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Frédéric Laquai
Frédéric Laquai is a German-born physicist who studies light-to-charge conversion in solar cell materials using ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and has been a professor at LMU Munich since 2024.
Frédéric Mila
Frédéric Mila, born 1962 in Toulouse, France, is a French and Swiss condensed matter theorist at EPFL, a leading figure in frustrated magnetism who won the 2024 Charpak-Ritz Prize.
Frédéric Moynier
Frédéric Moynier is a French cosmochemist at Université Paris Cité and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, known for zinc isotope work on the Moon's origin.
Frédéric Swarts
Frédéric Swarts (2 September 1866, Ixelles – 6 September 1940, Ghent) was a Belgian chemist at Ghent University who pioneered organic fluorine chemistry; his Swarts reaction enabled the fluorocarbon and refrigerant industries.
Frederick A. Frey
Frederick A. Frey (1938–2021) was an American geochemist and MIT professor emeritus, a pioneer of trace element geochemistry of Earth's mantle who received the N.L. Bowen Award in 1986.
Frederick Abel
Frederick Abel, also known as Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet, was a British chemist who made guncotton safe and invented cordite with James Dewar in 1889.
Frederick Albert Saunders
Frederick Albert Saunders was an American physicist who taught introductory physics at Harvard from 1919 to 1941, co-developed the Russell–Saunders atomic coupling, and became a leading researcher of violin acoustics.
Frederick Augustus Genth
Frederick Augustus Genth (1820–1893) was a German-born analytical chemist and mineralogist in Philadelphia, trained under Robert Bunsen, who first crystallized cobalt-ammine salts and described about 170 mineral species.
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was an American scientist and educator, chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1856 to 1861 and tenth president of Columbia College from 1864 to 1889.
Frederick Belding Power
Frederick Belding Power (1853–1927) was an American pharmaceutical chemist and phytochemist, first director of the Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories in London, known for his work on chaulmoogra oil.
Frederick Charles Frank
Sir Frederick Charles Frank (1911–1998) was a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol known for the Frank–Read source, the spiral-growth theory of crystals, and liquid crystal theory.
Frederick D. Lewis
Frederick D. Lewis is an American organic photochemist, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, known for experimental work on photoinduced charge transfer and hole transport in synthetic DNA hairpins.
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors (1914–1997), was a British physical chemist who built Leeds's chemistry department and chaired the 1968 Dainton Report.
Frederick Daniel Chattaway
Frederick Daniel Chattaway (1860–1944) was an English organic chemist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907, known for nitrogen-halogen chemistry and a laboratory spatula bearing his name.
Frederick Eugene Wright
Frederick Eugene Wright (1877–1953) was an American petrologist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, known for quantitative petrographic microscopy and optical studies of the Moon.
Frederick G. Donnan
Frederick G. Donnan, also known as Frederick George Donnan, was a British physical chemist whose 1911 Donnan equilibrium theory describes ion distribution across semipermeable membranes.
Frederick Gardner Cottrell
Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948) was an American physical chemist and UC Berkeley professor who invented the electrostatic precipitator and founded the nonprofit Research Corporation in 1912.
Frederick Gehring
Frederick Gehring (1925–2012) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who pioneered quasiconformal mappings in dimensions three and higher and proved the Gehring Lemma in 1973.
Frederick George Keyes
Frederick George Keyes (1885–1976) was an American physical chemist at MIT whose work on thermodynamics and the properties of steam set standards used across power engineering.
Frederick Hanley Seares
Frederick Hanley Seares (1873–1964) was an American astronomer who spent 31 years at Mount Wilson Observatory, where he standardized the stellar magnitude system, extended it to very faint stars, and won the 1940 Bruce Gold Medal.
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.
Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. (1933–1997) was an American mathematician and pioneer of the geometric calculus of variations, best known for his regularity theory of area-minimizing surfaces.
Frederick J. Karol
Frederick J. Karol (1933–2018) was an American chemist and Union Carbide Senior Corporate Fellow who developed the Unipol gas-phase polyethylene process and won the 1989 Perkin Medal.
Frederick J. Leonberger
Frederick J. Leonberger is an American electrical engineer who pioneered lithium niobate integrated-optic modulators for fiber-optic networks and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Frederick Joseph Ernst
Frederick Joseph Ernst (1933–2023) was an American mathematical physicist who formulated the Ernst equation, a 1968 reduction of Einstein's equations used to derive exact black hole solutions.
Frederick Kaufman
Frederick Kaufman (1919–1985) was an Austrian-born American chemist at the University of Pittsburgh, a leader in gas-phase chemical kinetics whose measurements informed the US ban on CFC aerosol propellants.
Frederick L. Ransome
Frederick L. Ransome (1868–1935) was a British-born American economic geologist who mapped the principal mining districts of the American West for the US Geological Survey, leading its metalliferous work from 1912 to 1923.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, known as "the Prof," was a British physicist who led Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory and advised Winston Churchill through most of World War II.
Frederick Mosteller
Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006) was an American statistician who founded Harvard's Department of Statistics, chaired three Harvard departments, and pioneered meta-analysis and the evaluation of social programs.
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
The Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research is a government-owned research center in Frederick, Maryland, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and devoted to cancer and infectious disease research.
Frederick Reines
Frederick Reines was an American physicist who, with Clyde Cowan, made the first detection of the neutrino in 1956, winning a share of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.