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Daniel G. Nocera

Daniel G. Nocera is an American inorganic chemist and Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard, known for the artificial leaf and solar fuels research.

Daniel Gorenstein

Daniel Gorenstein (1923–1992) was an American mathematician, a Rutgers professor known for Gorenstein rings and as chief strategist of the classification of the finite simple groups.

Daniel Gottesman

Daniel Gottesman is a professor at the University of Maryland and co-director of QuICS, best known for developing the stabilizer code formalism and fault-tolerant quantum computation.

Daniel Greenberger

Daniel M. Greenberger is a Distinguished Professor of physics at the City College of New York, best known as lead author of the 1989 GHZ theorem.

Daniel Howard Appella

Daniel Howard Appella is an American chemist who leads the Synthetic Bioactive Molecules Section at NIH, working on peptoids, peptide nucleic acids, and HIV inhibitors.

Daniel I. Goldman

Daniel I. Goldman is an American physicist at Georgia Tech who studies how animals and robots move over sand and other complex terrain, known for terradynamics and robophysics.

Daniel J. Cziczo

Daniel J. Cziczo is an American atmospheric chemist who studies how airborne particles form clouds, and has led Purdue University's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department since 2019.

Daniel J. Gauthier

Daniel J. Gauthier, known as D.J. Gauthier, is an American experimental physicist who studies the physics of information, known for slow light, all-optical switching, and quantum key distribution.

Daniel J. Jacob

Daniel J. Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Harvard, known for atmospheric methane research and developing the GEOS-Chem model used worldwide.

Daniel J. Kleitman

Daniel J. Kleitman (born 1934) is an American applied mathematician at MIT known for extremal set theory, the Greene–Kleitman theorem, and joint work with Paul Erdős.

Daniel J. Mindiola

Daniel J. Mindiola is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist, Brush Family Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for iridium-catalyzed methane borylation and alkane dehydrogenation with titanium.

Daniel J. Price

Daniel J. Price, also known as Daniel Price, is an Australian computational astrophysicist and professor at Monash University in Melbourne, known for the PHANTOM and SPLASH codes.

Daniel J. Weix

Daniel J. Weix is an American organometallic chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for developing nickel-catalyzed cross-electrophile coupling, which joins two different electrophiles without preformed organometallic reagents.

Daniel Jacobs (astronomer)

Daniel Jacobs is an American astrophysicist and assistant professor at Arizona State University who received the 2025 PECASE award for his research on the early universe.

Daniel Jean Stanley

Jean-Daniel Stanley, also published as Daniel Jean Stanley, was a French-born American sedimentologist and geological oceanographer at the Smithsonian Institution, known for his decades-long study of the Nile delta.

Daniel Joseph Bradley

Daniel Joseph Bradley (1928–2010) was an Irish laser physicist, born in Derry, who pioneered ultrashort laser pulse generation and the streak cameras that measured them.

Daniel K. Nomura

Daniel K. Nomura is a chemical biologist and professor at UC Berkeley who develops chemoproteomic methods to find small-molecule binding sites on undruggable proteins, and founded several biotech companies.

Daniel K. Schwartz

Daniel K. Schwartz is an American soft-matter scientist, Glenn L. Murphy Professor of Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for single-molecule tracking of interfacial transport.

Daniel Kahneman (דניאל כהנמן)

Daniel Kahneman (דניאל כהנמן) was an Israeli-American psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, and whose work with Amos Tversky founded behavioral economics.

Daniel Kasen

Daniel Kasen is an American theoretical astrophysicist, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley, known for supercomputer modeling of supernovae, kilonovae, and radiation transport.

Daniel Kastler

Daniel Kastler (1926–2015) was a French mathematical physicist, son of Nobel laureate Alfred Kastler, who co-founded algebraic quantum field theory with Rudolf Haag and later championed non-commutative geometry.

Daniel Kivelson

Daniel Kivelson (1929–2003) was an American physical chemist and UCLA professor known for his ESR linewidth theory and work on supercooled liquids and the glass transition.

Daniel Kleppner

Daniel Kleppner (1932–2025) was an American atomic physicist, Lester Wolfe Professor Emeritus at MIT, who co-invented the hydrogen maser and pioneered Rydberg atoms and Bose–Einstein condensation in hydrogen.

Daniel Lidar

Daniel Lidar is a physicist in quantum information science and quantum computing, a professor at the University of Southern California known for decoherence-free subspaces and quantum error correction.

Daniel Loss

Daniel Loss is a theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Basel, best known for the 1998 Loss–DiVincenzo proposal using single electron spins in quantum dots as qubits.

Daniel M. Mittleman

Daniel M. Mittleman is an American electrical engineer at Brown University who studies terahertz radiation, known for guiding terahertz pulses along a bare metal wire and the first terahertz multiplexer.

Daniel M. Tartakovsky

Daniel M. Tartakovsky is an applied mathematician and hydrologist, professor of energy science and engineering at Stanford since 2016, known for uncertainty quantification in subsurface flow.

Daniel Maspoch

Daniel Maspoch (Daniel Maspoch Comamala; born 1976 in L'Escala, Spain) is a Spanish materials chemist and ICREA Research Professor at ICN2, known for metal–organic frameworks and clip-off chemistry.

Daniel N. Baker

Daniel N. Baker is an American space physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for research on the Van Allen radiation belts and space weather.

Daniel N. Dietz

Daniel N. Dietz (1913–1988) was a Dutch reservoir engineer who headed thermal recovery research at Shell, developed steam soak, and gave his name to the Dietz gravity tongue.