Physical and mathematical scientists

Sergiy Minko

Sergiy Minko is a Ukrainian-born polymer and materials scientist, Georgia Power Professor at the University of Georgia since 2020, known for his work on stimuli-responsive polymer materials.

Serhiy Cherevko (Сергій Черевко) is a Ukrainian-born electrochemist who studies how electrocatalysts dissolve during water electrolysis and fuel-cell operation, and who introduced the stability number in 2018.

Seth B. Herzon

Seth B. Herzon is an American synthetic organic chemist and Yale professor known for short total syntheses of biologically active alkaloids and antibiotics, and for establishing how lomaiviticin A and colibactin damage DNA.

Seth Barnes Nicholson

Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891–1963) was an American astronomer best known for discovering four satellites of Jupiter and for more than four decades of solar observation at Mount Wilson Observatory.

Seth Bonder

Seth Bonder (1932–2011) was an American operations researcher who developed the Bonder–Farrell theory of combat attrition, taught at the University of Michigan, and founded Vector Research.

Seth Carlo Chandler

Seth Carlo Chandler (1846–1913) was an American astronomer and insurance actuary who discovered the Chandler wobble, a 14-month wobble of Earth's rotation axis, announced in 1891.

Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd is a quantum information scientist at MIT, where he directs the Keck Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory, known for the first feasible quantum computer design and the book Programming the Universe.

Seth Marder

Seth R. Marder is an American organic materials chemist known for nonlinear optical chromophores and electrical dopants for organic semiconductors, and director of RASEI at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Seth Neddermeyer

Seth Neddermeyer was an American experimental physicist who co-discovered the muon with Carl Anderson at Caltech and championed the implosion design used in the Trinity test and the Fat Man bomb.

Seth Putterman

Seth Putterman is a UCLA condensed matter physicist whose Nature papers include picosecond sonoluminescence (1991), pyroelectric-crystal fusion (2005), and X-ray flashes from peeling tape (2008).

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Seth Root

Seth Root is an American shock physicist at Sandia National Laboratories who measures planetary materials at extreme pressures on the Z machine and received a 2012 PECASE award.

Seth Shostak

Seth Shostak is an astronomer who served as Senior Astronomer and research director at the SETI Institute in California, known for predicting detection of alien civilizations by about 2036.

Seth Stein

Seth A. Stein, born 1953, is an American geophysicist and Wm. Deering Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, known for work on plate motions, earthquakes, and GPS geodesy.

Seungwoo Lee

Seungwoo Lee (이승우) is a South Korean nanophotonics and biomicrosystems researcher, tenured since 2024 as a professor at Korea University, known for directional photofluidization lithography and colloidal metamaterials.

Shahal Ilani

Shahal Ilani is an Israeli condensed matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for the quantum twisting microscope reported in Nature in 2023.

Shai Halevi

Shai Halevi is a cryptographer who co-authored the 2010 scheme for fully homomorphic encryption over the integers and wrote the open-source library HElib with Victor Shoup.

Shane Ardo

Shane Ardo is an American photoelectrochemist and Professor of Chemistry at UC Irvine who studies light-driven processes at interfaces, including protonic photovoltaics and solar water splitting.

Shanhui Fan

Shanhui Fan (范汕洄) is a Chinese-born American physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for foundational work in photonic crystal theory and radiative sky cooling.

Shannon Boettcher

Shannon Boettcher is an American electrochemist known for water-splitting catalysts and bipolar membranes; a 2023 Blavatnik laureate, he moved from Oregon to UC Berkeley in 2024.

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Shannon S. Stahl

Shannon S. Stahl is an American chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for catalytic oxidation chemistry using molecular oxygen, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Shao Q. Yao

Shao Q. Yao, also known as Shao Qin Yao, is a chemical biologist and medicinal chemist at the National University of Singapore, known for activity-based probes and catalomics.

Shaobin Wang

Shaobin Wang (王少彬) is an Australian-based Chinese chemical engineer and ARC Laureate Fellow at the University of Adelaide, working on nanomaterials, catalysis, and water remediation.

Shaowei Chen

Shaowei Chen is an electrochemist and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Santa Cruz, known for his 1998 Science paper on gold nanoelectrodes and single-atom catalysts.

Shaozhong Ge

Shaozhong Ge (葛少中) is an organic and organometallic chemist and associate professor at the National University of Singapore, trained with John Hartwig, known for ligand-controlled cobalt-catalyzed hydroboration.

Sharad Ramanathan

Sharad Ramanathan is an American-based physicist-turned-biologist at Harvard University who studies how cells make developmental decisions, spanning statistical physics, stem cell biology, and human organoid engineering.

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande (1917–2020) was an Indian mathematician who, with Raj Chandra Bose and E. T. Parker, disproved Euler's 1782 conjecture on orthogonal Latin squares and gave his name to the Shrikhande graph.

Sharon Glotzer

Sharon C. Glotzer, born 1964, is an American computational soft-matter scientist at the University of Michigan known for patchy particles, entropy-driven ordering, and simulated tetrahedral quasicrystals.

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer is an American theoretical and computational chemist, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton since 2024, known for proton-coupled electron transfer theory and the nuclear-electronic orbital method.

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Sharon Neufeldt

Sharon Neufeldt is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University. Her research integrates experimental kinetics with DFT calculations to study Pd- and Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling.