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David MacAdam
David Lewis MacAdam (1910–1998) was an American physicist and color scientist at Eastman Kodak, known for the MacAdam ellipses of 1942 measuring sensitivity to color differences.
David MacMillan
David MacMillan is a Scottish chemist and James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton who shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List for developing asymmetric organocatalysis.
David Mandrus
David Mandrus is an American materials scientist at the University of Tennessee who designs and synthesizes new quantum materials, with a joint appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
David Masiello
David J. Masiello is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Washington whose research explains how light, electrons, and nanoscale materials interact, with emphasis on plasmonics and nanophotonics.
David McCollum
David L. McCollum is an energy and climate policy researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known for integrated assessment modeling, his 2018 Nature Energy analysis of Paris Agreement investment needs, and IPCC roles.
David Merritt
David Merritt is an astrophysicist known for work on supermassive black holes and the dynamics of elliptical galaxies, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 2017.
David Milman
David Pinhusovich Milman (Ukrainian: Давид Пінхусович Мільман; 1912–1982) was a Ukrainian-born Israeli mathematician in functional analysis, co-prover of the Krein–Milman theorem and the Milman–Pettis theorem, and a Tel Aviv University professor.
David Milstein
David Milstein, born 1947, is an Israeli chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot known for pincer complexes operating by metal–ligand cooperation and for acceptorless dehydrogenation releasing hydrogen as the only byproduct.
David Moher
David Moher is a Canadian clinical epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, known for leading the CONSORT and PRISMA reporting guidelines.
David Morrison (astronomer)
David Morrison (born 1940) is an American planetary astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center, Carl Sagan's first doctoral student, who led the 1991 study recommending the Spaceguard Survey.
David Moss (photonics researcher)
David J. Moss is a photonics researcher and Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, known for pioneering integrated optical microcombs and a 2021 optical neural network accelerator.
David Mumford
David Mumford, born 1937 in England, is a British-born mathematician who won the 1974 Fields Medal for algebraic geometry and later helped build Pattern Theory in computer vision.
David N. Beratan
David N. Beratan is an American theoretical chemist at Duke University known for the tunneling pathway model of electron transfer in proteins and DNA, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
David N. Payne
David N. Payne is a British physicist at the University of Southampton whose team announced the erbium-doped fiber amplifier in 1985, enabling today's long-distance internet traffic.
David N. Reinhoudt
David N. Reinhoudt (born 1942) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist, professor at the University of Twente from 1975 to 2007 and scientific director of its MESA+ nanotechnology institute.
David N. Schramm
David N. Schramm (1945–1997) was an American astrophysicist and cosmologist at the University of Chicago and Fermilab, best known for unifying big-bang cosmology with particle physics.
David N. Spergel
David N. Spergel is an American theoretical astrophysicist and president of the Simons Foundation since 2021, known for leading the WMAP cosmological-parameter analyses and proposing self-interacting dark matter.
David N. Yetter
David N. Yetter (born 1957) is an American mathematician and category theorist at Kansas State University, known for Yetter–Drinfeld modules, the Crane–Yetter four-dimensional TQFT, and the HOMFLY polynomial paper.
David Nesvorný
David Nesvorný, born 1969, is a Czech-born planetary dynamicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who won the 2005 Urey Prize for work on asteroids.
David Nicewicz
David A. Nicewicz is an American organic chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill known for organic photoredox catalysis, using organic dyes rather than metals.
David Olive (British theoretical physicist)
David Ian Olive (1937–2012) was a British theoretical physicist at Cambridge, CERN, Imperial College, and Swansea, known for the GSO projection and the 1977 Montonen–Olive duality conjecture.
David P. DiVincenzo
David P. DiVincenzo (born 1959 in Philadelphia) is an American theoretical physicist known for the DiVincenzo criteria for quantum computing and the Loss–DiVincenzo quantum-dot qubit proposal.
David P. Goldberg
David P. Goldberg is an inorganic and bioinorganic chemist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for synthetic models of heme and nonheme iron enzyme active sites.
David P. Morton
David P. Morton is an American operations researcher known for stochastic optimization methods, who won a Presidential Early Career Award in 1997 and is a professor at Northwestern University.
David P. Roy
David P. Roy is a remote sensing scientist, professor at Michigan State University, and director of its Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, known for Landsat and MODIS research.
David P. Williamson
David P. Williamson is an operations researcher at Cornell University who designs approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems, best known for the Goemans–Williamson maximum cut algorithm and a graduate textbook.
David Phillips (chemist)
David Phillips (born 1939) is a British photochemist who spent most of his career at Imperial College London and was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012.
David Pines
David Pines (1924–2018) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Illinois whose work with David Bohm underpinned BCS superconductivity theory and who co-founded the Santa Fe Institute.
David Pollard (climate scientist)
David Pollard is a climate scientist and emeritus researcher at Pennsylvania State University, known for modeling Antarctic ice-sheet collapse and the 2016 Nature paper projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea-level rise.
David Preiss
David Preiss (born 1947 in Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, known for his 1987 density theorem for rectifiable measures and work on Fréchet differentiability of Lipschitz functions.