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Qian Chen

Qian Chen is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for electron videography, using liquid-phase electron microscopy to film nanoparticles and proteins as they self-assemble.

Qian Niu

Qian Niu (牛谦) is a Chinese condensed matter theorist known for work on the Berry phase and semiclassical electron dynamics in crystals, including the anomalous velocity of Bloch electrons.

Qiang Fu (environmental scientist)

Qiang Fu is an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington known for correcting satellite temperature records and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Qiang Lin

Qiang Lin is an American-based physicist at the University of Rochester working on integrated quantum photonics and lithium niobate photonics, who received a 2015 PECASE award.

Qiang Xu

Qiang Xu (徐强) is a chemist working on metal–organic framework catalysts for energy, Chair Professor at SUSTech in Shenzhen since 2020 after a career at Japan's AIST.

Qichun Zhang

Qichun Zhang (张其春, born 1970) is a materials chemist and full professor at City University of Hong Kong, known for covalent organic frameworks used as battery electrode materials.

Qihua Xiong

Qihua Xiong (熊启华) is a Chinese physicist working on optical spectroscopy of quantum matter, Professor at Tsinghua University since 2021 and known for the first laser cooling of a semiconductor.

Qimiao Si

Qimiao Si is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Wiess Professor at Rice University, known for local quantum criticality in heavy fermion metals, iron-based superconductors, and the Weyl-Kondo semimetal.

Qiming Zhang

Qiming Zhang is an electrical engineer and materials scientist at Penn State, known for inventing relaxor ferroelectric polymers and discovering the giant electrocaloric effect in polymers.

Qingying Jia

Qingying Jia is an electrochemist known for work on iron–nitrogen–carbon fuel cell catalysts and hydrogen electrocatalysis, and a recipient of the 2023 ACS ENFL Emerging Researcher Award.

Qiong Ma

Qiong Ma (马琼) is a Chinese-born condensed matter physicist and Associate Professor of Physics at Boston College, known for the 2019 nonlinear Hall effect paper in Nature.

Qiu Cheng Wei

Qiu Cheng Wei, published as Cheng-Wei Qiu, is a Singapore-based optical scientist and Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for optical tractor beams and the 2023 President's Science Award.

Quan Li

Quan Li (李全) is a materials scientist at Kent State University's Liquid Crystal Institute since 2004, known for his 2016 Nature paper controlling chiral liquid crystals with light alone.

Quentin Williams

Quentin Williams is a Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Santa Cruz who studies the behavior of minerals, melts, and fluids at high pressure in planetary interiors.

Quinten A. Akkerman

Quinten A. Akkerman is a Dutch nanomaterials chemist who has led the Quantum Dot Synthesis and Characterization group at LMU Munich since 2021, studying lead halide perovskite nanocrystals.

R. Benny Gerber

R. Benny Gerber is an Israeli-born theoretical and computational chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and UC Irvine, known for VSCF methods and predicted noble-gas molecules.

R. Brent Tully

R. Brent Tully, born 1943 in Toronto, is an American-based astronomer at the University of Hawaii known for the Tully–Fisher relation, the Cosmicflows catalogs, and mapping the Laniakea Supercluster.

R. Bruce Weisman

R. Bruce Weisman is a Rice University chemist who mapped the optical spectra of single-walled carbon nanotubes, developed methods to sort them, and founded Applied NanoFluorescence.

R. Dennis Cook

R. Dennis Cook, also published as R. D. Cook, is an American statistician and University of Minnesota professor emeritus known for Cook's distance and sufficient dimension reduction.

R. Graham Cooks

R. Graham Cooks is an American analytical chemist at Purdue University known for ambient ionization mass spectrometry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

R. H. Bing

R. H. Bing (1914–1986) was an American mathematician known for work in geometric topology, especially 3-manifolds and decomposition theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1965.

R. J. Dwayne Miller

R. J. Dwayne Miller is a chemist and physicist at the University of Toronto who pioneered ultrabright femtosecond electron sources recording atomic movies of molecules in motion.

R. Jürgen Behm

R. Jürgen Behm is a chemist who pioneered atomic-scale scanning tunneling microscopy of surface processes, then researched electrocatalysis and energy storage as professor at Ulm University from 1992 to 2020.

R. L. Moore

R. L. Moore, born Robert Lee Moore, was an American mathematician at the University of Texas known for point-set topology, a term he coined, and the Moore method.

R. Lawrence Edwards

Richard Lawrence Edwards, known as R. Lawrence or Larry Edwards, is an American isotope geochemist at the University of Minnesota who developed modern uranium-thorium dating of climate records.

R. Leonard Brooks

R. Leonard Brooks, full name Rowland Leonard Brooks, was an English mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge, known for Brooks's theorem on graph coloring and for work on squaring the square.

R. M. Foster

R. M. Foster, born Ronald Martin Foster (1896–1998), was an American mathematician at AT&T and Bell Labs known for the 1924 reactance theorem, a first breakthrough in network synthesis.

R. Morris Bullock

R. Morris Bullock is an American organometallic chemist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who directs the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis and develops cheap-metal electrocatalysts for hydrogen.

R. P. C. Morgan

R. P. C. Morgan (Royston Philip Charles Morgan, born 1942) is a British geomorphologist specializing in soil erosion, author of the standard textbook Soil Erosion and Conservation and co-developer of the MMF model.

R. Paul Butler

R. Paul Butler is an astronomer at Carnegie Science who co-developed the iodine-cell technique for Doppler spectroscopy and co-discovered hundreds of exoplanets, including 5 of the first 6 known.