Physical and mathematical scientists

Frederick Gardner Cottrell

Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948) was an American physical chemist and UC Berkeley professor who invented the electrostatic precipitator and founded the nonprofit Research Corporation in 1912.

Frederick Gehring

Frederick Gehring (1925–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who pioneered quasiconformal mappings in dimensions three and higher and proved the Gehring Lemma in 1973.

Frederick George Keyes

Frederick George Keyes (1885–1976) was an American physical chemist at MIT whose work on thermodynamics and the properties of steam set standards used across power engineering.

Frederick Hanley Seares (1873–1964) was an American astronomer who spent 31 years at Mount Wilson Observatory, where he standardized the stellar magnitude system, extended it to very faint stars, and won the 1940 Bruce Gold Medal.

Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.

Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. (1933–1997) was an American mathematician and pioneer of the geometric calculus of variations, best known for his regularity theory of area-minimizing surfaces.

Frederick J. Karol

Frederick J. Karol (1933–2018) was an American chemist and Union Carbide Senior Corporate Fellow who developed the Unipol gas-phase polyethylene process and won the 1989 Perkin Medal.

Frederick J. Leonberger

Frederick J. Leonberger is an American electrical engineer who pioneered lithium niobate integrated-optic modulators for fiber-optic networks and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Frederick Joseph Ernst

Frederick Joseph Ernst (1933–2023) was an American mathematical physicist who formulated the Ernst equation, a 1968 reduction of Einstein's equations used to derive exact black hole solutions.

Frederick Kaufman

Frederick Kaufman (1919–1985) was an Austrian-born American chemist at the University of Pittsburgh, a leader in gas-phase chemical kinetics whose measurements informed the US ban on CFC aerosol propellants.

Frederick L. Ransome

Frederick L. Ransome (1868–1935) was a British-born American economic geologist who mapped the principal mining districts of the American West for the US Geological Survey, leading its metalliferous work from 1912 to 1923.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, known as "the Prof," was a British physicist who led Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory and advised Winston Churchill through most of World War II.

Frederick Mosteller

Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006) was an American statistician who founded Harvard's Department of Statistics, chaired three Harvard departments, and pioneered meta-analysis and the evaluation of social programs.

Frederick Reines

Frederick Reines was an American physicist who, with Clyde Cowan, made the first detection of the neutrino in 1956, winning a share of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Frederick Rossini

Frederick Rossini (1899–1990) was an American chemical thermodynamicist best known for directing the American Petroleum Institute's hydrocarbon research projects and compiling the reference tables that became design data for the oil industry.

Frederick Seitz

Frederick Seitz (1911–2008) was an American solid-state physicist who helped found the quantum theory of solids, led the National Academy of Sciences, and later organized the 1998 Oregon Petition against the Kyoto Protocol.

Frederick Soddy

Frederick Soddy was a British radiochemist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on radioactive substances and isotopes, a term he coined in 1913.

Frederick Sumner Brackett

Frederick Sumner Brackett (1896–1988) was an American physicist who discovered the infrared hydrogen lines called the Brackett series in 1922 and later developed spectroscopic methods at the National Institutes of Health.

Frederick T. Wall

Frederick T. Wall (1912–2010) was an American physical chemist known for the statistical thermodynamics of polymers and the first Monte Carlo simulations of macromolecules on a digital computer.

Frederick Thomas Trouton

Frederick Thomas Trouton (1863–1922) was an Irish physicist who gave his name to Trouton's rule and designed ether-drift experiments with null results that helped prepare for special relativity.

Frederick Vine

Frederick Vine, full name Frederick John Vine, was a British marine geologist whose 1963 explanation of oceanic magnetic anomalies led to the acceptance of plate tectonics.

Frederik Belinfante

Frederik Jozef Belinfante (1913–1991) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who gave one of the first general proofs of the spin-statistics theorem and co-invented the symmetrized stress-energy tensor.

Frederik R. Wurm

Frederik R. Wurm (Frederik Wurm) is a polymer chemist and professor of Sustainable Polymer Chemistry at the University of Twente since 2020, known for biodegradable polyphosphoesters.

Fredric M. Menger

Fredric M. Menger is an American organic chemist at Emory University known for his work on micelle structure and for coining the term gemini surfactants.

Fredrick K. Manthi

Fredrick K. Manthi is a Kenyan paleontologist at the National Museums of Kenya who directs Turkana Basin excavations and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Fredrik Kjellin

Fredrik Adolf Kjellin (1872–1910) was a Swedish chemist and engineer who built the first usable electric induction furnace and produced the first usable electric steel, at Gysinge bruk in 1900.

Freeman Dyson

Freeman John Dyson was a British-born theoretical physicist and writer who spent his career at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and unified quantum electrodynamics in 1949.

Freysteinn Sigmundsson

Freysteinn Sigmundsson (born 1966) is an Icelandic geophysicist at the University of Iceland who studies volcano geodesy, tracking magma movement, and led a Nature paper on the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption.

Frieder Jäkle

Frieder Jäkle, born 1969, is a German-born materials chemist and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark whose group develops boron-doped conjugated polymers for organic electronics and sensing.

Friederich Ignaz Mautner

Friederich Ignaz Mautner was a mathematician who worked on unitary representation theory of locally compact groups and is remembered for the Mautner phenomenon, a standard tool in ergodic theory.