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Donald Glaser
Donald Glaser, also known as Don Glaser, was an American physicist who invented the bubble chamber and won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics at age 34.
Donald Goldfarb
Donald Goldfarb is an American applied mathematician and optimization researcher, a Columbia University professor since 1982 whose BFGS, Goldfarb–Idnani, and steepest-edge simplex algorithms underpin most optimization software.
Donald H. Levy
Donald H. Levy, born in 1939, is an American physical chemist at the University of Chicago known for laser spectroscopy of molecules cooled in supersonic jets.
Donald Hill Perkins
Donald Hill Perkins (1925–2022) was a British experimental particle physicist who first observed meson nuclear capture in 1947 and helped discover weak neutral currents at CERN in 1973.
Donald Holmes Hyers
Donald Holmes Hyers (1913–1997) was an American mathematician at the University of Southern California whose 1941 paper gave the first significant partial solution to Ulam's stability problem.
Donald Howard Menzel
Donald Howard Menzel (1901–1976) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard who applied quantum mechanics to stellar spectra and directed Harvard College Observatory from 1954 to 1966.
Donald Huffman
Donald Ray Huffman (1935–2025) was an American physicist at the University of Arizona who, with Wolfgang Krätschmer, discovered the 1990 carbon-arc method that first produced fullerenes in bulk.
Donald J. Cram
Donald J. Cram (1919–2001) was an American organic chemist at UCLA who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for designing highly selective host–guest molecules.
Donald J. Darensbourg
Donald J. Darensbourg (born 1941) is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist known for metal salen catalysts that turn carbon dioxide into polycarbonates, working at Texas A&M University.
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo is an American isotope geochemist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for neodymium isotope studies of the crust and mantle.
Donald J. Kessler
Donald J. Kessler, born 1940, is an American astrophysicist and former NASA scientist known for the Kessler syndrome, the scenario in which orbiting collisions generate fragments that cause further collisions.
Donald Keck
Donald Keck, born in 1941 in Lansing, Michigan, is an American physicist who, with Robert Maurer and Peter Schultz at Corning, made the first low-loss optical fiber in 1970.
Donald L. Hammond
Donald Leroy Hammond (1927–2021) was an American physicist and quartz-crystal measurement specialist who joined Hewlett-Packard in 1959, led its first European research center, and retired in 1989 as Director of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
Donald L. Sparks
Donald L. Sparks is an American environmental soil chemist who spent his 45-year career at the University of Delaware, studying how metals bind to soil minerals.
Donald L. Thompson
Donald L. Thompson is an American computational physical chemist known for molecular dynamics and theoretical chemical dynamics studies of energetic materials, later a University of Missouri professor emeritus.
Donald L. Turcotte
Donald L. Turcotte (1932–2025) was an American geophysicist at Cornell University who applied aeronautical engineering methods to mantle convection, plate tectonics, and earthquake statistics, and wrote the standard textbook Geodynamics.
Donald Lynden-Bell
Donald Lynden-Bell (1935–2018) was a British astrophysicist and first Director of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy who proposed that quasars are powered by giant black holes in galactic nuclei.
Donald M. Hunten
Donald M. Hunten (1925–2010) was a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona who predicted Titan's massive nitrogen atmosphere and shaped the study of planetary atmospheres.
Donald P. Gaver Jr.
Donald P. Gaver Jr. (1926–2018) was an American mathematical statistician and operations researcher, Distinguished Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and developer of the Gaver–Stehfest algorithm.
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider is an American astronomer and Distinguished Professor at Penn State who led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's quasar catalogs and coordinated SDSS-III.
Donald Parsons (electron microscopist)
Donald Parsons (died 2017, aged 89) was an electron microscopist at the New York State Department of Health in Albany who developed environmental chambers keeping specimens hydrated in the electron microscope.
Donald Prothero
Donald Ross Prothero is an American paleontologist and geologist known for dating North American Cenozoic mammal lineages, his Eocene-Oligocene climate research, and over 50 books defending evolution.
Donald R. Herriott
Donald R. Herriott (1928–2007) was an American optical physicist who spent 1956 to 1981 at Bell Labs, known for the first continuous helium-neon laser and the Herriott cell.
Donald R. Lowe
Donald R. Lowe is an American sedimentary geologist and emeritus Max Steineke Professor at Stanford University whose fieldwork in South Africa and Western Australia reconstructs Earth's earliest environments and early life.
Donald R. Scifres
Donald R. Scifres is an American semiconductor-laser physicist and National Academy of Engineering member who co-founded laser maker SDL, Inc. and led its 2001 merger with JDS Uniphase.
Donald S. McClure
Donald S. McClure (1920–2017) was an American physical chemist at Princeton University whose spectroscopy measurements of ions in crystals brought ligand field theory into widespread acceptance.
Donald Samuel Ornstein
Donald Samuel Ornstein, born 1934, is an American mathematician and Stanford professor emeritus working in ergodic theory, known for his 1970 theorem that Bernoulli shifts with the same entropy are isomorphic.
Donald V. Helmberger
Donald V. Helmberger (1938–2020) was an American seismologist at Caltech whose synthetic seismogram methods underpinned four decades of waveform modeling, and who co-discovered ultra-low velocity zones.
Donald W. Forsyth
Donald W. Forsyth is an American marine geophysicist and seismologist at Brown University who studies seafloor formation at mid-ocean ridges; he coordinated the MELT Experiment and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Donald W. K. Andrews
Donald W. K. Andrews is a Canadian econometrician at Yale University since 1982, known for the 1993 Andrews structural change test, HAC covariance estimation, and weak identification methods.