Physical and mathematical scientists

Morwen Thistlethwaite

Morwen Thistlethwaite is a mathematician and professor at the University of Tennessee known for computer tabulation of knots, work on the Jones polynomial, and the Tait conjectures.

Moses Gomberg (1866–1947) was an American organic chemist at the University of Michigan who in 1900 discovered the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent organic free radical, founding radical chemistry.

Moses H. W. Chan

Moses H. W. Chan, also published as M. H. W. Chan, is an American condensed matter physicist at Penn State known for 2004 supersolidity experiments in helium-4 that he later disproved.

Moses Kunitz

Moses Kunitz (1887–1978) was a Russian-American biochemist and enzymologist at the Rockefeller Institute who crystallized trypsin, chymotrypsin, and ribonuclease, helping establish that enzymes are proteins.

Moses Schönfinkel

Moses Schönfinkel (1888–1942) was a Russian logician and mathematician who invented combinatory logic, introduced the combinators S and K in his 1924 paper, and anticipated currying.

Moshe Zakai

Moshe Zakai (1926–2015) was an Israeli electrical engineer and applied probabilist at the Technion in Haifa, known for the Zakai equation and for work in information theory.

Moss Sweedler

Moss Sweedler, also known as Moss Eisenberg Sweedler, is an American mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Cornell University, who established Hopf algebra theory and created the Sweedler notation.

Mostafa A. El‐Sayed

Mostafa A. El-Sayed, also known as M. A. El-Sayed, is a physical chemist at Georgia Tech known for the El-Sayed rules and gold nanorod cancer therapy.

Moti Heiblum

Moti Heiblum is an Israeli experimental physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for shot-noise measurements of fractional quasiparticle charge in the quantum Hall regime.

Motohide Tamura

Motohide Tamura (田村元秀), born 1959 in Nara Prefecture, is a Japanese astronomer who led the Subaru SEEDS direct-imaging exoplanet survey and the 1998 brown dwarf study in Science.

Motomu Kanai

Motomu Kanai (金井求), born 1967 in Tokyo, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo working in asymmetric catalysis and what he calls catalysis medicine.

Motonari Uesugi

Motonari Uesugi (上杉志成) is a Japanese chemical biologist who designs small molecules that modulate human cells, and has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2005.

Moungi G. Bawendi

Moungi Bawendi, born 1961, is an American chemist at MIT who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

Moustafa T. Chahine

Moustafa T. Chahine (1935–2011) was a Lebanese-born atmospheric physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who developed the Relaxation Method for satellite sounding and founded the AIRS mission.

Mstislav Gnevyshev

Mstislav Nikolaevich Gnevyshev (Мстислав Николаевич Гневышев, 1914–1992) was a Soviet astronomer at Pulkovo Observatory known for the Gnevyshev–Ohl rule, the Gnevyshev gap, and the Gnevyshev–Waldmeier rule.

Mu-Hyun Baik

Mu-Hyun Baik (백무현) is a South Korean computational chemist, professor at KAIST since 2015, known for computationally designed C–H activation catalysts and the electro-inductive effect reported in Science in 2020.

Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz

Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz (1937–1992) was a Pakistani experimental nuclear physicist, a Virginia Tech physics professor from 1964 to 1991 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory collaborator.

Mukund P. Sibi

Mukund P. Sibi, originally from Bangalore, India, is a University Distinguished Professor of chemistry at North Dakota State University known for pioneering catalytic enantioselective free-radical reactions and natural product synthesis.

Mukundan Thelakkat

Mukundan Thelakkat is a German-based polymer chemist who has been Professor of Applied Functional Polymers at the University of Bayreuth since 2006, working on organic electronic materials.

Muralee Murugesu

Muralee Murugesu is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian materials chemist and professor at the University of Ottawa, known for lanthanide single-molecule magnets for high-density data storage.

Murali Sastry

Murali Sastry, also known as M. S. Murali Sastry, is an Indian materials chemist known for fungal nanoparticle biosynthesis and winner of the 2002 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Sep 17, 2026

Murray Gell-Mann

Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for classifying subatomic particles, coined the word "quark", and co-founded the Santa Fe Institute.

Murray Gerstenhaber

Murray Gerstenhaber (died 2024) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who founded algebraic deformation theory, discovered the Gerstenhaber algebra, and won the 2021 Steele Prize.

Mykhailo Kravchuk

Mykhailo Kravchuk, also transliterated Krawtchouk, was a Ukrainian mathematician who introduced the Kravchuk polynomials in 1929, was arrested in 1938, and died in a Kolyma labor camp in 1942.

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Mykola Pylchykov

Mykola Pylchykov (Микола Пильчиков, 1857–1908) was a Ukrainian experimental physicist known for the improved Pulyui X-ray tube and an 1898 public demonstration of radio control.

Myles Allen

Myles Allen is a British climate physicist and Professor of Geosystem Science at Oxford, called "the physicist behind net zero" for his carbon budget work.

Myles Tierney

Myles Tierney (1937–2017) was an American mathematician who, with F. William Lawvere, introduced elementary topos theory and the Lawvere–Tierney topology, and taught at Rutgers University.

Myongsoo Lee

Myongsoo Lee (이명수) is a South Korean supramolecular chemist who studies self-assembling nanostructures from aromatic amphiphiles, and has been a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai since 2019, after posts at Yonsei and Seoul National University.

Myriam Sarachik

Myriam Sarachik (1933–2021) was an American experimental condensed-matter physicist at the City College of New York, known for confirming the Kondo effect and pioneering studies of molecular nanomagnets.