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Constance Chang-Hasnain
Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, known professionally as Connie Chang-Hasnain, is a Berkeley professor and photonics researcher whose work on VCSELs and high-contrast gratings shaped 3D sensing and optical communications.
Constantine Dafermos
Constantine Dafermos, born 1941 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek applied mathematician at Brown University known for his work on hyperbolic conservation laws and entropy.
Constantinos G. Vayenas (Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Βαγενάς)
Constantinos G. Vayenas (Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Βαγενάς) is a Greek chemical engineer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Patras, known for discovering electrochemical promotion of catalysis (NEMCA).
Conyers Herring
William Conyers Herring (1914–2009) was an American solid-state physicist who developed the orthogonalized plane wave method, led Bell Labs' theoretical physics department, and taught at Stanford.
Corale L. Brierley
Corale L. Brierley is an American biohydrometallurgist who carried microbial metal recovery into commercial mining practice, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Corentin Coulais
Corentin Coulais is a French physicist who works on mechanical metamaterials and active solids, and has been a professor at the University of Amsterdam since 2026.
Corey Potvin
Corey K. Potvin is an American research meteorologist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, who works on probabilistic tornado warnings and storm-scale ensemble prediction.
Corey Stephenson
Corey R. J. Stephenson is a Canadian organic chemist known for visible-light photoredox catalysis, holding a Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of British Columbia since 2024.
Corinna S. Schindler
Corinna S. Schindler is a German organic chemist who develops sustainable, iron-based catalytic methods and holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia.
Cornelis de Jager
Cornelis (Kees) de Jager (1921–2021) was a Dutch astronomer who studied the solar atmosphere and the brightest stars, founded a space research laboratory, and led international scientific unions.
Cornelis Jacobus Gorter
Cornelis Jacobus Gorter (1907–1980) was a Dutch experimental physicist who first demonstrated paramagnetic relaxation, co-developed the two-fluid model of superconductivity, and narrowly missed discovering nuclear magnetic resonance.
Cornelis Simon Meijer
Cornelis Simon Meijer (1904–1974) was a Dutch mathematician at the University of Groningen who introduced the Meijer G-function in 1936, a Mellin–Barnes integral generalizing hypergeometric functions.
Cornelius Lanczos
Cornelius Lanczos, born Kornél Löwy, was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist, Einstein's assistant in 1928–29, whose 1950 minimized iteration paper became the Lanczos algorithm, a top-ten algorithm of the century.
Corrado Gini
Corrado Gini (1884–1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer, and sociologist who introduced the Gini coefficient, founded the journal Metron, and led Italy's Central Institute of Statistics.
Corrado Segre
Corrado Segre (1863–1924) was an Italian mathematician who, from the chair of higher geometry at the University of Turin, built and led the Italian school of algebraic geometry.
Cory Dean
Cory R. Dean is an experimental condensed matter physicist and professor of physics at Columbia University known for research on two-dimensional materials, moiré quantum matter, and twisted bilayer graphene.
Costas Soukoulis
Costas M. Soukoulis (1951–2024) was a Greek-born condensed matter physicist at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory known for photonic crystals and left-handed metamaterials.
Craig J. Hawker
Craig J. Hawker (born 1964) is an Australian-born polymer chemist, Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for living free radical polymerization and for co-founding companies including Olaplex.
Craig J. Hogan
Craig J. Hogan is a cosmologist and astrophysicist at the University of Chicago and Fermilab, known for co-discovering dark energy in 1998 and for the Fermilab Holometer.
Craig L. Hill
Craig L. Hill (born 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American inorganic chemist who spent his career at Emory University studying polyoxometalate catalysts for oxidation and solar fuels.
Craig Tracy (mathematical physicist)
Craig Arnold Tracy (1945–2026) was an American mathematician at the University of California, Davis, who with Harold Widom discovered the Tracy–Widom distributions describing largest-eigenvalue fluctuations of random matrices.
Crayton J. Yapp
Crayton J. Yapp was an American isotope geochemist at Southern Methodist University who reconstructed ancient climates and atmospheric CO2 from tree cellulose and soil goethite.
Crispin Nash-Williams
Crispin St. John Alvah Nash-Williams (1932–2001) was a Welsh mathematician counted among the founders of graph theory, known for his forest-decomposition and strong orientation theorems.
Cristina Nevado
Cristina Nevado (born 1977 in Madrid) is a Spanish organic chemist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for radical C–H functionalization and photoredox catalysis.
Cristoforo Alasia de Quesada
Cristoforo Alasia de Quesada was an Italian mathematician, born in Sassari in 1864, who taught in small towns and founded the international journal Le Matematiche pure ed applicate.
Csaba Janáky
Csaba Janáky, born in 1984, is a Hungarian chemist at the University of Szeged who works on photoelectrochemistry and electrochemical carbon dioxide conversion, and co-founded the CO2-electrolysis start-up eChemicles.
Cui‐Zu Chang
Cui-Zu Chang is a Chinese-born condensed matter physicist at Penn State known for the first experimental observation of the quantum anomalous Hall effect in 2013.
Cumrun Vafa (کامران وفا)
Cumrun Vafa (کامران وفا), also known as Kamran Vafa, is an Iranian-born theoretical physicist at Harvard who works on string theory, black hole entropy, and the swampland program.
Cun‐Zheng Ning
Cun-Zheng Ning (宁存政) is a Chinese-American optoelectronics researcher known for the first monolithic white laser and plasmonic nanolasers, and since 2022 a dean at Shenzhen Technology University.
Curt Wentrup
Curt Wentrup is a Danish-born Australian physical organic chemist known for research on carbenes and nitrenes, and professor at the University of Queensland from 1985 to 2007.