Physical world and mathematics

DM21

DM21, published by Google DeepMind researchers in Science in 2021, is a machine-learned exchange–correlation functional for density functional theory, accurate for main-group chemistry but unreliable for transition metals.

Sep 17, 2026

DMAIC

DMAIC, or Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control, is a five-phase, data-driven Six Sigma methodology for improving existing processes, standardized in ISO 13053-1:2011 and used in manufacturing, service, and healthcare.

Dmitri Anosov

Dmitri Anosov, also known as Dmitri Viktorovich Anosov, was a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute who introduced Anosov systems in hyperbolic dynamics and proved the structural stability of geodesic flows.

Sep 17, 2026

Dmitri Basov

Dmitri N. Basov is an experimental condensed matter physicist, Higgins Professor and Physics chair at Columbia University, known for infrared nano-optics of quantum materials and graphene plasmons.

Dmitri Egorov

Dmitri Egorov, also known as Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov, was a Russian mathematician who proved Egorov's theorem in 1911 and co-founded the Moscow school of real analysis.

Dmitri Konovalov

Dmitri Konovalov (Дмитрий Петрович Коновалов, 1856–1929) was a Russian and Soviet chemist who formulated Konovalov's laws of vapor pressure, the scientific basis of industrial distillation.

Sep 17, 2026

Dmitri Mendeleev (Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев)

Dmitri Mendeleev, or Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev (Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев), was a Russian chemist who formulated the periodic law and published the first modern periodic table in 1869, predicting undiscovered elements.

Dmitri Skobeltsyn

Dmitri Skobeltsyn, also known as Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsyn, was a Soviet physicist who pioneered cosmic-ray cloud-chamber studies and directed the Lebedev Physical Institute from 1951 to 1972.

Sep 20, 2026

Dmitri Talapin

Dmitri Talapin, born 1975 in Minsk, is a Belarusian-born materials chemist and University of Chicago professor known for colloidal nanocrystal superlattices, molten-salt chemistry, and DOLFIN lithography.

Dmitrii F. Perepichka

Dmitrii F. Perepichka, also published as Dmytro Perepichka, is a materials chemist at McGill University known for the 2009 Science paper extending polymer conjugation into the second dimension.

Dmitrii Knorre

Dmitrii Knorre, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pioneered nucleic acid chemistry in Siberia and founded the Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, later named after him.

Dmitrii Menshov

Dmitrii Menshov (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Меньшов; 1892–1988) was a Russian and Soviet mathematician, a central figure in the theory of trigonometric and orthogonal series, known for his 1916 trigonometric null series.

Dmitry A. Abanin

Dmitry A. Abanin is a condensed matter theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University since 2023, known for work on quantum many-body scars and many-body localization.

Dmitry Budker

Dmitry Budker is an experimental atomic physicist known for optical magnetometry, precision tests of fundamental symmetries, and quantum sensing, and is a professor at UC Berkeley and Mainz.

Dmitry Burago

Dmitry (Dmitrii) Burago is a Russian mathematician, professor at Pennsylvania State University since 2000, known for metric geometry, billiards, and the Steele Prize-winning textbook A Course in Metric Geometry.

Dmitry Faddeev

Dmitry Faddeev, full name Dmitry Konstantinovich Faddeev, was a Soviet mathematician in algebra and number theory who founded the Leningrad algebraic school and was Ludwig Faddeev's father.

Dmitry G. Shchukin

Dmitry G. Shchukin, also published as D. G. Shchukin, is a materials chemist and professor at the University of Liverpool working on sonochemistry and self-healing coatings.

Dmitry Klimov

Dmitry Mikhailovich Klimov (Дмитрий Михайлович Климов), born 1933, is a Soviet and Russian mechanist, an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences known for work on gyroscopic systems, dry friction, and rock mechanics.

Dmitry Mirimanoff

Dmitry Mirimanoff (Дмитрий Семёнович Мириманов; 1861–1945) was a Russian-Swiss mathematician at the University of Geneva who contributed to Fermat's Last Theorem and introduced the founded set.

Dmitry Raikov

Dmitry Raikov, full name Dmitry Abramovich Raikov (Дмитрий Абрамович Райков, 1905–1980), was a Soviet mathematician known for his decomposition theorem for the Poisson distribution and work in functional analysis.

DMRG-SCF

DMRG-SCF, also called DMRG-CASSCF, is a multiconfigurational electronic structure method introduced in 2008 that replaces FCI in CASSCF with DMRG, handling active spaces of about 50 orbitals.

DMTPC

DMTPC (Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber) is a direction-sensitive dark matter detector developed by an MIT-led collaboration, imaging nuclear recoil tracks in low-pressure carbon tetrafluoride gas.

DNA bricks

DNA bricks are short synthetic single-stranded DNA molecules that self-assemble into prescribed 3D nanostructures without any scaffold strand, introduced by Peng Yin and colleagues at Harvard in 2012.

DNA hydrogel

A DNA hydrogel is a soft solid of cross-linked DNA strands that holds large amounts of water, designed through base pairing for biosensing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.

DNA molecular cage

A DNA molecular cage is a hollow, three-dimensional nanostructure built from DNA strands that captures, protects, and releases guest molecules, with uses in drug delivery.

DNA molecular machine

A DNA molecular machine is an artificial nanoscale device built from DNA strands that performs mechanical work, such as walking or transporting cargo, in response to a stimulus.

DNA molecular robot

A DNA molecular robot is an artificial molecular-scale machine built from DNA that senses molecular signals, computes, and acts autonomously, including a Caltech robot that sorted six dye molecules in 24 hours.

DNA nanotube

A DNA nanotube is a hollow, cylindrical nanostructure self-assembled from designed DNA strands via Watson-Crick base pairing, with uses in drug delivery and as molecular tracks.

DNA origami force sensor

A DNA origami force sensor is a nanoscale device built from self-assembled DNA, carrying hairpins or duplexes that rupture under piconewton loads and report cell traction forces through fluorescence, used mainly in mechanobiology.