Physical and mathematical scientists

C. Vance Haynes

C. Vance Haynes, full name Caleb Vance Haynes Jr., born 1928, is an American geoarchaeologist and University of Arizona professor known for radiocarbon dating the Clovis culture.

C.T.R. Wilson

C.T.R. Wilson, full name Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, was a Scottish physicist who invented the cloud chamber and shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Cafer T. Yavuz

Cafer T. Yavuz is a Turkish materials chemist, professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia since 2020, known for porous polymers for carbon dioxide capture and methane storage.

Cahit Arf

Cahit Arf (1910–1997) was a Turkish mathematician known for the Arf invariant, the Hasse–Arf theorem, and Arf rings, and for helping found TÜBİTAK, Turkey's national research council.

Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, known professionally as C. R. Rao, was an Indian-American statistician whose 1945 paper produced the Cramér–Rao inequality, the Rao–Blackwell theorem, and information geometry.

Cameron Gordon (mathematician)

Cameron Gordon is a Scottish-born American mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the Gordon–Luecke theorem and the Cyclic Surgery Theorem in knot theory.

Cameron J. Kepert

Cameron J. Kepert is an Australian inorganic materials chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney, known for framework materials with extreme, controllable shape changes.

Cameron Jones (Australian chemist)

Cameron Jones (born 1962) is an Australian inorganic chemist who holds the R. L. Martin Chair at Monash University and leads the field of Modern Main Group Chemistry.

Camille Flammarion

Camille Flammarion, born Nicolas Camille Flammarion, was a French astronomer and popular science author who founded the Société astronomique de France in 1887 and built his own observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

Camille Gutton

Camille Gutton (1872–1963) was a French physicist who studied electromagnetic waves, made the first air-to-air radiotelephone call in 1917, and joined the Académie des sciences.

Camille Jordan

Camille Jordan (1838–1922) was a French mathematician, professor at the École Polytechnique and the Collège de France, whose 1870 Traité founded group theory and gave the first comprehensive account of Galois theory.

Camillo De Lellis

Camillo De Lellis, born 1976 in Italy, is an Italian mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study known for a new proof of Almgren's regularity theorem and work on the Euler equations.

Cao Zexian

Cao Zexian (曹则贤, born 1966) is a Chinese condensed-matter physicist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for multi-hour cross-year lectures and for correcting Chinese physics terminology.

Cao‐Thang Dinh

Cao-Thang Dinh is an associate professor of chemical engineering at Queen's University and Canada Research Chair who converts carbon dioxide into fuels such as ethylene using renewable electricity.

Carey Lea

Carey Lea, also known as Matthew Carey Lea, was an American chemist in Philadelphia whose 1886 allotropic silver became the first systematic study of mechanochemistry.

Carl Auer von Welsbach

Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929) was an Austrian chemist and entrepreneur who discovered four elements, invented the incandescent gas mantle and lighter flint, and created the first industrial market for rare earths.

Carl Barus

Carl Barus (1856–1935) was an American physicist, born in Cincinnati, who researched high-pressure physics and thermometry with the US Geological Survey and spent 31 years as Hazard Professor of Physics at Brown University.

Carl Bosch

Carl Bosch (1874–1940) was a German industrial chemist at BASF and I.G. Farben who scaled up ammonia synthesis and shared the 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Carl D. Anderson

Carl D. Anderson (1905–1991) was an American experimental physicist at Caltech who discovered the positron in 1932, the first known antimatter particle, and won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Carl Dahl

Carl Eric Dahl is an American experimental astroparticle physicist at Northwestern University and Fermilab who works on dark matter detection with the PICO and LUX-ZEPLIN experiments.

Carl David Anderson

Carl David Anderson was an American experimental physicist at Caltech who discovered the positron, the first known antiparticle, winning the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi (1923–2015) was an Austrian-born American chemist, long a professor at Stanford, who synthesized norethindrone in 1951, the steroid behind the first oral contraceptive pill.

Carl E. Heiles

Carl E. Heiles is an American radio astronomer and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for measuring interstellar magnetic fields via Zeeman splitting of the 21-centimeter hydrogen line.

Carl Eckart

Carl Eckart (1902–1973) was an American physicist and oceanographer who contributed to quantum mechanics, then turned to underwater acoustics, directing the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg

Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg (1813–1899) was a German chemist and mineralogist who spent his career in Berlin, wrote the Handbuch der Mineralchemie, and had the mineral rammelsbergite named for him.

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker was a German theoretical physicist and philosopher who co-formulated the nuclear mass formula, worked on Germany's wartime uranium project, and initiated the 1957 Göttingen Declaration.

Carl Grillmair

Carl Grillmair (1959–February 16, 2026) was a Canadian-born astronomer at Caltech's IPAC who discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way halo and led the first spectrum of an exoplanet atmosphere.

Carl H. Savit

Carl H. Savit was an American exploration geophysicist at Western Geophysical who held 40 US patents and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.

Carl Harries

Carl Dietrich Harries (1866–1923) was a German chemist who introduced ozone into organic chemistry, establishing ozonolysis, known as the Harries reaction, as a general method for determining molecular structure.