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Frank Westheimer
Frank Westheimer (1912–2007) was an American physical organic chemist at Harvard who helped create bio-organic chemistry, invented molecular mechanics, and won the National Medal of Science in 1986.
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom, the basis of quantum chromodynamics.
Frank Würthner
Frank Würthner (born 1964 in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) is a German chemist who has held the Chair of Organic Chemistry II at the University of Würzburg since 2002, known for perylene bisimide dyes and J-aggregates.
Frank Yates
Frank Yates (1902–1994) was a British statistician who led the statistics department at Rothamsted Experimental Station for over three decades, known for the Yates correction, experimental design, and sampling methods.
Frank Zimar
Frank Zimar was a Ph.D. chemist at Corning Glass Works who drew the first low-loss fused silica optical fiber in 1970 and co-invented outside vapor deposition.
Frank–Kasper phases in block copolymers
Frank–Kasper phases in block copolymers are low-symmetry sphere-packing lattices, including σ, A15, C14, and C15, formed by micelles of unequal sizes in block polymer melts.
Frank–Wolfe algorithm
The Frank–Wolfe algorithm, also called the conditional gradient method, is a projection-free first-order method for minimizing a smooth convex function over a compact convex set.
Frankie MacDonald
Frankie MacDonald is a Canadian amateur weather forecaster and YouTube personality from Sydney, Nova Scotia, known for his enthusiastic storm warnings and the catchphrase "Be Prepared!"
Franklin A. Long
Franklin A. Long (1910–1999) was an American chemist and Cornell professor known for work on organic reaction mechanisms in solution and for a career in arms control and science policy.
Franklin Tao
Franklin (Feng) Tao is a heterogeneous catalysis researcher known for in-situ studies of catalysts under reaction conditions and for catalysts of singly dispersed bimetallic sites, isolated two-atom clusters.
Franklyn Quinlan
Franklyn Quinlan is an American physicist who leads the Precision Photonic Synthesis Group at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
Frans Michel Penning
Frans Michel Penning (1894–1953) was a Dutch physicist at the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven known for Penning ionization, the Penning vacuum gauge, and the Penning trap.
Frans Oort
Frans Oort, born in Bussum in 1935, is a Dutch mathematician and Utrecht professor emeritus, a leading expert on abelian varieties over finite fields whose conjectures and students shaped Dutch algebraic geometry.
Frans Pretorius
Frans Pretorius is a computational physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University whose 2005 computer simulation of two black holes merging solved a problem long considered unsolvable.
František Šorm
František Šorm (1913–1980) was a Czech organic chemist known for his work on terpenes and nucleosides, and president of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences until 1969.
František Tureček
František Tureček, born 1950 in Prague, is a Czech-born chemist and Endowed Professor at the University of Washington known for mass spectrometry and newborn screening research.
Franz Hillenkamp
Franz Hillenkamp (1936–2014) was a German biophysicist at the universities of Frankfurt and Münster who co-discovered MALDI mass spectrometry with Michael Karas in 1985, making large biomolecules accessible to analysis.
Franz J. Gießibl
Franz J. Giessibl (born 1962) is a German physicist at the University of Regensburg known for inventing the qPlus sensor used in atomic force microscopy.
Franz Josef Schnitzer
Franz Josef Schnitzer (1928–2006) was an Austrian mathematician working in number theory and complex analysis, holding the mathematics chair at Leoben from 1971 to 1996.
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer
Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877–1947) was a German chemist who, with Hans Tropsch, invented the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis of liquid fuels from carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
Franz L. Dickert
Franz L. Dickert, also published as F. L. Dickert, is an analytical chemist and emeritus professor at the University of Vienna, known for molecularly imprinted polymer sensors.
Franz M. Geiger
Franz M. Geiger is an American-based physical and analytical chemist, Morrison Professor at Northwestern University, who studies surfaces by nonlinear optics and co-authored the 2024 dark oxygen discovery.
Franz Mertens
Franz Mertens, known in Polish as Franciszek, was a Polish-Austrian mathematician in analytic number theory, known for his 1874 theorems on primes and the Mertens conjecture.
Franz Pfeiffer (physicist)
Franz Pfeiffer (born 1972) is a physicist who holds the Chair of Biomedical Physics at the Technical University of Munich and works on new X-ray imaging methods.
Franz Rellich
Franz Rellich (1906–1955) was an Austrian-German mathematician whose Rellich–Kondrachov theorem and operator perturbation theory became foundations of PDE theory and quantum mechanics; he rebuilt Göttingen's institute after the war.
Franz Wegner
Franz Wegner, born 1940 in Dessau, is a German theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University, known for Ising lattice gauge theory, finite-size scaling, and Anderson localization.
Franz X. Kärtner
Franz X. Kärtner, also published as Franz Kärtner, is a German physicist who leads the Ultrafast Optics and X-rays group at DESY's Center for Free-Electron Laser Science in Hamburg.
Franziska Schoenebeck
Franziska Schoenebeck is a German chemist who has been Full Professor and Chair of Organic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University since 2016, known for palladium catalysis and computational catalyst design.
Fräser A. Armstrong
Fräser A. Armstrong, also known as Fraser Armstrong, is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2008.
Fráter–Seebach alkylation
The Fráter–Seebach alkylation, also called the Seebach–Fráter reaction, stereoselectively alkylates chiral beta-hydroxy esters via a lithium chelate and is widely used in polyketide and mycolic acid synthesis.