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Frank Alden Bovey

Frank Alden Bovey (1918–2003) was an American polymer chemist at Bell Laboratories who pioneered NMR spectroscopy of polymers and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Frank Austin Gooch

Frank Austin Gooch (1852–1929) was an American analytical chemist and longtime Yale professor of chemistry, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1897 and known for the Gooch crucible.

Frank B. Jewett

Frank B. Jewett (1879–1949) was an American physicist who led engineering of the first transcontinental telephone line and became the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Frank Bateson

Frank Maine Bateson (1909–2007) was a New Zealand astronomer who led variable star observation in the Southern Hemisphere, founding the Variable Star Section in 1927 and establishing Mount John Observatory.

Frank Benford

Frank Benford (Frank Albert Benford Jr.) was an American electrical engineer and physicist at General Electric who in 1938 published Benford's Law, the logarithmic leading-digit distribution.

Frank C. van den Bosch

Frank C. van den Bosch is a Dutch astronomer, professor of astronomy and physics at Yale, known for work on dark matter haloes and the galaxy–dark matter connection.

Frank C. Whitmore

Frank C. Whitmore was an American organic chemist known for molecular rearrangements and the carbocation concept, and dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics at Penn State from 1929.

Frank Cichos

Frank Cichos is a German experimental physicist and Professor for Molecular Nanophotonics at Leipzig University since 2006, known for thermophoretic trapping of single molecules and protein aggregates.

Frank Close

Frank Close is a British theoretical particle physicist who studied the strong force binding quarks, headed theory at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and wrote about 20 popular science books.

Frank Dawson Adams

Frank Dawson Adams (1859–1942) was a Canadian geologist, born and died in Montreal, who showed in laboratory experiments that solid rock flows under pressure and developed modern structural geology.

Frank Diedrich

Frank Diedrich is a physicist who led the 1989 NIST experiment first cooling a single trapped atom to the lowest vibrational state allowed by quantum mechanics.

Frank Drake

Frank Drake (1930–2022) was an American radio astronomer who founded the modern search for extraterrestrial intelligence, led Project Ozma in 1960, and wrote the Drake equation.

Frank Duckworth

Frank Duckworth (1939–2024) was an English statistician who co-invented the Duckworth–Lewis method for setting fair targets in rain-interrupted cricket, and was appointed MBE in 2010.

Frank E. Karasz

Frank E. Karasz (Frank Erwin Karasz, 1933–2026) was an Austrian-born American polymer chemist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose group created the first blue-light-emitting polymer.

Frank E. Osterloh

Frank E. Osterloh is an inorganic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, who studies photocatalysts for artificial photosynthesis, splitting water into hydrogen fuel with sunlight.

Frank Eisenhauer

Frank Eisenhauer is a German physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics who built the instruments that proved the Milky Way's central black hole.

Frank Elmore Ross

Frank Elmore Ross (1874–1960) was an American astronomer and optical designer at Yerkes Observatory, known for proper-motion star lists, Ross variables, and the Ross corrector.

Frank Fang

Frank F. Fang (方复) is a condensed-matter physicist who spent 1960 to 1993 at IBM's Watson Research Center, pioneering two-dimensional quantum transport in silicon inversion layers.

Frank Glorius

Frank Glorius is an organic chemist and Full Professor at the University of Münster since 2007, known for C–H activation, photocatalysis, and the 2013 Leibniz Prize.

Frank H. Field

Frank H. Field (1922–2013) was an American chemist who, with Burnaby Munson, developed chemical ionization mass spectrometry at Humble Oil in 1965, later directing mass spectrometry research at Rockefeller University.

Frank H. Herbstein

Frank H. Herbstein (1926–2011) was a South African-born Israeli crystallographer and Technion professor who studied phase transitions in molecular crystals and wrote a two-volume monograph on crystalline molecular complexes.

Frank H. L. Koppens

Frank H. L. Koppens (Frank Koppens), born 1976, is a Dutch physicist who leads the Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics group at ICFO near Barcelona and studies graphene photonics.

Frank H. Stillinger

Frank H. Stillinger is an American theoretical chemist who spent four decades at Bell Laboratories before moving to Princeton, known for water simulations, the Stillinger-Weber potential, and inherent structure theory.

Frank Harary

Frank Harary (1921–2005) was an American mathematician known as the father of modern graph theory, based at the University of Michigan and New Mexico State University.

Frank J. Low

Frank J. Low, born Francis James McFadden, was an American infrared astronomer who invented the germanium bolometer in 1961 and spent his career at the University of Arizona.

Frank J. Millero

Frank J. Millero (1939–2025) was an American marine physical chemist who spent 49 years at the University of Miami and shaped how seawater is measured worldwide.

Frank J. Sciulli

Frank J. Sciulli is an experimental particle physicist at Columbia University's Nevis Laboratories, known for Fermilab neutrino experiments, CCFR nucleon structure measurements, and the ZEUS detector at DESY in Hamburg.

Frank J. Tipler

Frank J. Tipler (born 1947) is an American mathematical physicist at Tulane University known for work in general relativity and for The Physics of Immortality (1994), setting out his Omega Point theory.

Frank Jülicher

Frank Jülicher, born 1965, is a German biological physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, known for active matter theory.

Frank Kelly (British mathematician)

Frank Kelly, born 1950 in London, is a British mathematician and Cambridge professor whose work on random processes and networks shaped TCP congestion control and telephone network design.