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Norman John Wildberger
Norman John Wildberger is an Australian mathematician who created rational trigonometry, replacing distance and angle with quadrance and spread, and taught for 30 years at the University of New South Wales.
Norman Kroll
Norman Kroll (1922–2004) was an American theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum electrodynamics who made the first correct calculation of the Lamb shift and taught at UC San Diego.
Norman L. Biggs
Norman L. Biggs (born 1941) is a British mathematician, professor at the London School of Economics, known for algebraic combinatorics and the critical group of graphs.
Norman L. Bowen
Norman L. Bowen (1887–1956) was a Canadian experimental petrologist whose 1922 reaction series showed that many igneous rocks crystallize from one parent magma; his 1928 book established physical chemistry as petrology's basis.
Norman L. Gilbreath
Norman L. Gilbreath is an American mathematician and magician who published the Gilbreath principle in card magic and Gilbreath's conjecture on primes, both in 1958.
Norman Levinson
Norman Levinson (1912–1975) was an American mathematician at MIT, an Institute Professor known for the Coddington–Levinson text, Levinson's theorem, and proving a third of Riemann zeta zeros lie on the critical line.
Norman Lockyer
Norman Lockyer, full name Joseph Norman Lockyer, was an English astronomer who proposed helium from the solar spectrum and founded the journal Nature in 1869.
Norman Macleod Ferrers
Norman Macleod Ferrers (1829–1903) was a British mathematician, Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, Master of Gonville and Caius College, and Vice-Chancellor, known for the Ferrers diagram in partition theory.
Norman Margolus
Norman Margolus is a physicist and computer scientist at MIT, best known for the Margolus–Levitin theorem bounding computation speed and for building cellular automata machines.
Norman Murray
Norman Murray is a Canadian-based theoretical astrophysicist at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, known for work on disk winds, planetary migration, and star formation.
Norman Sleep
Norman Sleep, born 1945, is an American geophysicist and emeritus professor at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999, known for mantle convection and planetary thermal evolution.
Norman Steenrod
Norman Steenrod (1910–1971) was an American algebraic topologist and Princeton professor who founded homological algebra and gave his name to the Steenrod squares, the Steenrod algebra, and the Eilenberg–Steenrod axioms.
Norman Sutin
Norman Sutin (1928–2022) was a chemist who spent his career at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for the theory and measurement of electron-transfer reactions and for early work on artificial photosynthesis.
Normand Voyer
Normand Voyer is a Canadian chemist and full professor at Université Laval in Quebec City, known for artificial ion channels, antimicrobial peptides, and northern natural products.
Norris Bradbury
Norris Bradbury (Norris Edwin Bradbury, 1909–1997) was an American physicist who directed the Los Alamos Laboratory from 1945 to 1970, succeeding J. Robert Oppenheimer and leading its postwar transformation.
Notker Rösch
Notker Rösch is a German theoretical chemist and emeritus professor at the Technical University of Munich, known for density functional studies of metal clusters and catalysis.
Nuh Gedik
Nuh Gedik is an experimental condensed matter physicist who is the Donner Professor of Physics at MIT, known for creating time-resolved techniques that probe charge, spin, and lattice dynamics in quantum materials.
Nuno Maulide
Nuno Maulide, born 1979 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese organic chemist who has held the Chair of Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna since 2013.
Nuno Santos (Portuguese astrophysicist)
Nuno Santos is a Portuguese astrophysicist and full professor at the University of Porto who studies exoplanets, co-leads the ESPRESSO spectrograph, and won the 2010 Ambartsumian prize.
Nurcin Celik
Nurcin Celik is an industrial and systems engineer at the University of Miami and a 2014 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld
O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, also known as Anatole von Lilienfeld, is a computational chemist at the University of Toronto known for machine learning models of molecular properties.
Odd Hassel
Odd Hassel was a Norwegian physical chemist at the University of Oslo who shared the 1969 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing that molecules take several interconverting three-dimensional shapes.
Oded Schramm
Oded Schramm (1961–2008) was an Israeli mathematician at Microsoft Research who invented stochastic Loewner evolution, the one-parameter family of random curves describing two-dimensional random shapes, and won the Ostrowski Prize in 2007.
Odile Eisenstein
Odile Eisenstein, born 1949, is a French theoretical and computational chemist, a CNRS research director emeritus in Montpellier known for computational studies of transition-metal and lanthanide complexes.
Oene Bottema
Oene Bottema (1901–1992) was a Dutch mathematician known as "the great geometer", professor of mathematics at Delft from 1941 to 1971 and co-author, with Bernard Roth, of Theoretical Kinematics (1979).
Ofer Biham
Ofer Biham is an Israeli physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for the Biham-Middleton-Levine traffic model and stochastic methods for chemistry on interstellar dust grains.
Ofer Zeitouni
Ofer Zaitûnî (עפר זיתוני) is an Israeli probability theorist, the Herman P. Taubman Professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for large deviations and random matrix theory.
Ogden Rood
Ogden Rood was an American physicist and professor of physics at Columbia College in New York, best known for his 1879 book Modern Chromatics on color.
Ohyun Kwon
Ohyun Kwon is an American-based organic chemist and UCLA professor known for deconstructive radical chemistry cleaving alkene C–C bonds, including hydrodealkenylation and aminodealkenylation published in Science.
Olaf Holtedahl
Olaf Holtedahl (1885–1975) was a Norwegian geologist, professor at Oslo, who led polar expeditions to Novaya Zemlya and Antarctica and first recognized the great Precambrian–Cambrian glaciation.