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Ryan Gilmour
Ryan Gilmour (born 1980) is a British organic chemist who holds the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster, known for selective fluorination catalysis and chiral Al–salen photocatalysis.
Ryan Wollaeger
Ryan Wollaeger is a computational astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who models kilonovae, the radioactively powered light of neutron star mergers, and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Rylan J. Lundgren
Rylan J. Lundgren is a Canadian organic chemist and professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, known for reversible decarboxylation of organic acids and carbon isotope exchange.
Ryo Shintani
Ryo Shintani (新谷 亮) is a Japanese organic chemist, professor at Osaka University's Graduate School of Engineering Science since 2017, known for the rhodium-catalyzed stitching reaction and stitching polymerization.
Ryogo Kubo
Ryogo Kubo (久保亮五, 1920–1995) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at the University of Tokyo whose 1957 Kubo formula linked conductivity to atomic interactions, earning the 1977 Boltzmann Medal.
Ryoichi Hayatsu
Ryoichi Hayatsu is a cosmochemist known for work on organic compounds in coal and carbonaceous meteorites, including the 1973 proposal that meteoritic organics formed catalytically in the solar nebula.
Ryoji Noyori
Ryoji Noyori (野依良治), born 1938 in Kobe, is a Japanese organic chemist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for asymmetric hydrogenation and later served as President of RIKEN.
Ryong Ryoo
Ryong Ryoo (유룡) is a South Korean chemist who directed the IBS Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions and is known for CMK-n mesoporous carbons and mesoporous zeolites.
Ryuhei Nakamura
Ryuhei Nakamura (中村 龍平) is a Japanese electrochemist and biogeoscientist who leads the Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team at RIKEN and is a professor at ELSI.
S. A. Bowhill
S. A. Bowhill, born Sidney Allan Bowhill, was a British-born American physicist who studied the ionosphere and led the Aeronomy Laboratory at the University of Illinois.
S. Das Sarma
Sankar Das Sarma is a condensed matter theorist at the University of Maryland known for topological quantum computation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
S. David Tilley
S. David Tilley (born 1980) is an American chemist at the University of Zurich known for cuprous oxide photocathodes that split water into hydrogen using sunlight.
S. Francis Boys
S. Francis Boys, born Samuel Francis (Frank) Boys, was a British theoretical chemist at Cambridge who introduced Gaussian-type orbitals into quantum chemistry in 1950, a basis still used today.
S. Fred Singer
S. Fred Singer, born Siegfried Fred Singer, was an Austrian-born American space physicist and first director of the National Weather Satellite Center, later known for challenging mainstream climate science.
S. George Philander
S. George Philander, born 1942 in South Africa, is an American oceanographer and Princeton professor best known for advancing understanding of El Niño and coining the term La Niña.
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan, known as S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, is an Indian-born American probabilist at New York University who won the 2007 Abel Prize.
Sabine H. L. Klapp
Sabine H. L. Klapp is a professor of theoretical physics at Technische Universität Berlin, appointed in 2008, known for research on nonreciprocal active matter and complex fluids.
Sabrina Pasterski
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, also Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterska, is an American theoretical physicist working on quantum gravity who co-discovered the gravitational spin memory effect and leads the Celestial Holography Initiative at the Perimeter Institute.
Sachio Horiuchi
Sachio Horiuchi (堀内 佐智雄) is a Japanese materials chemist and Senior Chief Researcher at AIST in Tsukuba, known for the 2008 review Organic ferroelectrics and for above-room-temperature ferroelectricity in croconic acid.
Sadamichi Maekawa
Sadamichi Maekawa (前川 禎通) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist who works on strongly correlated electron systems and spintronics, winning the 2012 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal.
Sadao Nakajima
Sadao Nakajima (中嶋貞雄) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Nagoya and Tokyo universities, known for the Nakajima–Zwanzig equation in statistical mechanics and for founding the ISQM symposium in 1983.
Sae Woo Nam
Sae Woo Nam was an American experimental physicist at NIST who led the Faint Photonics Group and built single-photon detectors with world-record telecom-band efficiency, honored with a 2002 PECASE.
Saharon Shelah
Saharon Shelah, born in Jerusalem in 1945, is an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for stability theory, proper forcing, and pcf theory, and among the most prolific mathematicians in history.
Saif A. Haque
Saif A. Haque, also published as Saif Haque, is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Imperial College London, known for work on organic and perovskite solar cells.
Saiful Islam (materials chemist)
M. Saiful Islam is a materials chemist who holds the Statutory Chair in Materials Modelling at Oxford, known for atomistic modeling of battery and solar-cell materials.
Sajeev John
Sajeev John is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Toronto who co-founded photonic band gap materials and shared the 2001 King Faisal International Prize in Science.
Sakuhei Fujiwhara
Sakuhei Fujiwhara, also romanized Fujiwara, was a Japanese meteorologist who directed the Central Meteorological Observatory from 1941 to 1947 and described how two nearby cyclones rotate about a common center, the Fujiwhara effect.
Sakuji Ikeda
Sakuji Ikeda (1920–1984) was a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Hideki Shirakawa's supervisor, credited with observing that halogen treatment of polyacetylene films dramatically decreased infrared transmission.
Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson is an American energy scientist at Stanford who studies underground carbon dioxide storage and served at the White House from 2021 to 2023.
Sally Pusede
Sally Pusede is an American atmospheric chemist at the University of Virginia, a 2025 PECASE recipient known for using satellite data to measure neighborhood-level air pollution inequality.