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David J. Wales
David J. Wales is a theoretical chemist, Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Cambridge, known for developing energy landscape theory and its applications to clusters, biomolecules, and glasses.
David J. Wilner
David J. Wilner is a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, at Harvard, who studies protoplanetary disks and planet formation using ALMA and the Submillimeter Array.
David J. Wineland
David J. Wineland is an American physicist at NIST and the University of Oregon who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on trapped ions.
David Jewitt
David Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-born planetary astronomer at UCLA known for co-discovering the Kuiper Belt in 1992, for defining the active asteroids, and for winning the 2012 Kavli and Shaw prizes.
David John Bishop
David John Bishop (born 1951) is an American experimental physicist who spent 33 years at Bell Labs developing MEMS optical switching, later leading Boston University's materials science division.
David Karl
David Karl, also known as David M. Karl, is an American microbial oceanographer at the University of Hawaiʻi who co-founded the Hawaii Ocean Time-series program in 1988.
David Kazhdan
David Kazhdan, born 1946 in Moscow, is a Soviet-born mathematician in representation theory, known for Kazhdan's property (T) and Kazhdan–Lusztig theory, who taught at Harvard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
David Keith (Canadian physicist)
David Keith is a Canadian climate scientist known for solar geoengineering research and for founding Carbon Engineering, a direct air capture company sold to Occidental Petroleum for $1.1 billion in 2023.
David Kipping
David Kipping is a British-born astronomer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who leads the Cool Worlds Lab, developed exomoon detection methods, and reported the first exomoon candidates.
David L. Allara
David L. Allara is an American chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Penn State, who won the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for helping create self-assembled monolayers.
David L. Atherton
David L. Atherton, also known as David Lawrence Atherton, was a British-born Canadian physicist at Queen's University, Kingston, known for maglev research, the Jiles-Atherton hysteresis model, and pipeline inspection.
David L. Kohlstedt
David L. Kohlstedt is an American experimental geophysicist at the University of Minnesota whose laboratory studies of rock deformation established the physical basis for modeling mantle flow.
David L. Lambert
David L. Lambert is a British-born stellar spectroscopist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for precision stellar spectral analysis and work on the cosmological lithium problem.
David L. Patrick
David L. Patrick is an American surface and materials chemist at Western Washington University, honored with a 2000 PECASE award for liquid crystal imprinting research.
David L. Webster
David L. Webster (1888–1976) was an American physicist who headed the Stanford physics department from 1920 to 1942 and was known for his work on X rays.
David Larbalestier
David Larbalestier is a condensed-matter physicist at Florida State University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, known for a record 45.5-tesla superconducting magnet field set in 2019.
David Long (chemist)
David Long is a research chemist at NIST's Material Measurement Laboratory who builds laser-based instruments for gas spectroscopy, winning a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award.
David Louapre
David Louapre is a French theoretical physicist and science communicator, creator of the blog and YouTube channel Science étonnante, and winner of the CNRS science-mediation medal in 2023.
David Lovelock
David Lovelock (born 1938, Bromley, London) is a British mathematician who proved Lovelock's theorem and introduced the Lovelock tensor, generalizing Einstein's field equations to higher dimensions.
David Luenberger
David Luenberger was an American mathematical scientist in optimization and control theory, a longtime Stanford professor who originated the Luenberger observer and wrote six major textbooks.
David M. Ceperley
David M. Ceperley is an American theoretical physicist known for developing quantum Monte Carlo methods and for a 1980 electron-gas calculation that still benchmarks density functional theory codes.
David M. Dennison
David M. Dennison (1900–1976) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Michigan, a pioneer in using quantum theory to interpret molecular infrared spectra.
David M. Grobman
David M. Grobman (Давид Матвеевич Гробман) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who proved the Grobman–Hartman theorem, announced in 1959, showing nonlinear systems are locally topologically equivalent to their linearizations.
David M. Haddleton
David M. Haddleton is a British polymer chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Warwick since 1998, known for copper-mediated living radical polymerization in water and glycopolymers.
David M. Kreps
David M. Kreps is an American economic theorist at Stanford's Graduate School of Business since 1975, known for sequential equilibria, signaling games, and the 1989 John Bates Clark Medal.
David M. Lee
David M. Lee, born in 1931 in Rye, New York, is an American physicist who spent his career at Cornell University and shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering superfluidity in helium-3.
David M. Lynn
David M. Lynn is an American chemical engineer and materials scientist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working on polymer surfaces, coatings, and thin films.
David M. Raup
David M. Raup (1933–2015) was an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago who made paleontology quantitative and proposed, with Sepkoski, a 26-million-year cycle of mass extinctions.
David M. Reif
David M. Reif is an American biostatistician and computational toxicologist who received a PECASE, worked on EPA's ToxCast and Tox21, and since 2022 leads the Predictive Toxicology Branch at NIEHS.
David M. Villeneuve
David M. Villeneuve is a Canadian experimental physicist who led the Attosecond Science Group at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa until retiring in 2020.