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Michelle Thompson (planetary scientist)
Michelle Thompson is a planetary scientist at Purdue University who studies space weathering on the Moon and asteroids, serving on the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions.
Michinori Suginome
Michinori Suginome (杉野目 道紀, born 1966) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for organoboron chemistry, the boron-masking strategy, and chirality-switchable helical polymer catalysts.
Michio Jimbo
Michio Jimbo (神保道夫) is a Japanese mathematician who independently co-discovered quantum groups with Vladimir Drinfeld, winning the Wigner Medal in 2010 and the Dannie Heineman Prize in 2013.
Michio Suzuki (Japanese mathematician)
Michio Suzuki (1926–1998) was a Japanese mathematician at the University of Illinois who discovered the Suzuki groups and helped lead the classification of finite simple groups.
Michito Yoshizawa
Michito Yoshizawa (吉沢 道人, born 1974) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist and professor at Institute of Science Tokyo, known for molecular flasks that bind guests in water.
Mickael Tanter
Mickael Tanter, born in 1970, is a French physicist at Inserm known for ultrafast ultrasound imaging, shear-wave elastography, and functional ultrasound imaging of brain activity.
Mickey G. Chiu
Mickey G. Chiu is a nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who studies the strong force with the PHENIX detector and won a 2007 PECASE award.
Miers Fisher Longstreth
Miers Fisher Longstreth (1819–1891) was an American astronomer and physician, a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences, known for an 1850 lunar longitude formula.
Mietek Jaroniec
Mietek Jaroniec, also known as Mieczysław Jaroniec, is a Polish-born materials chemist and professor emeritus at Kent State University known for research on adsorption and ordered nanoporous materials.
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Physical Sciences at UCLA, known for amphidynamic crystals and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Miguel Alcubierre
Miguel Alcubierre, also known as Miguel Alcubierre Moya, is a Mexican physicist at UNAM's Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares known for the 1994 warp drive metric and numerical relativity.
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (Argentine physicist)
Miguel Ángel Virasoro (1940–2021) was an Argentine theoretical physicist whose Virasoro algebra became a backbone of string theory; he later co-built spin glass theory with Giorgio Parisi.
Miguel Costas
Miguel Costas, also known as Miquel Costas, is a Spanish inorganic chemist and full professor at the University of Girona known for bioinspired iron and manganese oxidation catalysis.
Miguel Morales
Miguel Morales, also known as Miguel Morales-Silva, is a Puerto Rican computational condensed-matter physicist who won a 2013 PECASE at Lawrence Livermore for high-pressure hydrogen studies.
Mihail Barboiu
Mihail Barboiu is a Romanian-born French chemist, CNRS research director at the Institut Européen des Membranes in Montpellier, known for artificial water channels and the 2024 Prix André Collet.
Mihailo Petrović Alas
Mihailo Petrović Alas (Михаило Петровић Алас, 1868 to 1943) was a Serbian mathematician who founded the Serbian school of mathematics and invented the hydrointegrator, an analog calculating machine.
Mihajlo Pupin
Mihajlo Pupin (Михајло Пупин), 1858–1935, was a Serbian-American physicist and inventor at Columbia University whose loading coils made long-distance telephony practical; he also won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his autobiography.
Miho Janvier
Miho Janvier is a French solar and space physicist at ESA's ESTEC, known for 3D models of solar flares and her roles on the Solar Orbiter mission.
Mikael C. Rechtsman
Mikael C. Rechtsman is a Canadian-born physicist and professor at Pennsylvania State University known for the 2013 photonic Floquet topological insulator experiment and four-dimensional quantum Hall physics.
Mikael Käll
Mikael Käll is a full professor of physics at Chalmers University of Technology who leads a bionanophotonics group studying plasmonic nanoantennas, metasurfaces, biosensing, and thermoplasmonics.
Mike Archer (Australian paleontologist)
Mike Archer is an Australian paleontologist known for his work on the evolution of Australian marsupials and monotremes and for developing the Riversleigh fossil deposits in Queensland.
Mike Keith (mathematician)
Mike Keith, born 1955, is an American mathematician and software engineer known for Keith numbers and record-setting Pilish texts, including a 10,000-digit encoding of pi.
Mikhail Budyko
Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920–2001) was a Soviet climatologist whose 1969 energy-balance model pioneered ice-albedo feedback study and whose 1972 warming forecast held up remarkably well.
Mikhail E. Gertsenshtein
Mikhail E. Gertsenshtein (Михаил Евгеньевич Герценштейн; 1926–2010) was a Soviet physicist who in 1962 described the Gertsenshtein effect and, with V. I. Pustovoit, the first laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector.
Mikhail Gorodetsky
Mikhail Leonidovich Gorodetsky (Михаил Городецкий; 1966–2019) was a Russian physicist at Moscow State University who pioneered ultra-high-quality dielectric microresonators and worked on quantum measurement for gravitational-wave detectors, including LIGO.
Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)
Mikhail Gromov, born in 1943, is a Soviet-born French mathematician known for Riemannian geometry, hyperbolic groups, and pseudoholomorphic curves, winner of the 2009 Abel Prize.
Mikhail Ioffe
Mikhail Solomonovich Ioffe (Михаил Соломонович Иоффе) was a Soviet experimental plasma physicist who stabilized the magnetic-mirror plasma trap against the flute instability in 1961, after which the stabilizing coils became known as Ioffe rods.
Mikhail Katsnelson
Mikhail Katsnelson, born 1957 in Magnitogorsk, is a Russian-Dutch theoretical physicist at Radboud University, a pioneer of graphene theory and winner of the 2013 Spinoza Prize.
Mikhail Khovanov
Mikhail Khovanov is a mathematician, formerly at Columbia and now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, who created Khovanov homology, a link invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial and detects the unknot.
Mikhail Lavrentyev
Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (Михаил Лаврентьев) was a Soviet mathematician who created the theory of quasiconformal mappings and founded and chaired the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.