Physical and mathematical scientists

Salomon Bochner

Salomon Bochner (1899–1982) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American mathematician at Princeton and Rice known for work in Fourier analysis, probability theory, several complex variables, and differential geometry.

Salvatore Pincherle

Salvatore Pincherle (1853–1936) was an Italian mathematician at the University of Bologna, a founder of functional analysis who pioneered Mellin–Barnes integrals and led the 1928 Bologna Congress.

Salvatore Torquato

Salvatore Torquato is an American theoretical scientist at Princeton University who works on statistical mechanics and materials theory, known for packing theory and the concept of hyperuniformity.

Sam Edwards (scientist)

Sam Edwards (1928–2015) was a Welsh theoretical physicist who founded the modern statistical mechanics of polymers and held the Cavendish Professorship at Cambridge from 1984 to 1995.

Sam P. de Visser

Sam P. de Visser is a Dutch computational chemist and Reader at the University of Manchester who models heme and nonheme iron enzyme mechanisms with density functional theory.

Sam Treiman

Sam Treiman (1925–1999) was an American theoretical particle physicist who spent his career at Princeton, known for the 1958 Goldberger–Treiman relation linking strong and weak interactions.

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Sambashiva Banala

Sambashiva Banala is a chemical biologist and Senior Scientist in Luke Lavis's group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for photoactivatable compounds and co-authoring a widely cited 2018 Science paper.

Samir Mitragotri

Samir Mitragotri is a drug-delivery scientist, Hiller Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard since 2017, known for transdermal delivery, cell-hitchhiking biomaterials, and co-founding 16 companies.

Samson Shatashvili

Samson Shatashvili is a theoretical and mathematical physicist who holds a chair at Trinity College Dublin and won the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.

Samuel A. Bowring

Samuel A. Bowring (1953–2019) was an American geologist and isotope geochronologist, the Robert R. Shrock Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for uranium-lead zircon dating, work on the Cambrian explosion, and the EARTHTIME initiative.

Samuel Alfred Mitchell

Samuel Alfred Mitchell was a Canadian-born American astronomer who directed the University of Virginia's Leander McCormick Observatory from 1913 to 1945, led a major stellar parallax program, and observed ten total solar eclipses.

Samuel C. Lind

Samuel C. Lind (1879–1965) was an American radiochemist known as the father of radiation chemistry in America, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1930.

Samuel C.C. Ting

Samuel C.C. Ting, also known as Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中), is an American MIT physicist who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the J/psi particle.

Samuel Deléglise

Samuel Deléglise is a French experimental physicist, first author of the 2008 Nature paper reconstructing and filming the decoherence of Schrödinger cat states of light in a microwave cavity.

Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998) was a Polish-born American mathematician at Columbia University who co-founded category theory, established homological algebra, and won the 1986 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.

Samuel Epstein (geochemist)

Samuel Epstein (1919–2001) was a Polish-born Canadian-American geochemist who spent his career at Caltech and pioneered stable isotope studies of Earth, the Moon, and meteorites.

Samuel Fiorini

Samuel Fiorini is a mathematician and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works in combinatorial optimization; his 2012 work solved Yannakakis's problem on extended formulations for the traveling salesman polytope.

Samuel Franklin Emmons

Samuel Franklin Emmons (1841–1911) was an American economic geologist and founding USGS geologist whose 1886 study of Colorado's Leadville mining district became a model for describing ore deposits.

Samuel Frederick Edwards

Samuel Frederick Edwards (1928–2015) was a Welsh theoretical physicist who held the Cavendish Chair at Cambridge and advanced polymer physics and spin glass theory.

Samuel Goudsmit

Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978) was a Dutch-born American physicist who, with George Uhlenbeck, proposed electron spin in 1925, led Alsos Mission intelligence against the German nuclear program, and founded Physical Review Letters.

Samuel I. Stupp

Samuel I. Stupp, also known as Samuel Stupp, is a materials scientist and chemist at Northwestern University known for peptide amphiphiles, self-assembling materials for regenerative medicine.

Samuel Isaac Weissman

Samuel Isaac Weissman (1912–2007) was an American physical chemist who pioneered electron spin resonance in chemistry, worked on the Manhattan Project, and taught at Washington University in St. Louis.

Samuel J. Danishefsky

Samuel J. Danishefsky (born 1936) is an American organic chemist at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Columbia, known for the Danishefsky diene, taxol synthesis, and anticancer vaccines.

Samuel Jackson Barnett

Samuel Jackson Barnett (1873–1956) was an American physicist who discovered the Barnett effect, the magnetization of a spinning ferromagnet, and was professor of physics at UCLA from 1926 to 1944.

Samuel King Allison

Samuel King Allison (1900–1965) was an American physicist at the University of Chicago known for precision X-ray spectroscopy and for helping achieve the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.

Samuel L. Penfield

Samuel L. Penfield (1856–1906) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer, professor of mineralogy at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and a National Academy of Sciences member.

Samuel Langley

Samuel Langley (1834–1906) was an American astronomer and physicist, Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1887 to 1906, who invented the bolometer and flew the first sustained heavier-than-air machines.

Samuel Leutwyler

Samuel Leutwyler, born 1952, is a Swiss physical chemist and professor emeritus at the University of Bern, known for laser spectroscopy of hydrogen-bonded clusters and proton transfer studies.

Samuel M. McElvain

Samuel M. McElvain (1897–1973) was an American organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, known for discovering the ketene acetals and for the local anesthetics Metycaine and Surfacaine.