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Timothy Berkelbach

Timothy Berkelbach is a theoretical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University who develops electronic-structure methods for excited states and low-dimensional materials, and co-authored PySCF.

Timothy Bunning

Timothy J. Bunning is an American materials research engineer, retired Air Force Research Laboratory chief technology officer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Timothy C. Ralph

Timothy C. Ralph, also published as Tim Ralph, is an Australian quantum information scientist and professor at the University of Queensland, known for instigating continuous-variable quantum key distribution.

Timothy D. Herbert

Timothy D. Herbert is a paleoceanographer and marine geochemist, the Henry L. Doherty Professor of Oceanography at Brown University, known for alkenone records of past sea-surface temperatures.

Timothy E. Link

Timothy E. Link is an American forest hydrologist and professor at the University of Idaho, a 2003 PECASE recipient known for snow and watershed research.

Timothy F. Jamison

Timothy F. Jamison is an organic chemist at MIT known for continuous flow synthesis, nickel catalysis, and epoxide-opening cascades; he led MIT's chemistry department from 2015 and co-founded Snapdragon Chemistry.

Timothy Gowers

Timothy Gowers, also known as Tim Gowers, is a British mathematician who won the 1998 Fields Medal for functional analysis, launched the Polymath Project, and led the 2012 Elsevier boycott.

Timothy H. Warren

Timothy H. Warren is an American inorganic chemist known for copper-mediated C–H amination and nitrene chemistry, and chair of the chemistry department at Michigan State University since 2021.

Timothy I. Eglinton

Timothy I. Eglinton, also known as Timothy Eglinton, is a British biogeoscientist who pioneered molecular-level radiocarbon dating to trace carbon cycling, working at Woods Hole and ETH Zürich.

Timothy J. Deming

Timothy J. Deming is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Chemistry at UCLA, known for developing block copolypeptides used as self-assembling biomaterials, hydrogels, and drug-delivery materials.

Timothy J. Donohoe

Timothy J. Donohoe is a British organic chemist, Professor of Organic Chemistry at Oxford and Fellow of Magdalen College, known for asymmetric synthesis and catalytic redox methods.

Timothy J. Lee

Timothy J. Lee (1959–2022) was an American computational chemist at NASA Ames Research Center who advanced coupled-cluster theory, including the CCSD(T) gold standard, and computational spectroscopy.

Timothy Killeen (space physicist)

Timothy Killeen is a space physicist and the 20th president of the University of Illinois System since 2015, formerly director of NCAR and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Timothy L. Grove

Timothy L. Grove is an American experimental petrologist and MIT professor emeritus known for showing that Ring of Fire magmas hold far more water than thought.

Timothy Lyons

Timothy W. Lyons is a biogeochemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Riverside who studies the history of oxygen in Earth's ancient oceans and atmosphere, and directs the Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center.

Timothy M. Brown

Timothy M. Brown is an American astronomer and instrument-builder who co-discovered the first transit of an exoplanet, HD 209458 b, in 1999, and won the 2016 Watson Medal.

Timothy M. Heckman

Timothy M. Heckman is an American astrophysicist known for discovering galactic winds and the LINER class, and for work on galaxy and black hole coevolution.

Timothy M. Lenton

Timothy M. Lenton, also known as Tim Lenton, is a British Earth system scientist at the University of Exeter known for Gaia theory and climate tipping points.

Timothy M. Swager

Timothy M. Swager, born 1961, is an American chemist and John D. MacArthur Professor at MIT whose molecular-wire sensor work produced explosives detectors used by US soldiers.

Timothy Newhouse

Timothy R. Newhouse is an American organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University since 2013, known for step-efficient synthesis of neurologically active natural products using machine learning.

Timothy Noël

Timothy Noël is a Belgian chemist who has held the Chair of Flow Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam since 2020, known for RoboChem, a robotic platform that self-optimizes photocatalytic reactions.

Timothy Ombrello

Timothy Ombrello is an American combustion scientist and Senior Research Aerospace Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, winner of a 2013 PECASE award for plasma-assisted combustion research.

Timothy P. Lodge

Timothy P. Lodge is an American polymer chemist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for block copolymer self-assembly, polymer dynamics, and micelles in ionic liquids.

Timothy S. Zwier

Timothy S. Zwier is an American physical chemist at Sandia National Laboratories' Combustion Research Facility, known for gas-phase laser spectroscopy of molecular shape changes and reactions.

Timothy W. Schmidt

Timothy W. Schmidt is an Australian physical chemist, Professor and Head of the School of Chemistry at UNSW Sydney, known for photochemical upconversion for solar cells and astrochemistry.

Timur Shegai

Timur O. Shegai is a Swedish-based physicist and Full Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, known for transition metal dichalcogenide nanodisks and self-assembled Casimir microcavities.

Titu Andreescu

Titu Andreescu, born in Timișoara, Romania in 1956, is a mathematician and olympiad coach who led the US team to its 1994 perfect-score IMO win and founded AwesomeMath.

Tobias Brixner

Tobias Brixner is a German physical chemist who holds the Chair of Physical Chemistry I at the University of Würzburg, known for adaptive femtosecond quantum control and multidimensional spectroscopy.

Tobias Colding

Tobias Colding, also known as Tobias Holck Colding, is a Danish geometric analyst and MIT professor known for the Cheeger–Colding theory of Ricci curvature bounds and the 2010 Veblen Prize.

Tobias J. Kippenberg

Tobias J. Kippenberg is a physicist and Full Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, known for the 2007 discovery of chip-scale optical frequency combs and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2024.