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Clemens Bechinger
Clemens Bechinger is a physicist and full professor at the University of Konstanz, leading a soft condensed matter group; his 2008 Nature paper directly measured critical Casimir forces.
Clemens Roothaan
Clemens Roothaan (Clemens C. J. Roothaan) was a Dutch-American physicist and quantum chemist at the University of Chicago whose Roothaan equations made molecular calculations practical.
Clemens Schöpf
Clemens Schöpf (Clemens Josef Schöpf, 1899–1970) was a German organic chemist, professor at TH Darmstadt from 1929, whose Robinson–Schöpf reaction synthesizes tropinone and related alkaloids under physiological conditions.
Clement D. Child
Clement D. Child, also known as Clement Dexter Child, was an American physicist born in 1868 who derived the 1911 space-charge law, now called the Child–Langmuir law.
Clément Sánchez
Clément Sanchez, born in Paris in 1949, is a French materials chemist who pioneered hybrid organic–inorganic materials and soft chemistry at CNRS and the Collège de France.
Cleve Moler
Cleve Moler (1939–2026) was an American numerical analyst and computer scientist who created MATLAB, coauthored the LINPACK and EISPACK libraries, and cofounded MathWorks, serving as its chief mathematician and chairman.
Cleveland Abbe
Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916) was an American meteorologist and astronomer who built the first US daily weather forecasts from telegraph reports and campaigned for standard time zones.
Clifford Charles Butler
Clifford Charles Butler (1922–1999) was an English physicist who, with George Rochester, discovered the first strange particles in cloud-chamber photographs at the University of Manchester in 1946–47.
Clifford G. Shull
Clifford G. Shull, also known as Clifford Shull, was an American physicist at MIT who shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the neutron diffraction technique.
Clifford Hugh Dowker
Clifford Hugh Dowker (1912–1982) was a Canadian-born topologist at Birkbeck College, London, who introduced countable paracompactness, posed the Dowker space problem, and with Morwen Thistlethwaite pioneered computer tabulation of knots.
Clifford Martin Will
Clifford Martin Will (born 1946) is a Canadian theoretical physicist known for experimental tests of Einstein's general relativity, a University of Florida professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
Clifford P. Kubiak
Clifford P. Kubiak is an American inorganic chemist, Distinguished Professor and Harold C. Urey Chair at UC San Diego, known for electrochemical and photochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to liquid fuels.
Clifford S. Gardner
Clifford S. Gardner was an American mathematician whose 1967 GGKM paper introduced the inverse scattering transform, founding the modern theory of solitons and integrable systems.
Clifford Stoll
Clifford Stoll, also known as Cliff Stoll, is an American astronomer and author born in 1950 who traced a West German hacker selling data to the KGB.
Clifford Taubes
Clifford Henry Taubes, born 1954, is an American mathematician at Harvard working on nonlinear partial differential equations and the geometry of three- and four-dimensional spaces.
Clifford Truesdell
Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000) was an American mathematical physicist who rebuilt continuum mechanics as a rigorous discipline, held the Rational Mechanics chair at Johns Hopkins, and founded two journals.
Clinton Davisson
Clinton Joseph Davisson (1881–1958) was an American experimental physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of electron diffraction by crystals.
Clyde Cowan
Clyde Cowan, also known as Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr., was an American physicist who, with Frederick Reines, made the first detection of the free neutrino at Savannah River in 1956.
Clyde Peter Jupiter
Clyde Peter Jupiter (1928–2024) was an American nuclear physicist and engineer known for nuclear radiation detection, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (1906–1997) was a self-taught American astronomer who discovered Pluto at Lowell Observatory in 1930 and later founded the astronomy program at New Mexico State University.
Clyde Wiegand
Clyde Wiegand (1915–1996) was an American experimental physicist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who co-discovered the antiproton in 1955 but did not share the 1959 Nobel Prize.
Colin Nuckolls
Colin Nuckolls is an American materials chemist at Columbia University, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020, known for single-molecule electronics.
Colin O’Dowd
Colin O'Dowd (Colin D. O'Dowd) is an atmospheric physicist and professor at the University of Galway known for showing that iodine from marine algae forms ocean aerosols.
Colin Pillinger
Colin Trevor Pillinger (1943–2014) was a British planetary scientist and mass spectroscopist at the Open University who led the Beagle 2 lander, the UK's first mission to Mars, and helped identify Martian meteorites.
Colm Mulcahy
Colm Mulcahy, born 1958 in Dublin, is an Irish mathematician best known for mathematical card magic and professor emeritus of mathematics at Spelman College, Atlanta.
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin was an American physical oceanographer who directed the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and gave the first systematic picture of the Gulf Stream.
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker, also published as C. J. Tucker, is an American Earth scientist who pioneered satellite monitoring of global vegetation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri
Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri (1932–2020) was an Indian algebraic geometer known for the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem, standard monomial theory, and Seshadri constants, and for founding the Chennai Mathematical Institute.
Connor Coley
Connor W. Coley is an American chemical engineer and computer scientist, an associate professor at MIT known for AI synthesis planning, the ASKCOS tool, and AI-guided drug discovery.
Conny Aerts
Conny Aerts is a Belgian astrophysicist, full professor at KU Leuven and pioneer of asteroseismology, who won the 2022 Kavli Prize and 2024 Crafoord Prize in astronomy.