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Florian Müller‐Plathe

Florian Müller-Plathe is a German theoretical physical chemist and professor at Technische Universität Darmstadt, known for reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics for transport coefficients and Iterative Boltzmann Inversion for coarse-graining polymer models.

Floris Takens

Floris Takens (1940–2010) was a Dutch mathematician and professor at Groningen, known for the 1981 Takens embedding theorem and for coining "strange attractor" with David Ruelle.

Floyd Firestone

Floyd Firestone was an American acoustical physicist at the University of Michigan who invented the supersonic reflectoscope, a pulse-echo ultrasonic flaw detector, and edited the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Floyd K. Richtmyer

Floyd K. Richtmyer (1881–1939) was an American physicist and X-ray spectroscopist who spent his career at Cornell University, led its Graduate School, and wrote the influential textbook Introduction to Modern Physics.

Forest Ray Moulton

Forest Ray Moulton (1872–1952) was an American theoretical astronomer and celestial mechanician who co-developed the planetesimal hypothesis of the solar system's origin with geologist Thomas Chamberlin.

Fotini Katopodes Chow

Fotini "Tina" Katopodes Chow is an American atmospheric scientist and environmental engineer at UC Berkeley known for atmospheric boundary-layer modeling and landfill methane measurement methods.

Fran Bagenal

Fran Bagenal is a British-born American planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies the magnetospheres of the outer planets and worked on the Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, and Juno missions.

Franc Meyer

Franc Meyer (born 1965 in Hamburg) is a German inorganic chemist, Full Professor at the University of Göttingen since 2001, who studies biomimetic coordination chemistry.

France A. Córdova

France A. Córdova is an American astrophysicist known for discovering soft X-ray pulsations from cataclysmic variable stars, who led the National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2020.

Frances Kirwan

Frances Kirwan is a British mathematician at Oxford known for the Kirwan map and cohomology of quotients; she was Savilian Professor of Geometry from 2017 to 2024.

Francesc Gascó-Lluna

Francesc Gascó-Lluna, known online as Pakozoico, is a Spanish paleontologist born in 1984 who studies dinosaurs, wrote his thesis on Turiasaurus, and works as a science communicator.

Francesc Illas

Francesc Illas i Riera (born 1954) is a Spanish theoretical and computational chemist, a full professor at the Universitat de Barcelona working on catalysis and energy materials.

Francesca Dominici

Francesca Dominici is an Italian-trained biostatistician, the Clarence James Gamble Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for studies of air pollution and mortality.

Francesco Calogero

Francesco Calogero (1935–2026) was an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome, known for the exactly solvable Calogero–Moser system and for serving as Pugwash Secretary General.

Francesco Giazotto

Francesco Giazotto is an Italian condensed matter physicist and research director at CNR Nanoscienze in Pisa, known for the first Josephson heat interferometer and phase battery.

Francesco Giordani

Francesco Giordani (1896–1961) was an Italian electrochemist and professor at Naples who built the Giordani-Pomilio electrolyzer and led Italy's CNR, nuclear program, and Accademia dei Lincei.

Francesco Mauri

Francesco Mauri is an Italian theoretical solid-state physicist, professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for first-principles materials methods and theories of NMR and Raman spectroscopy in solids.

Francesco Paesani

Francesco Paesani is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of California San Diego, known for the MB-pol water potential and simulations of water's liquid–liquid critical point.

Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Francesco Paolo Cantelli (1875–1966) was an Italian mathematician and actuary who proved the first general strong law of large numbers and completed the Borel–Cantelli lemma.

Francesco Sciortino

Francesco Sciortino, born 1960, is an Italian computational physicist and full professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on water's liquid-liquid critical point and patchy colloids.

Francesco Severi

Francesco Severi (1879–1961) was an Italian mathematician and a key architect of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for the Néron–Severi theorem and for founding Rome's Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica.

Francesco Siacci

Francesco Siacci (1839–1907) was an Italian mathematician and artillery officer whose firing-table method in exterior ballistics, published from about 1880, was adopted by artilleries worldwide.

Francesco Tricomi

Francesco Tricomi, full name Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, was an Italian mathematician (1897–1978) known for the Tricomi equation, central to transonic aerodynamics, and the Tricomi function.

Francesco Zamponi

Francesco Zamponi, born 1979 in Rome, is an Italian theoretical physicist known for the mean-field theory of hard-sphere glasses and jamming, and a CNRS Research Director at LPTENS in Paris.

Francesco Zerbetto

Francesco Zerbetto is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist, Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bologna since 2001, known for work on molecular machines, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes.

Francis Albarède

Francis Albarède (born 1947) is a French isotope geochemist, professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, known for pioneering metal isotope analysis in geochemistry, archaeology, and medicine.

Francis Birch (geophysicist)

Francis Birch (1903–1992) was an American Harvard geophysicist whose high-pressure measurements of Earth's interior materials produced Earth models that remain the basis of most published since.

Francis Bitter

Francis Bitter (1902–1967) was an American physicist at MIT whose stacked-plate electromagnet became the standard for intense magnetic fields; MIT's magnet lab bears his name.

Francis D’Souza

Francis D'Souza is a chemist at the University of North Texas known for light-harvesting supramolecular systems and elected 124th President of The Electrochemical Society in 2026.

Francis Dominic Murnaghan

Francis Dominic Murnaghan (1893–1976) was an Irish mathematician who applied group theory to continuum mechanics, taught at Johns Hopkins, and gave his name to the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state.