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Olaf M. Magnussen
Olaf M. Magnussen is a professor of solid-state physics at the University of Kiel who studies electrode surfaces at the atomic scale, using video-STM and synchrotron X-ray scattering.
Olafs Daugulis
Olafs Daugulis is a Latvian-born chemist and Robert A. Welch Chair at the University of Houston, known for introducing the widely used 8-aminoquinoline directing group in 2005.
Ole Lamm
Ole Lamm (1902–1964) was a Swedish physical chemist, professor at KTH, who derived the 1929 Lamm equation governing sedimentation, still central to protein analysis by ultracentrifugation.
Ole Rømer
Ole Rømer, also known as Ole Christensen Rømer or Olaus Roemer, was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 first demonstrated observationally that light travels at a finite speed.
Oleg D. Jefimenko
Oleg D. Jefimenko (1922–2009) was an American physicist at West Virginia University known for Jefimenko's equations and for electrostatic motors powered by the earth's atmospheric electric field.
Oleg Lavrentiev
Oleg Lavrentiev (Олег Лаврентьєв) was a Soviet and Ukrainian physicist whose 1950 letter from Sakhalin proposed a hydrogen bomb design and inspired Sakharov's fusion work, leading to the tokamak.
Oleg Lavrentovich
Oleg D. Lavrentovich, born 1958, is a Ukrainian-born soft-matter physicist at Kent State University known for work on topological defects, nonlinear electrophoresis, and ferroelectric nematics.
Oleg V. Ozerov
Oleg V. Ozerov is an organometallic chemist at Texas A&M University known for pincer-ligand catalysis and carbon–fluorine bond activation, recognized by the 2012 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry.
Oleg V. Prezhdo
Oleg V. Prezhdo, also published as Oleg Prezhdo, is a Ukrainian-born theoretical chemist at USC known for surface-hopping methods and the PYXAID code for solar materials.
Oleg Yurievich Gusikhin
Oleg Yurievich Gusikhin is a Ford Motor Company data scientist and operations researcher who works on supply chain analytics and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Oleksandr Sharkovsky
Oleksandr Mykolaiovych Sharkovsky (Олександр Миколайович Шарковський; 1936–2022) was a Ukrainian mathematician, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, best known for Sharkovsky's theorem.
Olester Benson Jr.
Olester Benson Jr. is a retired American chemist and Corporate Scientist at 3M who holds 89 United States patents and is elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Olga Bondareva
Olga Nikolaevna Bondareva is a Soviet mathematician who proved the Bondareva–Shapley theorem, the balancedness condition for a cooperative game to have a non-empty core, in Leningrad in 1962 and 1963.
Olga Smirnova (theoretical physicist)
Olga Smirnova (Ольга Смирнова) is a theoretical physicist who leads the Strong Field Theory Group at the Max Born Institute in Berlin and works on attosecond physics.
Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd (1906–1995) was an Austrian-born mathematician who made matrix theory an independent branch of mathematics, publishing nearly 300 papers and becoming the first woman full professor at Caltech in 1971.
Olin Chaddock Wilson
Olin Chaddock Wilson (1909–1994) was an American stellar spectroscopist at the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, known for the Wilson–Bappu effect and stellar activity cycles.
Oliver C. Mullins
Oliver C. Mullins is a petroleum geochemist, Schlumberger Fellow, and National Academy of Engineering member known for downhole fluid analysis, the Yen-Mullins model, and reservoir fluid geodynamics.
Oliver Dimon Kellogg
Oliver Dimon Kellogg (1878–1932) was an American mathematician who worked in potential theory and integral equations, wrote Foundations of Potential Theory (1929), and taught at Harvard.
Oliver Fiehn
Oliver Fiehn is a German-trained analytical chemist, professor at the UC Davis Genome Center since 2004, known for GC-MS metabolomics, the FiehnLib spectral library, and spectral entropy methods.
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) was a self-educated English mathematical physicist who reduced Maxwell's theory to four vector equations and developed transmission line theory and operational calculus.
Oliver Labs
Oliver Labs is a geometer best known for constructing the Labs septic in 2004, a degree-7 surface with 99 ordinary double points, the most known for any septic.
Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851–1940) was a British physicist who pioneered radio tuning and wireless telegraphy, then became the first Principal of the University of Birmingham.
Oliver Penrose
Oliver Penrose is a British mathematical physicist known for the Penrose–Onsager criterion for Bose–Einstein condensation, brother of Roger Penrose, and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 1987.
Oliver Reiser
Oliver Reiser is a German organic chemist and professor of organic chemistry at the University of Regensburg since 1997, known for copper photoredox catalysis and C–H functionalization.
Oliver S. Wenger
Oliver S. Wenger (born 1974) is a Swiss inorganic chemist and professor at the University of Basel whose research group studies photoactive coordination complexes and photoredox catalysis.
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs, known as Wolcott Gibbs, was an American analytical and inorganic chemist, Rumford Professor at Harvard from 1863 to 1887, remembered for introducing electrogravimetry.
Olivier Baudoin
Olivier Baudoin is a French chemist working in organic synthesis and organometallic catalysis, Full Professor at the University of Basel since 2015 and head of its chemistry department since 2021, known for palladium-catalyzed C(sp3)–H activation.
Olle Eriksson
Olle Eriksson is a Swedish condensed-matter physicist, professor of materials theory at Uppsala University since 2002, known for first-principles calculations of magnetism and atomistic spin dynamics, including the UppASD code.
Olli Ikkala
Olli Ikkala, born 1953, is a Finnish physicist known for work on self-assembling functional materials, who was Professor of Polymer Physics at Aalto University from 1999 to 2018 and received the Finnish Science Award in 2023.
Olli Lounasmaa
Olli Lounasmaa (1930–2002) was a Finnish physicist in low-temperature physics and biomagnetism who founded Helsinki University of Technology's Low Temperature Laboratory in 1965 and developed magnetoencephalography for brain research.