Physical and mathematical scientists

Donglin Jiang

Donglin Jiang is a materials chemist, Professor and Provost's Chair in Chemistry at the National University of Singapore since 2018, recognized as a pioneer of two-dimensional polymers and covalent organic frameworks.

Dongping Zhong

Dongping Zhong (仲冬平) is a chemical physicist who uses femtosecond spectroscopy to watch DNA repair by photolyase and water motion around proteins, long at Ohio State.

Dongxiao Don Zhang

Dongxiao Don Zhang is a Chinese-American hydrologist and engineer known for stochastic modeling of flow in porous media, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Donna Blackmond

Donna G. Blackmond is an American and British chemical engineer and kineticist at Scripps Research, known for reaction progress kinetic analysis and the origin of biological homochirality.

Donna Strickland

Donna Theo Strickland, born 1959 in Guelph, Ontario, is a Canadian physicist who co-invented chirped pulse amplification and shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Donnel F. Hewett

Donnel F. Hewett was an American economic geologist who served the US Geological Survey for 59 years, discovered the world's largest vanadium deposit in Peru in 1906, and was nicknamed "Mr. Manganese".

Dor Ben‐Amotz

Dor Ben-Amotz (born 1954) is an Israeli-born physical chemist who spent his career at Purdue University and is known for hydration-shell spectroscopy, a Raman-based method for studying water around dissolved molecules.

Doron Aurbach

Doron Aurbach (Hebrew: דורון אורבך) is an Israeli electrochemist and professor at Bar-Ilan University, known for pioneering rechargeable magnesium battery prototypes published in Nature in 2000.

Doron Shabat

Doron Shabat (דורון שבת) is an Israeli organic chemist and full professor at Tel Aviv University, known for creating self-immolative polymers, dendrimers, and chemiluminescent probes.

Doron Zeilberger

Doron Zeilberger, born 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli mathematician and Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University who pioneered computer-aided proof in combinatorics through WZ theory and Zeilberger's algorithm.

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin, also known as Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, was a British chemist who determined the atomic structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin, winning the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Dorothy Hodgkins

Dorothy Hodgkins is a common misspelling of Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, the British X-ray crystallographer who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (born 1958) is a Danish ice-core scientist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, who led the NGRIP, NEEM, and EastGRIP deep drilling projects in Greenland and reconstructs past climate from ice cores.

Doug Burbank

Doug Burbank, also known as Douglas W. Burbank, is an American tectonic geomorphologist at UC Santa Barbara known for Himalaya research and the textbook Tectonic Geomorphology.

Doug Smith

Doug Smith is a climate scientist who leads decadal climate prediction at the Met Office Hadley Centre, known for his 2007 Science paper establishing global decadal forecasting.

Douglas Coombs

Douglas Saxon Coombs (1924–2016) was a New Zealand geologist at the University of Otago who established how rocks change chemically when buried, now called low-grade metamorphism, and named the zeolite facies.

Douglas D. Osheroff

Douglas D. Osheroff, also known as Douglas Osheroff, is an American experimental physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.

Douglas F. Williams

Douglas F. Williams (born 1948) is an American geologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, known for stable isotope work on foraminifera and Lake Baikal.

Douglas G. Altman

Douglas G. Altman, also known as D. G. Altman, was a British medical statistician, professor at Oxford, and founder of the EQUATOR Network for better health research reporting.

Douglas Gough

Douglas Owen Gough is a British astronomer at Cambridge who founded helioseismology, the study of the Sun's interior through its oscillations, and shared the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Astronomy.

Douglas Hartree

Douglas Hartree (1897–1958) was a British mathematician and physicist who created the self-consistent field method for atomic calculations, built a Meccano differential analyser, and championed early British computing.

Douglas Henderson (physicist)

Douglas Henderson was a Canadian-born physical chemist who co-developed the first successful theory of liquids and won the American Chemical Society's Hildebrand Award in 1999.

Douglas James Scalapino

Douglas James Scalapino is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Santa Barbara, known for work on superconductivity, magnetism, and strongly correlated electron models.

Douglas James Shearman

Douglas James Shearman (1918–2003) was a British geologist at Imperial College London who challenged deep-basin evaporite theory, showing from Arabian Gulf fieldwork that evaporites grow in sabkha sediments.

Douglas K. Lilly

Douglas K. Lilly (1929–2018) was an American meteorologist known for numerical simulation of severe storms and for founding the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms.

Douglas Kauffman

Douglas Kauffman is an American chemist and Federal Staff Scientist at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, known for electrocatalysis research converting carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.

Douglas Lin

Douglas N. C. Lin (林潮), born 1949, is a UC Santa Cruz theoretical astrophysicist who co-developed the theory of planetary migration and won the 2015 Bruce Gold Medal.

Douglas MacFarlane

Douglas MacFarlane is an Australian electrochemist and Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University known for ionic liquids and green ammonia, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2024.

Douglas Magde

Douglas Magde is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, who co-invented fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with Elliot Elson and Watt Webb at Cornell in 1972.