Physical and mathematical scientists

Susanne V. Hering

Susanne V. Hering is an American aerosol scientist who founded Aerosol Dynamics Inc. in Berkeley, California, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Susumu Kato

Susumu Kato was a Japanese atmospheric scientist at Kyoto University who solved Laplace's tidal equation, developed the 1966 diurnal oscillation theory, and led the MU radar.

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Susumu Kitagawa

Susumu Kitagawa (北川進), born 1951 in Kyoto, is a Japanese chemist at Kyoto University who founded the chemistry of metal–organic frameworks, winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Susumu Noda (野田進) is a Japanese photonics researcher at Kyoto University who invented the photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) and received the 2022 Japan Academy Prize and 2026 Rank Prize.

Susumu Okubo

Susumu Okubo (1930–2015) was a Japanese-born particle theorist at the University of Rochester known for the Gell-Mann–Okubo mass formula and the OZI rule, and winner of the 2006 Wigner Medal.

Suzanne Blum

Suzanne A. Blum is an American organic and organometallic chemist and professor at UC Irvine, known for dual gold/palladium catalysis, borylative heterocyclization, and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy of catalysis.

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay is an American igneous petrologist and geochemist, a Cornell professor emerita known for four decades of research on Andean magmatism and the 2023 Penrose Medal.

Suzie H. Pun

Suzie H. Pun, born Suzie Jean Hwang, is a bioengineer at the University of Washington who designs bio-inspired polymers for delivering drugs and genes to specific cells and tissues.

Suzie Sheehy

Suzie Sheehy (Suzanne L. Sheehy) is an Australian accelerator physicist who designs particle accelerators for cancer treatment and wrote The Matter of Everything, published in 2022.

Svante Arrhenius

Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish physical chemist who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his electrolytic theory of dissociation, the first Swede to win a Nobel Prize.

Sven Hedin

Sven Hedin (1865–1952) was a Swedish geographer and travel writer who spent nearly 20 years exploring Central Asia and Tibet, mapping unexplored regions and writing some 65 books.

Sven Schneider

Sven Schneider is a German inorganic and coordination chemist, professor at the University of Göttingen since 2012, known for research on dinitrogen splitting and catalysis.

Sven Treitel

Sven Treitel (1929–2024) was a German-born, MIT-educated exploration geophysicist who co-developed digital seismic processing with Enders Robinson, wrote standard textbooks, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Sven-Gösta Nilsson

Sven-Gösta Nilsson (1927–1979) was a Swedish theoretical nuclear physicist and professor at Lund whose 1955 single-particle model for deformed nuclei became a standard tool of nuclear structure physics.

Sverre Petterssen

Sverre Petterssen was a Norwegian meteorologist, a leading figure in synoptic meteorology who helped produce the Allied forecast that fixed the Normandy invasion date on 6 June 1944.

Svetlana A. Sukhishvili

Svetlana A. Sukhishvili (Сухишвили) is a polymer scientist and professor of materials science at Texas A&M University since 2015, known for erasable hydrogen-bonded polymer films and salogels.

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Svetlana Jitomirskaya, born 1966 in Kharkov, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian-born American mathematician who developed the first nonperturbative methods for small-denominator problems and solved the Aubry–André conjecture.

Svetlana Mintova

Svetlana Mintova is a Bulgarian-born French chemist at CNRS in Caen who studies nanosized zeolites, won the Donald W. Breck Award in 2016, and led the International Zeolite Association from 2022 to 2025.

Sydney Chapman (mathematician)

Sydney Chapman (1888–1970) was a British mathematician and geophysicist, a pioneer of solar-terrestrial physics who coined the term aeronomy and developed the theory of the ionospheric Chapman layer.

Sydney Young (chemist)

Sydney Young (1857–1937) was an English chemist who devised improved fractional distillation techniques, designed efficient still heads, and established azeotropic mixtures, including the benzene process for absolute alcohol.

Sylvain Gigan

Sylvain Gigan is a physicist, Full Professor at Sorbonne Université since 2014 and Deputy Director of the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris, working on wavefront shaping and optical computing.

Sylvester James Gates

Sylvester James Gates, born in 1950 in Tampa, Florida, is an American theoretical physicist known for supersymmetry and superstring theory who won the National Medal of Science in 2013.

Sylvia Earle

Sylvia Earle (Sylvia Alice Earle) is an American marine biologist, oceanographer, and aquanaut who in 1990 became the first woman to serve as NOAA's chief scientist.

Sylvia T. Ceyer

Sylvia T. Ceyer is an American physical chemist at MIT, the John C. Sheehan Professor of Chemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Sylvie Roke

Sylvie Roke is a Dutch physicist and full professor at EPFL in Switzerland, known for developing sum frequency scattering and, in 2024, correlated vibrational spectroscopy of water.

Syukuro Manabe

Syukuro Manabe (眞鍋淑郎) is a Japanese-educated American meteorologist who pioneered computer climate modeling and received half of the 2021 Nobel Prize.

Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan

Syuzanna R. Harutyunyan is an Armenian chemist and, since 2018, professor and Chair of Homogeneous Catalysis at the University of Groningen, known for enantioselective Grignard chemistry and a 2023 catalytic oscillator.

T. Brent Gunnoe

T. Brent Gunnoe is an American organometallic and inorganic chemist, Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia, known for rhodium-catalyzed arene alkenylation and the 2022 ACS Olah Award.