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Don U. Deere
Don U. Deere (1922–2018) was an American engineering geologist who created the Rock Quality Designation (RQD) measure of rock quality and chaired the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
Don Walsh
Don Walsh (1931–2023) was an American Navy captain, oceanographer, and deep-sea explorer who piloted the bathyscaphe Trieste with Jacques Piccard to the Challenger Deep in 1960.
Don Zagier
Don Zagier, born 1951 in Heidelberg, is a number theorist known for the Gross–Zagier formula and modular forms, who directed the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn.
Donal D. C. Bradley
Donal D. C. Bradley is a physicist in plastic electronics, co-inventor of conjugated polymer electroluminescence in 1989, the principle behind polymer LEDs, and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Donal O'Shea
Donal O'Shea (born 1952) is a mathematician specializing in singularity theory, known for his 2007 book The Poincaré Conjecture and for leading New College of Florida.
Donald A. Gurnett
Donald A. Gurnett (1940–2022) was an American space plasma physicist at the University of Iowa, a founder of space plasma wave physics whose Voyager 1 instrument confirmed the spacecraft crossed the heliopause in 2012.
Donald A. Tomalia
Donald A. Tomalia, born 1938 in Owosso, Michigan, is an American physical-organic chemist who invented PAMAM dendrimers at Dow in 1979, named them Starburst dendrimers, and founded Dendritech.
Donald B. Owen
Donald B. Owen (Donald Bruce Owen, 1922–1991) was an American statistician and Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, known for Owen's T function and statistical tables.
Donald B. Rubin
Donald B. Rubin, also known as D. B. Rubin, is an American statistician, namesake of the Rubin Causal Model and Emeritus Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.
Donald Burkholder
Donald Burkholder (1927–2013) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who, apart from Joseph Doob, did the most of any probabilist of his generation to build the theory of martingales.
Donald C. Spencer
Donald C. Spencer (1912–2001) was an American mathematician who, with Kunihiko Kodaira, founded the deformation theory of complex manifolds, and who won the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1948 and the National Medal of Science in 1989.
Donald C. Stockbarger
Donald C. Stockbarger (1895–1952) was an American physicist and educator at MIT who introduced the Bridgman–Stockbarger method of growing single crystals from the melt in the 1930s.
Donald Charlton Bradley
Donald Charlton Bradley (1924–2014) was a British inorganic chemist who pioneered research on metal alkoxides, now used as precursors for oxide films and ceramics; he received the Royal Medal in 1998.
Donald D. Clayton
Donald D. Clayton (Donald Delbert Clayton) was an American nuclear astrophysicist who worked out how stars form the chemical elements and wrote the standard text on stellar evolution.
Donald Dingwell
Donald Bruce Dingwell, born 1958 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, is a Canadian-German experimental geoscientist who held the Chair of Mineralogy and Petrology at LMU Munich from 2000 to 2024.
Donald E. White
Donald E. White (1914–2002) was an American economic geologist with the United States Geological Survey who showed that most hot-spring and ore fluids originate as rain and snow.
Donald Edward Osterbrock
Donald Edward Osterbrock (1924–2007) was an American astronomer known for research on gaseous nebulae and active galactic nuclei, and director of Lick Observatory from 1973 to 1981.
Donald Farley
Donald Thorn Farley Jr. (1933–2018) was an American ionospheric physicist at Cornell University known for incoherent scattering theory, the Farley-Buneman instability, and radar techniques at the Jicamarca observatory in Peru.
Donald G. Higman
Donald G. Higman (Donald Gordon Higman, 1928–2006) was a Canadian-born mathematician at the University of Michigan known for the Higman–Sims sporadic group and graph, discovered in 1967.
Donald G. Saari
Donald G. Saari (Donald Gene Saari) is an American mathematician at UC Irvine known for the n-body problem and a geometric voting theory favoring the Borda count.
Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar, born in 1944, is an American theoretical chemist at the University of Minnesota known for transition state theory, solvation models, and density functionals.
Donald G. York
Donald G. York (1944–2025) was an American astronomer at the University of Chicago who made the first detection of interstellar deuterium and founded the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Donald Ginsberg
Donald Maurice Ginsberg was an American experimental physicist at the University of Illinois who became a world authority on superconductivity and shared the 1998 Buckley Prize.
Donald Glaser
Donald Glaser, also known as Don Glaser, was an American physicist who invented the bubble chamber and won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics at age 34.
Donald Goldfarb
Donald Goldfarb is an American applied mathematician and optimization researcher, a Columbia University professor since 1982 whose BFGS, Goldfarb–Idnani, and steepest-edge simplex algorithms underpin most optimization software.
Donald H. Levy
Donald H. Levy, born in 1939, is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago known for laser spectroscopy of molecules cooled in supersonic jets.
Donald Hill Perkins
Donald Hill Perkins (1925–2022) was a British experimental particle physicist who first observed meson nuclear capture in 1947 and helped discover weak neutral currents at CERN in 1973.
Donald Holmes Hyers
Donald Holmes Hyers (1913–1997) was an American mathematician at the University of Southern California whose 1941 paper gave the first significant partial solution to Ulam's stability problem.
Donald Howard Menzel
Donald Howard Menzel (1901–1976) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard who applied quantum mechanics to stellar spectra and directed Harvard College Observatory from 1954 to 1966.
Donald Huffman
Donald Ray Huffman (1935–2025) was an American physicist at the University of Arizona who, with Wolfgang Krätschmer, discovered the 1990 carbon-arc method that first produced fullerenes in bulk.