Physical and mathematical scientists

Frank J. Sciulli

Frank J. Sciulli is an experimental particle physicist at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories, known for Fermilab neutrino experiments, CCFR nucleon structure measurements, and the ZEUS detector at DESY in Hamburg.

Frank J. Tipler

Frank J. Tipler (born 1947) is an American mathematical physicist at Tulane University known for work in general relativity and for The Physics of Immortality (1994), setting out his Omega Point theory.

Frank Jülicher

Frank Jülicher, born 1965, is a German biological physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, known for active matter theory.

Frank Kelly (British mathematician)

Frank Kelly, born 1950 in London, is a British mathematician and Cambridge professor whose work on random processes and networks shaped TCP congestion control and telephone network design.

Frank L. H. Brown

Frank L. H. Brown is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies biomembrane dynamics and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

Frank Leibfarth

Frank Leibfarth is an American polymer chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who develops catalysts for plastic upcycling and PFAS removal.

Frank Leverett

Frank Leverett (1859–1943) was an American glacial geologist with the United States Geological Survey who mapped the Midwest's Pleistocene glacial deposits and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1929.

Frank M. Richter

Frank M. Richter (Frank Morris Richter) is an American geophysicist and experimental petrologist at the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Frank McClean

Frank McClean (1837–1904) was a British civil engineer who retired in 1870 and devoted his life to astronomical spectroscopy, inventing a widely used star spectroscope and surveying stellar spectra over the whole sky.

Frank Merle (French mathematician)

Frank Merle, born 1962 in Marseille, is a French mathematician at IHÉS and CY Cergy Paris Université known for blow-up and soliton dynamics of nonlinear PDEs.

Frank Morley

Frank Morley (1860–1937) was a British-born mathematician at Johns Hopkins University known for Morley's theorem, that angle trisectors of any triangle form an equilateral triangle.

Frank N. von Hippel

Frank N. von Hippel is an American theoretical physicist who co-founded Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security and works on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation.

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Frank Neese

Frank Neese, born 1967 in Wiesbaden, is a German theoretical chemist and director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, best known as developer of the ORCA quantum chemistry program.

Frank Oppenheimer

Frank Oppenheimer (Frank Friedman Oppenheimer) was an American particle physicist, younger brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who worked on the Manhattan Project and founded the Exploratorium in 1969.

Frank P. Ramsey

Frank P. Ramsey, also known as Frank Plumpton Ramsey, was a British mathematician, philosopher, and economist at Cambridge who founded Ramsey theory, decision theory, and optimal growth economics before dying in 1930 at 26.

Frank Philip Bowden

Frank Philip Bowden (1903–1968) was an Australian physicist and physical chemist who founded the modern physical theory of friction and is counted a founder of tribology.

Frank Pollmann

Frank Pollmann is a theoretical condensed matter physicist, Full Professor at the Technical University of Munich since 2022, who works on topological phases of matter and quantum many-body simulation.

Frank Press

Frank Press (1924–2020) was an American geophysicist who first measured the Earth's free oscillations, advised President Carter on science, and led the National Academy of Sciences.

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Frank S. Bates

Frank S. Bates is an American polymer scientist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, known for work on block copolymer thermodynamics and morphology.

Frank S. Lee

Frank S. Lee is an American pathologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory studies the HIF oxygen-sensing pathway, erythrocytosis, and human high-altitude adaptation.

Frank Schlesinger

Frank Schlesinger (1871–1943) was an American astronomer, called the "Father of Modern Astrometry," who directed the Allegheny and Yale observatories and made photographic stellar parallax measurement routine.

Frank Schroeder

Frank C. Schroeder is a German-born chemical biologist at the Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell University known for discovering ascaroside signaling molecules in C. elegans.

Frank Shu

Frank Shu (徐遐生) was a Chinese-born American theoretical astrophysicist (1943–2023) who developed density wave theory of spiral galaxies and the inside-out model of star formation, winning the 2009 Shaw Prize.

Frank Smithies

Frank Smithies (1912–2002) was a British mathematician at St John's College, Cambridge, who worked on integral equations and functional analysis and supervised many research students.

Frank Spedding

Frank Spedding was an American chemist who achieved the first workable separations of rare-earth elements, developed the Ames process for high-purity uranium, and founded Ames Laboratory.

Frank Spitzer

Frank Spitzer (1926–1992) was an Austrian-born American probabilist at Cornell University, widely regarded as the father of interacting particle systems, known for random walk theory and the Pollaczek–Spitzer formula.

Frank Stillinger

Frank Stillinger, born 1934, is an American theoretical chemist who spent most of his career at Bell Laboratories and is known for the Stillinger–Weber potential for silicon.

Frank T. Kyte

Frank T. Kyte is a geochemist at UCLA who studies iridium and other impact markers in marine sediments, and is known for identifying the Eltanin impact.

Frank W. Clarke

Frank W. Clarke (1847–1931) was an American geochemist who served as chief chemist of the United States Geological Survey from 1883 to 1925 and is considered a father of modern geochemistry.