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Ken Freeman
Ken Freeman, born Kenneth Charles Freeman in 1940, is an Australian astronomer at Mount Stromlo Observatory who was among the first to show spiral galaxies contain dark matter.
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler is an American marine radiochemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who studies radioactive elements in the ocean and led research on Fukushima's release into the Pacific.
Ken Pounds
Ken Pounds (Kenneth A. Pounds) is a British physicist who founded the University of Leicester's Space Research Group in 1960 and became known for work on X-ray reflection from accretion disks.
Ken R. Czerwinski
Ken R. Czerwinski is an American radiochemist and full professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, known for work on rutherfordium, technetium, and actinide chemistry.
Ken Raymond
Kenneth N. Raymond, born 1942 in Astoria, Oregon, is an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley known for siderophore iron transport, supramolecular assemblies, and MRI contrast agents; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.
Ken Tanaka (chemist)
Ken Tanaka (田中健) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, known for asymmetric catalysis, carbohelicene synthesis, and the 2012 Mukaiyama Award.
Ken-ichi Uchida
Ken-ichi Uchida (内田 健一) is a Japanese condensed-matter physicist who pioneered spin caloritronics, known for the 2008 spin Seebeck effect and 2018 anisotropic magneto-Peltier effect.
Ken‐ichi Shimizu
Ken-ichi Shimizu (清水 研一, born 1971) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Hokkaido University's Institute for Catalysis, working on heterogeneous catalysis and catalyst design.
Ken'ichi Honda
Ken'ichi Honda (本多健一) was a Japanese chemist who discovered with Akira Fujishima that ultraviolet light on titanium dioxide splits water, and won the 2004 Japan Prize.
Ken'ichi Nomoto
Ken'ichi Nomoto (野本憲一) is a Japanese theoretical astrophysicist known for supernova theory and stellar nucleosynthesis, a Senior Scientist at Kavli IPMU and Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk, publishing as K. N. Houk, is an American theoretical and computational organic chemist at UCLA, known for pericyclic reaction theory, stereoselectivity models, and enzyme design.
Kendall rank correlation coefficient
The Kendall rank correlation coefficient, known as Kendall's tau, is a statistic from −1 to +1 measuring the agreement between rankings of two variables, defined by Maurice Kendall in 1938.
Kendall's W
Kendall's W is a nonparametric coefficient of concordance measuring agreement among multiple raters who rank the same items, ranging from 0 (no agreement) to 1 (complete agreement).
Kenichi Fukui
Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一, 1918–1998) was a Japanese theoretical chemist, professor at Kyoto University, who created frontier orbital theory and shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roald Hoffmann.
Kenichi Iga (伊賀健一)
Kenichi Iga (伊賀健一) is a Japanese electrical engineer, former president of Tokyo Institute of Technology, and inventor of the vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), proposed in 1977.
Kenichiro Itami
Kenichiro Itami (伊丹健一郎, born 1971) is a Japanese organic chemist, formerly professor at Nagoya University and now Chief Scientist at RIKEN, known for C–H activation and synthesizing carbon nanobelts.
Kenji Bekki
Kenji Bekki is a computational astrophysicist and professor at ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, known for supercomputer simulations of galaxy and star cluster formation.
Kenji Fukaya
Kenji Fukaya (深谷賢治, born 1959 in Yokohama) is a Japanese mathematician at Tsinghua University, best known for the Fukaya category and winner of the 2025 Shaw Prize.
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe (渡邊賢司) is a Japanese physicist at NIMS in Tsukuba known for growing the high-purity hexagonal boron nitride crystals used worldwide as substrates for two-dimensional materials.
Kenkichi Iwasawa
Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917–1998) was a Japanese mathematician who founded Iwasawa theory, the study of class-group growth in infinite towers of number fields, and proved the Iwasawa decomposition of Lie groups.
Kennecott Utah Copper
Kennecott Utah Copper is a copper mining, smelting, and refining company wholly owned by Rio Tinto, centered on the Bingham Canyon Mine near Salt Lake City, Utah.
Kennedy–Thorndike experiment
The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment was a 1932 interferometry test by Roy J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike that found no effect of velocity on time, supporting special relativity.
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson is an Irish-based physical chemist and Full Professor at University College Dublin, known for founding the biomolecular corona concept in a 2012 Nature Nanotechnology review.
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley (born 1964) is an American isotope geochemist, W.M. Keck Professor at Caltech, known for apatite helium thermochronology and as Mars 2020 Perseverance project scientist.
Kenneth B. Crozier
Kenneth B. Crozier, also known as Kenneth Crozier, is a physicist and professor of physics and electronic engineering at the University of Melbourne who researches nanophotonics, plasmonics, and optical trapping.
Kenneth B. Eisenthal
Kenneth B. Eisenthal (1933–2024) was an American physical chemist at Columbia University who pioneered second harmonic generation for studying molecules at liquid and aqueous interfaces.
Kenneth B. Wiberg
Kenneth B. Wiberg (Kenneth Berle Wiberg, 1927–2026) was an American physical organic chemist at Yale University known for strained small-ring compounds and the Wiberg bond index.
Kenneth Bainbridge
Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge (1904–1996) was an American experimental physicist and Harvard professor known for designing precision mass spectrographs and for directing the Trinity test, the first nuclear detonation, in 1945.
Kenneth C. Kulander
Kenneth C. Kulander was an American computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who pioneered numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for atoms in intense laser fields.
Kenneth Carslaw
Kenneth Carslaw is a British atmospheric scientist, Professor at the University of Leeds, known for the GLOMAP global aerosol model and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.