Physical and mathematical scientists

Christian Schönenberger

Christian Schönenberger is a Swiss experimental physicist known for nanoelectronics in carbon nanotubes and graphene, who held the experimental physics chair at the University of Basel from 1995 to 2024.

Christian Serre

Christian Serre is a French inorganic chemist and CNRS Research Director known for co-discovering the MIL metal–organic frameworks and elected to the French Académie des sciences in 2023.

Christian Spannagel

Christian Spannagel is a German mathematician and computer scientist who holds the mathematics didactics professorship at the Heidelberg University of Education and streams mathematics on Twitch.

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Christian W. Bauer

Christian W. Bauer is a theoretical physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who heads its Theory Group and leads efforts to simulate particle physics on quantum computers.

Christian W. Tornøe

Christian W. Tornøe (Christian Wenzel Tornøe) is a Danish industrial medicinal chemist who co-discovered the CuAAC click reaction with Morten Meldal at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 2001.

Christian Wolf (chemist)

Christian Wolf is a German-born American organic chemist and tenured professor at Georgetown University, known for chirality sensing, carbon–fluorine bond functionalization, and drug discovery, and a 2014 National Academy of Inventors Fellow.

Christian Wolf (physicist)

Christian Wolf is a German-trained astronomer at the Australian National University, known for the COMBO-17 galaxy survey and co-measuring the record gamma-ray burst GRB 090423.

Christine Guerlin

Christine Guerlin is a French quantum physicist and assistant professor at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris, known for the first observation of quantum jumps of light in a cavity.

Christo Sevov

Christo S. Sevov is an American organic and organometallic chemist at The Ohio State University who joined in 2017 and is known for nickel-mediated electroreductive cross-coupling, reported in Science in 2022.

Christof Hättig

Christof Hättig is a German theoretical chemist who has been Professor for Theoretical Chemistry at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 2006, known for the resolution-of-identity implementation of the CC2 coupled-cluster model.

Christof Sparr

Christof Sparr is a Swiss organic chemist and professor at the University of Basel known for atroposelective arene-forming catalysis, winning the Werner Prize in 2017 and the Ruzicka Prize in 2018.

Christof Wöll

Christof Wöll, born in Kassel in 1959, is a German physical chemist known for founding surface-mounted metal–organic frameworks (SURMOFs) and directing the Institute of Functional Interfaces at KIT.

Christoph A. Heinrich

Christoph A. Heinrich, born 1953, is a Swiss economic geologist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich known for research on how magmatic fluids form porphyry copper–gold ore deposits.

Christoph A. Schalley

Christoph A. Schalley, born 1968 in Krefeld, is a German supramolecular chemist known for mass spectrometry of noncovalent interactions, template-directed rotaxane synthesis, and self-sorting in supramolecular assembly.

Christoph Gerber

Christoph Gerber, born 1942 in Basel, is a Swiss physicist who co-invented the atomic force microscope at IBM Zurich and later developed cantilever biochemical sensors, winning the 2016 Kavli Prize.

Christoph H. Keitel

Christoph H. Keitel is a German theoretical physicist in quantum optics and QED, director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg since 2004.

Christoph Keplinger

Christoph Keplinger is an Austrian soft matter physicist and roboticist who directs the Robotic Materials Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

Christoph Langhammer

Christoph Langhammer, born 1978 in Zurich, is a chemical physicist and professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, known for plasmonic hydrogen detection and nanofluidic scattering microscopy.

Christoph Lienau

Christoph Lienau, born 1963 in Göttingen, is a German experimental physicist and professor at the University of Oldenburg since 2006, known for ultrafast nano-optics and exciton-plasmon coupling.

Christoph Schär

Christoph Schär, born 1958, is a Swiss climate scientist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for kilometer-scale convection-resolving climate modeling and the 2004 Nature letter on the 2003 European heatwave.

Christoph Weder

Christoph Weder, born 1966, is a Swiss and Irish polymer chemist who has been professor of polymer chemistry and materials at the University of Fribourg since 2009.

Christophe Copéret

Christophe Copéret (born 1970) is a French chemist and professor at ETH Zürich, holding the chair of Surface and Interface Chemistry, known for surface organometallic chemistry and single-site catalysts.

Christophe I. Westbrook

Christophe I. Westbrook is a CNRS research director at the Institut d'Optique in Orsay who, with Alain Aspect, created the first Bose–Einstein condensate of metastable helium in 2001.

Christophe Léger

Christophe Léger is a French CNRS Directeur de Recherche at the BIP laboratory in Marseille who studies hydrogenase and metalloenzyme catalysis by direct electrochemistry, using protein film electrochemistry.

Christophe Salomon

Christophe Salomon, born 1953, is a French physicist and CNRS emeritus research director at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris who invented the atomic fountain clock in 1991.

Christopher A. Lipinski

Christopher A. Lipinski is a medicinal chemist, formerly a senior research fellow at Pfizer, best known for the 1997 "Rule of 5" for oral drug absorption.

Christopher A. Reed

Christopher A. Reed is an inorganic chemist known for carborane superacids, weakly coordinating anions, and silylium ions; he taught at USC and the University of California, Riverside.

Christopher B Murray

Christopher B Murray is a chemist and materials scientist, Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 2007, known for synthesizing and self-assembling colloidal nanocrystals, including quantum dots.

Christopher Barner-Kowollik

Christopher Barner-Kowollik is an Australian-German macromolecular chemist who led research at QUT in Brisbane and, from 2026, Karlsruhe, known for photochemical ligation and light-based 3D printing.