Physical and mathematical scientists

Curtis Berlinguette

Curtis P. Berlinguette is a Canadian chemist and professor at the University of British Columbia, known for CO2 electrochemical reactors and self-driving laboratories for clean-energy materials.

Curtis Callan

Curtis Callan is an American theoretical physicist, long at Princeton University, known for the Callan–Symanzik equation, the Callan–Gross relation, and statistical models of antibody diversity.

Curtis Deutsch is an American climate and ocean scientist, professor of geosciences at Princeton University, known for linking ocean warming and oxygen loss to marine habitats and past mass extinctions.

Curtis J. Humphreys

Curtis J. Humphreys (1898–1986) was an American experimental physicist and infrared spectroscopist at the National Bureau of Standards, first to observe the sixth hydrogen emission series, now called the Humphreys series.

Curtis T. McMullen

Curtis T. McMullen is an American mathematician at Harvard who works on complex dynamics and hyperbolic geometry, and who received the Fields Medal in 1998.

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Curtis W. Frank

Curtis W. Frank is a Stanford chemical engineer and polymer scientist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his work on soft materials.

Curtis Woodcock

Curtis E. Woodcock is an American remote sensing scientist and professor at Boston University, known for forest monitoring, the Fmask cloud detection algorithm, and the 2016 Pecora Award.

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig is an American climate scientist at NASA GISS who pioneered the study of climate impacts on agriculture and won the 2022 World Food Prize.

Cynthia Friend

Cynthia Friend is an American physical chemist, a Harvard professor since 1982 known for catalysis research on gold and silver, and president of The Kavli Foundation since 2021.

Cynthia J. Burrows

Cynthia J. Burrows is an American nucleic acid chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for her work on guanine oxidation in DNA and nanopore sequencing.

Cyril Grob

Cyril A. Grob (1917–2003) was a Swiss organic chemist at the University of Basel who recognized heterolytic fragmentation in 1955, known as the Grob fragmentation.

Cyril Hilsum

Cyril Hilsum (1925–2026) was a British physicist who led UK research on compound semiconductors and liquid crystal displays, first at SERL and then RSRE Malvern.

Cyril Offord

Cyril Offord, full name Albert Cyril Offord, was a British mathematician who pioneered random polynomials with Littlewood and became the LSE's first Professor of Mathematics.

Cyril Ponnamperuma

Cyril Ponnamperuma (1923–1994) was a Sri Lankan-born American chemist who synthesized DNA and RNA building blocks, including ATP, under early-Earth conditions, and led NASA's chemical evolution research.

Cyrille Boyer

Cyrille Boyer is a polymer chemist and professor at UNSW Sydney who trained in Montpellier, France, and is known for PET-RAFT, a light-driven polymerization technique.

Cyrille Costentin

Cyrille Costentin is a French molecular electrochemist and professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes, known for proton-coupled electron transfer and the molecular electrocatalysis of CO2 reduction and hydrogen production.

Cyrus Colton MacDuffee

Cyrus Colton MacDuffee (1895–1961) was an American mathematician who researched matrix algebra, taught at Wisconsin, and wrote influential textbooks including The Theory of Matrices (1933).

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D. Bruce Montgomery

D. Bruce Montgomery, born Donald Bruce Montgomery, was an American electromagnet and fusion engineer at MIT who co-invented the cable-in-conduit conductor used in fusion devices worldwide.

D. G. Champernowne

D. G. Champernowne, born David Gawen Champernowne, was a British mathematician and economist who, as a Cambridge undergraduate in 1933, constructed the first explicit normal number in base 10.

D. R. Fulkerson

D. R. Fulkerson, also known as Delbert Ray Fulkerson, was an American mathematician who, with L. R. Ford Jr. at RAND, created network flow theory.

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D. S. Heeschen

D. S. Heeschen, born David Sutphin Heeschen, was an American radio astronomer who directed the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1962 to 1978 and planned the Very Large Array.

D. Wayne Goodman

D. Wayne Goodman (1945–2012) was an American surface chemist and heterogeneous catalysis researcher at Texas A&M University, known for model-catalyst studies of nanosized gold on titania.

D.V. Nanopoulos

D.V. Nanopoulos (Δημήτριος Νανόπουλος), born 1948 in Athens, is a Greek particle physicist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University and Academy of Athens member, known for Higgs-boson phenomenology, supersymmetry, and string model building.