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Natasha Hurley-Walker

Natasha Hurley-Walker is an Australian radio astrophysicist at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, who discovered the long-period radio transients and led the GLEAM survey.

Nate Silver

Nate Silver, also known as Nathaniel Read Silver, is an American statistician and writer who founded FiveThirtyEight in 2008 and made election forecasting a fixture of political coverage.

Nathalie A. Cabrol

Nathalie A. Cabrol, born 1963, is a French American astrobiologist who directs the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute and studies impact crater lakes on Mars as candidate habitats.

Nathan C. Gianneschi

Nathan C. Gianneschi is an Australian-born chemist and the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn Professor at Northwestern University, working on programmable polymeric nanomaterials and enzyme-responsive drug delivery.

Nathan Gillett

Nathan P. Gillett is a Canadian climate scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Victoria who works on attribution of climate change and extremes.

Nathan H. Burnett

Nathan H. Burnett is a physicist who, with P. B. Corkum and M. Y. Ivanov, proposed polarization gating in a 1994 Optics Letters paper, now a standard method for isolating single attosecond pulses.

Nathan J. Mantua

Nathan J. Mantua is an American climate scientist who co-authored the 1997 paper naming the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and received a 1999 Presidential Early Career Award.

Nathan Jacobson

Nathan Jacobson, born Nachman Arbiser (1910–1999), was a Polish-born American mathematician at Yale who shaped abstract algebra through ring theory, Lie algebras, and the Jacobson radical.

Nathan Kornblum

Nathan Kornblum was an American organic chemistry professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, known for the Kornblum oxidation of alkyl halides to aldehydes with DMSO, reported in 1957.

Nathan Mendelsohn

Nathan Saul Mendelsohn (1917–2006) was a Brooklyn-born Canadian mathematician who spent 57 years at the University of Manitoba and gave his name to the Mendelsohn triple system.

Nathan Rosen

Nathan Rosen (1909–1995) was an American-Israeli theoretical physicist who co-authored the 1935 EPR paper with Einstein and Podolsky, introduced the Einstein–Rosen bridge, and founded Technion's physics department in Haifa.

Nathan S. Lewis

Nathan S. Lewis is a chemist at the California Institute of Technology known for artificial photosynthesis, who led the Department of Energy's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and founded Energy & Environmental Science.

Nathan Seiberg

Nathan Seiberg, born in Israel in 1956, is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for Seiberg–Witten theory, Seiberg duality, and generalized global symmetries.

Nathan Sharon

Nathan Sharon (Hebrew: נתן שרון) was an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science whose lectin research showed how cells recognize one another, and who named the field glycobiology.

Nathan Smith (astronomer)

Nathan Smith is an astronomer and Professor at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, who studies the evolution and death of massive stars, supernovae, and eruptive transients like Eta Carinae.

Nathaniel Arbiter

Nathaniel Arbiter (1911–2008) was an American mineral engineer and hydrometallurgist, Professor of Mineral Engineering at Columbia, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Nathaniel David Mermin

N. David Mermin, born 1935 in New Haven, Connecticut, is an American theoretical physicist at Cornell University known for the Mermin–Wagner theorem and the textbook Solid State Physics.

Nathaniel Ferraro

Nathaniel M. Ferraro is an American plasma physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Deputy Head of its Theory Department since 2022 and a 2025 PECASE awardee.

Nathaniel Gabor

Nathaniel Gabor is an American experimental condensed matter physicist at UC Riverside, known for energy transfer in atomically thin 2D materials and receiving the 2019 PECASE award.

Nathaniel L. Rosi

Nathaniel L. Rosi (born 1976) is an American materials chemist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for work on metal-organic frameworks and nanoparticle assembly.

Nathaniel Szymczak

Nathaniel Szymczak is an Australian-born inorganic and coordination chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan since 2021, known for secondary-sphere control of small-molecule activation.

Naum Akhiezer

Naum Akhiezer (Наум Ілліч Ахієзер) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician who worked in approximation theory and the moment problem in Kharkiv, giving his name to the Akhiezer polynomials.

Naveen Garg

Naveen Garg, born 1971, is an Indian theoretical computer scientist, chair professor at IIT Delhi, who works on approximation algorithms for scheduling and facility location and won the 2016 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize.

Navin Ramankutty

Navin Ramankutty, born 1970 in India, is a geographer and sustainability scientist at the University of British Columbia who built the first global historical cropland datasets.

Nazario Martín

Nazario Martín is a Spanish organic chemist, full professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and deputy director of IMDEA Nanociencia, known for fullerene chemistry and molecular electronics.

Nazzareno Mandolesi

Nazzareno Mandolesi, born in 1944, is an Italian cosmologist who was Principal Investigator of the Low Frequency Instrument on ESA's Planck satellite, sharing the 2018 Gruber Prize in Cosmology.

Neal K. Devaraj

Neal K. Devaraj, also known as Neal Devaraj, is an American chemical biologist at UC San Diego known for building artificial cells and bioorthogonal chemistry for imaging living cells.

Neal Mankad

Neal P. Mankad is an American organometallic and bioinorganic chemist, a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago since 2012, known for catalysts pairing two cooperating metals.

Ned A. Porter

Ned A. Porter is an American organic chemist at Vanderbilt University known for working out how lipids oxidize by free radicals, linking the chemistry to disease.

Nedal Nassar

Nedal T. Nassar is an American mineral economist and criticality scientist who leads the Materials Flow Analysis Section at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Minerals Information Center.