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Clarence King
Clarence King (1842–1901) was an American geologist who directed the Fortieth Parallel Survey of the American West and served as the first Director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881.
Clarence Larson
Clarence Larson (1909–1999) was an American chemist and nuclear administrator who devised uranium-recovery methods at the Y-12 Plant and directed Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1950 to 1955.
Clarence Zener
Clarence Zener (1905–1993) was an American solid-state physicist known for the Zener diode, double exchange, and Zener relaxation, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Clark R. Landis
Clark R. Landis is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for chiral diazaphospholane rhodium catalysts for asymmetric hydroformylation and for valence-bond analyses of transition-metal bonding.
Claude Agami
Claude Agami is a French organic chemist, professor at Université Paris-VI, whose 1980s L-proline aldol studies are cited in the 2021 Nobel Chemistry background; he named the Hajos–Parrish Reaction.
Claude Ambrose Rogers
Claude Ambrose Rogers (1920–2005) was a British mathematician who worked on the geometry of numbers and convex geometry, best known for his upper bounds on packing and covering densities.
Claude Berge
Claude Berge (1926–2002) was a French mathematician at CNRS who posed the strong perfect graph conjecture, coined the term "hypergraph", and was a founding member of the Oulipo literary group.
Claude Chevalley
Claude Chevalley (1909–1984) was a French mathematician known for the idèle, the Chevalley–Warning theorem, and the 1955 Chevalley groups; he was the youngest founder of Bourbaki.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, born 1933 in Constantine, Algeria, is a French physicist at the Collège de France who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling of atoms.
Claude F. Bernasconi
Claude F. Bernasconi (1939–2021) was a Swiss-born physical organic chemist and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Cruz who studied reaction kinetics and formulated the principle of nonperfect synchronization.
Claude F. Boutron
Claude F. Boutron, also known as Claude Boutron, is a French glaciochemist at Grenoble known for measuring lead and other trace metals in polar snow and ice.
Claude Frankignoul
Claude Frankignoul is a French oceanographer and emeritus professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris, known for applying Hasselmann's stochastic climate model to sea surface temperature data.
Claude Godbillon
Claude Godbillon (1937–1990) was a French differential geometer who introduced the Godbillon–Vey class with Jacques Vey in 1971, the first secondary characteristic class of a foliation.
Claude Hillaire‐Marcel
Claude Hillaire-Marcel is a Quaternary geoscientist and isotope paleoceanographer at the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he founded the Geotop research center in 1979.
Claude Hudson
Claude Hudson (1881–1952) was an American carbohydrate chemist who spent his career in government laboratories in Washington, D.C., and was known for rules linking the optical rotation of sugars to their stereochemical configuration.
Claude J. Allègre
Claude J. Allègre, also cited as C.J. Allègre (1937–2025), was a French geochemist who dated the Earth and Moon by isotopes and won the 1986 Crafoord Prize.
Claude Jaupart
Claude Jaupart, born 1953, is a French geophysicist and volcanologist at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, known for heat flow studies of continents.
Claude Lorius
Claude Lorius (1932–2023) was a French glaciologist and climatologist who founded modern ice-core paleoclimatology; his Vostok Antarctic ice core showed carbon dioxide and temperature moving together over 160,000 years.
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère is a theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University, known for the FIRE galaxy-formation simulations and his 2023 review of the circumgalactic medium.
Claudia Felser
Claudia Felser is a German solid state chemist known for Heusler compounds and topological quantum chemistry, director at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden and vice-president of the Max Planck Society since 2023.
Claudia Turró
Claudia Turró is an inorganic photochemist, chair of chemistry at The Ohio State University since 2019, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024 for work on dirhodium photocatalysts.
Claudio Bunster
Claudio Bunster, known as Claudio Teitelboim until 2005, is a Chilean theoretical physicist working on general relativity and gauge theories who founded Chile's Centro de Estudios Científicos in 1984.
Claudio Conti
Claudio Conti (born 1971) is an Italian physicist, full professor at Sapienza University in Rome, who heads the Nonlinear Optics Laboratory and directed the CNR Institute of Complex Systems from 2014 to 2023.
Claudio De Rosa
Claudio De Rosa is an Italian professor of industrial chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II, known for the crystal structure of syndiotactic polypropylene and crystalline thermoplastic elastomers.
Claudio Palomo
Claudio Palomo, born in Barcelona in 1951, is a Spanish organic chemist and professor at the University of the Basque Country, known for the diarylprolinol ether organocatalysts.
Claudio Pellegrini
Claudio Pellegrini is an Italian-born accelerator physicist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA, who co-formulated SASE theory and proposed the LCLS, the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser.
Claus Feldmann
Claus Feldmann is a German inorganic chemist and full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2010, known for liquid-phase synthesis of functional nanomaterials.
Claus Ropers
Claus Ropers, born 1977 in Stade, is a German physicist known for ultrafast electron microscopy, a professor at Göttingen and director at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences.
Clayton Heathcock
Clayton Heathcock (Clayton H. Heathcock, born 1936) is an American synthetic organic chemist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for aldol stereocontrol and biomimetic total synthesis.
Clémence Corminbœuf
Clémence Corminboeuf, born 1977, is a Swiss computational and theoretical chemist who heads the Computational Molecular Design Laboratory at EPFL and develops electronic-structure methods for catalysis and organic electronics.