Physical and mathematical scientists

Thomas F. Malone

Thomas F. Malone (1917–2013) was an American meteorologist and science statesman who edited the 1951 Compendium of Meteorology, helped found NCAR and GARP, and warned early of climate change.

Thomas F. Rosenbaum

Thomas F. Rosenbaum is an American condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials near absolute zero and served as Caltech's ninth president from 2014 to 2026.

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Thomas F. Stocker

Thomas F. Stocker is a Swiss climate physicist at the University of Bern known for reconstructing 800,000 years of greenhouse gases from Antarctic ice cores.

Thomas Francis Degnan Jr.

Thomas Francis Degnan Jr. is an American chemical engineer known for heterogeneous catalysis research at Mobil and ExxonMobil, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

Thomas Francisco Jaramillo is a Puerto Rico-born American chemical engineer and Stanford professor known for electrocatalysis research for clean energy, leading the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis.

Thomas G. Fox

Thomas G. Fox (1921–1977) was an American polymer physical chemist whose name marks the 3.4 power law for melt viscosity and the Flory–Fox and Fox equations for the glass transition.

Thomas G. Giallorenzi

Thomas G. Giallorenzi is a scientist who directed the Optical Sciences Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory until 2006, known for fiber-optic sensing and lightwave technology.

Thomas G. Mason

Thomas G. Mason is an American soft matter physicist and emeritus UCLA professor who invented passive microrheology and created the first large-scale colloidal Penrose-tile quasi-crystal.

Thomas G. Williams

Thomas G. Williams is an observational astronomer studying how cold molecular gas turns into stars in nearby galaxies; he leads the PHANGS-JWST Treasury program and joined the UK ALMA Regional Centre at Manchester in 2025.

Thomas George Bonney

Thomas George Bonney (1833–1923) was an English geologist and Anglican clergyman who pioneered the microscopic study of rocks in Britain and taught geology at Cambridge and University College London.

Thomas George Cowling

Thomas George Cowling (1906–1990) was a British astronomer, a founder of magnetohydrodynamics known for Cowling's theorem and the Cowling model of stellar structure, and professor of applied mathematics at Leeds.

Thomas Gerald Room

Thomas Gerald Room (1902–1986) was an English-born Australian mathematician, professor of mathematics at the University of Sydney from 1935 to 1968, known for projective geometry and Room squares.

Thomas Gold

Thomas Gold (1920–2004) was an Austrian-born astronomer and physicist at Cornell University, best known for explaining pulsars as rotating neutron stars and for his deep hot biosphere hypothesis.

Thomas Gordon Thompson

Thomas Gordon Thompson (1888–1961) was an American chemist at the University of Washington, the first American chemist to devote major efforts to sea water chemistry.

Thomas Greytak

Thomas John Greytak is an American experimental physicist, the Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus at MIT, known for the 1998 achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in atomic hydrogen and for evaporative cooling.

Thomas H. Jordan

Thomas H. Jordan, born 1948, is an American geophysicist at the University of Southern California who directed the Southern California Earthquake Center from 2002 to 2017.

Thomas H. Vonder Haar

Thomas H. Vonder Haar, an American satellite meteorologist, analyzed the first satellite measurements of Earth's radiation budget in the 1960s and led NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Experiment.

Thomas Hakon Grönwall

Thomas Hakon Grönwall, born Hakon Tomi Grönwall, was a Swedish-born American mathematician (1877–1932) known for the 1919 Grönwall inequality, a summability method for series, and work on Fourier series.

Thomas Hartman

Thomas Hartman is a theoretical physicist working on quantum gravity, quantum field theory, and holography, known for the black hole information paradox and a 2019 PECASE award.

Thomas Heine

Thomas Heine is a German theoretical and computational chemist who has held the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at TU Dresden since 2018, predicting 2D materials by calculation.

Thomas Henning

Thomas Henning (born 1956 in Jena) is a German astrophysicist who studies star and planet formation, directing the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg from 2001 to 2024.

Thomas J. Ahrens

Thomas J. Ahrens (1936–2010) was a German-born American geophysicist at Caltech who pioneered shock-wave experiments on minerals at planetary pressures, studied impact mechanics, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Thomas J. Crowley

Thomas J. Crowley (1948–2014) was an American paleoclimatologist who reconstructed and modeled Earth's past climates, held chairs at Duke University and the University of Edinburgh, and wrote the 1991 textbook Paleoclimatology.

Thomas J. Katz

Thomas J. Katz is an organic chemist who spent roughly fifty years at Columbia University, known for experiments supporting the olefin metathesis mechanism and for synthesizing prismane and helicenes.

Thomas J. Matula

Thomas J. Matula is an American acoustics researcher who directs the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound at the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory.

Thomas J. Meade

Thomas J. Meade is an American inorganic chemist at Northwestern University who pioneered bioresponsive MRI contrast agents, including a 2000 agent that reports gene expression in living tissue.

Thomas J. Meyer

Thomas J. Meyer is an American chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who works on solar energy conversion and artificial photosynthesis.

Thomas J. Pinnavaia

Thomas J. Pinnavaia is an inorganic chemist who joined Michigan State University in 1966 and is known for mesoporous materials, pillared clays, and templated synthesis of inorganic solids.

Thomas J. Schmidt

Thomas J. Schmidt is a Swiss-based electrochemist, professor and chair for electrochemistry at ETH Zürich since 2011, known for work on electrocatalysts for water electrolysis.