Physical and mathematical scientists

Charlie Conroy

Charlie Conroy (Charles F. Conroy) is an astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University known for stellar population synthesis, galaxy evolution, and the FSPS modeling code.

Charlotte Moore Sitterly

Charlotte Moore Sitterly, who published as Charlotte E. Moore, was an American astronomer whose atomic spectra compilations became the standard reference for identifying solar and stellar lines.

Charlotte Williams

Charlotte K. Williams is a British chemist and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford whose catalysts turn carbon dioxide, biomass, and waste into sustainable polymers.

Chee Wei Wong

Chee Wei Wong is a Tannas Professor of Engineering at UCLA, known for gate-tunable frequency combs in graphene microresonators and chip-scale quantum gates in silicon photonics.

Chen Jingrun

Chen Jingrun (陈景润) was a Chinese number theorist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who proved Chen's theorem in 1966, the closest known result to the Goldbach conjecture.

Chen Ning Yang

Chen Ning Yang, also known as Frank Yang (杨振宁), was a Chinese-born theoretical physicist who shared the 1957 Nobel Prize for discovering parity violation in weak interactions.

Cheng Chin

Cheng Chin (金政) is an experimental atomic physicist at the University of Chicago known for the first observation of Efimov states and molecular Bose–Einstein condensates.

Cherry Ann Murray

Cherry Ann Murray is an American experimental condensed matter physicist known for light-scattering studies, leadership at Bell Labs and Lawrence Livermore, and service as Harvard engineering dean.

Chester C. Langway

Chester C. Langway (1929–2025) was an American glaciologist who built deep ice core science, leading the 1966 Camp Century drilling and producing the first 100,000-year climatic record from ice.

Chester Ray Longwell

Chester Ray Longwell (1887–1975) was an American structural geologist at Yale University and the U.S. Geological Survey who first demonstrated large low-angle thrust faults in southern Nevada.

Chester Stock

Chester Stock (1892–1950) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and Caltech professor known for his studies of the Pleistocene mammals of the Rancho La Brea tar pits.

Cheves Walling

Cheves Walling (1916–2007) was an American physical organic chemist described as a founding father of radical chemistry, professor at Columbia and Utah and author of Free Radicals in Solution (1957).

Chi-Huey Wong

Chi-Huey Wong (翁啟惠) is a Taiwanese-American chemist known for chemoenzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides and glycan microarrays, and winner of the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry.

Chi‐Wang Shu

Chi-Wang Shu (舒其望) is an applied mathematician, Stowell University Professor at Brown University since 1987, known for ENO, WENO, and discontinuous Galerkin methods and the 2021 von Neumann Prize.

Chi‐Yuen Wang

Chi-Yuen Wang is a geophysicist and UC Berkeley professor, trained at Harvard under Francis Birch, known for Himalaya tectonics modeling and decades of research on how earthquakes alter groundwater.

Chia-Chiao Lin

Chia-Chiao Lin (林家翘, 1916–2013) was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and MIT Institute Professor who founded the density-wave theory of spiral structure in disk galaxies.

Chiara Daraio

Chiara Daraio is an Italian-born materials scientist and mechanical engineer, the G. Bradford Jones Professor at Caltech, known for architected materials that change stiffness on demand.

Chibueze Amanchukwu is a computational electrochemist and Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago who designs electrolytes for batteries and carbon dioxide capture.

Sep 17, 2026

Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄)

Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄), also known as Wu Jianxiong, was a Chinese-American experimental physicist at Columbia University whose 1956 Wu experiment proved that parity is violated in weak interactions.

Chih-Kang Shih

Chih-Kang Shih, known as Ken Shih, is an American condensed matter physicist at the University of Texas at Austin who images moiré materials with scanning tunneling microscopy.

Chih‐Jen Shih

Chih-Jen Shih is a Taiwanese chemical and nanomaterials engineer who has been a tenured associate professor at ETH Zurich since 2022, known for wetting translucency of 2D materials.

Chihaya Adachi

Chihaya Adachi (安達千波矢) is a Japanese organic electronics scientist and Kyushu University professor known for thermally activated delayed fluorescence, a metal-free OLED emitter design reaching about 100% efficiency.

Chin-Wen Chou

Chin-Wen Chou, known as James Chou, is a physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who works on quantum information and built the aluminum-ion clock once called the world's most accurate.

Chinedum Osuji

Chinedum Osuji is a Trinidadian-born soft matter scientist who studies directed self-assembly of surfactant and polymer mesophases, and chairs Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Penn after eleven years at Yale.

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao

Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao (C. N. R. Rao) is an Indian solid-state and materials chemist and Linus Pauling Research Professor, known for pioneering nanoscience and graphene research.

Chinubhai Khatri

Chinubhai Khatri (1931–1989) was an Indian statistician at Gujarat University who published about 200 papers and introduced the Khatri–Rao product, now standard in tensor computation and machine learning.

Oct 22, 2026

Choe Seok-jeong

Choe Seok-jeong (최석정, 1646–1715) was a Korean mathematician and politician who served as Yeonguijeong, chief state councillor of Joseon Korea, and described orthogonal Latin squares before Euler.

Choi Tae-lim

Choi Tae-lim (최태림, born 1977) is a South Korean polymer chemist and Full Professor of Polymer Chemistry at ETH Zurich since 2022, known for living and cascade polymerizations.

Chris Adami

Christoph (Chris) Adami is a computational biologist and professor at Michigan State University who pioneered the information theory of evolution and designed the Avida digital evolution system.