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Christopher Zeeman
Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman (1925–2016) was a British topologist who built the Mathematics Institute at Warwick and was the first mathematician to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in 1978.
Christos N. Likos
Christos N. Likos is a Greek theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Vienna since 2010, known for effective interactions and star polymers as ultrasoft colloids.
Christos Papakyriakopoulos
Christos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos was a Greek mathematician at Princeton who proved Dehn's lemma, the loop theorem, and the sphere theorem in 1957, winning the first Veblen Prize in 1964.
Christy Haynes
Christy Haynes is a University of Minnesota chemist whose lab measures chemical messenger release from single cells; she heads the chemistry department and becomes Analytical Chemistry's editor-in-chief in 2027.
Chryssa Kouveliotou
Chryssa Kouveliotou (Χρύσα Κουβελιώτου), born 1953 in Athens, is a Greek-born American astrophysicist who discovered magnetars and helped establish the cosmological nature of gamma-ray bursts at NASA.
Chu Ching-wu
Chu Ching-wu, known as Paul Chu, is an experimental physicist at the University of Houston who in 1987 discovered superconductivity at 93 K in a yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen compound, the first above liquid nitrogen's boiling point.
Chuan Zhao
Chuan Zhao (赵川) is a professor of chemistry at UNSW Sydney, known for nanostructured nickel-iron electrodes for water splitting whose patented 3D-electrode technology has been adopted by the hydrogen industry.
Chuan-Jian Zhong
Chuan-Jian Zhong is a chemist at Binghamton University, on the faculty since 1998, known for multimetallic nanoparticle electrocatalysts that cut fuel cells' platinum content and for nanoparticle-based biosensors.
Chuanbing Tang
Chuanbing Tang is an American-based polymer chemist at the University of South Carolina who received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for research on renewable polymers from biomass.
Chuanmin Hu
Chuanmin Hu is a Distinguished University Professor of optical oceanography at the University of South Florida who led the discovery of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
Chun Ning Lau
Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau is a condensed matter experimental physicist and Ohio State professor known for graphene research, including a 2008 paper measuring single-layer graphene's thermal conductivity.
Chunaram Choudhary
Chunaram Choudhary is a Danish chemical biologist and professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen, known for mapping protein modifications by mass spectrometry.
Chung Kai-lai
Chung Kai-lai (1917–2009) was a Chinese-born American mathematician and leading probabilist, a Stanford professor known for the Chung–Fuchs recurrence criterion and widely translated probability textbooks.
Chung Liang Tang
Chung Liang Tang (湯仲良, 1934–2022) was a Chinese-born applied physicist who spent his career at Cornell University and is known for nonlinear optics and the femtosecond optical parametric amplifier.
Chunlei Guo
Chunlei Guo (郭春雷) is a laser physicist and professor at the University of Rochester, known since around 2006 for using femtosecond lasers to turn ordinary metals black and water-repellent.
Chushiro Hayashi
Chushiro Hayashi (林忠四郎) was a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist and Kyoto University professor known for the Hayashi track of pre-main-sequence stellar evolution and the Kyoto model of solar-system formation.
Cin-Ty Lee
Cin-Ty A. Lee (李忻地) is a petrologist and geochemist who studies how continents form and arc magmas evolve; he holds the Wiess Professorship of Geology at Rice University.
Cindy Regal
Cindy Regal, born 1979, is an American experimental atomic physicist at JILA and the University of Colorado Boulder, known for trapping single atoms in optical tweezers.
Ciprian Foias
Ciprian Ilie Foias (1933–2020) was a Romanian-American mathematician who built canonical model theory with Szőkefalvi-Nagy and created statistical solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations with Roger Temam.
Claiborne Latimer
Claiborne Green Latimer (1893–1960) was an American mathematician in algebra and number theory who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1924 under Leonard Eugene Dickson.
Clair C. Patterson
Clair Cameron Patterson was an American geochemist at Caltech who determined the Earth's age, about 4.55 billion years, and showed industrial lead had contaminated the modern environment.
Claire Deo
Claire Deo is a synthetic chemist turned chemical biologist who leads a group at EMBL Heidelberg, developing chemigenetic fluorescent probes, including HaloTag-based sensors that detect single action potentials in neurons.
Claire Ellen Max
Claire Ellen Max is an American astronomer known for adaptive optics, which removes atmospheric blurring of starlight; she co-invented sodium laser guide star adaptive optics and led UC Observatories.
Claire L. Parkinson
Claire L. Parkinson is an American climatologist and sea ice specialist at NASA Goddard who led the Aqua satellite mission and documented Arctic sea ice decline.
Claire Voisin
Claire Voisin, born 1962, is a French algebraic geometer at CNRS known for Hodge theory and the first woman mathematician at the Collège de France.
Clara Deser
Clara Deser is an American climate scientist and Senior Scientist at NSF NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, known for Pacific decadal variability and pioneering climate model large ensembles.
Clara Sousa-Silva
Clara Sousa-Silva is a Portuguese quantum astrochemist who studies how molecules like phosphine interact with light in exoplanet atmospheres, and co-authored the 2020 Venus phosphine report.
Clare Burrage
Clare Burrage is a British cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of Nottingham who designs atom-interferometry experiments to test dark energy and dark matter.
Clarence Allen (seismologist)
Clarence Roderic Allen (1925–2021) was an American seismologist and geologist who spent his career at Caltech, pioneered seismotectonics, and helped shape California earthquake fault zoning policy.
Clarence Dutton
Clarence Dutton (1841–1912) was an American geologist and career army officer who coined the concept of isostasy, wrote a classic Grand Canyon monograph, and reported on the 1886 Charleston earthquake.