Physical and mathematical scientists

Shu Kobayashi

Shu Kobayashi (小林修) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist at the University of Tokyo, known for water-compatible Lewis acid catalysts and continuous-flow synthesis of pharmaceuticals.

Shu-ichiro Inutsuka (犬塚修一郎) is a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Nagoya University since 2009, known for work on star and planet formation, molecular clouds, and solar wind simulations.

Shuai Yuan

Shuai Yuan (袁帅) is a Chinese chemist and professor at Nanjing University since 2021, known for a widely cited 2018 review of stable metal–organic frameworks and for tunable metal hydroxide–organic frameworks that catalyze oxygen evolution.

Shuhai Xiao

Shuhai Xiao (肖书海) is a paleobiologist and geobiologist at Virginia Tech known for research on the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and early animals; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Shuji Nakamura (中村修二)

Shuji Nakamura (中村修二), born 1954, is a Japanese materials scientist at UC Santa Barbara who invented the high-brightness blue LED and shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Shuming Nie

Shuming Nie is a chemist and bioengineer known for 1997 single-molecule SERS detection and 1998 quantum-dot bioconjugates, and now works on cancer nanomedicine at Illinois.

Shun-Ichi Murahashi

Shun-Ichi Murahashi (村橋俊一), born in 1937, is a Japanese organic chemist and Osaka University professor emeritus known for the Murahashi coupling, ruthenium oxidation chemistry, and the 2010 Japan Academy Prize.

Shun‐ichiro Karato

Shun-ichiro Karato (唐戸俊一郎), born 1949 in Fukuoka, Japan, is a Japanese-born geophysicist and Adolph Knopf Professor at Yale known for laboratory studies of water in mantle minerals.

Shunichi Fukuzumi

Shunichi Fukuzumi (福住俊一) is a Japanese chemist known for bioinspired artificial photosynthesis and electron-transfer chemistry, and a Professor Emeritus of Osaka University since 2015.

Shunsuke Chiba

Shunsuke Chiba (千葉俊介, born 1978) is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for radical chemistry and photoredox catalysis.

Shyue Ping Ong

Shyue Ping Ong is a computational materials chemist who founded the pymatgen library, co-developed the Materials Project, and is a professor at the National University of Singapore.

Sidney A. Bowhill

Sidney A. Bowhill was a radio scientist who founded the Aeronomy Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and directed it for 24 years, work recognized by election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Sidney Coleman

Sidney Richard Coleman (1937–2007) was an American theoretical physicist and Harvard professor, one of the leading quantum field theorists, known for the Coleman–Weinberg mechanism and false vacuum decay.

Sidney Drell

Sidney Drell (1926–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Stanford University and SLAC, known for the Drell–Yan process and four decades advising the US government on nuclear weapons policy.

Sidney F. Velick

Sidney F. Velick (1913–2007) was an American biochemist known for fluorescence studies of how enzymes bind coenzymes and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981.

Sidney Nagel

Sidney Nagel, also known as Sidney R. Nagel, is an American experimental physicist at the University of Chicago known for work on jamming, granular materials, and the glass transition.

Sidney P. Colowick

Sidney P. Colowick (1916–1985) was an American biochemist who worked on glucose metabolism, described hexokinase and NADH's structure, and co-founded the reference series Methods in Enzymology.

Sidney van den Bergh

Sidney van den Bergh, born in the Netherlands in 1929, is a Canadian astronomer known for the DDO galaxy luminosity classification, supernova-host correlations, and a shared 2014 Gruber Cosmology Prize.

Sidney W. Benson

Sidney W. Benson (1918–2011) was an American physical chemist at USC and SRI International whose group additivity rules for estimating molecular thermochemical properties became a standard tool of chemical kinetics.

Siegfried Bethke

Siegfried Bethke, born 1954 in Ludwigshafen, Germany, is a German experimental particle physicist known for measuring the strong coupling constant and leading ATLAS research at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.

Siegfried Blechert

Siegfried Blechert (born 1946) is a German organic chemist known for ruthenium catalysts for olefin metathesis; he taught at Bonn and TU Berlin and joined the Leopoldina in 2006.

Siegfried Glenzer

Siegfried Glenzer is a plasma physicist and director of the High Energy Density Science division at SLAC, known for x-ray Thomson scattering and the first fusion experiments at the National Ignition Facility.

Siegfried Großmann

Siegfried Großmann (1930–2025) was a German theoretical physicist at Philipps-Universität Marburg, regarded as a co-founder of chaos theory and one of the leading turbulence researchers of his generation.

Siegfried R. Waldvogel

Siegfried R. Waldvogel, born in 1969, is a German organic chemist known for electro-organic synthesis, a professor at Mainz since 2010 and a Max Planck Institute director since 2023.

Sigmund Fraenkel

Sigmund Fraenkel, also written Siegmund Fränkel, was an Austrian physician, chemist, and pharmacologist who taught medical chemistry at Vienna and wrote Die Arzneimittel-Synthese, first published in 1901.

Sigmund Strauss

Sigmund Strauss, also spelled Siegmund Strauß, was an Austrian physicist and radio engineer in Vienna, a pioneer of radio engineering who died in New York in 1942.

Sigurður Helgason

Sigurður Helgason (1927–2023) was an Icelandic mathematician at MIT who created the modern theory of the Radon transform, the mathematics behind CT scans, and wrote the classic 1962 book Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces.

Sigurður R. Gíslason

Sigurður R. Gíslason is an Icelandic geochemist at the University of Iceland who co-founded CarbFix, storing CO2 as carbonate minerals in basalt, and joined the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Sigurður Þórarinsson

Sigurður Þórarinsson (1912–1983) was an Icelandic volcanologist who founded tephrochronology, the dating of geological and archaeological sequences by volcanic ash layers, coined "tephra", and identified the Landnám settlement layer.