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Otto Stolz
Otto Stolz (1842–1905) was an Austrian mathematician, professor at the University of Innsbruck from 1872, known for the Stolz–Cesàro theorem and for coining "Archimedes' axiom".
Otto Struve
Otto Struve (Отто Людвигович Струве, 1897–1963) was a Russian-born American astronomer of a famous astronomical family, known for showing that early-type stars rotate rapidly and for directing four observatories.
Otto Szász
Otto Szász (1884–1952) was a Hungarian mathematician who held a chair at Frankfurt until the Nazis expelled him in 1933, then taught at the University of Cincinnati.
Otto Toeplitz
Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940) was a German mathematician, born in Breslau, who introduced Toeplitz matrices in 1911, helped build the German school of functional analysis, and posed the inscribed-square conjecture.
Otto Wallach
Otto Wallach (1847–1931) was a German organic chemist who held the chemistry chair at Göttingen and won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneer work on alicyclic compounds, founding terpene chemistry.
Otto Wiener (physicist)
Otto Wiener (1862–1927) was a German physicist whose 1890 experiment photographed standing light waves, showing that the electric component of light drives the chemical effect.
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Otto Wilhelm von Struve, known in Russian as Otto Vasil'evich Struvé, was a Russian astronomer who directed the Pulkovo Observatory from 1862 to 1889 and discovered over 500 double stars.
Ou Chen
Ou Chen (陈鸥) is a materials chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Brown University, known for building the first single-component quasicrystalline nanocrystal superlattice, reported in Science in 2018.
Ouyang Ziyuan
Ouyang Ziyuan (欧阳自远, born 1935) is a Chinese geochemist and cosmochemist, the first chief scientist of China's Chang'e lunar exploration program, known as the "Father of Chang'e".
Ove Christiansen
Ove Christiansen is a quantum chemist and full professor at Aarhus University, known for vibrational coupled cluster theory, the CC3 model, and the MidasCpp program package.
Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, born 1959 in Sydney, is an Australian marine scientist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland whose 1999 work predicted climate-driven coral reef loss by 2050.
Owen Brian Toon
Owen Brian Toon is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for nuclear winter research and work on clouds, aerosols, and ozone.
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006) was an American experimental physicist at UC Berkeley who co-discovered the antiproton and shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Emilio Segrè.
Owen Gingerich
Owen Gingerich (1930–2023) was an American astronomer and historian of science at Harvard, best known for his three-decade census of copies of Copernicus's De revolutionibus.
Owen Martin Phillips
Owen Martin Phillips (1930–2010) was an Australian-born physical oceanographer at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1957 resonance theory of wind-generated ocean waves and the standard reference The Dynamics of the Upper Ocean.
Owen Thomas Jones
Owen Thomas Jones (1878–1967) was a Welsh geologist who established the Ordovician and Silurian succession of central Wales and became the first Professor of Geology at Aberystwyth.
Owen Willans Richardson
Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959) was an English physicist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering Richardson's law of thermionic emission, the basis of vacuum-tube technology.
Øystein Ore
Øystein Ore (1899–1968) was a Norwegian-born mathematician who spent his career at Yale, working in algebra, lattice theory, graph theory, and the history of mathematics.
Ozgur Sahin
Ozgur Sahin (Özgür Şahin) is a physicist and biophysicist, professor at Columbia University, known for bacterial spore actuators, evaporation-driven engines, and the 2023 hydration solids theory.
P. A. P. Moran
P. A. P. Moran, full name Patrick Alfred Pierce Moran, was an Australian statistician who introduced Moran's I, the standard measure of spatial autocorrelation, in 1948.
P. Andrew Evans
P. Andrew Evans is an organic chemist and professor at Queen's University whose research develops rhodium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions and applies them to natural product synthesis.
P. Buford Price
P. Buford Price (1932–2021) was an American nuclear and cosmic-ray physicist at UC Berkeley who co-invented the track-etch technique and helped found the AMANDA neutrino observatory.
P. James Schuck
P. James Schuck is a nano-optics researcher and professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University since 2017, known for upconverting nanoparticle microlasers and photon-avalanching nanocrystals.
P. Jeffrey Hay
P. Jeffrey Hay is a theoretical chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory whose 1985 effective core potentials and basis sets became standard tools for quantum-chemical calculations on heavy elements.
P. Jonathan Patchett
P. Jonathan Patchett, also published as P. J. Patchett, is an isotope geochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Arizona known for establishing the Lu–Hf dating system.
P. R. Wallace
P. R. Wallace (Philip Russell Wallace, 1915–2006) was a Canadian theoretical physicist at McGill University whose 1947 paper first derived the electronic band structure of graphene, a single graphite layer.
P. Shiv Halasyamani
P. Shiv Halasyamani is an inorganic and materials chemist at the University of Houston, known for the 1998 review "Noncentrosymmetric Oxides" and for designing beryllium-free deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals.
P. St. J. Russell
P. St. J. Russell, or Philip St. John Russell, is a British physicist who invented photonic crystal fiber and was a founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.
P. van der Werf
Paul van der Werf is an astronomer and Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics at Leiden University's Leiden Observatory, studying star formation, molecular gas, and the interstellar medium of galaxies.
P.E. LaMoreaux
Philip E. LaMoreaux, Sr. (1921–2008) was an American hydrogeologist who led the USGS Ground Water Branch, served as Alabama's state geologist, founded the consulting firm PELA, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.