Physical and mathematical scientists

Daniel Neuhauser

Daniel Neuhauser is a chemical physicist and professor at UCLA known for inventing filter-diagonalization and developing stochastic quantum chemistry methods for systems with tens of thousands of electrons.

Daniel P. Lathrop

Daniel P. Lathrop is an American experimental fluid dynamicist, professor of physics and geology at the University of Maryland, known for turbulence, geodynamo, and superfluid helium experiments and a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award.

Daniel P. Schrag

Daniel P. Schrag, born 1966, is an American geochemist and Harvard professor known for Snowball Earth research, energy policy work, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship.

Daniel Pedoe

Daniel Pedoe (1910–1998) was a British-born geometer known for the Neuberg-Pedoe inequality for two triangles, who taught at Khartoum, Singapore, Purdue, and Minnesota and co-wrote Methods of Algebraic Geometry.

Daniel Quillen

Daniel Quillen (1940–2011) was an American mathematician who founded higher algebraic K-theory and homotopical algebra, proved Serre's conjecture, and won the Fields Medal in 1978.

Daniel R. Gamelin

Daniel R. Gamelin is an inorganic chemist at the University of Washington, a 2003 PECASE recipient known for research on doped semiconductor nanocrystals and magnetic 2D perovskites.

Daniel R. Neumark

Daniel R. Neumark, also known as Daniel M. Neumark, is an American physical chemist born in 1955, known for transition state spectroscopy and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Daniel Ray

Daniel Burrill Ray (1928–1979) was a mathematician who earned his doctorate at Cornell in 1953 under Mark Kac and is known for Ray-Singer analytic torsion, introduced with Isadore Singer.

Daniel S. Chemla

Daniel S. Chemla (1940–2008) was a French-born American physicist known for nonlinear optics research and for directing the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Daniel S. Fisher

Daniel S. Fisher is a theoretical physicist and David Starr Jordan Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford, known for spin glasses and microbial evolutionary dynamics.

Daniel S. Hussey

Daniel S. Hussey is an American research physicist at NIST who leads neutron imaging research and demonstrated the world's first practical neutron microscope, earning a PECASE award.

Daniel Seidel

Daniel Seidel is an organic chemist who holds the Katritzky Term Professorship in Heterocyclic Chemistry at the University of Florida, where he has led a research group since 2017.

Daniel Shanks

Daniel Shanks (1917–1996) was an American number theorist who spent his career at Navy laboratories, created SQUFOF and the Shanks transformation, and computed 100,000 digits of pi in 1961.

Daniel Sigman

Daniel M. Sigman is an American biogeochemist and Dusenbury Professor at Princeton University, known for using nitrogen isotopes in ocean microfossils to study past atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Daniel Stick

Daniel Stick is a quantum information scientist at Sandia National Laboratories known for microfabricated ion traps, including a 2006 demonstration of an ion trap on a semiconductor chip.

Daniel Strawn

Daniel G. Strawn is an American professor of soil and water systems at the University of Idaho who studies how contaminants and nutrients bind to and move through soils.

Daniel T. Chiu

Daniel T. Chiu is an American chemist and bioengineer at the University of Washington, known for probing biological processes at the single-cell and single-molecule level.

Daniel Tătaru

Daniel Tătaru, born 1967 in Romania, is a Romanian-American mathematician and UC Berkeley professor known for results on dispersive partial differential equations and wave maps.

Daniel W. Armstrong

Daniel W. Armstrong is an American analytical chemist known for separation science, chiral recognition, and ionic liquids, holding the Robert A. Welch Chair at UT Arlington since 2006.

Daniel W. Fox

Daniel Wayne Fox (1923–1989) was an American polymer chemist at General Electric who invented Lexan polycarbonate in 1953 and wrote the first book on polycarbonates.

Daniel W. Stroock

Daniel W. Stroock (1940–2025) was an American mathematician and MIT professor known for the martingale-problem theory of diffusions and Malliavin calculus, winning the Steele Prize in 1996.

Daniel Wayne Bardayan

Daniel Wayne Bardayan is an American experimental nuclear astrophysicist, an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame known for measuring nuclear reaction rates that govern stellar explosions.

Daniel Wise (mathematician)

Daniel T. Wise is a James McGill Professor of mathematics at McGill University whose special cube complex theory supplied the core machinery behind the 2012 proof of the virtual Haken conjecture.

Daniel Z. Freedman

Daniel Z. Freedman is an American theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at MIT and visiting professor at Stanford, known for the 1976 discovery of supergravity and the 2019 Special Breakthrough Prize.

Daniela A. Wilson

Daniela A. Wilson, also known as Daniela Apreutesei Wilson, is a Romanian-born systems chemist and professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for self-propelled polymersome nanomotors.

Daniela Calzetti

Daniela Calzetti is an Italian-born astronomer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for the Calzetti law of dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies and for star formation rate calibrations.

Daniela Rhodes

Daniela Rhodes is a structural and molecular biologist known for the first crystals of the nucleosome and telomere structures, and winner of the 2023 WLA Prize.

Daniele Faccio

Daniele Faccio is an Italian physicist at the University of Glasgow, known for optical analogs of black holes and for quantum imaging, including cameras that image around corners.

Daniele Leonori

Daniele Leonori is an Italian organic chemist who leads the Chair of Organic Chemistry III at RWTH Aachen University, working on photocatalysis and carbon–nitrogen bond formation.