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Kazunari Matsuda
Kazunari Matsuda is a Japanese physicist and professor at Kyoto University's Institute of Advanced Energy, known for optical studies of carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional semiconductors.
Kazunari Shibata
Kazunari Shibata (柴田 一成) is a Japanese solar astrophysicist at Kyoto University known for his unified model of solar flares and the discovery of superflares.
Kazunari Yoshizawa
Kazunari Yoshizawa (吉澤一成) is a Japanese theoretical and computational chemist at Kyoto University's Fukui Institute, known for an orbital rule for molecular electron transport and catalyst design.
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則)
Kazunori Kataoka (片岡一則) is a Japanese polymer chemist known for block copolymer micelles for drug delivery, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Kazuo Akagi
Kazuo Akagi (赤木 和夫) is a Japanese polymer chemist at Ritsumeikan University, known for synthesizing helical polyacetylene and winning the Chemical Society of Japan Award.
Kazuo Takimiya
Kazuo Takimiya (瀧宮 和男) is a Japanese organic materials chemist, professor at Tohoku University and a RIKEN group director, known for the high-mobility semiconductors BTBT and DNTT.
Kazuoki Azuma
Kazuoki Azuma (吾妻 一興) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at Miyagi University of Education known for the Azuma–Hoeffding inequality, a 1967 tail bound for martingales.
Kazushi Kanoda
Kazushi Kanoda (鹿野田 一司) is a Japanese condensed matter physicist, a University of Tokyo professor since 1999, known for NMR studies of organic molecular conductors.
Kazushi Mashima
Kazushi Mashima (真島和志), born 1957, is a Japanese organometallic chemist and Specially Appointed Professor at Osaka University, known for cerium cluster catalysis and asymmetric hydrogenation.
Kazuya Kikuchi
Kazuya Kikuchi (菊地 和也) is a Japanese chemical biologist and Distinguished Professor at Osaka University, known for fluorogenic no-wash protein-labeling tags and core-shell nanoparticle 19F MRI probes.
Kazuyuki Kuroda
Kazuyuki Kuroda (黒田 一幸) is a Japanese inorganic materials chemist at Waseda University in Tokyo, known for mesoporous silica, oriented mesoporous films, and his nanotectonics design program.
KBC void
The KBC void, also called the Local Hole, is a proposed region around the Local Group about 20 percent less dense than the cosmic average, extending roughly 300 megaparsecs.
Ke Zhao
Ke Zhao (柯召, 1910–2002) was a Chinese mathematician at Sichuan University, a founder of modern number theory and combinatorics in China, co-author of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem.
Keary M. Engle
Keary M. Engle is an American chemist and professor at Scripps Research known for palladium-catalyzed C–H functionalization and alkene dicarbofunctionalization, and dean of graduate studies since 2024.
Keck asymmetric allylation
Keck asymmetric allylation, also called catalytic asymmetric allylation (CAA), converts an aldehyde into a chiral homoallylic alcohol using allyltributylstannane and a chiral BINOL–titanium catalyst, reported by Gary E. Keck in 1993.
Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve, begun by Charles David Keeling, is the continuous record of atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory since 1958, the longest direct CO2 record.
Kees Posthumus
Kees Posthumus, full name Kornelis Posthumus (1902–1972), was a Dutch chemist and second rector magnificus of Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven whose 1968 'nota Posthumus' shaped Dutch higher-education reform in the 1970s.
Keetch–Byram Drought Index
The Keetch–Byram Drought Index (KBDI) is a drought index for forest fire control, developed by John J. Keetch and George M. Byram in 1968, running from 0 to 800.
Kei Hirose
Kei Hirose (廣瀬敬, born 1968) is a Japanese high-pressure geophysicist at the University of Tokyo, known for the 2004 discovery of post-perovskite and for laser-heated diamond-anvil cell experiments reaching Earth's center conditions.
Keiiti Aki
Keiiti Aki (1930–2005) was a Japanese-born seismologist, professor at MIT and USC, who created the seismic moment concept behind the moment magnitude scale, pioneered seismic tomography, and co-authored Quantitative Seismology.
Keiji Maruoka
Keiji Maruoka (丸岡 啓二, born 1953) is a Japanese organic chemist at Kyoto University known for designing the chiral phase-transfer catalysts sold as the Maruoka Catalyst.
Keiji Morokuma
Keiji Morokuma (諸熊奎治, 1934–2017) was a Japanese theoretical chemist who developed the ONIOM multiscale method, taught at Emory University, and won the 2008 Imperial Prize.
Keisuke Goda
Keisuke Goda (合田 圭介) is a Japanese photonics and biomedical optics researcher, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Tokyo since 2012, known for ultrafast optical imaging and intelligent image-activated cell sorting.
Keisuke Suzuki
Keisuke Suzuki (鈴木啓介) is a Japanese organic chemist known for the total synthesis of complex natural products, winner of the 2015 Japan Academy Prize and a Japan Academy member since 2018.
Keisuke Tajima
Keisuke Tajima (但馬 敬介) is a Japanese organic electronics researcher who leads a polymer research team at RIKEN, known for his 2011 Nature Materials study of organic solar cell interfaces.
Keith A. Kvenvolden
Keith A. Kvenvolden, born 1930 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, is an American organic geochemist known for Murchison meteorite amino-acid research at NASA and gas hydrate studies at the USGS.
Keith A. Nelson
Keith A. Nelson is an American physical chemist at MIT known for ultrafast optics and terahertz spectroscopy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Keith A. Olive
Keith A. Olive is an American theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota who works on big bang nucleosynthesis, particle dark matter, and inflation, winning the 2018 Hans A. Bethe Prize.
Keith Beven
Keith J. Beven is a British hydrologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, known for TOPMODEL and the GLUE uncertainty methodology and elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2017.
Keith Brueckner
Keith Brueckner (1924–2014) was an American theoretical physicist whose 1955 linked-cluster work founded Brueckner theory of nuclear matter; he was the founding chair of physics at UC San Diego.