Physical and mathematical scientists

Shimshon Amitsur

Shimshon Amitsur, born Shimshon Kaplan (1921–1994), was an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who shaped ring theory and won the first Israel Prize for exact sciences.

Shin-ichi Ohkoshi (大越慎一) is a Japanese chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo since 2006, known for photomagnetism, light-induced spin-crossover, magnetic Prussian blue analogs, and epsilon iron oxide magnets.

Shin-Ichiro Nishimura

Shin-Ichiro Nishimura (西村紳一郎) is a Japanese glycoscientist and Specially Appointed Professor at Hokkaido University known for automated glycan synthesis, the artificial Golgi apparatus, and oncofetal fibronectin cancer biomarkers.

Shin’ichi Nojiri

Shin'ichi Nojiri (野尻伸一) is a Japanese theoretical physicist known for modified-gravity models of dark energy, including modified Gauss–Bonnet and f(R) gravity, and a Nagoya University emeritus professor.

Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐)

Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐, Qiu Chengtong) is a Chinese-American mathematician, the first Chinese-born Fields Medalist, who proved the Calabi conjecture in 1976 and gave his name to Calabi–Yau manifolds.

Shinobu Itoh

Shinobu Itoh is a Japanese inorganic and bioinorganic chemist born in 1958 who led Osaka University's BioFunctional Chemistry lab and built a hyperstable artificial osmium peroxygenase.

Shinsei Ryū

Shinsei Ryū (笠真生) is a Japanese theoretical physicist and professor at Princeton University, known for the Ryu–Takayanagi formula of 2006 and the tenfold-way classification of topological phases.

Shinsuke Sando

Shinsuke Sando (SANDO Shinsuke) is a Japanese chemical biologist, a professor at the University of Tokyo since 2014, known for molecular probes that image biological activity in living systems.

Shinzaburo Ito

Shinzaburo Ito (伊藤紳三郎) is a Japanese polymer chemist who spent his career at Kyoto University, becoming a professor in 1999 and studying polymer and perovskite solar cells.

Shiping Zhu

Shiping Zhu is a chemical engineer known for polymer reaction engineering, Presidential Chair Professor and Vice President at CUHK-Shenzhen since 2017 and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University.

Shirley Ann Jackson

Shirley Ann Jackson, born 1946, is an American theoretical physicist, the first Black woman to earn an MIT doctorate, and was chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Shiro Matsuoka

Shiro Matsuoka is a polymer physicist and materials scientist affiliated with AT&T, known for Relaxation Phenomena in Polymers (1992) and work on viscoelasticity of polymeric glasses.

Shiv N. Khanna

Shiv N. Khanna is a physicist known for proposing the superatom concept, the idea that atomic clusters mimic single atoms, during a 39-year career at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Shiyu Zhang

Shiyu Zhang is a chemistry professor at The Ohio State University known for a 2016 Nature Chemistry paper on nitric oxide binding and a lithium–NOx battery.

Shizuo Kakutani

Shizuo Kakutani (1911–2004) was a Japanese mathematician who spent most of his career at Yale and is best known for the Kakutani fixed-point theorem, a key tool in game theory and economics.

Shlomo Havlin

Shlomo Havlin, born in Jerusalem in 1942, is an Israeli physicist at Bar-Ilan University known for work on complex and interdependent networks and the 2018 Israel Prize.

Shlomo Magdassi

Shlomo Magdassi (שלמה מגדסי) is an Israeli chemist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for conductive nanoparticle inks for printed electronics and 3D printing.

Shlomo Sternberg

Shlomo Sternberg (1936–2024) was an American mathematician at Harvard University known for work in differential and symplectic geometry, Lie theory, and applications of geometry to mechanics and physics.

Shmuel Agmon

Shmuel Agmon (1922–2025) was an Israeli mathematician at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for the Agmon–Douglis–Nirenberg regularity theory and Agmon's method for eigenfunction decay.

Shmuel Elitzur

Shmuel Elitzur is an Israeli physicist and full professor at the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for the 1975 result called Elitzur's theorem.

Shmuel Shimon Oren

Shmuel Shimon Oren is an operations researcher and engineer, a professor at UC Berkeley and National Academy of Engineering member known for designing restructured electricity markets.

Shneior Lifson

Shneior Lifson (שניאור ליפסון) was an Israeli chemical physicist at the Weizmann Institute who founded the modern theory of molecular force fields and mentored two 2013 Nobel laureates.

Shohini Ghose

Shohini Ghose is a Canadian quantum information physicist, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, and Chief Technology Officer of the Quantum Algorithms Institute, known for first experiments showing chaos's effect on quantum entanglement.

Shoichi Sakata

Shoichi Sakata (坂田昌一, 1911–1970) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Nagoya University known for the 1956 Sakata model of hadrons and the 1962 Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata neutrino mixing framework.

Shou-Cheng Zhang

Shou-Cheng Zhang (张首晟, 1963–2018) was a Stanford condensed matter physicist, born in Shanghai, who predicted the quantum spin Hall effect and the first topological insulator, confirmed by experiment in 2007.

Shoubhik Das

Shoubhik Das is a German-based chemist who has headed Organic Chemistry I at the University of Bayreuth since August 2023, known for photocatalytic CO2 activation research.

Shoucheng Zhang

Shoucheng Zhang (张首晟, 1963–2018) was a Stanford condensed matter physicist who predicted the quantum spin Hall effect in 2006 and the topological insulators confirmed experimentally in 2007.

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Shouheng Sun

Shouheng Sun is a chemist and materials scientist, the Vernon K. Krieble Professor at Brown University, known for FePt nanoparticles used in magnets and fuel-cell catalysis.

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930–2012) was an Indian-American mathematician who spent most of his career at Purdue University, known for Abhyankar's conjecture, the Abhyankar–Moh theorem, and resolution of singularities in positive characteristic.