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David Sloan (physicist)
David Sloan (David H. Sloan) was an American physicist who, as Ernest Lawrence's assistant at Berkeley, built early linear accelerators and the Sloan x-ray tube used in cancer treatment.
David Sumner
David P. Sumner is an American graph theorist at the University of South Carolina known for a 1974 claw-free matching theorem and a 1971 tournament conjecture.
David T. Sandwell
David T. Sandwell, born 1953, is an American marine geophysicist and emeritus professor at Scripps who pioneered satellite-altimetry mapping of seafloor topography and marine gravity.
David Tabor (physicist)
David Tabor (1913–2005) was a British physicist at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, who showed that adhesion at tiny contact areas is a major source of friction between metals.
David Thornalley
David Thornalley is a British paleoceanographer and Professor of Ocean and Climate Science at University College London who studies Atlantic Ocean circulation, reconstructing its history from sediment cores.
David Titley
David W. Titley is a retired US Navy rear admiral and meteorologist who, as the Navy's Oceanographer and Navigator, led Task Force Climate Change and later became chief operating officer of NOAA.
David Todd Wilkinson
David Todd Wilkinson (1935–2002) was an American experimental cosmologist at Princeton who spent his career measuring the cosmic microwave background and was the driving force behind the WMAP satellite.
David Tománek
David Tománek, born 1954 in Prague, is a Czech-born theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Michigan State University known for predicting high thermal conductivity in carbon nanotubes.
David Vanderbilt
David Vanderbilt, born in 1954, is an American condensed matter physicist at Rutgers University known for first-principles electronic-structure theory, the ultrasoft pseudopotential, and his 2009 axion electrodynamics paper.
David Vogan
David Vogan, born 1954, is an American mathematician at MIT who proved the Kazhdan–Lusztig conjectures and helped compute the character table of the Lie group E8.
David W. Allan
David W. Allan, born in 1936, is an American atomic clock physicist who spent 32 years at NBS/NIST in Boulder, where the Allan variance is named for him.
David W. Barnette
David W. Barnette is a mathematician and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, known for the Lower Bound Theorem and his 1969 Hamiltonian cycles conjecture.
David W. Flaherty
David W. Flaherty is an American chemical engineer in heterogeneous catalysis and a professor at Georgia Tech since 2023, known for direct hydrogen peroxide synthesis research.
David W. Lea
David W. Lea is an American paleoceanographer and marine geochemist, a professor at UC Santa Barbara since 1989 known for developing chemical proxies that reconstruct past ocean temperature and chemistry.
David W. McCall
David W. McCall, born 1928 in Omaha, Nebraska, is an American physical chemist who led chemical research at Bell Labs and studied molecular motion in polymers.
David W. McLaughlin
David W. McLaughlin is an American applied mathematician, Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science at NYU's Courant Institute, known for soliton research and models of the visual cortex.
David W. Oxtoby
David W. Oxtoby is an American theoretical physical chemist known for work on nucleation, who served as president of Pomona College and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
David Walker (geologist)
David Walker is an American experimental petrologist, Higgins Professor Emeritus at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for experiments on lunar samples, planetary interiors, and the Walker-type multi-anvil apparatus.
David White (paleobotanist)
David White, full name Charles David White (1862–1935), was an American paleobotanist and geologist who spent his forty-nine-year career with the United States Geological Survey.
David Williams (astronomer)
David Arnold Williams, born 1937, is a British astrochemist and Emeritus Perren Professor of Astronomy at University College London who won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2009.
David Y. Curtin
David Yarrow Curtin (1920–2011) was an American physical organic chemist and University of Illinois professor, namesake of the Curtin–Hammett principle of product selectivity in organic reactions.
Davide Bonifazi
Davide Bonifazi (born 1975) is an Italian organic and supramolecular chemist, Chair Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Vienna since 2020, known for heteroatom-doped nanographenes.
Davide Gaiotto
Davide Gaiotto is a theoretical and mathematical physicist holding the Krembil Galileo Galilei Chair at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, known for the AGT correspondence and generalized global symmetries.
Davide Marenduzzo
Davide Marenduzzo is a theoretical biophysicist and Professor of Computational Biophysics at the University of Edinburgh, known for polymer-physics models of chromosome organization and transcription.
Dawei Feng
Dawei Feng is an American-based materials chemist and Y. Austin Chang Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, working on metal-organic frameworks for energy storage.
Dawn J. Wright
Dawn J. Wright is an American geographer and marine geologist who has served as Chief Scientist of the mapping company Esri since 2011, applying GIS to the ocean and seafloor.
Dawn M. Meekhof
Dawn M. Meekhof is a physicist who, as a NIST Boulder postdoctoral fellow, first-authored the 1996 paper creating Fock and squeezed states of a trapped ion's motion, cited in the 2012 Nobel Prize background.
Dayong Jin
Dayong Jin (金大勇) is an Australian-based photonics researcher known for upconversion nanoprobes, called "Super Dots", and founding the Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices at the University of Technology Sydney.
Dayton Miller
Dayton Clarence Miller (1866–1941) was an American physicist at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, known for acoustics, the phonodeik instrument, and decades of ether-drift experiments repeating Michelson–Morley.
De Chen
De Chen (陈德) is a professor of catalysis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, working on heterogeneous catalysis, biomass conversion, and energy storage.