Physical and mathematical scientists

Felix von Oppen

Felix von Oppen (born 1966 in Berlin) is a German theoretical physicist, professor at Freie Universität Berlin, known for Majorana bound states in quantum wires and helical Shiba chains.

Felix Jiri Weinberg (1928–2012) was a British combustion physicist who spent his career at Imperial College London, pioneering optical flame diagnostics, electric-field combustion control, and the heat-recirculating burner.

Félix Zamora

Félix Zamora is a Spanish materials chemist at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid who studies covalent organic frameworks, 2D materials, and coordination polymers, and won the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry's Research Excellence Award in 2015.

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Feng Wang

Feng Wang is a condensed matter physicist, professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for laser spectroscopy of graphene and two-dimensional materials.

Feodosy Krasovsky

Feodosy Nikolaevich Krasovsky (Феодосий Николаевич Красовский, 1878–1948) was a Soviet astronomer-geodesist who largely created Soviet geodesy; the Krasovsky ellipsoid, adopted for USSR mapping in 1946, bears his name.

Ferdi Schüth

Ferdi Schüth, born 1960 in Germany, is a chemist in heterogeneous catalysis and solid-state chemistry who directs the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Ferdinand Brickwedde

Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde (1903–1989) was an American physicist at the National Bureau of Standards who co-discovered deuterium in 1932 by concentrating heavy hydrogen through low-temperature distillation of liquid hydrogen.

Ferdinand Ellerman

Ferdinand Ellerman (1869–1940) was an American astronomer, Hale's solar assistant and a Mount Wilson founding staff member, known for the solar brightenings called Ellerman bombs.

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849–1917) was a German mathematician at the University of Berlin who founded the character theory and representation theory of finite groups, with results named for him across group and matrix theory.

Ferdinand Kröger

Ferdinand Anne Kröger (1915–2006) was a Dutch solid-state chemist known for the Kröger–Vink notation for crystal defects, developed with H.J. Vink; he worked at Philips and later helped found materials science at USC.

Ferdinand Kurlbaum

Ferdinand Kurlbaum (1857–1927) was a German experimental physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt whose blackbody radiation measurements, including work with Heinrich Rubens, gave Planck the experimental foundation for quantum theory in 1900.

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, born 1962 in Bonn, is a German experimental physicist working on trapped-ion quantum computing who led the 2003 realization of the Cirac–Zoller controlled-NOT gate and heads the QUANTUM section at Mainz.

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887) was an American geologist who led the surveys of the western territories from 1867 to 1879 and helped persuade Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.

Ferdinand von Lindemann

Ferdinand von Lindemann, born 1852 in Hannover, was a German mathematician whose 1882 proof that π is transcendental settled squaring the circle; he also supervised David Hilbert.

Ferdinand von Richthofen

Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833–1905) was a German geologist and geographer who made seven survey expeditions to China from 1868 to 1872 and introduced the term Silk Road into scholarly use.

Ferdinand Zirkel

Ferdinand Zirkel (1838–1912) was a German mineralogist and petrographer who established thin-section microscopy as petrography's principal method, and professor of mineralogy at Leipzig from 1870 to 1909.

Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz, born 1962 in Mór, Hungary, is a Hungarian-Austrian physicist who pioneered attosecond physics, measuring light pulses short enough to watch electrons move, and shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Fernando Codá Marques

Fernando Codá Marques (born 1979) is a Brazilian differential geometer and Princeton professor who proved the Willmore conjecture with André Neves in 2012 and built a quantitative Morse theory for minimal surfaces.

Fernando Martín

Fernando Martín García, born in Madrid in 1961, is a Spanish theoretical physicist at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid known for founding theoretical attochemistry.

Fernando Sanford

Fernando Sanford was an American physicist who headed Stanford's physics department from its 1891 founding until 1919 and is remembered for his early electric photography work.

Fielding Bradford Meek

Fielding Bradford Meek (1817–1876) was an American paleontologist, the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist, known for his joint work with Ferdinand Hayden on Upper Missouri fossils.

Filip E. Du Prez

Filip E. Du Prez is a Belgian polymer chemist who has led the Polymer Chemistry Research group at Ghent University since 1999, known for vitrimers.

Filip Hjulström

Filip Hjulström (1902–1982) was a Swedish geographer and professor of physical geography at Uppsala University, known for the Hjulström curve relating river flow velocity to sediment erosion, transport, and deposition.

Filippo De Angelis

Filippo De Angelis is an Italian computational chemist who models dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells, founding CLHYO and serving as Deputy Director at CNR-ISTM in Perugia.

Filippo Pilotta

Filippo Pilotta (born 1978) is an Italian independent researcher, a metalworker and physics autodidact, author of the self-published cosmology framework Synchronia Mundi – Relatività Comune.

Filippo Radicchi

Filippo Radicchi, born in Rome in 1978, is an Italian-born network scientist and Professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, known for his 2008 community detection benchmark.

Fiona A. Harrison

Fiona A. Harrison is an experimental astrophysicist at Caltech who leads NASA's NuSTAR mission, the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit, launched in 2012.

Fiona C. Meldrum

Fiona C. Meldrum is a British materials chemist who holds the chair in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Leeds, known for bio-inspired crystallization research.

Flemming Besenbacher

Flemming Besenbacher (born 1952) is a Danish nanoscientist at Aarhus University known for scanning tunnelling microscopy of catalysts, who also chaired the Carlsberg Group from 2012 to 2022.