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Varun Verma
Varun Verma is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who develops superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Vasile M. Popov
Vasile M. Popov, born in Romania in 1928, is a mathematician and control theorist known for the Popov criterion, hyperstability theory, and the 1973 monograph Hyperstability of Control Systems.
Vasiliki Kalogera
Vasiliki Kalogera, known professionally as Vicky Kalogera, is a Greek-born American astrophysicist at Northwestern University who studies compact-object binaries and is a longtime member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Vasily Belokurov
Vasily Belokurov (Василий Белокуров) is a British-based astronomer and Professor at Cambridge known for mapping the Milky Way's stellar halo and identifying the ancient Gaia-Enceladus Sausage merger.
Vasily Dokuchaev
Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (1846–1903) was a Russian geologist who founded modern soil science, defining soil as an independent natural body and showing that soils occur in climate-matched zones.
Vasily Yermakov
Vasily Yermakov (1845–1922) was a mathematician who worked in Kyiv, known for a convergence test for infinite series and for founding the Journal of Elementary Mathematics.
Vaughan Jones
Vaughan Jones (1952–2020) was a New Zealand mathematician at UC Berkeley and Vanderbilt whose subfactor work yielded the Jones polynomial, earning the 1990 Fields Medal.
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Veerabhadran Ramanathan is an Indian-born American atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who discovered the greenhouse effect of CFCs in 1975 and led research on Asian brown clouds.
Veniamin Petrovich Chebotayev
Veniamin Petrovich Chebotayev (1938–1992) was a Soviet and Russian laser physicist in Novosibirsk, a founder of nonlinear laser spectroscopy, credited with suggesting Doppler-free two-photon spectroscopy in 1970.
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan
Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, known as V. Radhakrishnan, was an Indian radio astronomer and space scientist who directed the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore from 1972 to 1994.
Ventsislav Valev
Ventsislav K. Valev is a physicist at the University of Bath who first demonstrated chiroptical harmonic scattering in 2019, an effect predicted in 1979, and received the 2023 Thomas Young Medal.
Vera Faddeeva
Vera Nikolaevna Faddeeva (Вера Николаевна Фаддеева, 1906–1983) was a Soviet mathematician in numerical linear algebra who headed the Laboratory of Numerical Computations at the Steklov Institute in Leningrad.
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin (1928–2016) was an American astronomer whose measurements of galaxy rotation curves gave the first convincing evidence for dark matter; the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is named for her.
Vern L. Schramm
Vern L. Schramm, born 1941, is an American enzymologist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine known for transition-state analysis and forodesine, a T-cell cancer drug.
Verner E. Suomi
Verner E. Suomi (1915–1995) was an American meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose instrument on Explorer 7 made the first satellite measurements of Earth's heat balance.
Vernon Ellis Cosslett
Vernon Ellis Cosslett (1908–1990) was a British physicist who founded the Cavendish Laboratory's Electron Microscopy Section in 1946, developing the X-ray microscope and high-voltage electron microscopes.
Vernon Hughes
Vernon Hughes was an American experimental physicist at Yale University who discovered muonium, developed polarized electron beams, and led the precision muon g-2 experiment at Brookhaven.
Veronica Augustyn
Veronica Augustyn is a materials scientist who works on electrochemical energy storage, known for intercalation pseudocapacitance research; she is the Hooks Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.
Veronica M. Bierbaum
Veronica M. Bierbaum is an American mass spectrometrist and professor emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for flowing afterglow studies of gas-phase ion–molecule chemistry.
Veronica Vaida
Veronica Vaida is a physical chemist, Professor Emerita of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for work on ozone depletion, sulfuric acid photolysis, and aerosol chemistry.
Veronique Dehant
Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geophysicist known for her work on the rotation, nutation, and interior structure of Earth and Mars, and for instruments on planetary missions.
Véronique Gouverneur
Véronique Gouverneur FRS is a Belgian chemist and Oxford's Waynflete Professor of Chemistry since 2022, known for fluorination methods, fluorine-18 PET radiochemistry, and circular fluorochemistry.
Vesto Melvin Slipher
Vesto Melvin Slipher (1875–1969) was an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, who measured spiral nebula velocities from 1912, providing the first evidence for the expanding universe.
Vesto Slipher
Vesto Slipher (1875–1969) was an American astronomer at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, who measured the first radial velocity of a spiral nebula in 1912.
Viacheslav Belavkin
Viacheslav Belavkin (Вячеслав Павлович Белавкин, 1946 to 2012) was a mathematician who founded quantum filtering theory, whose Belavkin equation underlies quantum feedback control, at Nottingham from 1996.
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Viatcheslav Mukhanov, born in 1956, is a Russian cosmologist and theoretical physicist who showed in 1981 that galaxies grew from quantum fluctuations amplified during cosmic inflation.
Vicki H. Grassian
Vicki H. Grassian is an American atmospheric and environmental chemist at UC San Diego, known for her studies of mineral dust aerosols, microdroplets, and environmental interfaces.
Vicki H. Wysocki
Vicki H. Wysocki, also known as Vicki Wysocki, is an analytical chemist known for developing surface-induced dissociation, a mass spectrometry method revealing protein complex architecture. In 2025 she became chair of chemistry at Georgia Tech.
Victor A. Ramos
Victor A. Ramos, also known as Víctor Alberto Ramos, is an Argentine geologist born in Buenos Aires in 1945, known for his work on the tectonic evolution of the Andes.
Víctor Alberto Ramos
Víctor Alberto Ramos, born 1945 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine geologist and emeritus professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires known for his work on Andean tectonics.