Physical and mathematical scientists

Scott Rickard

Scott Rickard is an applied mathematician known for blind source separation, sparsity measures, and Costas arrays; he was a professor at University College Dublin from 2003 to 2014.

Scott Tremaine

Scott Tremaine, born 1950 in Toronto, is a Canadian-American astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study who predicted the Kuiper belt and Saturn's shepherd moons.

Scott Weaver (climate scientist)

Scott Weaver is an American climate scientist who won the 2012 PECASE at NOAA, led federal weather programs at NIST and OSTP, and founded CLIMET Consulting.

Sean C. O'Brien

Sean C. O'Brien is an American chemist who co-discovered buckminsterfullerene (C60) at Rice University in September 1985, building the cluster nozzle that made it possible.

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Sean C. Solomon

Sean C. Solomon is an American geophysicist and planetary scientist who led NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury and directed Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from 2012 to 2020.

Sean Gavin

Sean Gavin is a theoretical nuclear physicist and professor at Wayne State University who studies the quark-gluon plasma, proposing in 2006 to measure its shear viscosity from particle fluctuations.

Sean Hartnoll is a theoretical physicist at Cambridge, formerly of Stanford, known for holographic superconductors and the Planckian dissipation hypothesis, and winner of the 2015 New Horizons in Physics Prize.

Sean M. Carroll

Sean M. Carroll (born 1966) is an American theoretical physicist and science writer known for work on cosmology and the arrow of time, and for the podcast Mindscape.

Sean M. Keel

Sean M. Keel is an American algebraic geometer, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for the Keel–Mori theorem and the prize-winning GHKK paper.

Sean Raymond

Sean N. Raymond is an astronomer and CNRS researcher at the Observatoire de Bordeaux known for simulations of planet formation, water delivery, and habitable worlds around giant planets.

Sebastiaan van Dijken

Sebastiaan van Dijken is a Dutch physicist and professor of applied physics at Aalto University in Finland, known for research in nanomagnetism, spintronics, and magnonics.

Sebastian C. Peter

Sebastian C. Peter, born 1978, is an Indian materials chemist and professor at JNCASR, Bengaluru, known for CO2 conversion catalysts, a 99%-selective ethylene photocatalyst, and India's first CO2-to-methanol pilot plant.

Sebastian Ceria

Sebastian Ceria is an Argentine mathematician and optimization scientist who founded Axioma, a financial risk-analytics firm sold to Deutsche Börse for $850 million in 2019, and founded Fundar.

Sebastian Kruss

Sebastian Kruss is a German physical chemist who has been Professor of Physical Chemistry at Ruhr University Bochum since 2020, known for fluorescent carbon nanotube biosensors.

Sebastian Pokutta

Sebastian Pokutta is a German mathematician who is Vice President of the Zuse Institute Berlin and won the 2023 Gödel Prize for work on optimization.

Sebastian Polarz

Sebastian Polarz (born 1974) is a German inorganic and materials chemist, professor at Konstanz from 2007 to 2020 and since 2020 chairholder at Leibniz University Hannover, known for porous solids and metal oxide nanoparticles.

Sebastian Reineke

Sebastian Reineke (born 1979) is a German physicist who heads the Chair of Organic Semiconductors at TU Dresden and led the 2009 white OLED efficiency record.

Sebastian Riedel

Sebastian Riedel, full name Sebastian Hasenstab-Riedel, is a German inorganic and fluorine chemist, born in 1975 and a full professor at Freie Universität Berlin since 2013.

Sebastian Z. Oener

Sebastian Z. Oener is a German-born electrochemist who has led a research group at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin since 2022.

Sébastien Charnoz

Sébastien Charnoz is a French planetary scientist and professor at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, known for his Cassini mission work and research on Saturn's rings and moons.

Sébastien Gleyzes

Sébastien Gleyzes, born 1980, is a French quantum physicist at CNRS's Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, first author of the 2007 Nature paper recording photon quantum jumps.

Sébastien Perrier

Sébastien Perrier is a polymer chemist who holds the Monash-Warwick Chair at the University of Warwick and works on polymer therapeutics, including drug delivery and antibacterial nanomaterials.

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Seigo Tarucha

Seigo Tarucha (樽茶清悟) is a Japanese physicist at RIKEN known for silicon spin qubits and quantum information research, after twenty years at NTT and the University of Tokyo.

Seiji Shinkai

Seiji Shinkai (新海征治, born 1944) is a Japanese supramolecular chemist, Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University, known for sugar sensing with boronic acids and photoresponsive crown ethers.

Seinosuke Toda

Seinosuke Toda (戸田誠之助) is a Japanese theoretical computer scientist at Nihon University who proved Toda's theorem in 1989, showing the polynomial hierarchy reduces to counting.

Seiya Uyeda (上田誠也)

Seiya Uyeda (上田誠也) was a Japanese geophysicist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo, who led Japanese work in plate tectonics and later electromagnetic earthquake-prediction research.

Seligmann Kantor

Seligmann Kantor (1857–1903) was a Bohemian-born German-Jewish mathematician who taught in Prague, never holding a professorship, and is remembered for papers on Reye's geometric configurations.

Selim Jochim

Selim Jochim, born 1975 in Leimen, Germany, is a German experimental physicist and professor at Heidelberg University known for the 2003 first observation of Bose-Einstein condensation in molecules.

Selman Akbulut

Selman Akbulut, born 1949, is a Turkish mathematician at Michigan State University known for the Akbulut cork and for proving proposed exotic smooth 4-spheres standard.