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Arthur Byron Coble

Arthur Byron Coble (1878–1966) was an American algebraic geometer, professor at the University of Illinois from 1918 to 1947 and president of the American Mathematical Society in 1933–34.

Arthur C. Cope

Arthur C. Cope (1909–1966) was an American organic chemist who headed MIT's chemistry department from 1945 to 1965 and was known for the Cope rearrangement and Cope elimination.

Arthur Cayley

Arthur Cayley (1821–1895) was a British mathematician who created matrix algebra, gave the first modern definition of a group, and founded invariant theory; he was Sadleirian Professor at Cambridge from 1863.

Arthur Code

Arthur Dodd Code (1923–2009) was an American astronomer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered observational astronomy from space, taking the first stellar measurements from orbit in 1968.

Arthur Cohn

Arthur Cohn (1894–1940) was a German mathematician and student of Issai Schur, remembered for an irreducibility criterion for polynomials formed from the digits of a prime.

Arthur Eddington

Arthur Eddington was a British astrophysicist who established the theory of the internal structure of the stars and led the 1919 eclipse expedition that made Einstein's relativity famous.

Arthur Elijah Trueman

Arthur Elijah Trueman (1894–1956) was a British geologist and paleontologist who transformed the stratigraphy of the British Coal Measures using non-marine bivalve shells as zone fossils, and later chaired the Geological Survey Board.

Arthur Erdélyi

Arthur Erdélyi (1908–1977) was a Hungarian-born British mathematician, a leading authority on special functions and asymptotic analysis who directed the five-volume Bateman Manuscript Project at Caltech.

Arthur F. Hebard

Arthur F. Hebard is an American condensed matter experimental physicist who discovered superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped C60, worked at Bell Laboratories from 1972 to 1996, and is a University of Florida professor.

Arthur Francis Buddington

Arthur Francis Buddington (1890–1980) was an American field petrologist and economic geologist who spent sixty years on the Princeton faculty and won the Penrose and Roebling medals.

Arthur G. Suits

Arthur G. Suits is an American physical chemist at the University of Missouri known for work on roaming reactions and winner of the 2022 Earle K. Plyler Prize.

Arthur Geoffrey Walker

Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909–2001), known as Geoffrey, was a British mathematician who independently proved the Robertson–Walker metric is the most general spacetime for an expanding universe.

Arthur Gordon Webster

Arthur Gordon Webster (1863–1923) was an American physicist who taught at Clark University, introduced acoustic impedance, and was the principal founder and third president of the American Physical Society.

Arthur Gossard

Arthur Gossard (1935–2022) was an American condensed matter physicist who spent 27 years at Bell Laboratories and then UC Santa Barbara, growing the first semiconductor superlattices and co-discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Arthur H. Compton

Arthur H. Compton, also known as Arthur Holly Compton, was an American physicist who discovered the Compton effect and won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Arthur Harden

Arthur Harden (1865–1940) was a British biochemist at the Lister Institute in London who shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the fermentation of sugars.

Arthur Harold Stone

Arthur Harold Stone (1916–2000) was a British mathematician and leading general topologist whose name anchors the Erdős–Stone theorem, and who proved metrizable spaces are paracompact and invented flexagons.

Arthur Heinrich Binz

Arthur Heinrich Binz (1868–1943) was a German medicinal chemist who synthesized Uroselectan in 1929, the first intravenous X-ray contrast agent for the kidneys and urinary tract.

Arthur Herbert Copeland

Arthur Herbert Copeland (1898–1970) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who proved with Paul Erdős that the prime-concatenation Copeland–Erdős constant is normal.

Arthur Holmes

Arthur Holmes (1890–1965) was a British geologist who pioneered radiometric dating, built the first quantitative geological timescale, and proposed mantle convection as the driving force behind continental drift.

Arthur Jaffe

Arthur Jaffe is a mathematical physicist who holds the Landon T. Clay Professorship at Harvard, known for constructive quantum field theory with James Glimm and for co-founding the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886–1950) was a Canadian-American physicist at the University of Chicago who built the first mass spectrometer in 1918 and in 1935 identified uranium-235, the isotope later used in the atomic bomb.

Arthur Kantrowitz

Arthur Kantrowitz (1913–2008) was an American physicist who founded the Avco Everett Research Laboratory, where his work produced laser propulsion and the intra-aortic balloon pump for heart failure.

Arthur L. Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) was an American physicist at Stanford University who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser spectroscopy and set out the laser's working principles with Charles Townes in 1958.

Arthur Lachenbruch

Arthur Herold Lachenbruch (1925–2021) was an American geophysicist with the USGS who founded modern permafrost geothermics, influenced the Trans-Alaska Pipeline redesign, and opened the San Andreas fault heat-flow debate.

Arthur Louis Day

Arthur Louis Day (1869–1960) was an American geophysicist and experimental petrologist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory for three decades, set the standards of modern experimental petrology, and received the Wollaston and Penrose medals.

Arthur M. Geoffrion

Arthur M. Geoffrion, also known as Arthur Minot Geoffrion, is an American operations researcher at UCLA known for generalized Benders decomposition, Lagrangean relaxation, and structured modeling.

Arthur M. Wolfe

Arthur M. Wolfe (1939–2014) was an American astronomer at UC San Diego who founded the modern study of damped Lyman-alpha systems, the neutral-gas reservoirs of the early universe.

Arthur Michael

Arthur Michael (1853–1942) was an American organic chemist at Tufts College and Harvard, known for the Michael reaction, a conjugate addition he reported in 1887.

Arthur Milgram

Arthur Norton Milgram is an American mathematician whose work spanned topology, partially ordered sets, and differential equations; he is known for the Lax–Milgram theorem and a 1938 general existence theorem.