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Sarah Tolbert

Sarah H. Tolbert is an American materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA known for nanostructured battery electrodes and catalysts, with more than 200 publications and 20 patents.

Sarvadaman Chowla

Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995) was an Indian number theorist who published more than 350 papers over sixty-two years, including the Chowla–Selberg formula and the still-open Chowla conjecture.

Sason Shaik

Sason Shaik, born 1947, is an Israeli theoretical and quantum chemist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for reviving valence bond theory and two-state reactivity.

Satish C. B. Myneni

Satish C. B. Myneni is an environmental geochemist and professor of geosciences at Princeton University, known for discovering naturally formed chlorinated hydrocarbons in decaying plant material.

Satoru Nakatsuji

Satoru Nakatsuji is a Japanese experimental condensed matter physicist, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for the chiral antiferromagnet Mn3Sn and its anomalous Nernst effect.

Satoshi Horike

Satoshi Horike (堀毛 悟史) is a Japanese supramolecular and materials chemist, a Kyoto University professor known for introducing the concept of glass into coordination polymers.

Satoshi Ide

Satoshi Ide (井出 哲) is a Japanese seismologist and University of Tokyo professor known for the 2007 Nature scaling law that unified slow earthquake phenomena.

Satoshi Kawata

Satoshi Kawata (河田聡), born in 1951, is a Japanese applied physicist and Distinguished Professor at Osaka University, known for tip-enhanced near-field microscopy, two-photon polymerization, and plasmonics.

Satoshi Yamamoto

Satoshi Yamamoto (山本 智, born 1957) is a Japanese observational astrophysicist and astrochemist at the University of Tokyo, known for identifying warm carbon-chain chemistry around protostars.

Satya N. Majumdar

Satya N. Majumdar is a CNRS research director in statistical physics at Orsay who co-founded stochastic resetting in 2011 and won the CNRS silver medal in 2019.

Saul A. Teukolsky

Saul A. Teukolsky is a theoretical astrophysicist, Hans A. Bethe Professor at Cornell, known for the Teukolsky equation and for leading the SXS black-hole simulation collaboration.

Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at UC Berkeley who led the discovery of the universe's accelerating expansion, winning half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Saul Winstein

Saul Winstein was an American physical organic chemist who spent his career at UCLA, known for the Grunwald–Winstein equation and the bridged 2-norbornyl cation proposal.

Saunders Mac Lane

Saunders Mac Lane (1909–2005) was an American mathematician who, with Samuel Eilenberg, founded category theory and homological algebra, and co-wrote A Survey of Modern Algebra.

Savas Dimopoulos

Savas Dimopoulos is a Stanford theoretical physicist, trained under Yoichiro Nambu, known for proposing the Supersymmetric Standard Model and large extra dimensions beyond the Standard Model.

Saw‐Wai Hla

Saw-Wai Hla is a condensed-matter physicist at Ohio University and Argonne National Laboratory known for leading the 2023 experiment that produced the first X-ray signal from a single atom.

Sayeef Salahuddin

Sayeef Salahuddin is an electrical engineer at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for proposing negative capacitance in ferroelectrics, now used in memory and processor technologies.

Scot Martin

Scot T. Martin is an American atmospheric chemist who received a 1998 Presidential Early Career Award at UNC Chapel Hill and has been a Harvard professor since 2000.

Scott A Hilderbrand

Scott A Hilderbrand, born 1976, is a chemist who developed fluorescent nitric oxide and zinc sensors, near-infrared imaging probes, and tetrazine bioorthogonal chemistry at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Scott A. Diddams

Scott A. Diddams is an American physicist known for optical frequency combs and clocks, formerly at NIST and now a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Scott A. Mabury

Scott A. Mabury, also published as Scott Mabury, is a Canadian environmental chemist at the University of Toronto known for tracing fluorinated "forever chemicals" in the Canadian Arctic.

Scott A. McLuckey

Scott A. McLuckey is an American analytical chemist at Purdue University, the John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor, known for gas-phase ion/ion reactions and protein-ion manipulation by mass spectrometry.

Scott C. Warren

Scott C. Warren is an American materials chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for work on 2D materials and solar energy.

Scott E. Denmark

Scott E. Denmark (born 1953) is an American synthetic organic chemist and professor at the University of Illinois, known for asymmetric catalysis, the Hiyama–Denmark coupling, and machine-learning catalyst prediction.

Scott E. Fraser

Scott E. Fraser is an American biophysicist and inventor, Provost Professor at the University of Southern California, known for imaging embryonic development and inventing multispectral and 4D confocal microscopy.

Scott Fendorf

Scott Fendorf is an environmental chemist and Terry Huffington Professor at Stanford University whose fieldwork in South and Southeast Asia explained how arsenic enters groundwater.

Scott Forbush

Scott Forbush (1904–1984) was an American cosmic-ray physicist at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., who discovered the Forbush decrease and cosmic rays' 11-year solar variation.

Scott J. Lehman

Scott J. Lehman is an American paleoclimatologist and paleoceanographer, Fellow Emeritus and Director Emeritus of NSRL at INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder, known for radiocarbon tracing of CO2 emissions.

Scott Jasechko

Scott Jasechko is a Canadian-born hydrologist and professor of water resources at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School, known for measurement-based studies of global groundwater decline.

Scott L. Anderson

Scott L. Anderson is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for size-selected cluster catalysis and for a 2009 Science paper linking catalyst particle size to reactivity.