Physical and mathematical scientists

Samuel S. Wilks

Samuel S. Wilks (1906–1964) was an American mathematician and statistician who built the discipline of statistics at Princeton University and proved Wilks' theorem.

Samuel Sanchez

Samuel Sánchez, also known as Samuel Sánchez Ordóñez, is a Spanish nanoscientist at IBEC in Barcelona who builds self-propelled nanobots for drug delivery and bladder cancer therapy.

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles (1877–1953) was a British chemist, Daniell Professor at King's College London, and eponym of the Smiles rearrangement, an intramolecular aromatic migration in organic sulfur chemistry.

Samuel T. Hess

Samuel T. Hess is an American physicist at the University of Maine who helped develop fPALM, one of three independently developed 2006 super-resolution fluorescence microscopy methods.

Samuel Wesley Stratton

Samuel Wesley Stratton (1861–1931) was an American physicist and scientific administrator, founding director of the National Bureau of Standards from 1901 to 1922 and later president of MIT.

Samuel William Johnson

Samuel William Johnson (1830–1909) was an American agricultural chemist, a Yale professor for four decades, and director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station from 1877 to 1900.

San Thang

San Thang (San Hoa Thang) is a Vietnamese-born Australian polymer chemist who co-invented RAFT polymerization at CSIRO in 1996 and became a Monash University professor in 2015.

San'ichirō Mizushima (水島三一郎, 1899–1983) was a Japanese physical chemist at the University of Tokyo who discovered the trans and gauche rotational isomers of 1,2-dihalogenoethanes and coined the term "gauche".

Sanat Kumar

Sanat K. Kumar is a chemical engineer at Columbia University who studies polymer nanocomposites and glass-forming polymers, and received the American Physical Society's 2022 Polymer Physics Prize.

Sandra Faber

Sandra Faber is an American astronomer at UC Santa Cruz and Lick Observatory, now emerita, known for the Faber–Jackson relation, cold dark matter galaxy-formation theory, and diagnosing Hubble's flawed mirror.

Sandu Popescu

Sandu Popescu is a theoretical physicist and Royal Society Fellow at the University of Bristol, a pioneer of quantum information known for work on entanglement, nonlocality, and PR boxes.

Sang Hoon Joo

Sang Hoon Joo (주상훈) is a South Korean chemist known for ordered mesoporous carbons and atomically dispersed metal electrocatalysts, and a professor at Seoul National University since 2023.

Sang‐Heon Shim

Sang-Heon Shim is a South Korean-born American geophysicist and professor at Arizona State University who studies Earth and planetary materials at extreme pressures and temperatures.

Sang‐Hyun Oh

Sang-Hyun Oh is an electrical engineer and physicist at the University of Minnesota who leads a biosensing lab and is known for atomically smooth metal nanostructures and ultrasensitive optical biosensors.

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Sang‐Wook Cheong

Sang-Wook Cheong (S.-W. Cheong) is a condensed-matter experimental physicist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, known for colossal magnetoresistance in manganites in the 1990s and pioneering multiferroics research.

Sanjit K. Mitra

Sanjit K. Mitra (born 1935) is an Indian-American signal processing engineer and professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Sanjit Kumar Mitra

Sanjit Kumar Mitra, born 1935, is an Indian-American signal processing engineer, professor emeritus at UC Santa Barbara and USC, known for signal processing research and widely used textbooks.

Sankar Nair

Sankar Nair is a professor of chemical engineering at Georgia Tech who engineers nanoporous materials and membranes for separations, biorefining, water treatment, and CO2 utilization.

Sara E. Skrabalak

Sara E. Skrabalak is an American materials chemist at Indiana University Bloomington known for shape-controlled metal nanocrystal synthesis and Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry of Materials since 2020.

Sara Imari Walker

Sara Imari Walker is a theoretical physicist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University who works on the origin of life and co-developed assembly theory with Lee Cronin.

Sara Lupton

Sara J. Lupton is a research chemist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Fargo, North Dakota, who studies contaminants like PFAS in cattle, swine, and poultry.

Sara Seager

Sara Seager, born in Toronto in 1971, is a Canadian planetary scientist known for her work on exoplanet atmospheres and biosignature gases, and a Kavli Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner who led NASA's TESS mission science.

Sara van de Geer

Sara van de Geer (born 1958) is a Dutch mathematical statistician, the first woman mathematics professor at ETH Zurich, known for empirical process theory and high-dimensional statistics.

Sarah B. Hart

Sarah B. Hart is a British mathematician in group theory, formerly Professor at Birkbeck and Gresham Professor of Geometry from 2020 to 2024, the first woman in that 1597 chair.

Sarah C. Darby

Sarah C. Darby is a British statistical epidemiologist and Professor of Medical Statistics at Oxford, known for quantifying radiation risks from radiotherapy, X-rays, and radon.

Sarah D. Brooks

Sarah D. Brooks is an American atmospheric scientist and professor at Texas A&M University who studies how aerosol particles influence cloud formation and ice nucleation in clouds.

Sarah E. Reisman

Sarah E. Reisman, also known as Sarah Reisman, is an American synthetic organic chemist who leads Caltech's chemistry division and is known for short syntheses of complex diterpenes.

Sarah Minson

Sarah Minson is an American research geophysicist at the USGS Earthquake Science Center in California who studies earthquake sources, early warning, and seafloor geodesy, and won a 2014 PECASE.

Sarah Rugheimer

Sarah Rugheimer is an astrobiologist and astrophysicist who models Earthlike exoplanet atmospheres for detectable signs of life, known for her 2020 TED talk "The Search for Microscopic Aliens."