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Francesc Gascó-Lluna
Francesc Gascó-Lluna, known online as Pakozoico, is a Spanish paleontologist born in 1984 who studies dinosaurs, wrote his thesis on Turiasaurus, and works as a science communicator.
Francesc Illas
Francesc Illas i Riera (born 1954) is a Spanish theoretical and computational chemist, a full professor at the Universitat de Barcelona working on catalysis and energy materials.
Francesca Dominici
Francesca Dominici is an Italian-trained biostatistician, the Clarence James Gamble Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for studies of air pollution and mortality.
Francesco Calogero
Francesco Calogero (1935–2026) was an Italian theoretical physicist at Sapienza University of Rome, known for the exactly solvable Calogero–Moser system and for serving as Pugwash Secretary General.
Francesco Giazotto
Francesco Giazotto is an Italian condensed matter physicist and research director at CNR Nanoscienze in Pisa, known for the first Josephson heat interferometer and phase battery.
Francesco Giordani
Francesco Giordani (1896–1961) was an Italian electrochemist and professor at Naples who built the Giordani-Pomilio electrolyzer and led Italy's CNR, nuclear program, and Accademia dei Lincei.
Francesco Mauri
Francesco Mauri is an Italian theoretical solid-state physicist, professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for first-principles materials methods and theories of NMR and Raman spectroscopy in solids.
Francesco Paesani
Francesco Paesani is a theoretical and computational chemist at the University of California San Diego, known for the MB-pol water potential and simulations of water's liquid–liquid critical point.
Francesco Paolo Cantelli
Francesco Paolo Cantelli (1875–1966) was an Italian mathematician and actuary who proved the first general strong law of large numbers and completed the Borel–Cantelli lemma.
Francesco Sciortino
Francesco Sciortino, born 1960, is an Italian computational physicist and full professor at Sapienza University of Rome, known for work on water's liquid-liquid critical point and patchy colloids.
Francesco Severi
Francesco Severi (1879–1961) was an Italian mathematician and a key architect of the Italian school of algebraic geometry, known for the Néron–Severi theorem and for founding Rome's Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica.
Francesco Siacci
Francesco Siacci (1839–1907) was an Italian mathematician and artillery officer whose firing-table method in exterior ballistics, published from about 1880, was adopted by artilleries worldwide.
Francesco Tricomi
Francesco Tricomi, full name Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, was an Italian mathematician (1897–1978) known for the Tricomi equation, central to transonic aerodynamics, and the Tricomi function.
Francesco Zamponi
Francesco Zamponi, born 1979 in Rome, is an Italian theoretical physicist known for the mean-field theory of hard-sphere glasses and jamming, and a CNRS Research Director at LPTENS in Paris.
Francesco Zerbetto
Francesco Zerbetto is an Italian theoretical and computational chemist, Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Bologna since 2001, known for work on molecular machines, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes.
Francis Albarède
Francis Albarède (born 1947) is a French isotope geochemist, professor emeritus at the École normale supérieure de Lyon, known for pioneering metal isotope analysis in geochemistry, archaeology, and medicine.
Francis Birch (geophysicist)
Francis Birch (1903–1992) was an American Harvard geophysicist whose high-pressure measurements of Earth's interior materials produced Earth models that remain the basis of most published since.
Francis Bitter
Francis Bitter (1902–1967) was an American physicist at MIT whose stacked-plate electromagnet became the standard for intense magnetic fields; MIT's magnet lab bears his name.
Francis Crick Institute
The Francis Crick Institute, known as the Crick, is a biomedical research institute in central London, formed in 2015 and led by Nobel laureate Paul Nurse.
Francis D’Souza
Francis D'Souza is a chemist at the University of North Texas known for light-harvesting supramolecular systems and elected 124th President of The Electrochemical Society in 2026.
Francis Dominic Murnaghan
Francis Dominic Murnaghan (1893–1976) was an Irish mathematician who applied group theory to continuum mechanics, taught at Johns Hopkins, and gave his name to the Birch–Murnaghan equation of state.
Francis E. Low
Francis E. Low (1921–2007) was an American theoretical physicist who worked on quantum electrodynamics at MIT, proved the 1958 soft-photon theorem, and served as provost from 1980 to 1985.
Francis Farley
Francis James Macdonald Farley (1920–2018) was a British experimental physicist who took part in the first four muon g-2 experiments at CERN and Brookhaven, winning the 1980 Hughes Medal.
Francis Galton
Francis Galton (1822–1911) was an English polymath and half-cousin of Charles Darwin who founded biometric statistics, introducing correlation and regression to the mean, and also coined the term eugenics.
Francis Graham-Smith
Sir Francis Graham-Smith (1923–2025) was a British radio astronomer who identified cosmic radio sources, researched pulsars, and served as the 13th Astronomer Royal from 1982 to 1990.
Francis Halzen
Francis Halzen, born 1944 in Belgium, is a physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who conceived and led the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole.
Francis J. DiSalvo
Francis J. "Frank" DiSalvo (1944–2023) was an American solid-state chemist, a Cornell professor and National Academy of Sciences member known for synthesizing new inorganic materials, including nitrides and fuel-cell electrocatalysts.
Francis J. Pettijohn
Francis J. Pettijohn (1904–1999) was an American geologist often called the father of modern sedimentology, whose 1949 textbook Sedimentary Rocks set the field's standard for decades.
Francis John Turner
Francis John Turner (1904–1985) was a New Zealand-born metamorphic petrologist, professor of geology at Berkeley, and pioneer of structural petrology elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Francis M. McCubbin
Francis M. McCubbin is a planetary scientist and cosmochemist who serves as NASA's Astromaterials Curator at Johnson Space Center, studying water and volatiles in the inner solar system.