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Michael R. Hoffmann
Michael R. Hoffmann is an environmental chemist at Caltech, known for identifying hyperacidic urban fogs and for applying semiconductor photocatalysis and electrochemistry to water treatment.
Michael R. Rampino
Michael Rampino is an earth and planetary scientist at New York University, on its faculty since 1985, known for the Shiva hypothesis of cyclic comet-impact extinctions.
Michael R. Wasielewski
Michael R. Wasielewski is an American photochemist and Northwestern University chemistry professor, trained at the University of Chicago, known for artificial photosynthesis, molecular electronics, and quantum information science.
Michael Radermacher
Michael Radermacher is a German-trained physicist who co-credited with Joachim Frank the Random Conical Tilt method in electron microscopy, cited in the 2017 Nobel Prize background.
Michael Romalis
Michael V. Romalis is a professor of physics at Princeton University working in atomic physics and quantum sensing, best known for the spin-exchange-relaxation-free magnetometer he introduced in 2002.
Michael Rowan-Robinson
Michael Rowan-Robinson, born 1942, is a British astronomer at Imperial College London known for his work on the 1983 IRAS infrared satellite mission and cosmology.
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
Michael S. Longuet-Higgins (1925–2016) was a British oceanographer and applied mathematician known for the theory of ocean waves, microseisms, and radiation stress, and a Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge.
Michael S. McLachlan
Michael S. McLachlan is an environmental chemist who has been Professor of Organic Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University since 2003, known for the forest filter effect model.
Michael S. Turner
Michael S. Turner is an American theoretical cosmologist at the University of Chicago, a founder of particle astrophysics who coined the term "dark energy" in 1998.
Michael Saks (mathematician)
Michael Saks, born around 1956, is an American mathematician and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at Rutgers University, known for work in combinatorics and theoretical computer science.
Michael Schlessinger
Michael Schlessinger was an American algebraic geometer at UNC Chapel Hill, Princeton, and Berkeley, known for Schlessinger's theorem and the Lichtenbaum–Schlessinger functors; he died in 2025 at 88.
Michael Schmittel
Michael Schmittel (born 1956) is a German organic chemist who works on molecular nanoswitches, nanomachines, and metallosupramolecular self-sorting, and was a professor at the University of Siegen.
Michael Sheetz
Michael Patrick Sheetz (1946–2025) was an American cell biologist who co-discovered the motor protein kinesin, pioneered mechanobiology, founded Singapore's Mechanobiology Institute, and won the Lasker, Wiley, and Massry Prizes.
Michael Shelley (applied mathematician)
Michael J. Shelley is an American applied mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute who studies complex and active fluids, biophysics, and the fluid mechanics of living cells.
Michael Shub
Michael Shub is an American mathematician who trained in Stephen Smale's school at Berkeley, introduced expanding maps, formulated the entropy conjecture, and with Lenore Blum and Smale founded the Blum–Shub–Smale model of computation over the reals.
Michael Somos
Michael Somos is an American mathematician who discovered the Somos-k integer sequences in the 1980s while studying elliptic functions, and has authored over 2000 sequences in the OEIS.
Michael Spivak
Michael Spivak (1940–2020) was an American mathematician who wrote Calculus and Calculus on Manifolds, founded Publish or Perish, and won the 1985 Steele Prize for his five-volume differential geometry series.
Michael Stewart Witherell
Michael Stewart Witherell is an American experimental particle physicist who is a professor at UC Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Michael Szwarc
Michael Szwarc (1909–2000) was a Polish-born polymer chemist who worked in England and the United States and discovered living polymerization, the anionic polymerization of styrene in which growing chains never terminate, winning the 1991 Kyoto Prize.
Michael T. Bowers
Michael T. Bowers is an American physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for developing ion mobility mass spectrometry, applied to fullerenes and amyloid peptides.
Michael Tinkham
Michael Tinkham (1928–2010) was an American experimental condensed-matter physicist at Harvard whose work spanned superconductivity, magnetism, and mesoscopic systems, and who wrote the classic textbook Introduction to Superconductivity.
Michael Tsapatsis
Michael Tsapatsis is a chemical engineer working on zeolites and molecular sieve membranes, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Distinguished Professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Michael Urbakh
Michael Urbakh (Урбах Михаил Изович) is an Israeli chemical physicist and nanotribologist, emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University, known for the 2004 Nature paper on friction's nonlinear nature.
Michael V. Mirkin
Michael V. Mirkin is an electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Queens College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1993, known for scanning electrochemical microscopy and nanoelectrochemistry.
Michael Victor Berry
Michael Victor Berry, born 1941, is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol, best known for discovering the geometric phase, called the Berry phase.
Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927–2019) was a British physicist and crystallographer at the University of York whose MULTAN software solved many of the world's crystal structures.
Michał Gryziński
Michał Gryziński was a Polish physicist at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Świerk near Otwock, best known for a classical theory of atomic collisions and the free-fall atomic model.
Michał Kamieński
Michał Kamieński (1879–1973) was a Polish astronomer, remembered as the nestor of Polish astronomy and founder of the Polish school of cometary research, who directed the University of Warsaw Observatory from 1923.
Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson is a physicist and pioneer of silicon photonics, the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University, known for slot waveguides and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
Michał Misiurewicz
Michał Misiurewicz is a Polish mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Indianapolis, whose work in dynamical systems gave his name to Misiurewicz maps and Misiurewicz points.