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Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin
Semyon Aranovich Gershgorin (1901–1933) was a Soviet mathematician known for the Gershgorin circle theorem of 1931, which locates all eigenvalues of a matrix in easily computed disks.
Semyon Volfkovich
Semyon Volfkovich (Семён Вольфкович, 1896–1980) was a Soviet inorganic chemist who built the USSR's mineral fertilizer industry, headed the fertilizer institute NIUIF, and chaired Moscow State University's chemical technology department.
Sensuke Ogoshi
Sensuke Ogoshi (生越専介) is a Japanese organometallic chemist and professor emeritus of Osaka University, known for nickel catalysis, NHC ligand design, and carbon–fluorine bond activation.
Senthil Todadri
Senthil Todadri, who publishes as T. Senthil, is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and MIT professor known for deconfined quantum critical points and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Seok Hyun Yun
Seok Hyun Yun (Korean: 윤석현) is a biomedical engineer and physicist at the Wellman Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard, known for miniature endomicroscopes and Brillouin microscopy.
Serena DeBeer
Serena DeBeer, also known as Serena DeBeer George, is a chemist directing the Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion since 2017.
Serge G. Lemay
Serge G. Lemay is a Dutch-based electrochemist and nanoscientist who has been professor of Iontronics at Leiden University since 2026, known for nanofluidic single-molecule detection and carbon nanotube electronics.
Serge Haroche
Serge Haroche, born 1944 in Casablanca, is a French physicist and founder of cavity quantum electrodynamics, sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland.
Serge Lang
Serge Lang (1927–2005) was a French-born American mathematician and Yale professor who worked in algebraic number theory, coined the term Diophantine geometry, and wrote the influential textbook Algebra.
Serge Massar
Serge Massar, born in Zambia in 1970, is a Belgian physicist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who works on quantum information, device-independent cryptography, and reservoir computing.
Serge von Bubnoff
Serge von Bubnoff (Бубнов Сергей Николаевич) was a German-Baltic geologist, born in Saint Petersburg in 1888, who became the dominant figure in East German earth sciences.
Sergei Adian
Sergei Adian, fully Sergei Ivanovich Adian, was a Soviet and Russian group theorist who solved the bounded Burnside problem negatively with Pyotr Novikov in 1968.
Sergei Bernstein
Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (Russian: Сергей Натанович Бернштейн, 1880–1968) was a Soviet mathematician who founded the constructive theory of functions and solved two of Hilbert's problems.
Sergei D. Odintsov
Sergei D. Odintsov, born 1959, is a Spanish cosmologist at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona who works on modified gravity as an alternative to dark energy.
Sergei Evdokimov
Sergei Alekseevich Evdokimov (1950–2016) was a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute in St. Petersburg, known for polynomial-time circulant graph isomorphism and Schur ring theory.
Sergei Godunov
Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov (Сергей Годунов; 1929–2023) was a Russian mathematician who worked on differential equations and is best known for the Godunov scheme for computing compressible gas flows and for Godunov's theorem.
Sergei Ivanov (Russian mathematician)
Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov is a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute in St. Petersburg, known for metric geometry and boundary rigidity, and coauthor of A Course in Metric Geometry.
Sergei K. Turitsyn
Sergei K. Turitsyn is a researcher in nonlinear photonics, soliton theory, and optical communications, Professor at Aston University since 2005 and director of the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies.
Sergei Novikov
Sergei Petrovich Novikov (1938–2024) was a Soviet and Russian topologist and mathematical physicist who in 1970 became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields Medal.
Sergei S. Sheiko
Sergei S. Sheiko, also known as S. S. Sheiko, is a polymer materials scientist at UNC Chapel Hill known for molecular brushes and solvent-free elastomers mimicking biological tissues.
Sergei Sobolev
Sergei Lvovich Sobolev (Сергей Львович Соболев) was a Soviet mathematician who created Sobolev spaces, gave generalized functions their first rigorous definition, and helped found the mathematics institute at Akademgorodok.
Sergei Tretiak
Sergei Tretiak is a Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical chemist working on nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics in conjugated materials, perovskites, and nanostructures; he joined the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies in 2005.
Sergey Bobkov
Sergey Bobkov (Сергей Германович Бобков, born 1961) is a mathematician and full professor at the University of Minnesota, best known for Bobkov's inequality, a functional isoperimetric inequality on Gaussian space.
Sergey Chaplygin
Sergey Chaplygin (1869–1942) was a Russian applied mathematician and mechanician who co-founded aerodynamics, first quantified wing lift with Zhukovsky in 1910, and led TsAGI as chairman and director.
Sergey Fomin
Sergey Fomin, born 1958 in Leningrad, is a Russian American mathematician at the University of Michigan who created cluster algebras with Andrei Zelevinsky, winning the 2018 Steele Prize.
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (born 1955) is a Russian-born Danish physicist working in plasmonics, professor at the University of Southern Denmark and head of its Centre for Nano Optics.
Sergey Stechkin
Sergey Stechkin, full name Sergey Borisovich Stechkin (Сергей Борисович Стечкин), was a Soviet and Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute who worked on approximation of functions and operators.
Sergio Ferrara
Sergio Ferrara is a theoretical physicist at CERN who co-discovered supergravity in 1976 with Daniel Freedman and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen, combining general relativity with supersymmetry, and shared the 2019 Special Breakthrough Prize for it.
Sergio O. Valenzuela
Sergio O. Valenzuela is an experimental physicist working on spintronics, quantum transport, and thermoelectricity, leading the Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices group at ICN2 in Barcelona since 2008.
Sergiu Klainerman
Sergiu Klainerman is Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, known for proving the global nonlinear stability of Minkowski space and, in 2023, of Kerr black holes.