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Mikhail Lukin

Mikhail Lukin is an American physicist at Harvard University, a University Professor who co-invented the DLCZ quantum repeater protocol and co-founded the quantum companies QuEra Computing and Quantum Diamond Technologies.

Mikhail Lyubich

Mikhail Lyubich, born 1959, is a mathematician in real and complex dynamics who proved the Feigenbaum–Coullet–Tresser conjecture and directs Stony Brook's Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Mikhail Postnikov

Mikhail Postnikov, full name Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov (Михаил Михайлович Постников), was a Soviet and Russian mathematician in algebraic topology, known for the Postnikov system and the 1961 Lenin Prize.

Mikhail Sadovsky

Mikhail Alexandrovich Sadovsky (Михаил Александрович Садовский; 1904–1994) was a Soviet geophysicist who led physical measurements at the first Soviet atomic bomb test and derived the Sadovsky formulas.

Mikhail Shaposhnikov

Mikhail Shaposhnikov, born 1956 in Sochi, Russia, is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist, professor emeritus at EPFL, known for electroweak baryogenesis, the νMSM, and the Higgs-as-inflaton proposal.

Mikhail Shifman

Mikhail Shifman (Михаил Шифман) is a theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota, born in Riga in 1949, known for the penguin mechanism, QCD sum rules, and supersymmetric Yang-Mills results.

Mikhail Somov

Mikhail Somov (Михаил Михайлович Сомов) was a Soviet oceanologist and polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union, who led the North Pole-2 drifting station and the first Soviet Antarctic expedition.

Mikhail Suslin

Mikhail Suslin, also known as Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin, was a Russian mathematician who discovered analytic sets by finding an error in Lebesgue's 1905 memoir and posed the Suslin problem.

Mikhail Tsetlin

Mikhail Lvovich Tsetlin (Михаил Львович Цетлин; 1924–1966) was a Russian mathematician and physicist known for the Tsetlin automaton, the Tsetlin library, and the Gelfand–Tsetlin basis.

Mikhail Zamkov

Mikhail Zamkov is a materials chemist and physics professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, known for developing colloidal quantum shells for solar energy.

Mikiko Sodeoka

Mikiko Sodeoka is a Japanese organic chemist and chemical biologist known for asymmetric catalysis with palladium and nickel, fluorination methods, and alkyne-tag Raman imaging; she directs RIKEN CSRS since 2025.

Mikio Kozuma

Mikio Kozuma (上妻幹旺) is a Japanese atomic physicist who, in 1999 at the University of Tokyo, demonstrated phase-coherent amplification of matter waves simultaneously with MIT's group.

Mikio Sato

Mikio Sato (佐藤幹夫, 1928–2023) was a Japanese mathematician who created the theory of hyperfunctions, founded algebraic analysis, and led RIMS at Kyoto University, winning the Wolf Prize.

Miklós Kertész

Miklós Kertész (Miklos Kertesz) is a computational chemist and professor at Georgetown University known for carbon materials research and the 1999 carbon nanotube actuators paper.

Miklós Laczkovich

Miklós Laczkovich (born 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician at Eötvös Loránd University and University College London, best known for his 1990 solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem, open since 1925.

Milan Mrksich

Milan Mrksich is an American chemist and bioengineer, the Henry Wade Rogers Professor at Northwestern University, known for SAMDI mass spectrometry and self-assembled monolayer surfaces for drug discovery.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Mildred S. Dresselhaus, known as the "queen of carbon science", was an American MIT physicist whose research on graphite, carbon nanotubes, and graphene reshaped carbon science.

Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett

Miles Aylmer Fulton Barnett (1901–1979) was a New Zealand physicist who gave the first experimental proof of the ionosphere, then directed the New Zealand Meteorological Service from 1939 to 1962.

Miles J. Padgett

Miles J. Padgett is an optical physicist who holds the Kelvin Chair at the University of Glasgow and studies shaped light beams, including orbital angular momentum.

Miles Reid

Miles Reid, born 1948, is a British algebraic geometer at the University of Warwick, a Fellow of the Royal Society who laid the foundations of the minimal model program for 3-folds.

Miles V. Klein

Miles V. Klein, also known as Miles Vincent Klein, was an American condensed matter physicist at Illinois whose group made the first Raman measurement of the superconducting gap.

Milko E. van der Boom

Milko E. van der Boom is a materials chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, known for electrochromic films and chiral metal-organic framework crystals.

Millard H. Alexander

Millard H. Alexander, born 1943 in Boston, is an American theoretical chemist who spent 50 years at the University of Maryland studying quantum dynamics of molecular collisions.

Miloš V. Novotný

Milos V. Novotny, born 1942 in Brno, is a Czech-born analytical chemist at Indiana University known for capillary separation science, glycoscience, and identifying the first mammalian pheromones.

Milton E. Terry

Milton E. Terry was an American statistician who earned his 1951 doctorate from the University of North Carolina and co-authored the highly cited Bradley–Terry paired-comparisons method.

Milton Harris (chemist)

Milton Harris (1906–1991) was an American chemist who developed shrink-proof wool and wrinkle-resistant cotton, founded the Harris Research Laboratory, and won the 1980 Priestley Medal.

Milton Nunn Bramlette

Milton Nunn Bramlette (1896–1977) was an American geologist and professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for pioneering the use of calcareous nannofossils to date ocean sediments.

Milton S. Plesset

Milton S. Plesset (1908–1991) was an American applied physicist, professor at Caltech, whose name attaches to the Rayleigh–Plesset equation for cavitation bubble growth and collapse.

Milutin Milanković

Milutin Milanković (Милутин Миланковић, 1879 to 1958) was a Serbian mathematician and astronomer at the University of Belgrade known for his astronomical theory of climate change explaining ice ages.

Miṅ Gu

Min Gu (顾敏) is a photonics researcher known for nanoscale optical data storage and holography, and Executive Chancellor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology since 2019.