Physical and mathematical scientists

Dirk J. Broer

Dirk J. Broer is a Dutch polymer chemist, inventor of reactive mesogens, who spent most of his career at Philips Research in Eindhoven and became a professor at TU/e.

Dirk M. Guldi

Dirk M. Guldi is a German physical chemist and Chair of Physical Chemistry I at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2004, known for charge transfer in nanocarbons and solar energy conversion.

Dirk Trauner is an Austrian-born organic chemist known for pioneering photopharmacology, the use of synthetic light-switching molecules to control biological processes, and for total syntheses of more than 120 natural products.

Dmitri Anosov

Dmitri Anosov, also known as Dmitri Viktorovich Anosov, was a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute who introduced Anosov systems in hyperbolic dynamics and proved the structural stability of geodesic flows.

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Dmitri Basov

Dmitri N. Basov is an experimental condensed matter physicist, Higgins Professor and Physics chair at Columbia University, known for infrared nano-optics of quantum materials and graphene plasmons.

Dmitri Egorov

Dmitri Egorov, also known as Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov, was a Russian mathematician who proved Egorov's theorem in 1911 and co-founded the Moscow school of real analysis.

Dmitri Konovalov

Dmitri Konovalov (Дмитрий Петрович Коновалов, 1856–1929) was a Russian and Soviet chemist who formulated Konovalov's laws of vapor pressure, the scientific basis of industrial distillation.

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Dmitri Mendeleev (Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев)

Dmitri Mendeleev, or Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев), was a Russian chemist who formulated the periodic law and published the first modern periodic table in 1869, predicting undiscovered elements.

Dmitri Skobeltsyn

Dmitri Skobeltsyn, also known as Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsyn, was a Soviet physicist who pioneered cosmic-ray cloud-chamber studies and directed the Lebedev Physical Institute from 1951 to 1972.

Dmitri Talapin

Dmitri Talapin, born 1975 in Minsk, is a Belarusian-born materials chemist and University of Chicago professor known for colloidal nanocrystal superlattices, molten-salt chemistry, and DOLFIN lithography.

Dmitrii F. Perepichka

Dmitrii F. Perepichka, also published as Dmytro Perepichka, is a materials chemist at McGill University known for the 2009 Science paper extending polymer conjugation into the second dimension.

Dmitrii Knorre

Dmitrii Knorre, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pioneered nucleic acid chemistry in Siberia and founded the Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, later named after him.

Dmitrii Menshov

Dmitrii Menshov (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Меньшов; 1892–1988) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician, a central figure in the theory of trigonometric and orthogonal series, known for his 1916 trigonometric null series.

Dmitry A. Abanin

Dmitry A. Abanin is a condensed matter theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University since 2023, known for work on quantum many-body scars and many-body localization.

Dmitry Budker

Dmitry Budker is an experimental atomic physicist known for optical magnetometry, precision tests of fundamental symmetries, and quantum sensing, and is a professor at UC Berkeley and Mainz.

Dmitry Burago

Dmitry (Dmitrii) Burago is a Russian mathematician, professor at Pennsylvania State University since 2000, known for metric geometry, billiards, and the Steele Prize-winning textbook A Course in Metric Geometry.

Dmitry Faddeev

Dmitry Faddeev, full name Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev, was a Soviet mathematician in algebra and number theory who founded the Leningrad algebraic school and was Ludwig Faddeev's father.

Dmitry G. Shchukin

Dmitry G. Shchukin, also published as D. G. Shchukin, is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Liverpool working on sonochemistry and self-healing coatings.

Dmitry Klimov

Dmitry Mikhailovich Klimov (Дмитрий Михайлович Климов), born 1933, is a Soviet and Russian mechanist, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences known for work on gyroscopic systems, dry friction, and rock mechanics.

Dmitry Mirimanoff

Dmitry Mirimanoff (Дмитрий Семёнович Мириманов; 1861–1945) was a Russian-Swiss mathematician at the University of Geneva who contributed to Fermat's Last Theorem and introduced the founded set.

Dmitry Raikov

Dmitry Raikov, full name Dmitry Abramovich Raikov (Дмитрий Абрамович Райков, 1905–1980), was a Soviet mathematician known for his decomposition theorem for the Poisson distribution and work in functional analysis.

Domingo Giribaldo

Domingo Giribaldo (1876–1950) was a Uruguayan chemist who taught at the University of the Republic and in 1925 produced sodium hypochlorite in South America for the first time.

Dominick V. Spracklen

Dominick V. Spracklen is Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions at the University of Leeds, known for satellite studies showing tropical forests double rainfall downwind and quantifying deforestation's health impacts.

Dominik Marx

Dominik Marx is a German theoretical chemist at Ruhr-Universität Bochum known for ab initio path integral molecular dynamics and simulations of proton transfer in water.

Dominique Picard

Dominique Picard, born in 1952, is a French mathematician and statistician at the University of Paris Diderot known for wavelet shrinkage, change-point detection, and inverse problems.

Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith is an American cryptographer at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, known for the Coppersmith method and for helping design the Data Encryption Standard.

Don Eigler

Don Eigler is an American physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center, the first person to move and control a single atom using a scanning tunnelling microscope.

Don L. Anderson

Don L. Anderson (Don Lynn Anderson, 1933–2014) was an American geophysicist and seismologist at Caltech who co-developed PREM, the most widely used model of the Earth's interior.

Don Lincoln

Don Lincoln (born 1964) is an American particle physicist at Fermilab who co-discovered the top quark and works on the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.