Physical and mathematical scientists

Shaun Cole

Shaun Cole is a British cosmologist and professor at Durham University, known for the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, baryon acoustic oscillations, and the 2014 Shaw Prize in Astronomy.

Sheldon L. Glashow

Sheldon L. Glashow, also known as Sheldon Lee Glashow, is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for electroweak unification.

Sheldon Schultz

Sheldon Schultz (1933–2017) was an American experimental physicist and founding member of the physics department at UC San Diego, known for discovering the first negative-index metamaterial in 2000.

Shelley D. Minteer

Shelley Minteer is an American bioelectrochemist known for enzymatic biofuel cells and wiring nitrogenase to electrodes to make ammonia; she is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Missouri S&T.

Sheng Dai

Sheng Dai is a chemist who leads separations and polymer chemistry research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is known for ionic liquids and mesoporous carbon materials.

Sheng Meng

Sheng Meng (孟胜) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for simulations of water at surfaces and 2D materials.

Shengqian Ma

Shengqian Ma (马胜前) is a chemist known for porous materials including metal-organic frameworks and polymer nanotraps, and holds the Welch Chair at the University of North Texas.

Shenlong Zhao

Shenlong Zhao (赵慎龙) is a Chinese electrocatalysis researcher, a professor and group leader at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing since 2022.

Shep Doeleman

Shep Doeleman is an American astrophysicist at Harvard & Smithsonian and founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope, which took the first image of a black hole in 2019.

Sherburne Wesley Burnham

Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838–1921) was an American astronomer and leading observer of double stars, discovering about 1,300 pairs while working as a court reporter in Chicago.

Sherwood Chang

Sherwood Chang (1940–2022) was an American physical organic chemist and exobiologist who spent thirty-one years at NASA's Ames Research Center and headed its exobiology division from 1985 to 1998.

Shi-Zhang Qiao

Shi-Zhang Qiao (乔世璋) is an Australian-based chemist working in electrocatalysis and nanostructured energy materials, and Chair of Nanotechnology at the University of Adelaide since 2012.

Shigefumi Mori

Shigefumi Mori (森重文), born 1951 in Nagoya, is a Japanese algebraic geometer who won the Fields Medal in 1990 for the minimal model program.

Shigehiro Yamaguchi (山口茂弘) is a Japanese materials chemist, professor at Nagoya University, who builds functional π-electron materials around boron, silicon, and phosphorus, including blue OLED emitters used in smartphones.

Shigeki Kawai

Shigeki Kawai (川井茂樹) is a Japanese surface chemist who leads the Nanoprobe Group at NIMS in Tsukuba, known for the 2016 superlubricity of graphene nanoribbons on gold.

Shigeki Matsunaga

Shigeki Matsunaga (松永茂樹) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University since 2023, known for the 2013 first report of Cp*Co(III)-catalyzed C–H activation.

Shigeo Sasaki

Shigeo Sasaki (1912–1987) was a Japanese differential geometer at Tohoku University who introduced the Sasaki metric on tangent bundles and the theory of almost contact structures, founding Sasakian geometry.

Shigeru Ida

Shigeru Ida (井田茂) is a Japanese planetary scientist known for theoretical work on planet formation, from the Moon's origin to exoplanet populations, and a former president of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Shigeru Mizohata

Shigeru Mizohata, publishing as Sigeru Mizohata, was a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University who worked on the Cauchy problem, the Lax–Mizohata theorem, weakly hyperbolic equations, and the Mizohata–Takeuchi conjecture.

Shigeru Nagase

Shigeru Nagase (永瀬茂), born 1946 in Osaka, is a Japanese theoretical and computational chemist and professor emeritus at the Institute for Molecular Science, known for endohedral metallofullerenes.

Shigeru Yamago

Shigeru Yamago (山子茂) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Chemical Research, known for cycloparaphenylene synthesis and organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerization.

Shigeyoshi Sakaki

Shigeyoshi Sakaki (榊茂好) is a Japanese theoretical chemist at Kyoto University known for computational studies of transition-metal catalysis and the 2014 Chemical Society of Japan Award.

Shih-Yuan Liu

Shih-Yuan Liu is a synthetic chemist who has been a full professor of chemistry at Boston College since 2013, known for developing azaborines, boron-nitrogen analogs of benzene.

Shih‐I Chu

Shih-I Chu (朱时宜) was a Taiwanese atomic, molecular, and optical physicist, Watkins Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas and a 2006 Academia Sinica academician.

Shiing-Shen Chern

Shiing-Shen Chern (陈省身) was a Chinese differential geometer known for Chern classes and Chern–Simons theory, a Berkeley professor who founded mathematics institutes on both sides of the Pacific.

Shijie Zhong

Shijie Zhong (钟时杰) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder who works in geodynamics, using numerical models of mantle convection, plate tectonics, and glacial processes.

Shik Chi Edman Tsang

Shik Chi Edman Tsang, also known as Shik Chi Tsang, was a materials chemist who worked on heterogeneous catalysis and nanomaterial catalysts as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford.

Shik Shin

Shik Shin (辛埴, born 1953) is a Japanese condensed-matter physicist at the University of Tokyo, known for high-resolution photoemission studies of superconductors and topological materials.

Shikao Ikehara

Shikao Ikehara (池原止戈夫, 1904–1984) was a Japanese mathematician who proved the Wiener–Ikehara theorem in 1931 as a doctoral student of Norbert Wiener at MIT; it remains a short route to the prime number theorem.