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David Gill (Scottish astronomer)
Sir David Gill (1843–1914) was a Scottish astronomer who served as Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope from 1879, known for precision parallax measurements and pioneering astronomical photography.
David Goldhaber-Gordon
David Goldhaber-Gordon is an American experimental condensed matter physicist and Stanford professor, known for the first Kondo effect demonstration in a semiconductor nanostructure and work on graphene moiré superlattices.
David Goss
David Goss (1952–2017) was an American mathematician at Ohio State University who founded modern function field arithmetic, introduced the Goss zeta functions, and wrote their standard monograph.
David Gottlieb (applied mathematician)
David Gottlieb (1944–2008) was an applied mathematician, a pioneer of spectral methods for partial differential equations, and a Brown University professor elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
David Griggs (geophysicist)
David Tressel Griggs (1911–1974) was an American geophysicist who pioneered the experimental study of rock deformation, discovered hydrolytic weakening, and was professor of geophysics at UCLA from 1948 until his death.
David H. Auston
David H. Auston is a Canadian-born physicist and electrical engineer known for pioneering picosecond optoelectronics; his 1975 photoconductive switch at Bell Laboratories is called the Auston Switch.
David H. Bailey (mathematician)
David H. Bailey is an American computational mathematician, formerly at NASA Ames and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, best known as co-discoverer of the BBP formula for pi.
David H. McNear Jr.
David H. McNear Jr. is an American soil scientist and professor at the University of Kentucky who studies the chemistry of soil around plant roots and won a 2008 PECASE award.
David H. Russell
David H. Russell is an American chemist at Texas A&M University who develops ion mobility-mass spectrometry instruments and applies them to the structures and dynamics of large protein complexes.
David H. Waldeck
David H. Waldeck (1956–2026) was an American physical chemist at the University of Pittsburgh who co-discovered the Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity effect, in which chiral molecules filter electron spins.
David H. Weinberg
David H. Weinberg is a Distinguished University Professor of astronomy at Ohio State University, known for galaxy clustering research and leadership in the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys.
David Hand (statistician)
David John Hand, born 1950, is a British statistician and emeritus professor at Imperial College London, a past president of the Royal Statistical Society known for classification and fraud detection research.
David Hanson (statistician)
David Lee Hanson (1935–2020) was an American statistician and probabilist who taught at SUNY Binghamton and created the Hanson–Koopmans tolerance-limit method, still used for aerospace material allowables.
David Harker
David Harker (1906–1991) was an American X-ray crystallographer who devised the Harker section and Harker–Kasper inequalities and led the first US protein structure determination, completed in 1967.
David Hays (chemist)
David Hays is an American industrial chemist and inventor, a Senior Staff Scientist at 3M in Minnesota elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
David Hilbert
David Hilbert was a German mathematician, professor at Göttingen from 1895 to 1930, remembered for Hilbert space, proof theory, and posing 23 problems in 1900.
David Hodell
David Hodell is a British-American paleoclimatologist, Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge, known for lake-sediment evidence of drought during the Classic Maya collapse and elected a Royal Society fellow in 2024.
David Hsieh
David Hsieh is an experimental condensed matter physicist at Caltech, known for identifying the first topological insulator by ARPES and for ultrafast light-based control of materials.
David J. C. MacKay
David J. C. MacKay (David John Cameron MacKay) was a British physicist at Cambridge who wrote Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air and advised the UK government on energy.
David J. Dean
David J. Dean is an American theoretical nuclear physicist known for quantum many-body methods, a 1997 PECASE award, and the first quantum-computer calculation of a nucleus.
David J. Des Marais
David J. Des Marais, also published as D. J. Des Marais, is a geochemist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center who led NASA's Astrobiology Roadmap and served on Mars rover science teams.
David J. Gross
David J. Gross, born 1941 in Washington, D.C., is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom in the strong interaction.
David J. Heldebrant
David J. Heldebrant is an American organic chemist who directs the Physical Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for CO2-binding organic liquids for carbon capture.
David J. Nesbitt
David J. Nesbitt is an American chemical physicist at JILA, NIST, and the University of Colorado Boulder, known for single-molecule spectroscopy of quantum dots and RNA folding.
David J. Norris
David J. Norris (born 1968, St. Louis) is an American materials scientist who has been Professor of Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2010, known for work on colloidal quantum dots.
David J. Pine
David J. Pine is an American physicist at New York University known for co-developing diffusing-wave spectroscopy and for self-assembling a colloidal diamond lattice in 2020.
David J. Procter
David J. Procter is a British organic chemist, Professor and Head of Department at the University of Manchester, known for radical synthesis and samarium diiodide catalysis.
David J. Stevenson
David J. Stevenson, born 1948, is a New Zealand-born planetary scientist at Caltech, a Royal Society Fellow known for the Moon's giant-impact origin and work on Jupiter.
David J. Thouless
David J. Thouless (1934–2019) was a British-born theoretical condensed-matter physicist at the University of Washington who won half of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for topological phase transitions.
David J. Vocadlo
David J. Vocadlo is a chemical biologist and Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University who studies carbohydrates as drug targets, known for O-GlcNAcase inhibitors and co-founding Alectos Therapeutics.