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Champ B. Tanner
Champ B. Tanner (1920–1990) was an American soil physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the first soil scientist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire whose research focuses on axion dark matter; she wrote the award-winning book The Disordered Cosmos.
Chandler Davis
Horace Chandler Davis, known as Chandler Davis, was an American-born Canadian mathematician and writer who refused to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1954.
Chang C. Tsuei
Chang C. Tsuei (崔章琪) is a Chinese-American condensed-matter physicist who spent his career at IBM's Watson Research Center and won the 1998 Buckley Prize for tricrystal experiments establishing d-wave pairing in cuprate superconductors.
Chang Hyuck Choi
Chang Hyuck Choi (최혁) is a South Korean electrochemist and associate professor of chemistry at POSTECH since 2022, known for platinum-free Fe–N–C fuel-cell catalysts and the cation effect in electrocatalysis.
Changhuei Yang
Changhuei Yang (杨昌辉) is a Singaporean-born biophotonics researcher at Caltech known for optofluidics and Fourier ptychographic microscopy, and is returning to the National University of Singapore.
Chao-Jun Li
Chao-Jun Li (李朝军) is a Canadian green chemist at McGill University in Montreal, where he has held the E. B. Eddy Chair since 2009 and pioneered organic reactions in water and cross-dehydrogenative coupling.
Charity Wayua
Charity Wayua is a Kenyan chemist who directs IBM Research Africa and led reforms that raised Kenya's Ease of Doing Business ranking from 136 to 92.
Charles A. Anderson (geologist)
Charles A. Anderson (1902–1990) was an American geologist with the United States Geological Survey who served as chief geologist from 1959 to 1964 and studied ore deposits.
Charles A. Kraus
Charles A. Kraus (1875–1967) was an American physical chemist at Brown University known for his work on liquid ammonia as a solvent and on electrolytes in non-aqueous solvents.
Charles Abiathar White
Charles Abiathar White (1826–1910) was an American geologist and paleontologist who served as Iowa state geologist and with the United States Geological Survey from 1882 to 1892.
Charles Adolphe Wurtz
Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817–1884) was a French chemist who led French organic chemistry, discovered the primary amines and ethylene glycol, and gave his name to the Wurtz reaction.
Charles Ahn
Charles H. Ahn, also published as C. H. Ahn, is an applied physicist at Yale University who studies complex oxide thin films and electronic control of superconductivity and ferroelectricity.
Charles Allen Thomas
Charles Allen Thomas (1900–1982) was an American chemist who led the Monsanto Company and directed plutonium purification for the Manhattan Project, winning the Medal for Merit in 1946.
Charles Anthony Schott
Charles Anthony Schott (1826–1901) was a German-born American geodesist and terrestrial magnetist who spent 53 years with the US Coast Survey, won the French Academy's Wilde Prize in 1898.
Charles Augustus Young
Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908) was an American astronomer and pioneer of solar spectroscopy, known for observing the Sun's flash spectrum and discovering the reversing layer.
Charles B. Duke
Charles B. Duke (1938–2019) was an American solid-state physicist known for deriving crystal surface structures from low-energy electron diffraction data and for his theory of electron tunneling in solids.
Charles B. Harris
Charles B. Harris (1940–2020) was an American physical chemist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to watch chemical reactions on femtosecond timescales.
Charles B. Morrey, Jr.
Charles B. Morrey, Jr. (1907–1984) was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley who worked in analysis and the calculus of variations, and served as president of the American Mathematical Society.
Charles Barrois
Charles Barrois (1851–1939) was a French geologist and paleontologist who spent his career at the University of Lille and mapped much of the geological map of France.
Charles Burkill
Charles Burkill, full name John Charles Burkill, was a British mathematician at Cambridge known for the Burkill integral and for serving as Master of Peterhouse from 1968 to 1973.
Charles C. Conley
Charles C. Conley (1933–1984) was an American mathematician who developed Conley index theory, an algebraic-topological method for proving the existence of orbits and chaotic dynamics.
Charles C. Steidel
Charles C. Steidel, also published as C. C. Steidel, is an American observational cosmologist at Caltech known for the Lyman-break technique and the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey.
Charles Coulson
Charles Alfred Coulson (1910–1974) was a British theoretical chemist and mathematician who helped establish molecular orbital theory in Britain, held chairs at King's College London and Oxford, and wrote Valence.
Charles D. Coryell
Charles D. Coryell (1912–1971) was an American radiochemist who, as chief of the Manhattan Project's Fission Products Section, led the 1945 chemical identification of promethium, element 61.
Charles D. Flagle
Charles D. Flagle (1919–2016) was an American operations researcher at Johns Hopkins, a founder of health services research elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1978.
Charles David Keeling
Charles David Keeling (1928–2005) was an American geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography whose Mauna Loa measurements, begun in 1958, produced the iconic Keeling Curve of rising atmospheric CO2.
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) was an American paleontologist who discovered the Burgess Shale fossils in the Canadian Rockies and directed the United States Geological Survey from 1894 to 1907.
Charles Dufraisse
Charles Dufraisse (1885–1969) was a French chemist and pharmacist who, with his teacher Charles Moureu, discovered antioxygens, now called antioxidants, and was professor of organic chemistry at the Collège de France from 1942 to 1955.
Charles E. Kolb
Charles E. Kolb (1945–2020) was an American atmospheric and environmental physical chemist who spent his career at Aerodyne Research in Billerica, Massachusetts, serving as president and CEO from 1985.