Physical and mathematical scientists

T. Mark Harrison

T. Mark Harrison is an isotope geochemist and UCLA professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011, known for thermochronology and ancient zircons.

T. R. Parkin

T. R. Parkin, or Thomas R. Parkin, is an American researcher who with L. J. Lander found the first counterexample to Euler's sum of powers conjecture in 1966.

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T. Vince Cianciolo

T. Vince Cianciolo (Thomas Vincent Cianciolo) is an American nuclear physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who won the 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

T. Wayland Vaughan

T. Wayland Vaughan (1870–1952) was an American geologist and oceanographer, an authority on corals and larger foraminifera who directed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1924 to 1936.

Tai-Chang Chiang, a surface physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was the first to create atomically uniform metal films from one to about a hundred layers, an electron interferometer.

Tabetha S. Boyajian

Tabetha S. Boyajian is an American astronomer at Louisiana State University whose research measures stellar properties and characterizes exoplanets; she led the 2015 discovery paper on the mysteriously dimming Tabby's Star.

Tadao Nakano

Tadao Nakano (中野忠雄) was a Japanese theoretical physicist at Osaka City University who, with Kazuhiko Nishijima in 1953, independently derived the strangeness–charge formula known as the Nakano–Nishijima–Gell-Mann relation.

Tadashi Nakayama (Japanese mathematician)

Tadashi Nakayama (1912–1964) was a Japanese algebraist and representation theorist, professor at Nagoya University and Japan Academy member, known for Nakayama's lemma, Nakayama algebras, and Frobenius algebra theory.

Tadashi Takayanagi

Tadashi Takayanagi (髙柳匡), born 1975 in Tokyo, is a Japanese theoretical physicist and professor at Kyoto University known for the 2006 Ryu–Takayanagi formula, which computes entanglement entropy from gravity.

Tadashi Tokieda

Tadashi Tokieda is a Japanese mathematician, Professor (Teaching) of Mathematics at Stanford, known for deriving serious mathematics and physics from everyday objects such as spinning tops and folded paper.

Tadeus Reichstein

Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996) was a Polish-born Swiss chemist who devised the first industrial synthesis of vitamin C and shared the 1950 Nobel Prize for isolating cortisone.

Tadeusz Banachiewicz

Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882–1954) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician, and geodesist who directed the Jagiellonian University Observatory, founded Acta Astronomica, and computed the first orbit of Pluto.

Tadeusz Urbański

Tadeusz Leon Urbański (1901–1984) was a Polish chemist who held the Chair of Organic Technology II at Warsaw Polytechnic and wrote the standard monograph Chemistry and Technology of Explosives.

Tae Won Noh

Tae Won Noh is a South Korean condensed matter physicist known for research on transition metal oxides, ferroelectric thin films, and flexoelectricity, who became the 9th president of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in 2024.

Tae-Young Yoon

Tae-Young Yoon (윤태영) is a South Korean biophysicist, professor at Seoul National University since 2020, known for magnetic-tweezers studies of membrane protein folding and SNARE complexes, and founder of PROTEINA.

Taeghwan Hyeon

Taeghwan Hyeon, also known as Hyeon Taeghwan, is a South Korean nanomaterials chemist who developed the heat-up process for making uniform nanoparticles in large quantities, and directs the IBS Center for Nanoparticle Research.

Tahei Tahara

Tahei Tahara (田原太平) is a Japanese physical chemist who has directed the Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory at RIKEN since 2001, developing ultrafast and interface-selective spectroscopy.

Tai Tsun Wu

Tai Tsun Wu (1933–2024) was a Chinese-born theoretical physicist at Harvard, best known for the Wu–Yang monopole formalism and the Cheng–Wu prediction of rising proton–proton cross sections.

Taikyue Ree

Taikyue Ree (이태규, 1902–1992) was a South Korean physical chemist who co-created the Ree-Eyring theory of non-Newtonian flow and is regarded as a founding figure of modern Korean chemistry.

Taira Honda

Taira Honda (本田平, 1932–1975) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on number theory and abelian varieties, known for the Honda–Tate theorem and the formal groups named after him.

Taishi Takenobu

Taishi Takenobu (竹延大志) is a Japanese applied physicist and professor at Nagoya University since 2016, known for controlled amphoteric doping of carbon nanotubes and room-temperature chiral light-emitting diodes.

Takaaki Kajita

Takaaki Kajita (梶田隆章) is a Japanese physicist at the University of Tokyo who won half of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations.

Takahiro Seki

Takahiro Seki (関隆広) is a Japanese polymer and liquid crystal scientist, emeritus professor at Nagoya University, known for research on photoresponsive azobenzene liquid crystalline polymer films.

Takanori Fukushima

Takanori Fukushima (福島孝典) is a Japanese supramolecular and soft matter chemist, a professor at Institute of Science Tokyo since 2024, known for a 2003 Science paper on carbon nanotubes ordering organic molten salts.

Takashi Kato

Takashi Kato (加藤隆史) is a Japanese materials chemist who worked on liquid crystals, functional polymers, and self-assembled soft materials as a University of Tokyo professor until 2025.

Takashi Ooi

Takashi Ooi, also written OOI Takashi, is a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Nagoya University known for designing chiral organic ion pair catalysts for asymmetric synthesis.

Takashi Tatsumi

Takashi Tatsumi (辰巳敬) is a Japanese chemist known for zeolites and mesoporous materials, whose landmark papers of 2003 and 2004 appeared in Science, Nature Materials, and Nature.

Takashi Uemura (chemist)

Takashi Uemura (植村卓史) is a Japanese polymer and supramolecular chemist, professor at the University of Tokyo since 2018, known for first polymerizing styrene inside metal–organic framework nanochannels in 2005.

Takayoshi Sasaki

Takayoshi Sasaki is a Japanese materials chemist at the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, known for developing soft-chemical exfoliation of layered oxides into one-nanometer-thick crystallites he termed nanosheets.