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Min S. Yun

Min S. Yun is an American radio astronomer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for his 1994 hydrogen map of the M81 galaxy group.

Min Sang Kwon

Min Sang Kwon (권민상) is a South Korean polymer and organic materials chemist, an associate professor at Seoul National University known for metal-free organic photocatalysts for visible-light-driven atom transfer radical polymerization.

Ming-Jun Li

Ming-Jun Li is an optical fiber physicist and Corporate Fellow at Corning, inventor of ClearCurve bend-insensitive fiber and LEAF fiber, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Mingda Li

Mingda Li is an associate professor at MIT's Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, known for integrating AI with scattering and spectroscopy to measure quantum-material properties.

Mingji Dai

Mingji Dai is a Chinese-American organic chemist and the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry at Emory University since 2022, known for allene diamination and over 40 total syntheses of natural products.

Minhaeng Cho

Minhaeng Cho is a South Korean chemist at Korea University known for two-dimensional spectroscopy and the first femtosecond measurement of vibrational optical activity, published in Nature in 2009.

Minik T. Rosing

Minik T. Rosing is a Greenlandic-Danish geologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for 1999 carbon-isotope evidence of life in Greenland's oldest rocks.

Minkee Choi

Minkee Choi (최민기) is a South Korean chemist and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at KAIST, known for zeolite nanosheet catalysts and CO2 capture adsorbents.

Minoru Oda

Minoru Oda (小田稔) was a Japanese astrophysicist known as the father of Japanese X-ray astronomy; he invented the modulation collimator and led Japan's X-ray satellites.

Minze Stuiver

Minze Stuiver was a Dutch-born radiocarbon scientist who founded and directed the Quaternary Isotope Laboratory at the University of Washington and created the CALIB calibration software.

Miquel Salmerón

Miquel Salmerón is a Spanish-born surface physicist and Senior Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who developed ambient-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and high-pressure microscopy for studying catalysts under real working conditions.

Mircea Dincă

Mircea Dincă is an inorganic and materials chemist, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University since 2025, known for electrically conductive metal–organic frameworks, water-harvesting materials, and battery electrodes.

Miriam S. Vitiello

Miriam Serena Vitiello is an Italian physicist who researches terahertz quantum cascade lasers, leading a group at the CNR Nanoscience Institute in Pisa since 2010.

Miroslav Katětov

Miroslav Katětov (1918–1995) was a Czech mathematician and chess master who made foundational contributions to general topology and functional analysis while playing competitive chess for Czechoslovakia.

Mischa Bonn

Mischa Bonn (born 1971) is a Dutch physical chemist who directs the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany.

Mischa Cotlar

Mischa Cotlar was an Argentine harmonic analyst who taught himself mathematics while working as a pianist in Montevideo, earned a 1953 Chicago doctorate under Zygmund, and proved Cotlar's lemma.

Misha Yu. Ivanov

Misha Yu. Ivanov, also known as Misha Ivanov, is a Russian-born theoretical physicist born in 1964 who studies electron motion on attosecond timescales driven by intense lasers.

Mitchell C. Begelman

Mitchell C. Begelman is an American theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and JILA Fellow, known for work on accreting black holes, relativistic jets, and active galactic nuclei.

Mitchell Feigenbaum

Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019) was an American mathematical physicist who discovered the universal Feigenbaum constants governing the period-doubling route to chaos, working largely at Los Alamos.

Mitchell Winnik

Mitchell A. Winnik is a polymer chemist and full professor at the University of Toronto, known for latex film research, living CDSA of block copolymer micelles, and Maxpar reagents.

Mitsuhiko Shionoya

Mitsuhiko Shionoya (塩谷光彦) is a Japanese inorganic and supramolecular coordination chemist, first in the world to develop metal complex-type artificial DNA, now a professor at Tokyo University of Science.

Mitsuo Kira

Mitsuo Kira (吉良 満夫) is a Japanese organometallic chemist specializing in silicon chemistry, a professor emeritus at Tohoku University who isolated the first stable dialkylsilylene in 1999.

Mitsuo Sawamoto

Mitsuo Sawamoto (澤本光男, born 1951) is a Japanese polymer chemist and Kyoto University professor emeritus who developed living cationic polymerization and the first metal-catalyzed living radical polymerization.

Mitsuru Akashi

Mitsuru Akashi (明石 満) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Kagoshima and Osaka University known for layer-by-layer capsules, nanoparticles for drug delivery, and a 2004 Nature paper on template polymerization.

Mo Li

Mo Li (李默) is a physicist and engineer working on integrated photonics, optomechanics, and quantum photonics; a University of Washington professor known for chip-scale acousto-optic LiDAR beam steering.

Modesto Orozco

Modesto Orozco López, born 1962 in Barcelona, is a Spanish computational chemist, professor at the University of Barcelona, and developer of the parmbsc1 DNA force field.

Mohamed Eddaoudi

Mohamed Eddaoudi, born in Agadir, Morocco, in 1969, is a chemist at KAUST in Saudi Arabia known for designing metal–organic frameworks for gas storage and carbon capture.

Mohamed El-Naggar

Mohamed Y. El-Naggar is a USC biophysicist who studies how bacteria move electrons outside their cells, and in 2024 became director of Carnegie Science's Biosphere Sciences and Engineering division.

Mohamed Mézouar

Mohamed Mézouar is a high-pressure physicist who leads X-ray diffraction at the ESRF in Grenoble, known for the 2013 measurement of iron's melting point at Earth's inner core boundary.

Mohammad Hafezi

Mohammad Hafezi (محمد حافظی) is a University of Maryland professor working in quantum optics and topological photonics, known for synthetic gauge fields for photons and topologically protected optical devices.