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Sir Morris Sugden
Sir Morris Sugden, fully Sir Theodore Morris Sugden, was a British chemist who pioneered measurements of radicals and ions in flames, directed Shell's Thornton Research Centre, and led the Royal Society.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
Sir Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996) was a British theoretical physicist, Cavendish Professor at Cambridge, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics and gave his name to the Mott insulator.
Sir Robert Robinson
Sir Robert Robinson was a British organic chemist who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on plant products, especially the alkaloids.
Sir William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay (1852–1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered five noble gases, helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon, and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004) was an Indian physicist who discovered discotic liquid crystals in 1977 and built a leading liquid-crystal school at the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore.
Sjoerd Harder
Sjoerd Harder (born 1963) is a Dutch inorganic chemist who holds the chair at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and won the RSC Main Group Chemistry Award in 2020.
Slavi C. Sevov
Slavi C. Sevov is a chemistry professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies main-group metals, Zintl phases, and deltahedral Zintl ions, and joined Notre Dame in 1995.
Slobodan Žumer
Slobodan Žumer, born in Ljubljana in 1945, is a Slovenian theoretical physicist at the University of Ljubljana known for the theory of liquid crystals and nematic colloids.
Sōichi Kakeya
Sōichi Kakeya (掛谷宗一, 1886–1947) was a Japanese mathematician who posed the Kakeya needle problem in 1917 and proved the 1912 Eneström–Kakeya theorem on roots of algebraic equations.
Solomon Feferman
Solomon Feferman (1928–2016) was an American mathematician at Stanford University who shaped proof theory through predicative mathematics and led the editing of Kurt Gödel's five-volume Collected Works.
Solomon Hsiang
Solomon Hsiang is an American climate economist and professor at Stanford who measures the economic and social damages caused by climate change using panel-data econometrics.
Solomon J. Buchsbaum
Solomon J. Buchsbaum was an American plasma physicist who rose to senior vice president at Bell Laboratories and chaired the White House Science Council from 1982 to 1989.
Solomon Kullback
Solomon Kullback (1907–1994) was an American mathematician and cryptanalyst who helped break Japan's Red and Purple cipher machines and later gave his name to the Kullback–Leibler divergence, standard in statistics and machine learning.
Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972) was a Moscow-born, Paris-raised American mathematician who founded algebraic topology, proved the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, and as Princeton professor and Annals of Mathematics editor built a famous mathematics center.
Solon Irving Bailey
Solon Irving Bailey (1854–1931) was an American astronomer at Harvard College Observatory best known for finding variable stars in globular clusters and establishing its southern station in Arequipa, Peru.
SonBinh T. Nguyen
SonBinh T. Nguyen is an American chemist and professor at Northwestern University whose research spans catalysis, organometallic chemistry, and polymer science, including the first well-defined, single-component ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts.
Song Hao
Song Hao (宋浩) is a Chinese mathematics educator and online science communicator whose recorded university math courses on Bilibili have drawn more than 10 million followers.
Song Jin
Song Jin (金松) is a chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, trained at Peking and Cornell, known for screw-dislocation-driven crystal growth and modular electrochemical synthesis.
Song Lin
Song Lin is a Chinese-born organic chemist who works on organic electrochemistry, using electric current to synthesize molecules; a Cornell professor, he joins Stanford in 2026 and won the 2026 Thieme–IUPAC Prize.
Song Sun
Song Sun (孙崧, born 1987) is a Chinese mathematician in complex differential geometry who, with Xiuxiong Chen and Simon Donaldson, proved K-stable Fano manifolds admit Kähler–Einstein metrics, resolving Yau's conjecture.
Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne
Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne, also known as Sonia I. Seneviratne, is a Swiss climate scientist, professor of land-climate dynamics at ETH Zurich, studying droughts and heat extremes.
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle is a German biogeochemist and Earth system modeller who directs the Biogeochemical Signals Department at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena since 2020.
Sonya Bahar
Sonya Bahar is an American biophysicist, Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Director of its Center for Neurodynamics, who applies nonlinear dynamics to seizures and evolution.
Sophia Merrifield
Sophia Merrifield is an American sea-going physical oceanographer and associate researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for marine robotics and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Sophie Piccard
Sophie Piccard (1904–1990) was a Russian-born Swiss mathematician at the University of Neuchâtel who in 1943 became the first woman full professor at a Swiss university.
Sophus Lie
Sophus Lie (1842–1899) was a Norwegian mathematician who founded the theory of continuous transformation groups, now known as Lie groups and Lie algebras, and held chairs at Christiania and Leipzig.
Sophus Mads Jørgensen
Sophus Mads Jørgensen (1837–1914) was a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen whose careful experiments on cobalt and chromium complexes supplied the experimental foundation for Alfred Werner's coordination theory.
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen was a Danish chemist who headed the Carlsberg Laboratory's chemical department from 1901 to 1938 and introduced the pH scale in 1909.
Søren Thirup
Søren S. Thirup is a structural biologist and Associate Professor Emeritus at Aarhus University who, with T. Alwyn Jones, showed in 1986 that protein models can be built from known fragments.
Sorin Popa
Sorin Popa, born 1953 in Bucharest, Romania, is a Romanian-American mathematician and UCLA professor known for foundational tools in subfactor theory and for deformation-rigidity theory, winning the 2009 Ostrowski Prize.