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Dieter Jaksch
Dieter Jaksch is an Austrian theoretical quantum physicist who has been Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg since 2021 and works on ultracold atoms and quantum information.
Dieter Meschede
Dieter Meschede (born 1954) is a German experimental physicist known for controlling individual atoms with light at the University of Bonn, and President of the German Physical Society from 2018 to 2020.
Dieter Pohl
Dieter W. Pohl (born 1938) is a physicist who invented the scanning near-field optical microscope at IBM Zurich, whose 1982-1984 group broke the Abbé diffraction limit by a factor of 10.
Dieter Richter
Dieter Richter, born 1947 in Hannover, is a German physicist known for using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy to measure polymer motion, directing neutron-scattering institutes at Forschungszentrum Jülich from 1989 to 2015.
Dieter Seebach
Dieter Seebach is an organic chemist who spent his career at ETH Zurich, known for umpolung, TADDOL chiral auxiliaries, and beta-peptides, and elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
Dieter Vollhardt
Dieter Vollhardt (born 1951 in Bad Godesberg) is a German theoretical condensed matter physicist who co-founded dynamical mean-field theory and won the 2006 Europhysics Prize.
Dietmar Müller
R. Dietmar Müller is a geophysicist and professor at the University of Sydney, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science who founded the GPlates plate-reconstruction software project.
Dietmar Salamon
Dietmar Salamon (1953–2025) was a German mathematician and professor at ETH Zurich, a founder of modern symplectic topology who co-wrote standard textbooks with Dusa McDuff.
Dietmar Seyferth
Dietmar Seyferth (1929–2020) was a German-born American organometallic chemist who spent 42 years on the MIT faculty and founded the American Chemical Society journal Organometallics.
Dietmar Stalke
Dietmar Stalke (born 1958 in Melle, Germany) is a German organometallic chemist and crystallographer, a full professor at the University of Göttingen since 2005, known for low-temperature crystal handling of air-sensitive compounds.
Dietrich Braess
Dietrich Braess is a German mathematician at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, best known for a 1968 paper identifying Braess's paradox: adding a road can worsen traffic for everyone.
Digby Johns McLaren
Digby Johns McLaren (1919–2004) was a Canadian geologist and paleontologist who was among the first to argue that a meteorite impact caused a mass extinction.
Dillon D. Fong
Dillon D. Fong is a condensed matter physicist and staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who studies oxide thin films using in situ synchrotron x-ray scattering.
Dimas G. de Oteyza
Dimas G. de Oteyza is a nanoscale physicist at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastián, known for graphene nanoribbon synthesis and imaging covalent bonds in single-molecule reactions.
Dimitar Sasselov
Dimitar Sasselov is a Harvard astronomer who studies exoplanets and the origins of life, directing Harvard's Origins of Life Initiative and serving on NASA's Kepler mission.
Dimitri A. Sverjensky
Dimitri A. Sverjensky is an Australian-born theoretical geochemist, professor at Johns Hopkins University since 1984, known for the Deep Earth Water model and mineral-water interface research.
Dimitri Basov
Dimitri Basov, also known as Dmitri N. Basov, is a condensed matter physicist who studies quantum materials with infrared light and chairs physics at Columbia University.
Dimitri Mihalas
Dimitri Mihalas (1939–2013) was an American astrophysicist and National Academy of Sciences member known for his work on stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation hydrodynamics.
Dimitrie Pompeiu
Dimitrie Pompeiu (1873–1954) was a Romanian mathematician who worked in complex analysis and mechanics, introduced the distance between sets now called the Hausdorff distance, and posed the Pompeiu problem in 1929.
Dimitris Bertsimas
Dimitris Bertsimas, born in Greece in 1962, is a Greek-born American applied mathematician, Boeing Professor at MIT Sloan since 1988, known for robust optimization, machine learning, and healthcare analytics.
Dimitris E. Katsoulis
Dimitris E. Katsoulis (born 1955, Athens) is a Greek-born silicon chemist at Dow in Midland, Michigan, known for polyoxometalates, silicone chemistry, and 64 US patents.
Dion Gijswijt
Dion Gijswijt is a Dutch mathematician and professor at TU Delft known for the 2016 cap set bound proved with Jordan Ellenberg, for Gijswijt's sequence, and for winning the 2019 N.G. de Bruijn Prize.
Dionýz Ilkovič
Dionýz Ilkovič was a Slovak physicist who derived the Ilkovič equation of polarography in 1934 and is regarded as the founder of physics in Slovakia.
Dipankar Das Sarma
Dipankar Das Sarma, often published as D. D. Sarma, is an Indian condensed matter physicist and solid-state chemist at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
Dirk Bouwmeester
Dirk Bouwmeester (born 1967) is an experimental physicist in quantum optics, professor at Leiden and UC Santa Barbara, known for early quantum teleportation demonstrations and the 2014 Spinoza Prize.
Dirk Brockmann
Dirk Brockmann is a physicist and complexity scientist who works on complex networks, human mobility, and epidemic spreading, known for the effective-distance method introduced in a 2013 Science paper.
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer (1902–1966) was a Dutch-born American celestial mechanician who spent his career at Yale University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1951.
Dirk Coster
Dirk Coster (1889–1950) was a Dutch experimental physicist who discovered hafnium with George de Hevesy in Copenhagen in 1923, then served as professor of experimental physics at Groningen from 1924 to 1949.
Dirk De Vos
Dirk De Vos, publishing as Dirk E. De Vos, is a Belgian inorganic chemist born in Mechelen in 1967, known for catalysis with zeolites and metal–organic frameworks, including shuttle catalysis.
Dirk Grundler
Dirk Grundler, born 1966, is a German physicist working on magnonics and spintronics, full professor at EPFL in Lausanne after holding a chair at TU München from 2005 to 2015.