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Noam Soker

Noam Soker is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist, born in 1958, a full professor at the Technion known for the core-degenerate model of Type Ia supernovae and the jittering-jet mechanism.

Nobuharu Iwasawa

Nobuharu Iwasawa (岩澤 伸治), born 1957, is a Japanese organic chemist and Tokyo Institute of Technology professor whose catalytic CO2 fixation won the Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2023.

Nobuo Kimizuka

Nobuo Kimizuka (君塚 信夫) is a Japanese chemist at Kyushu University known for photon upconversion based on triplet energy migration in molecular assemblies, including a 2026 solid-state material converting sunlight to ultraviolet light.

Noel A. Clark

Noel A. Clark, born 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for work on ferroelectric liquid crystals.

Noel Hush

Noel Hush (1924–2019) was an Australian theoretical chemist known for electron-transfer theory, often paired with Marcus's work as Marcus–Hush theory, and for a founding role in molecular electronics.

Noel Slater

Noel Bryan Slater (1912–1973) was a British mathematician and physicist known for his statistical theory of unimolecular gas reactions, summarized in his 1959 monograph Theory of Unimolecular Reactions.

Noelle E. Selin

Noelle E. Selin is an atmospheric chemist and policy researcher at MIT, a professor in IDSS and EAPS, known for global mercury modeling that informed the Minamata Convention.

Noga Alon

Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician at Princeton University and Tel Aviv University known for the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, the book The Probabilistic Method, and the 2024 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Nongjian Tao

Nongjian Tao (N. J. Tao), 1963–2020, was a Chinese-born physicist and electrical engineer at Arizona State University who invented the STM break junction for measuring single-molecule conductance.

Norbert F. Scherer

Norbert F. Scherer is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago who joined in 1997 and works on ultrafast spectroscopy, single-molecule microscopy, nanoplasmonics, and optical matter.

Norbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was an American mathematician at MIT who founded cybernetics, the study of control and communication in animals and machines, and whose wartime work produced the Wiener filter.

Norden E. Huang

Norden E. Huang (黄锷) is a Taiwanese oceanographer who created the Hilbert–Huang Transform at NASA's Goddard center, serving as Chief Scientist for Oceanography from 2000 to 2006.

Norihiro Tokitoh

Norihiro Tokitoh (時任 宣博) is a Japanese organic and main-group chemist at Kyoto University known for making unstable heavy-element compounds isolable, including the first bismuth–bismuth double bond.

Noriko Arai

Noriko Arai (新井紀子, born 1962) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo who led the Todai Robot Project.

Norio Miyaura

Norio Miyaura (宮浦 憲夫), born in Hokkaido in 1946, is a Japanese organic chemist at Hokkaido University known for the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction and the Miyaura borylation.

Noritaka Mizuno

Noritaka Mizuno (水野 哲孝) is a Japanese catalytic and materials chemist, a professor at the University of Tokyo known for selective oxidation catalysis with hydrogen peroxide.

Noritatsu Tsubaki

Noritatsu Tsubaki is a Japanese chemist and professor at the University of Toyama since 2001, known for over 35 years of C1 catalysis, converting CO2, methane, and methanol into fuels and chemicals.

Norman A. Phillips

Norman A. Phillips (1923–2019) was an American meteorologist who built the first general circulation model of the atmosphere, taught at MIT, and won the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal.

Norman Allinger

Norman Allinger (1928–2020) was an American computational chemist at the University of Georgia, senior author of the MM2, MM3, and MM4 molecular mechanics force fields for organic molecules.

Norman D. Newell

Norman D. Newell (1909–2005) was an American paleontologist at Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, known for his work on mass extinctions.

Norman F. Ness

Norman F. Ness (1933–2023) was an American space physicist at NASA Goddard who designed the Voyager magnetometers and led the discovery of the magnetic fields of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Norman F. Ramsey

Norman F. Ramsey (1915–2011) was an American Harvard physicist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the separated oscillatory fields method behind atomic clocks.

Norman George Meyers

Norman George Meyers (1930–2025) was an American mathematician who spent his career at the University of Minnesota and is best known for the 1963 higher-integrability result called the Meyers estimate.

Norman H. Anning

Norman H. Anning (Norman Herbert Anning, 1883–1963) was a Canadian-American mathematician who coauthored the 1945 Erdős–Anning theorem, proving that infinite planar integer-distance point sets must lie on a line.

Norman Hackerman

Norman Hackerman (1912–2007) was an American electrochemist known for corrosion science, who served as president of the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University.

Norman Haworth

Norman Haworth, or Walter Norman Haworth, was a British organic chemist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on carbohydrates and vitamin C.

Norman Horowitz

Norman Horowitz (1915–2005) was an American geneticist, professor of biology at Caltech, who worked on the one-gene, one-enzyme experiments in Neurospora and designed the Viking lander's life-detection experiment for Mars.

Norman J. Dovic̀hi

Norman J. Dovic̀hi is an American bioanalytical chemist and Emeritus Professor at Notre Dame whose capillary array electrophoresis instruments sequenced the human genome; he edits Analyst.

Norman James Petch

Norman James Petch (1917–1992) was a British metallurgist whose 1953 paper on the cleavage strength of polycrystals gave the grain-size term of the Hall–Petch relation; he held metallurgy chairs at Leeds, Newcastle, and Strathclyde.

Norman Jarosik

Norman Jarosik is an American experimental cosmologist, a Senior Research Physicist at Princeton University who led the WMAP radiometer systems and shared the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.