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David Alexander (physicist)
David Alexander is a Scottish-born solar and space plasma physicist, professor at Rice University and Director of the Rice Space Institute, known for research on solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
David Allan Bromley
David Allan Bromley (1926–2005) was a Canadian-American nuclear physicist known as the father of heavy-ion physics and the first Cabinet-level science adviser to a US president.
David Alsteens
David Alsteens is a Belgian chemist and professor at UCLouvain who uses atomic force microscopy to measure molecular forces in cell adhesion, signaling, and virus entry.
David Atlas
David Atlas (1924–2015) was an American radar meteorologist regarded as a founding figure of radar meteorology whose research influenced the design of the NEXRAD Doppler radar network.
David Avnir
David Avnir (born 1947) is an Israeli chemist and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for molecularly doped metals, sol–gel entrapment, and fractal geometry in chemistry.
David Awschalom
David D. Awschalom is an American experimental physicist known for spintronics, the Liew Family Professor and Chicago Quantum Institute director at the University of Chicago, and inaugural director of Q-NEXT.
David B. Collum
David B. Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University, a physical organic–organometallic chemist known for NMR studies of organolithium and organosodium reagents.
David B. Kaplan
David B. Kaplan, born 1958, is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Washington known for domain wall fermions, the composite Higgs, and asymmetric dark matter.
David B. Sprinson
David B. Sprinson (1910–2007) was an American biochemist at Columbia University known for elucidating the shikimic acid pathway, the route to aromatic compounds in microorganisms and plants.
David Bates (physicist)
Sir David Robert Bates (1916–1994) was a Northern Irish physicist at Queen's University Belfast who gave the first realistic description of the ionosphere and identified dissociative recombination.
David Beljonne
David Beljonne (born 1969) is a Belgian theoretical chemist at the University of Mons and Georgia Tech who models conjugated organic materials for solar cells, LEDs, and transistors.
David Bercovici
David Bercovici is a geophysicist, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor at Yale University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, known for grain-damage theory of plate boundaries.
David Blackwell
David Blackwell (1919–2010) was an American statistician and mathematician at UC Berkeley who in 1965 became the first African American elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
David Blei
David M. Blei is a machine learning researcher and Professor of Statistics and Computer Science at Columbia University, known for latent Dirichlet allocation and probabilistic topic models.
David Borwein
David Borwein (1924–2021) was a Canadian mathematician who specialized in summability theory, headed mathematics at the University of Western Ontario for 22 years, and led the Canadian Mathematical Society.
David Branch (astronomer)
David Branch is an American astronomer at the University of Oklahoma known for interpreting supernova spectra and using Type Ia supernovae to measure the universe's expansion.
David Brewster
Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) was a Scottish physicist known for experimental work in optics and polarized light, who discovered Brewster's law, founded optical mineralogy, and invented the kaleidoscope.
David Bruce Wilson
David Bruce Wilson is an American researcher in combinatorics and probability, known for Wilson's algorithm for uniform spanning trees and for coupling from the past.
David Brunt
Sir David Brunt (1886–1965) was a Welsh meteorologist, Britain's first full-time professor of meteorology at Imperial College London, known for the Brunt–Väisälä frequency and the Brunt Ice Shelf.
David Brydges
David Brydges, born in England in 1949, is a mathematical physicist and Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, known for the lace expansion and rigorous renormalization group methods.
David Buchsbaum
David Buchsbaum (1929–2021) was an American mathematician at Brandeis University who helped create homological commutative algebra, proving the Auslander–Buchsbaum formula and giving his name to Buchsbaum rings.
David Buckingham (chemical physicist)
Amyand David Buckingham (1930–2021) was an Australian-born chemical physicist and first-class cricketer who became the first holder of Cambridge's Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry and made advances in intermolecular forces and nonlinear optics.
David C. Catling
David C. Catling is a professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington who studies Earth's ancient atmosphere and the search for life on Mars and exoplanets.
David C. Clary
David C. Clary, born 1953, is a British theoretical chemist, Emeritus Professor at Oxford, known for quantum theories of chemical reaction dynamics and water cluster structures.
David C. Noone
David C. Noone is an Australian-born climate physicist known for tracking the water cycle through stable water isotopes; he has held posts at Colorado Boulder, Oregon State, and Auckland.
David C. Powers
David C. Powers (born 1983) is an American chemist who is a professor at Texas A&M University, known for catalysis and hypervalent iodine oxidants generated from oxygen.
David Cahen
David Cahen is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for work on halide perovskite solar cells and protein bioelectronics.
David Charbonneau
David Charbonneau is a Canadian astronomer at Harvard known for the first detection of an exoplanet transiting a Sun-like star and the first detection of an exoplanet atmosphere.
David Clay Heath
David Clay Heath (1943–2011) was an American mathematician and applied probabilist who co-authored the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework for interest rate term structure and worked on coherent measures of risk.
David Cobden
David H. Cobden is a British-born condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Washington, known for measuring the first accurate solid-state triple point in vanadium dioxide.