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Thibault Damour

Thibault Damour, born 1951 in Lyon, is a French theoretical physicist who co-invented the effective one-body formalism for predicting gravitational waves from coalescing black holes, winning the CNRS Gold Medal in 2017.

Thierry Verbiest

Thierry Verbiest is a full professor in the Faculty of Science at KU Leuven, known for two 1990s Science papers on nonlinear optical polymers and supramolecular chirality.

Thirumalai Venkatesan

Thirumalai Venkatesan is a physicist who pioneered pulsed laser deposition for high-temperature superconductor films in 1987 and is a professor at the University of Oklahoma.

Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy

Thiruvenkatachari Parthasarathy (1941–2023) was an Indian mathematician who worked on game theory, operations research, and complementarity problems, spending his career at the Indian Statistical Institute's Chennai unit and serving as president of the Indian Mathematical Society.

Thom H. Dunning

Thom H. Dunning is an American theoretical chemist and Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for the correlation-consistent basis sets used in almost all computational chemistry codes.

Thom J. Hodgson

Thom J. Hodgson (born 1938) is an American operations researcher, Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Thomas A. Louis

Thomas A. Louis is a biostatistician and Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus known for Bayesian and empirical Bayes methods, clinical trial design, and service as US Census Bureau Chief Scientist.

Thomas A. Ternes

Thomas A. Ternes, also published as Thomas Ternes, is a German environmental chemist and Head of Research at the Federal Institute of Hydrology in Koblenz, known for work on pharmaceuticals in water.

Thomas Allibone

Thomas Edward Allibone (1903–2003) was a British physicist and electrical engineer whose high-voltage apparatus proved vital to Cockcroft and Walton's 1932 splitting of the atom.

Thomas B. Rauchfuss

Thomas B. Rauchfuss (born 1949) is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for synthetic models of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase active site and the 2014 Nyholm Medal.

Thomas Bayes

The Reverend Thomas Bayes (c. 1701–1761) was an English Presbyterian minister and mathematician whose posthumously published essay on probability gave its name to Bayes' theorem and Bayesian statistics.

Thomas Bennett (chemist)

Thomas D. Bennett, born 1986, is a chemist known for melting metal–organic frameworks into a new family of glasses, and moved to the University of Canterbury in 2024.

Thomas Brennan Nolan

Thomas Brennan Nolan was an American economic geologist who spent 68 years with the U.S. Geological Survey, serving as its seventh Director from 1956 to 1965.

Thomas Burdyny

Thomas Burdyny, known as Tom Burdyny, is a Canadian scientist in electrochemical CO2 conversion who is an associate professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Thomas Burr Osborne (biochemist)

Thomas Burr Osborne (1859–1929) was an American biochemist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station who crystallized plant seed proteins and, with Lafayette Mendel, helped establish the concepts of essential amino acids and vitamin A.

Thomas C. Bruice

Thomas C. Bruice (1925–2019) was an American bioorganic chemist, a term he coined, known for work on how enzymes accelerate reactions, spent mostly at UC Santa Barbara.

Thomas C. Spencer

Thomas C. Spencer, born 1946, is an American mathematical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study known for rigorous work on phase transitions and Anderson localization.

Thomas Carell

Thomas Carell (born 1966 in Herford, Germany) is a German organic chemist and chemical biologist at LMU Munich, known for DNA repair, epigenetic base modifications, and prebiotically plausible RNA synthesis.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1843–1928) was an American geologist who proposed the planetesimal hypothesis, demonstrated multiple Pleistocene glaciations, and set out the method of multiple working hypotheses.

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841–1924) was a self-taught American physicist who taught in Tokyo, led the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and issued the 1893 Mendenhall Order fixing US standards on the meter and kilogram.

Thomas Delworth

Thomas L. Delworth is an American climate scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, known for developing its CM2 and SPEAR climate models.

Thomas Devereaux

Thomas Peter Devereaux is an American condensed-matter physicist and professor at Stanford and SLAC, known for simulations of the Hubbard model applied to cuprate superconductors.

Thomas Dunne (geomorphologist)

Thomas Dunne, born 1943, is a geomorphologist and hydrologist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, known for saturation overland flow and the textbook Water in Environmental Planning.

Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt

Thomas E. Albrecht-Schmitt is an inorganic chemist known for work on the heaviest elements, from plutonium through einsteinium, including the first single-crystal structure of a berkelium compound.

Thomas E. Mallouk

Thomas E. Mallouk is an American materials and inorganic chemist, the Vagelos Professor in Energy Research at the University of Pennsylvania, known for catalytic nanomotors and solar fuels.

Thomas Edward Thorpe

Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845–1925) was a British chemist known for discovering phosphorus compounds, determining atomic weights of silicon and gold, and directing the Government Laboratory from 1894 to 1909.

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser (Thomas Elsässer) is a German physicist in ultrafast optics, known for femtosecond x-ray diffraction of solids and 2D infrared studies of hydrated protons in water.

Thomas F. Fässler

Thomas F. Fässler (born 1959) is a German inorganic chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich since 2003.

Thomas F. Jaramillo

Thomas F. Jaramillo is an American chemical engineer, professor at Stanford University and SLAC, who directs the SUNCAT Center and works on electrocatalysis for fuels and chemicals.

Thomas F. Krauss

Thomas F. Krauss is a photonics researcher and Professor of Photonics at the University of York, known for photonic crystals and slow light, awarded the 2022 Thomas Young Medal.