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David Cox (statistician)
Sir David Roxbee Cox (1924–2022) was a British statistician at Imperial College London and Oxford whose 1972 proportional hazards model transformed survival analysis in medicine.
David Crich
David Crich is a British-born carbohydrate chemist and chemical biologist who has been a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the University of Georgia since 2019.
David Cullen (electron microscopist)
David A. Cullen is an electron microscopist and electrocatalysis researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a 2019 PECASE recipient known for visualizing single-atom fuel cell catalysts.
David D. Pollard
David D. Pollard is a structural geologist and emeritus Stanford professor known for bringing continuum and fracture mechanics into the quantitative analysis of faults, joints, dikes, and veins.
David D. Yao
David D. Yao is a Chinese-American operations researcher at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for research on stochastic systems.
David DeMille
David DeMille is an American atomic physicist known for laser cooling of molecules and precision searches for new particles, now a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins.
David Deutsch
David Deutsch, also known as David Elieser Deutsch, is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford who pioneered quantum computation and champions the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
David Dickey
David A. Dickey (born 1945, Ohio) is an American statistician at North Carolina State University, best known as co-creator with Wayne Fuller of the Dickey–Fuller unit-root test.
David Dunson
David B. Dunson is a statistician and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for Bayesian methods for complex, high-dimensional data and the COPSS President's Award.
David E. Aspnes
David E. Aspnes is an American condensed-matter physicist known for spectroscopic ellipsometry, who worked at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore before joining North Carolina State University in 1992.
David E. Clemmer
David Clemmer is an American analytical chemist and Distinguished Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, known for inventing nested ion mobility spectrometry–mass spectrometry for studying protein shapes.
David E. Daykin
David E. Daykin is a mathematician who took his Ph.D. at Reading in 1961 under Richard Rado and is known for named results in extremal set theory.
David E. Manolopoulos
David E. Manolopoulos (born 1961) is a British theoretical chemist, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at Oxford and a Royal Society Fellow, known for ring-polymer molecular dynamics.
David E. Muller
David E. Muller, born in 1924, was an American theoretical physicist who constructed the Reed–Muller error-correcting codes and designed the Muller C-element, a building block of asynchronous circuits.
David E. Pritchard
David E. Pritchard, born 1941, is an American atomic physicist who was a professor at MIT from 1970 to 2022, known for atom optics, laser cooling, and precision mass measurements.
David E. Sugden
David E. Sugden, also known as David Edward Sugden, is a British glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh known for research on Antarctic and Patagonian ice.
David Écija
David Écija is a Spanish condensed matter physicist and Research Professor at IMDEA Nanociencia in Madrid, known for on-surface synthesis of molecular nanostructures and a 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant.
David Eichler
David Eichler (1951–2021) was a theoretical astrophysicist at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, known for his 1989 prediction that coalescing neutron stars produce short gamma-ray bursts and heavy elements.
David Eisenbud
David Eisenbud is an American mathematician at UC Berkeley, a leading commutative algebraist known for free resolutions, syzygies, and the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture, and a former MSRI director.
David F. Edwards
David F. Edwards is an American solid-state physicist who worked at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, known for silicon and diamond refractive-index measurements and Handbook of Optical Constants chapters.
David Fairen‐Jiménez
David Fairen-Jimenez, born in Madrid in 1979, is a Spanish chemist and Professor of Molecular Engineering at Cambridge whose research applies metal–organic frameworks to hydrogen storage, carbon capture, and cancer drug delivery.
David Finkelstein
David Ritz Finkelstein (1929–2016) was an American theoretical physicist at Georgia Tech whose 1958 paper first showed a black hole's event horizon is crossable, influencing Penrose and Wheeler.
David Francis Barrow
David Francis Barrow (1888–1970) was an American mathematician who spent most of his career at the University of Georgia and is known for Barrow's inequality.
David G. Grier
David G. Grier is an American soft condensed matter physicist at New York University known for developing holographic optical trapping, which splits one laser beam into hundreds of optical traps.
David G. Lidzey
David G. Lidzey is Professor of Physics at the University of Sheffield, where he made the first observation of strong coupling in an organic microcavity and co-founded Ossila.
David G. Vaughan
David Glyn Vaughan, OBE (1962–2023), was a British glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey, rising to Director of Science and leading UK research on the Thwaites Glacier.
David Gabai
David Gabai is an American mathematician, the Hughes-Rogers Professor at Princeton, known for proving the Property R, Smale, and Marden tameness conjectures in 3-manifold topology.
David Gale
David Gale (1921–2008) was an American mathematician and economist at Brown University and UC Berkeley, best known for his 1962 stable marriage paper with Lloyd Shapley, which became the basis of practical market design.
David Gallo
David Gallo is an American oceanographer who spent nearly 30 years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and led the 2010 expedition that mapped the Titanic wreck site.
David George Kendall
David George Kendall (1918–2007) was a British mathematician and statistician known as the father of modern probability theory in Britain, who created the GI/G/1 queueing notation.