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Carlo Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia, born 1934 in Gorizia, Italy, is an Italian particle physicist who shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the W and Z bosons at CERN.

Carlos A. Meriles

Carlos A. Meriles is an Argentine-born physicist at The City College of New York, appointed in 2004, who studies nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond for quantum sensing and data storage.

Carlos A. Nobre

Carlos A. Nobre is a Brazilian earth system scientist known for the hypothesis that deforestation and warming could convert much of the Amazon rainforest into savanna.

Carlos F. Barbas

Carlos F. Barbas III (1964–2014) was an American organic chemist and chemical biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who pioneered synthetic antibodies, catalytic antibodies, and zinc finger nucleases.

Carlos Frenk

Carlos Frenk, born 1951 in Mexico City, is a cosmologist at Durham University who helped originate cold dark matter theory and pioneered supercomputer simulations of how galaxies form.

Carlos Ibáñez de Ibero

Carlos Ibáñez de Ibero (1825–1891) was a Spanish general and geodesist who founded and directed the Instituto Geográfico y Estadístico and led the International Committee for Weights and Measures.

Carlos Kenig

Carlos Kenig, born in Buenos Aires in 1953, is an Argentine-born American mathematician at the University of Chicago known for pioneering work on nonlinear dispersive equations.

Carlos Marti-Gastaldo

Carlos Martí-Gastaldo is a Spanish inorganic chemist who leads the FuniMAT group at the Institute of Molecular Science, Universitat de València, working on metal-organic frameworks and two-dimensional materials.

Carlos Vega

Carlos Vega (born 1964) is a Spanish physical chemist and full professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, known for developing the TIP4P/2005 and TIP4P/Ice water models used in molecular simulation.

Carlton E. Lemke

Carlton Edward Lemke was an American mathematician in mathematical programming and game theory, known for the dual simplex method, the Lemke–Howson algorithm, and complementary pivoting.

Carlton M. Caves

Carlton M. Caves (born 1950) is an American theoretical physicist at the University of New Mexico known for quantum metrology and his 1981 proposal to inject squeezed vacuum into gravitational-wave interferometers.

Carol V. Robinson

Carol V. Robinson, known as Carol Robinson, is a British chemist who established mass spectrometry for studying folded proteins and membrane protein complexes, and Oxford's first female professor of chemistry.

Carole Jordan

Carole Jordan (1941–2026) was a British solar physicist who used ultraviolet and X-ray spectra as plasma diagnostics, and was the first female President of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Carolin Crawford

Carolin Crawford is a British astronomer who studies the massive central galaxies of rich clusters and served as Public Astronomer at Cambridge from 2005 to 2020.

Carolyn Porco

Carolyn Porco is an American planetary scientist who led the Cassini imaging team at Saturn from 2004 to 2017, known for her work on planetary rings and the geysers of Enceladus.

Carrie Nugent

Carrie Nugent, born 1984, is an American physicist who studies asteroids and comets, an associate professor at Olin College of Engineering, and author of the 2017 book Asteroid Hunters.

Carson D. Jeffries

Carson D. Jeffries (1922–1995) was an American experimental physicist and professor at UC Berkeley, known for work on nuclear magnetism, dynamic nuclear polarization, and chaos.

Carson J. Bruns

Carson J. Bruns is an American chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for photochromic tattoo pigments and Magic Ink, the first rewritable tattoo ink.

Carsten Bolm

Carsten Bolm (born 1960 in Braunschweig, Germany) is a German organic chemist and professor at RWTH Aachen University, known for iron catalysis and sulfoximine chemistry.

Carsten Carstensen

Carsten Carstensen is a German applied mathematician at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin known for a posteriori error estimation and the 2014 "Axioms of adaptivity" paper on adaptive finite element methods.

Carsten Thomassen (mathematician)

Carsten Thomassen is a Danish graph theorist at the Technical University of Denmark, best known for proving in 1994 that every planar graph is 5-choosable.

Carsten Tschierske

Carsten Tschierske is a German chemist, professor of organic chemistry at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 1994, known for honeycomb liquid crystal phases and liquid quasicrystals.

Carter Emmart

Carter Emmart is an American scientist and artist, director of astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History, where he directed the Hayden Planetarium's award-winning space shows.

Caryn E. Outten

Caryn E. Outten is an American bioinorganic chemist and redox biologist, the Guy F. Lipscomb, Sr. Professor at the University of South Carolina and a 2009 PECASE recipient.

Casey Brown

Casey Brown is an American water-resources scientist who received a 2006 PECASE award at Columbia University and is now a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Casey Pirnstill

Casey W. Pirnstill is a biomedical engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, who works in biomedical optics and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Catherine Cesarsky

Catherine Cesarsky is a French astrophysicist, raised in Argentina, who led the European Southern Observatory from 1999 to 2007 and was the first woman president of the International Astronomical Union.

Catherine Doléans-Dade

Catherine Doléans-Dade (1942–2004) was a French probabilist in Paul-André Meyer's Strasbourg school, known for the Doléans-Dade exponential, the Doléans measure, and work behind the Doob–Meyer decomposition theorem.

Catherine J. Murphy

Catherine J. Murphy is an American chemist who studies colloidal inorganic nanomaterials, especially gold nanorods, and heads the chemistry department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Catherine L. Drennan

Catherine L. Drennan is an American structural biologist and biochemist, Professor of Biology and Chemistry at MIT and an HHMI Investigator, known for determining structures of metalloenzymes.