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Nicolas Brunner
Nicolas Brunner is a Swiss theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Geneva, known for his research on Bell nonlocality and its extension to quantum networks.
Nicolas Dauphas
Nicolas Dauphas is an isotope geochemist and cosmochemist who holds the Chair of Cosmochemistry at the University of Hong Kong and was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Nicolas Gisin
Nicolas Gisin, born 1952 in Geneva, is a Swiss quantum physicist known for quantum cryptography and teleportation over optical fibers, and winner of the first Bell Prize.
Nicolas Giuseppone
Nicolas Giuseppone is a supramolecular chemist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Strasbourg, who integrates light- and fuel-driven artificial molecular motors into polymer gels, winning the CNRS Silver Medal in 2024.
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber, born 1968, is a Swiss oceanographer and biogeochemist who heads the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich and studies ocean biogeochemistry and climate.
Nicolas J. Beukes
Nicolas J. Beukes, known as Nic Beukes, was a South African Precambrian sedimentologist at the University of Johannesburg, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Nicolas Luco
Nicolas (Nico) Luco is an American research civil engineer at the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colorado, specializing in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and leading the National Seismic Hazard Model.
Nicolas Vogel
Nicolas Vogel is a materials chemist who leads the Self-assembled Materials Group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he has been a full professor since 2023; his research covers colloidal lithography, emulsion droplet assembly, and plasmonic nanostructures.
Nicolas Winssinger
Nicolas Winssinger (born 1970, Belgium) is an organic chemist and professor at the University of Geneva since 2012, known for nucleic acid-templated synthesis, PNA arrays, and DNA-encoded libraries.
Nicolay G. Basov
Nicolay G. Basov, born Nikolai Gennadievich Basov, was a Soviet physicist and director of the Lebedev Institute who shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for the maser-laser principle.
Nicole Hernandez Hammer
Nicole Hernández Hammer is a Guatemalan-American sea-level researcher and climate-justice advocate known for her work on climate impacts on low-income communities, once a guest of Michelle Obama.
Nidhal Guessoum
Nidhal Guessoum is an Algerian astrophysicist and professor at the American University of Sharjah, known for gamma-ray astrophysics research and his 2010 book Islam's Quantum Question.
Niek van Hulst
Niek van Hulst is a Dutch physicist in nanophotonics, known for optical antenna imaging and single-molecule nano-optics, and an ICREA professor at ICFO in Barcelona since 2005.
Niels Bjerrum
Niels Bjerrum (1879–1958) was a Danish chemist, professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College in Copenhagen, known for the Bjerrum length, a standard scale in electrolyte science.
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist whose 1913 quantum model explained atomic structure; he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 and led Copenhagen's theoretical physics institute.
Nien Dak Sze
Nien Dak Sze is an atmospheric scientist who co-founded the research company Atmospheric and Environmental Research in 1977, known for work on stratospheric sulfur chemistry and ozone depletion.
Nigel Cooper
Nigel R. Cooper is a British theoretical physicist, professor at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, known for research on ultracold atoms, quantum gases, and topological phases of matter.
Nigel Goldenfeld
Nigel Goldenfeld is a British and American theoretical physicist, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego since 2021, known for work on pattern formation, turbulence, and the origins of life.
Nigel Hitchin
Nigel Hitchin, born in 1946, is an English mathematician and Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, known for Higgs bundles and generalized complex geometry.
Nigel Weiss
Nigel Oscar Weiss (1936–2020) was a South African-born astrophysicist and applied mathematician at Cambridge, a world authority on sunspots and the Sun's 22-year magnetic cycle.
Nikita Nekrasov
Nikita Nekrasov, born 1973 in Moscow, is a Russian and French mathematical physicist known for the Nekrasov partition functions, the BPS/CFT correspondence, and the Nekrasov–Shatashvili limit.
Niklas Boers
Niklas Boers is a German Earth system scientist known for climate tipping-point research, professor at the Technical University of Munich and leader of a Future Lab at the Potsdam Institute.
Nikodem Caro
Nikodem Caro (1871–1935) was a German chemist and industrialist who, with Adolph Frank, developed the Frank–Caro process for nitrogen fixation, founding the German calcium cyanamide fertilizer industry before being driven into exile by the Nazis.
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Nikolai Bogolyubov was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist, born in 1909, who created the microscopic theory of superfluidity and directed the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna from 1965 to 1989.
Nikolai Chebotaryov
Nikolai Chebotaryov (Николай Чеботарёв) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who proved the Chebotarev density theorem in 1922, settling Frobenius's conjecture on the distribution of primes, and taught at Kazan University.
Nikolai Durov (Николай Валерьевич Дуров)
Nikolai Valeryevich Durov is a Russian mathematician from St. Petersburg, senior researcher at the Steklov Mathematical Institute, who co-founded VKontakte and Telegram and designed the MTProto protocol.
Nikolai Kardashev
Nikolai Kardashev, also known as Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev, was a Soviet and Russian radio astronomer who helped establish Soviet SETI, co-invented very-long-baseline interferometry, and proposed the Kardashev scale in 1964.
Nikolai Kochetkov
Nikolai Kochetkov, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Kochetkov, was a Soviet organic chemist (1915–2005) who created the orthoester method of glycosylation and first synthesized natural bacterial O-antigen polysaccharides.
Nikolai Krasovsky
Nikolai Nikolaevich Krasovsky (Николай Николаевич Красовский; 1924–2012) was a Russian mathematician who founded a major Ural school of control theory, known for the Krasovskii–LaSalle invariance principle.
Nikolai Krylov
Nikolai Krylov, also known as Nikolai Mitrofanovich Krylov, was a Russian and Soviet mathematician who, with his student Nikolai Bogolyubov, founded nonlinear mechanics and created the Krylov–Bogolyubov averaging method.