Physical and mathematical scientists

Stephen H. Schneider

Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was an American climatologist at NCAR and Stanford who founded the journal Climatic Change and shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Stephen Hanessian

Stephen Hanessian, born 1935, is an organic chemist at the Université de Montréal known for the Chiron approach, which builds complex natural products from chiral starting materials.

Stephen Harris, born 1936 in Brooklyn, is an American physicist at Stanford whose 1991 demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency opened a field underlying slow light and quantum memory.

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Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking (1942–2018) was a British theoretical physicist who discovered Hawking radiation, held the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge, and wrote A Brief History of Time.

Stephen Hedetniemi

Stephen Hedetniemi (born 1939) is an American mathematician and computer scientist at Clemson University, known for his 1966 graph coloring conjecture, disproved in 2019, and for founding domination theory.

Stephen Hilbert

Stephen Hilbert is an American mathematician in numerical analysis, best known for the widely used Bramble–Hilbert lemma from his 1970 paper with advisor James Bramble, and a longtime Ithaca College professor.

Stephen J. Lippard

Stephen J. Lippard is an American bioinorganic chemist, Arthur Amos Noyes Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for working out how cisplatin damages DNA and winning the 2004 National Medal of Science.

Stephen K. Doorn

Stephen K. Doorn is a retired Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow who led the 2017 demonstration of tunable room-temperature single-photon emission at telecom wavelengths from carbon nanotubes.

Stephen L. Adler

Stephen L. Adler is an American theoretical physicist, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for the chiral anomaly and work on emergent quantum theory.

Stephen L. Buchwald

Stephen L. Buchwald (born 1955) is an American organometallic chemist at MIT, namesake of the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, whose ligands made palladium cross-couplings practical for drug manufacturing.

Stephen L. Craig

Stephen L. Craig is a chemist at Duke University, where he directs the NSF center MONET and is known for polymer mechanochemistry, making elastomers and gels tougher without losing elasticity.

Stephen Liddle

Stephen T. Liddle is a British inorganic chemist and professor at the University of Manchester, known for the first terminal uranium(V) nitride complex and the first isolable actinide–actinide bond.

Stephen M. Barnett

Stephen M. Barnett is a physicist at the University of Glasgow working in quantum optics, known for the Pegg–Barnett phase operator and his 2010 resolution of the Abraham–Minkowski dilemma.

Stephen M. Gersten

Stephen M. Gersten, born December 2, 1940, in Utica, New York, is an American mathematician known for the Gersten conjecture and complex in algebraic K-theory and geometric group theory.

Stephen M. Goldup

Stephen M. Goldup is a British supramolecular chemist who became Chair of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham in 2023, known for work on mechanically interlocked molecules.

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Stephen M. Pollock

Stephen M. Pollock (1936–2025) was an American operations researcher at the University of Michigan, known for applying stochastic modeling to defense, criminal justice, and medicine.

Stephen Mann (chemist)

Stephen Mann is a chemist, Professor at the University of Bristol since 1998, a founder of biomimetic materials chemistry known for protocells; he won the Davy Medal in 2016.

Stephen P. Cramer

Stephen P. Cramer (S. P. Cramer) is a chemist working in synchrotron x-ray spectroscopy and bio-inorganic chemistry, professor emeritus at UC Davis and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Stephen R. Elliott

Stephen R. Elliott is a chemical physicist known for research on disordered solids, chalcogenide glasses, and phase-change memory, and Professor of Chemical Physics at Cambridge until 2019.

Stephen R. Forrest

Stephen R. Forrest is an American electrical engineer and physicist at the University of Michigan whose phosphorescent OLED work underpins Samsung's displays and who co-founded Universal Display Corporation.

Stephen R. Langhoff

Stephen R. Langhoff, also published as S. R. Langhoff, was a theoretical chemist at NASA Ames Research Center known for the modified coupled-pair functional electron correlation method.

Stephen R. Leone

Stephen R. Leone, also known as Stephen Leone, is an American chemist and physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for attosecond science and ultrafast XUV spectroscopy.

Stephen Schanuel

Stephen Hoel Schanuel (1933–2014) was an American mathematician at SUNY Buffalo known for Schanuel's conjecture, a central open problem in transcendental number theory, Schanuel's lemma, and the Ax–Schanuel theorem.

Stephen Self

Stephen Self is a physical volcanologist and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, best known as co-deviser of the Volcanic Explosivity Index, the standard scale for ranking volcanic eruptions.

Stephen Shenker

Stephen Shenker, born in 1953, is an American theoretical physicist at Stanford University known for the Matrix Theory conjecture defining M theory and work on black hole chaos.

Stephen Webb (physicist)

Stephen Webb is a British physicist turned popular-science writer whose book on the Fermi paradox grew from 50 solutions in 2002 to 75 in 2015.

Stephenson Yang

Stephenson Yang is a stellar astrophysicist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, known for precise stellar radial velocities, variable stars, and exoplanet detection work.

Sterl Phinney

Sterl Phinney, publishing as E. S. Phinney, is a theoretical astrophysicist and Caltech professor whose 1991 estimate of neutron star merger rates shaped LIGO, and who led LISA's science definition.

Sterling B. Hendricks

Sterling B. Hendricks (1902–1981) was an American USDA chemist who helped identify phytochrome, the pigment regulating plant growth, and won the 1975 National Medal of Science.