenofluorene molecules and graphyne research.

Michael Manga

Michael Manga is a Canadian-born geophysicist and volcanologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for applying fluid dynamics to volcanoes, earthquakes, groundwater, and water inside Mars.

Michael Mastalerz

Michael Mastalerz is a German organic chemist who has been professor of organic chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2013, known for porous organic cage compounds and giant interlocking cages.

Michael McCarthy (spectroscopist)

Michael C. McCarthy is an American spectroscopist and laboratory astrophysicist, Deputy Director and Senior Physicist at the Center for Astrophysics, whose laboratory spectroscopy enabled discoveries of molecules, including benzonitrile, in space.

Michael Merrifield

Michael Merrifield is a British astronomer specializing in the kinematics and evolution of nearby galaxies, Professor of Astronomy at Nottingham from 1999 to 2024 and a founding Sixty Symbols contributor.

Michael O'Nan

Michael Ernest O'Nan (1943–2017) was an American mathematician and Rutgers professor who discovered the O'Nan sporadic simple group in 1975 and proved the O'Nan–Scott theorem on maximal subgroups.

Michael P. Brenner

Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist, Catalyst Professor at Harvard SEAS since 2001, known for sonoluminescence theory, droplet breakup, and machine learning for science.

Michael P. Lamb

Michael P. Lamb is a geomorphologist and professor of geology at the California Institute of Technology, where he has led the Earth Surface Dynamics Laboratory since 2009.

Michael Pepper

Sir Michael Pepper is a British condensed-matter physicist who pioneered research on semiconductor nanostructures. He turned low-dimensional electron systems into a working laboratory for quantum physics.

Michael Perryman

Michael Perryman is a British astronomer, born 1954 in Luton, who led the European Space Agency's Hipparcos and Gaia astrometry missions and shared the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.