Physical and mathematical scientists

Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Nicholas B. Suntzeff is an astronomer and cosmologist who co-founded the Calán/Tololo Supernova Survey and the High-Z Supernova Team, which discovered the universe's accelerating expansion in 1998.

Nicholas Butch

Nicholas P. Butch is an American condensed matter physicist at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, a PECASE recipient known for work on unconventional superconductivity in uranium ditelluride.

Nicholas C. Handy

Nicholas C. Handy (1941–2012) was a British theoretical chemist who spent his career at Cambridge and is known for the HCTH and CAM-B3LYP functionals and full configuration interaction.

Nicholas Christofilos (Νικόλαος Χριστοφίλου), 1916 to 1972, was a Greek-American elevator engineer who independently invented strong focusing for particle accelerators, then led Project Argus and the Astron fusion program at Livermore.

Nicholas Cox

Nicholas J. Cox is a statistician and geographer, Assistant Professor at Durham University, known as a Stata software author, Executive Editor of the Stata Journal, and prolific Statalist contributor.

Nicholas Hutzler

Nicholas Hutzler, also known as Nick Hutzler, is an American atomic and molecular physicist at Caltech who uses laser-based precision measurements of cold molecules to search for new particles and forces.

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Nicholas J Shackleton

Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (1937–2006) was a British paleoclimatologist at the University of Cambridge who established oxygen isotope stratigraphy as the master chronology of the ice ages.

Nicholas J. Turro

Nicholas J. Turro (1938–2012) was an American chemist at Columbia University who laid the foundations of modern organic photochemistry, supramolecular photochemistry, and spin chemistry, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.

Nicholas Kaiser

Nicholas (Nick) Kaiser (1954–2023) was a cosmologist who turned weak gravitational lensing into a tool for mapping dark matter and led the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii.

Nicholas Kemmer

Nicholas Kemmer (1911–1998) was a British theoretical physicist, born in St Petersburg, who predicted the pion's three charge states in 1938 and was Tait Professor at Edinburgh from 1953 to 1979.

Nicholas Mayall

Nicholas Mayall (1906–1993) was an American observational astronomer who spent over 25 years at Lick Observatory and served as second director of Kitt Peak National Observatory, 1960–1971.

Nicholas Metropolis

Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999) was an American physicist at Los Alamos who helped develop the Monte Carlo method, built the MANIAC computer, and lent his name to the Metropolis algorithm.

Nicholas P. Samios

Nicholas P. Samios is an American experimental particle physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the 1964 discovery of the omega-minus baryon and for directing the laboratory from 1982 to 1997.

Nicholas Patrick Jewell

Nicholas Patrick Jewell is a statistician and biostatistician, a longtime UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017 and known for work on infectious-disease trials.

Nicholas Read

Nicholas Read, born 1958, is a British-born American theoretical condensed matter physicist, the Henry Ford II Professor at Yale, known for the fractional quantum Hall effect and non-Abelian quasiparticles.

Nicholas T. Winograd

Nicholas T. Winograd, also known as Nicholas Winograd, is an American chemist who spent most of his career at Penn State, becoming Evan Pugh Professor in 1985 and retiring in 2020.

Nicholas Theophilou

Nicholas Theophilou, also spelled Nicolas Theophilou, is a scientist who co-developed with Herbert Naarmann a 1987 BASF method for highly conductive polyacetylene films, cited in the 2000 Nobel Prize background.

Nicholas V. Hud

Nicholas V. Hud is a biophysicist and origins-of-life chemist at Georgia Tech, where he joined the faculty in 1999 and directed the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution.

Nick Katz

Nicholas M. Katz, born in 1943 in Baltimore, is an American mathematician and Princeton professor known for work on exponential sums, L-functions, and monodromy over finite fields.

Nick Scoville

Nick Scoville, also known as Nicholas Z. Scoville, is a Caltech astronomer known for pioneering millimeter-wave CO observations of star-forming gas and founding the COSMOS survey.

Nick Zentner

Nick Zentner is an American geologist who has taught at Central Washington University since 1992 and hosts the Emmy-winning PBS series Nick on the Rocks.

Nicklas G. Pisias

Nicklas G. Pisias is an American paleoceanographer and Professor Emeritus at Oregon State University, known for work on orbital forcing of ice age cycles and deep-sea isotope records.

Nico Sommerdijk

Nico Sommerdijk (Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk) is a Dutch chemist and professor of Bone Biochemistry at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, known for biomineralization research.

Nicola Cabibbo

Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010) was an Italian theoretical physicist who introduced the Cabibbo angle in a 1963 paper that became a foundation of quark flavor mixing.

Nicola Marzari

Nicola Marzari is a computational condensed-matter physicist, chair of materials simulation at EPFL and director of MARVEL, elected the tenth Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge in 2025.

Nicola Spaldin

Nicola Spaldin is a British-born materials theorist, Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich since 2010, best known for developing multiferroics and honored with the Körber Prize, the L'Oréal-UNESCO award, and the Marcel Benoist Prize.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017) was a Dutch-born American physicist at Harvard, known for the three-level solid state maser and nonlinear optics, who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser spectroscopy.

Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn

Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012) was a Dutch mathematician at Eindhoven known for de Bruijn sequences, the de Bruijn–Newman constant, de Bruijn indices, and the Automath proof-checking language.