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Fred C. Anson
Fred C. Anson (1933–2024) was an American electrochemist, the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor at Caltech for 44 years, known for the Anson plot and polymer-modified electrodes.
Fred Cummings
Frederick Williams Cummings (1931–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who co-created the Jaynes–Cummings model, a 1963 cornerstone of quantum optics, and taught at UC Riverside.
Fred Galvin
Fred Galvin is a mathematician and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, known for proving in 1995 that the list chromatic index of a bipartite multigraph equals its chromatic index, settling the Dinitz conjecture.
Fred Gamble
Fred Ridley Gamble, Jr. (1941–2025) was an American physical chemist who led an interdisciplinary research group at Exxon's labs and co-authored the 1975 lithium intercalation work in titanium disulfide.
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) was a British astronomer at Cambridge who coined the term "Big Bang" while opposing it, and pioneered the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
Fred Kavli
Fred Kavli, born Fridtjof Kavli (1927–2013), was a Norwegian-born American physicist and entrepreneur who built the Kavlico sensor company, sold it in 2000, and funded basic science through The Kavli Foundation.
Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple (1906–2004) was an American astronomer at Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory who proposed the "dirty snowball" model of comets and invented the Whipple spacecraft shield.
Fred W. Glover
Fred W. Glover, born in 1937, is an American operations researcher known for creating the metaheuristics Tabu Search and Scatter Search and for contributions to integer programming.
Fred W. McLafferty
Fred W. McLafferty (1923–2021) was an American chemist and mass spectrometrist at Cornell University, known for the McLafferty rearrangement and the first gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer.
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl is an American organic chemist and materials scientist known for organic conductors and superconductors, fullerene chemistry, and self-healing polymers, now Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara.
Frederic A. Rasio
Frederic A. Rasio is a Belgian-born theoretical astrophysicist and Joseph Cummings Professor at Northwestern University, a founding co-director of CIERA known for work on eccentric exoplanets and dense star clusters.
Frederic Brenton Fitch
Frederic Brenton Fitch (1908–1987) was an American logician and Yale philosopher whose Fitch-style natural deduction appears in most elementary logic textbooks, and whose 1963 theorem became the knowability paradox.
Frédéric Jaouen
Frédéric Jaouen is a French CNRS research director in electrocatalysis at the Charles Gerhardt Institute, University of Montpellier, known for iron–nitrogen–carbon catalysts that replace platinum in fuel cells.
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist who shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife Irène for discovering artificial radioactivity.
Frédéric Laquai
Frédéric Laquai is a German-born physicist who studies light-to-charge conversion in solar cell materials using ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and has been a professor at LMU Munich since 2024.
Frédéric Mila
Frédéric Mila, born 1962 in Toulouse, France, is a French and Swiss condensed matter theorist at EPFL, a leading figure in frustrated magnetism who won the 2024 Charpak-Ritz Prize.
Frédéric Moynier
Frédéric Moynier is a French cosmochemist at Université Paris Cité and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, known for zinc isotope work on the Moon's origin.
Frédéric Swarts
Frédéric Swarts (2 September 1866, Ixelles – 6 September 1940, Ghent) was a Belgian chemist at Ghent University who pioneered organic fluorine chemistry; his Swarts reaction enabled the fluorocarbon and refrigerant industries.
Frederick A. Frey
Frederick A. Frey (1938–2021) was an American geochemist and MIT professor emeritus, a pioneer of trace element geochemistry of Earth's mantle who received the N.L. Bowen Award in 1986.
Frederick Abel
Frederick Abel, also known as Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet, was a British chemist who made guncotton safe and invented cordite with James Dewar in 1889.
Frederick Albert Saunders
Frederick Albert Saunders was an American physicist who taught introductory physics at Harvard from 1919 to 1941, co-developed the Russell–Saunders atomic coupling, and became a leading researcher of violin acoustics.
Frederick Augustus Genth
Frederick Augustus Genth (1820–1893) was a German-born analytical chemist and mineralogist in Philadelphia, trained under Robert Bunsen, who first crystallized cobalt-ammine salts and described about 170 mineral species.
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was an American scientist and educator, chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1856 to 1861 and tenth president of Columbia College from 1864 to 1889.
Frederick Belding Power
Frederick Belding Power (1853–1927) was an American pharmaceutical chemist and phytochemist, first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories in London, known for his work on chaulmoogra oil.
Frederick Charles Frank
Sir Frederick Charles Frank (1911–1998) was a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol known for the Frank–Read source, the spiral-growth theory of crystals, and liquid crystal theory.
Frederick D. Lewis
Frederick D. Lewis is an American organic photochemist, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, known for experimental work on photoinduced charge transfer and hole transport in synthetic DNA hairpins.
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors (1914–1997), was a British physical chemist who built Leeds's chemistry department and chaired the 1968 Dainton Report.
Frederick Daniel Chattaway
Frederick Daniel Chattaway (1860–1944) was an English organic chemist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907, known for nitrogen-halogen chemistry and a laboratory spatula bearing his name.
Frederick Eugene Wright
Frederick Eugene Wright (1877–1953) was an American petrologist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, known for quantitative petrographic microscopy and optical studies of the Moon.
Frederick G. Donnan
Frederick G. Donnan, also known as Frederick George Donnan, was a British physical chemist whose 1911 Donnan equilibrium theory describes ion distribution across semipermeable membranes.