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Thomas Kodadek

Thomas Kodadek is an American chemical biologist, professor of chemistry at the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, known for a 2011 Cell paper on Alzheimer's IgG biomarkers.

Thomas L. Carroll

Thomas L. Carroll is an American physicist known for work on synchronizing chaotic systems and reservoir computing, who spent 36 years at the United States Naval Research Laboratory.

Thomas L. Koch

Thomas L. Koch is an American optical scientist and Dean Emeritus of the University of Arizona's Wyant College of Optical Sciences, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

Thomas L. Magnanti

Thomas L. Magnanti is an American operations researcher at MIT known for work on optimization and network flows, and founding president of the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Thomas L. Saaty

Thomas L. Saaty (1926–2017) was an Iraqi-born American mathematician and operations researcher, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh who created the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Network Process.

Thomas Lauritsen

Thomas Lauritsen (1915–1973) was a Danish-born American nuclear physicist and Caltech professor known for the Energy Levels of Light Nuclei compilations, the reference tables for nuclei up to neon.

Thomas Lectka

Thomas Lectka is an American organic chemist, the Jean and Norman Scowe Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for asymmetric ketene chemistry and the fluoronium ion.

Thomas M. Liggett

Thomas Milton Liggett (1944–2020) was an American probability theorist at UCLA and a founding figure of interacting particle systems, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Thomas Maimone

Thomas J. Maimone is an American synthetic organic chemist and professor at UC Berkeley known for terpene total synthesis and for the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award.

Thomas Maurice Rice

Thomas Maurice Rice (1939–2024) was an Irish theoretical condensed-matter physicist and ETH Zurich professor whose models, including the Zhang–Rice singlet and Rice–Mele model, remain central to superconductivity research.

Thomas Michael Donahue

Thomas Michael Donahue (1921–2004) was an American planetary scientist at the University of Michigan who studied the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter and served on the Apollo 17, Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini missions.

Thomas Midgley (chemist)

Thomas Midgley Jr. (1889–1944) was an American chemist at General Motors who developed leaded gasoline and Freon, inventions later found to cause lead poisoning and ozone depletion.

Thomas Mueller

Thomas Mueller is a physicist who has been Professor for Two-dimensional Optoelectronics at TU Wien since 2022, known for ultrafast graphene photodetectors developed at IBM Research.

Thomas Murray MacRobert

Thomas Murray MacRobert (1884–1962) was a Scottish mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, known for his work on the hypergeometric function and the E-function.

Thomas P. Blunt

Thomas P. Blunt, also known as Thomas Porter Blunt, was a Shrewsbury-born chemist who, with physician Arthur Downes, showed in 1877 that sunlight kills bacteria, work cited in the 1903 Nobel speech.

Thomas P. Russell

Thomas P. Russell is an American polymer scientist and Silvio O. Conte Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.

Thomas Peter

Thomas Peter is a German atmospheric chemist who was professor at ETH Zurich from 1999 to 2023, known for the 2000 Koop line ice nucleation theory.

Thomas Quinn (astrophysicist)

Thomas Quinn is a computational astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, known for work on dark matter halos, long-period comets, and the Gasoline simulation code.

Thomas R. Hoye

Thomas R. Hoye is an American organic chemist at the University of Minnesota, known for the hexadehydro-Diels–Alder reaction for generating benzyne intermediates, reported in Nature in 2012.

Thomas R. Karl

Thomas R. Karl is an American climate scientist who directed NOAA's National Climatic Data Center from 1998 to 2015 and co-chaired the first two US National Climate Assessments.

Thomas R. Knutson

Thomas R. Knutson is an American research meteorologist and Senior Scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey, known for modeling how greenhouse warming changes tropical cyclones.

Thomas R. Rizzo

Thomas R. Rizzo is an American physical chemist known for laser spectroscopy of cold biomolecular ions and glycan analysis, professor at EPFL from 1994 until 2023.

Thomas R. Ward

Thomas R. Ward, born 1964 in Fribourg, Switzerland, is a professor of bioinorganic chemistry at the University of Basel known for developing artificial metalloenzymes optimized by directed evolution.

Thomas Ralph Merton

Thomas Ralph Merton (1888–1969) was an English physicist and inventor known for precision spectroscopy of gas spectra and for cheap, accurate methods of copying and ruling diffraction gratings.

Thomas Reeve Kaiser

Thomas Reeve Kaiser (1924–1998) was an Australian-born space physicist who spent his career in England as Professor of Space Physics at Sheffield, known for meteor-trail radar theory and Antarctic VLF research.

Thomas Röckmann

Thomas Röckmann (born 1969) is an atmospheric scientist, full professor of atmospheric physics and chemistry at Utrecht University since 2005, known for isotope-based studies of atmospheric methane.

Thomas Rothvoss

Thomas Rothvoss is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington known for bin packing algorithms and prize-winning work on the matching polytope.

Thomas Seward Lovering

Thomas Seward Lovering (1896–1991) was an American economic geologist and geochemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, known for his studies of hydrothermal wall-rock alteration in Colorado and Utah.

Thomas Sterry Hunt

Thomas Sterry Hunt (1826–1892) was an American chemist and geologist, a pioneer of geochemistry in North America who was the first to draw attention to oil deposits in anticlinal structures.

Thomas T. Perkins

Thomas T. Perkins is an American biophysicist and JILA Fellow at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who studies individual biological molecules with optical tweezers and atomic force microscopy.