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Sijbren Otto
Sijbren Otto (born 1971) is a Dutch systems chemist and professor at the University of Groningen known for self-replicating molecular networks that grow, compete, and evolve.
Sijmen Barend Hooghoudt
Sijmen Barend Hooghoudt, also recorded as Symen Barend Hooghoudt, was a Dutch scientist who founded quantitative drainage research in the Netherlands, publishing his drainage formula in 1937.
Sila-substitution
Sila-substitution, also called the silicon switch, is a medicinal chemistry method that replaces carbon atoms in drug candidates with silicon to alter activity and metabolism.
Silvano De Franceschi
Silvano De Franceschi, born in Milan in 1970, is an Italian experimental physicist at CEA Grenoble known for Kondo-effect work in carbon nanotubes and pioneering hole spin qubits.
Silvia Amerio
Silvia Amerio is an Italian experimental particle physicist at the University of Padua who co-authored the 2004 design paper for the ICARUS T600, the first large-scale liquid-argon time-projection chamber, and worked on CDF and LHCb.
Silvia Vignolini
Silvia Vignolini, born 1981, is an Italian physicist who studies bio-inspired structural color and directs the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
Silvia Zane
Silvia Zane is an astrophysicist and Professor of Astrophysics at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, where she has led the Astronomy Group since 2022.
Silvio Aime
Silvio Aime is an Italian chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Turin, who developed lanthanide-based MRI contrast agents, CEST probes, and hyperpolarized agents for molecular imaging.
Sim D. Aberson
Sim D. Aberson is an American meteorologist at NOAA's Hurricane Research Division in Miami since 1988, whose research using dropwindsondes from Hurricane Hunter aircraft improved hurricane track forecasts.
Simon Aldridge
Simon Aldridge is a British inorganic chemist, Professor of Main Group Chemistry at Oxford, known for a nucleophilic aluminyl anion and diberyllocene, the first stable beryllium-beryllium bond.
Simon B. Kochen
Simon B. Kochen is a mathematician who taught at Cornell and Princeton, known for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics and the Ax–Kochen theorem in number theory.
Simon Brendle
Simon Brendle is a differential geometer and professor of mathematics at Columbia University, known for the differentiable sphere theorem, the Lawson conjecture, and the 2024 Breakthrough Prize.
Simon D. M. White
Simon D. M. White (西蒙·怀特), born in England in 1951, is a British and German astrophysicist who helped establish the cold dark matter theory of cosmic structure formation.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician, born in 1957, who won the 1986 Fields Medal for work on four-dimensional manifolds and holds a chair at Imperial College London.
Simon Gindikin
Simon Gindikin (Семен Григорьевич Гиндикин), born 1937, is a Moscow-school mathematician and Rutgers professor known for the Gindikin–Karpelevich formula and for rebuilding representation theory on integral geometry.
Simon N. Wood
Simon N. Wood is a statistician holding the Chair of Computational Statistics at the University of Edinburgh, known for the R package mgcv and for introducing synthetic likelihood.
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb (1835–1909) was a Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician in the United States Navy whose astronomical constants and ephemerides remained the international standard until 1984.
Simon P. Norton
Simon P. Norton, or Simon Phillips Norton, was a British mathematician at Cambridge who co-discovered the Harada–Norton group and co-authored the ATLAS of Finite Groups.
Simon Plouffe
Simon Plouffe is a Canadian mathematician, born in Saint-Jovite, Quebec, who co-discovered the BBP formula for pi in 1995 and co-authored The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences with Neil Sloane.
Simon Portegies Zwart
Simon Portegies Zwart, born 1965 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch computational astrophysicist and professor at Leiden Observatory, known for the AMUSE software and intermediate-mass black hole research.
Simon Turner (isotope geochemist)
Simon P. Turner is an Australian isotope geochemist and Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, known for Tibetan uplift timing and a 2025 Nature paper on Earth's first crust.
Simon van der Meer
Simon van der Meer (1925–2011) was a Dutch accelerator physicist at CERN who invented stochastic cooling, enabling the discovery of the W and Z bosons, and shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carlo Rubbia.
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton is a British biogeochemist holding the Chair in Biogeochemistry and Earth History at the University of Leeds, known for work on Earth's oxygenation history.
Simone Fabiano
Simone Fabiano is an Italian-born organic electronics researcher, professor and head of unit at Linköping University's Laboratory of Organic Electronics in Norrköping, Sweden, working on organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors and doping.
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, also written Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, was a Japanese theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Feynman and Schwinger for quantum electrodynamics.
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (1831–1915) was a Scottish physicist and gunnery expert, a founder of experimental internal ballistics who led Sir W. G. Armstrong's Elswick ordnance works.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888 to 1970) was an Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Raman effect, the basis of Raman spectroscopy.
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood (1897–1967) was a British chemist, Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Nikolai Semenov.
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) was an Irish-born British mathematical physicist who held the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge from 1849, derived the Navier–Stokes equations, and named fluorescence.
Sir Harold Kroto
Sir Harold Kroto, known as Harry Kroto, was a British chemist at the University of Sussex who co-discovered C60 buckminsterfullerene and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.