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David Quéré

David Quéré, born 1963, is a French physicist, CNRS research director at ESPCI Paris and professor at École Polytechnique, known for work on capillarity, wetting, and superhydrophobic surfaces.

David R. Montgomery

David R. Montgomery is an American geomorphologist and MacArthur Fellow, a University of Washington professor since 1991 known for research on bedrock river incision, soil erosion, and civilizations.

David R. Nygren

David R. Nygren is an American experimental particle physicist who invented the time projection chamber in 1974, spent most of his career at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and won the Panofsky Prize.

David R. Shelly

David R. Shelly is an American seismologist at the USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center in Golden, Colorado, known for studies of tectonic tremor and earthquake swarms.

David R. Smith

David R. Smith is a physicist and professor at Duke University who demonstrated the first negative-index metamaterial in 2000 and the first practical electromagnetic invisibility cloak in 2006.

David R. Veblen

David R. Veblen is an American mineralogist and crystallographer, professor at Johns Hopkins University, who discovered the minerals chesterite and jimthompsonite and won the Mineralogical Society of America Award in 1983.

David R. Williams (scientist)

David R. Williams is an American vision scientist at the University of Rochester whose team demonstrated the first adaptive optics system for the eye, improving vision beyond spectacles.

David R. Yarkony

David R. Yarkony (David Yarkony) was an American theoretical chemist at Johns Hopkins University whose work on conical intersections changed how chemists understand radiationless decay.

David Rees (Welsh mathematician)

David Rees (1918–2013) was a Welsh mathematician who made foundational contributions to semigroup theory and commutative algebra, and worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.

David Reichman

David R. Reichman is an American theoretical chemist, the Centennial Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

David Reimer (American mathematician)

David Reimer (born 1962) is an American mathematician at The College of New Jersey, author of Count Like an Egyptian, a 2014 hands-on introduction to ancient Egyptian mathematics.

David Reitze

David H. Reitze is an experimental physicist who leads the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech and announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2016.

David Rind

David H. Rind, also published as D. Rind, is an American atmospheric scientist at NASA GISS known for his 1985 Nature paper on ocean–atmosphere stability.

David Robert Nelson

David Robert Nelson, born 1951 in Stuttgart, Germany, is an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who developed the theory of two-dimensional melting and its hexatic phase with Bertrand Halperin.

David Ruelle

David Ruelle, born 1935 in Ghent, Belgium, is a Belgian mathematical physicist, professor at IHÉS since 1964, known for the Ruelle–Takens turbulence proposal and SRB states.

David S. Citrin

David S. Citrin is an American optical physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech, known for terahertz technology and a 1997 PECASE award.

David S. Ginger

David S. Ginger is a physical chemist who holds the B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair at the University of Washington and develops scanning-probe microscopy for solar-cell materials.

David S. Heeschen

David S. Heeschen was an American radio astronomer who directed the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from 1962 to 1978 and is called the father of the Very Large Array.

David S. Sholl

David S. Sholl is an American chemical engineer at Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory known for computational modeling of chemical separations and carbon capture.

David S. Weiss

David S. Weiss is an American atomic physicist at Pennsylvania State University known for the 2006 quantum Newton's cradle experiment showing one-dimensional Bose gases fail to thermalize.

David Sarlah

David Šarlah is a Slovenian-born organic chemist and professor of chemistry at Rice University, known for dearomative functionalization of arenes and total syntheses of complex natural products.

David Scheschkewitz

David Scheschkewitz, born 1971 in Aurich, Germany, is a German inorganic chemist holding the Krupp Chair at Saarland University, known for siliconoids and all-silicon aromatic rings.

David Schimel

David S. Schimel is an American environmental scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies the terrestrial carbon cycle and shared in the IPCC's 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

David Shanno

David Shanno, also known as David F. Shanno, is an American mathematician and operations researcher who co-discovered the BFGS quasi-Newton algorithm in 1970 and developed the LOQO interior-point solver at Rutgers.

David Sherrington (physicist)

David Sherrington is a British theoretical condensed matter physicist and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Oxford, best known for the 1975 Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model of spin glasses and work on disordered systems.

David Shoenberg

David Shoenberg (1911–2004) was a British physicist, born in St Petersburg, who pioneered using the de Haas–van Alphen effect to determine the Fermi surfaces of metals.

David Siegmund

David Siegmund is an American statistician, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for work on sequential analysis, change-point detection, and the statistical theory of genetic mapping.

David Singmaster

David Singmaster (1938–2023) was an American mathematician who popularized the Rubik's Cube in the West, devised its standard notation, and wrote the first book on the puzzle.

David Sinton

David Sinton is a mechanical engineer and Canada Research Chair in Energy and Fluids at the University of Toronto, known for flow-cell electrolyzers that convert CO2 and CO into fuels and chemicals.

David Slepian

David Slepian (1923–2007) was an American mathematician and information theorist who spent his career at Bell Labs and formulated the Slepian–Wolf theorem on compressing correlated sources.