Physical and mathematical scientists

Brett Helms

Brett A. Helms is an American chemist and Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, known for the recyclable plastic PDK, AquaPIM battery membranes, and the 2025 Storch Award.

Brett Matsumoto is an American economist who became the 17th Commissioner of Labor Statistics, head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in August 2026 after a career researching inflation and consumption measurement there.

Brett P. Fors

Brett P. Fors is an American polymer chemist, the Frank and Robert Laughlin Professor at Cornell University, known for light-controlled polymerizations and degradable, recyclable thermosets.

Brian Atwater

Brian Atwater is an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who used coastal geology to prove the Cascadia subduction zone produces great earthquakes and tsunamis.

Brian Berkowitz

Brian Berkowitz is a hydrologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for showing that contaminant transport in geological media is often non-Fickian.

Brian D. Josephson

Brian D. Josephson, also known as Brian David Josephson, is a Welsh-born British theoretical physicist who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics for predicting the Josephson effect.

Brian Ebel

Brian Ebel is an American research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Lakewood, Colorado, who studies how wildfire and other disturbances change water availability and hazards.

Brian Gregory Keating

Brian Gregory Keating is a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, who conceived the BICEP telescope at the South Pole and wrote Losing the Nobel Prize.

Brian Hoskins

Sir Brian Hoskins, born 1945, is a British meteorologist and Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading, known for work on potential vorticity, storm-tracks, and the Hadley Cell.

Brian J. Soden

Brian J. Soden is an American atmospheric scientist and professor at the University of Miami who uses satellite observations and climate models to study water vapor feedback and hurricanes.

Brian Kennett

Brian L. N. Kennett is an Australian seismologist, Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, best known for the IASP91 and AK135 reference Earth models used worldwide.

Brian Kidd Ridley

Brian Kidd Ridley was a British theoretical physicist who co-predicted the transferred-electron effect behind Gunn diodes, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994.

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Brian M. Stoltz

Brian M. Stoltz is an American chemist and Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor at Caltech whose group develops palladium-catalyzed asymmetric reactions and has synthesized more than fifty natural products.

Brian McDonald (atmospheric scientist)

Brian McDonald is an American atmospheric scientist at NOAA's Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for finding that volatile chemical products are now the largest petrochemical source of urban emissions.

Brian Metzger

Brian D. Metzger is a theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Columbia University whose 2010 kilonova predictions, confirmed in 2017, earned the New Horizons in Physics Prize.

Brian O'Brien (optical physicist)

Brian O'Brien (1898–1992) was an American optical physicist, first permanent director of Rochester's Institute of Optics, known for wartime night vision, early fiber optics, and the Todd-AO widescreen film process.

Brian P. Anderson

Brian P. Anderson is an American atomic physicist at the University of Arizona who studies Bose-Einstein condensates and received the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award.

Brian Pippard

Brian Pippard, also known as Sir Alfred Brian Pippard, was a British physicist who first mapped a Fermi surface and introduced the superconducting coherence length in 1953.

Brian Schmidt

Brian Paul Schmidt, born 1967, is an American and Australian astronomer who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

Brian Seger

Brian Seger is a professor at DTU Physics in Denmark known for research on CO2 electrolysis and photoelectrochemical water splitting, aiming to replace fossil-based chemical production.

Brian T. Chait

Brian T. Chait is a South Africa-born mass spectrometrist who heads the Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry at The Rockefeller University, known for work on the nuclear pore complex.

Bridget R. Scanlon

Bridget R. Scanlon is an Irish-born hydrogeologist who leads the Sustainable Water Resources Program at the University of Texas at Austin, using GRACE satellite data to quantify groundwater depletion.

Bridget S. Wade

Bridget S. Wade is a micropalaeontologist who has been Professor of Micropalaeontology at University College London since 2013, studying planktonic foraminifera to calibrate the geological timescale.

Brittany Lynn

Brittany Lynn is an American optical scientist at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. She researches OAM multiplexing for free-space optical communications, achieving 400 Gbit/s data rates.

Brockway McMillan

Brockway McMillan (1915–2016) was an American mathematician who worked on information theory at Bell Labs, served as Under Secretary of the Air Force, and directed the National Reconnaissance Office.

Bronisław Knaster

Bronisław Knaster (1893–1980) was a Polish mathematician in point-set topology and set theory, known for the Knaster continuum, the KKM theorem, and the Knaster–Tarski fixed-point theorem.

Bror Holmberg

Bror Holmberg (1881–1966) was a Swedish organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a pioneer of lignin chemistry.

Bruce Arndtsen

Bruce A. Arndtsen is an organometallic chemist at McGill University, a James McGill Professor since 2011, elected a Royal Society of Canada Fellow in 2025.

Bruce Bolt

Bruce Bolt (1930–2005) was an Australian-born American seismologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1963 to 1993, and a founder of engineering seismology.