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Stefano Sacanna

Stefano Sacanna is an Italian colloidal chemist and Professor of Chemistry at New York University whose lab builds self-assembling synthetic colloids, including lock-and-key colloids and colloidal diamond.

Stefano Sanvito

Stefano Sanvito is an Italian condensed matter physicist and computational materials scientist who directs the CRANN institute at Trinity College Dublin and develops the Smeagol nanoscale modeling code.

Stefano Zapperi

Stefano Zapperi, born 1970 in Rome, is an Italian statistical and condensed-matter physicist, full professor at the University of Milan, known for work on fracture, plasticity, and crackling noise.

Stephan Berko

Stephan Berko (1924–1991) was a Romanian-born American experimental physicist at Brandeis University known for using positrons and positronium to probe condensed matter and test quantum electrodynamics.

Stephan Cohn-Vossen

Stephan Cohn-Vossen (1902–1936) was a German-born geometer who proved the rigidity of closed convex surfaces, collaborated with David Hilbert on Anschauliche Geometrie, and died in Moscow at 34.

Stephan Link

Stephan Link is a German-born chemist and the Walton Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for plasmonics and single-particle spectroscopy of metallic nanostructures.

Stephan Roche

Stephan Roche is a French condensed-matter physicist and ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona, known for linear-scaling quantum transport methods and leading European graphene spintronics research.

Stephan S. Meyer

Stephan S. Meyer is an American experimental cosmologist and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, known for the COBE and WMAP satellites and the South Pole Telescope.

Stephane Coutu

Stephane Coutu is an experimental particle astrophysicist and professor at Pennsylvania State University, known for cosmic-ray antimatter measurements with HEAT and ultrahigh-energy studies at the Pierre Auger Observatory.

Stéphane Udry

Stéphane Udry is a Swiss astronomer and full professor at the University of Geneva's Observatory, known for HARPS exoplanet surveys and the 2007 Gliese 581 super-Earth discoveries.

Stephanie Kwolek

Stephanie Louise Kwolek was an American polymer chemist at DuPont who discovered in 1965 the liquid-crystalline solutions spun into Kevlar, the aramid fiber used in body armor.

Stephanie L. Brock

Stephanie L. Brock is an American chemist and professor at Wayne State University known for her 2005 Science paper on porous semiconductor chalcogenide aerogels and for transition-metal pnictide nanoparticles for catalysis.

Stephanie Wehner

Stephanie Wehner is a German physicist and computer scientist at QuTech, Delft University of Technology, known for quantum cryptography and leading the effort to build a quantum internet.

Stephen A. Boppart

Stephen A. Boppart is an American physician-engineer and Grainger Distinguished Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for optical coherence tomography, label-free imaging, and co-founding four start-ups.

Stephen A. Fuselier

Stephen A. Fuselier is an American space plasma physicist who studies magnetic reconnection and the heliosphere, and leads the Space Science Division at Southwest Research Institute.

Stephen A. Morin

Stephen A. Morin is an American materials chemist and associate professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, known for microfluidic camouflage skins for soft robots and screw-dislocation-driven nanomaterial growth.

Stephen A. Shectman

Stephen A. Shectman is an American astronomer and staff scientist at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, known for astronomical instruments, galaxy redshift surveys, and exoplanet searches.

Stephen Alexander (astronomer)

Stephen Alexander (1806–1883) was an American astronomer and mathematician who made astronomy a separate discipline at Princeton and was a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Stephen C. Graves

Stephen C. Graves is an American operations management scholar at MIT Sloan, where he is the Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Stephen Cole Kleene

Stephen Cole Kleene, known as Stephen Kleene, was an American mathematical logician who founded recursion theory and created the regular events behind regular expressions, spending most of his career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Stephen E. Fienberg

Stephen E. Fienberg (1942–2016) was a Canadian-born statistician who spent 36 years at Carnegie Mellon University and showed the 1970 US draft lottery was not properly randomized.

Stephen E. Haggerty

Stephen E. Haggerty was a mantle petrologist and diamond geologist who spent most of his career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studying diamonds and Earth's upper mantle.

Stephen Eckel

Stephen Eckel is an American atomic physicist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who develops the Cold Atom Vacuum Standard and received the 2024 Presidential Early Career Award.

Stephen F. Martin

Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has held the Waggoner Regents Chair since 2000 and studies natural product synthesis.

Stephen F. Nelsen

Stephen F. Nelsen was an American physical organic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, on the faculty from 1965 to 2012, known for work on radicals and electron transfer.

Stephen Fletcher

Stephen P. Fletcher is a Canadian-born organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford whose group develops asymmetric cross-coupling reactions, winning a 2023 RSC prize.

Stephen G. Monismith

Stephen G. Monismith is an environmental fluid dynamicist at Stanford University, where he directs the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Stephen G. Withers

Stephen G. Withers is a Canadian-based organic chemist and chemical biologist at the University of British Columbia, known for studies of glycosidases and for enzyme technology that converts blood types.

Stephen H. Davis

Stephen H. Davis was an American applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist at Northwestern University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for interfacial dynamics and solidification research.

Stephen H. Richardson

Stephen H. Richardson is an isotope geochemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town known for developing radiometric dating of mineral inclusions in diamonds.