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Kenneth Case

Kenneth Case (1923–2006) was an American theoretical physicist known for work in neutron transport theory and plasma physics, and for wartime service on the Manhattan Project.

Kenneth Creer

Kenneth Creer (1925–2020) was a British geophysicist who pioneered palaeomagnetism, compiling the first apparent polar wander path in 1954, the first physical test of continental drift.

Kenneth D. Jordan

Kenneth D. Jordan, also published as K. D. Jordan, is an American theoretical and computational chemist at the University of Pittsburgh known for work on water clusters and temporary anions.

Kenneth D. Karlin

Kenneth D. Karlin is an American bioinorganic chemist, the Ira Remsen Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for synthetic models of copper and heme-copper oxygen-processing proteins.

Kenneth F. Schulz

Kenneth F. Schulz is an epidemiologist and clinical-trials methodologist, Distinguished Scientist at FHI 360 in Durham, North Carolina, and first author of the CONSORT 2010 reporting guidelines for randomized trials.

Kenneth G. Caulton

Kenneth G. Caulton was an American inorganic and organometallic chemist who spent his career at Indiana University Bloomington, known for transition metal hydride chemistry and C–H and C–F bond activation.

Kenneth G. Wilson

Kenneth G. Wilson (Kenneth Geddes Wilson) was an American theoretical physicist who won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory of critical phenomena and phase transitions.

Kenneth George Budden

Kenneth George Budden (1915–2005) was a British theoretical physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, a leading contributor to magnetoionic theory at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory.

Kenneth Greisen

Kenneth Greisen (1918–2007) was an American experimental cosmic-ray physicist at Cornell University who predicted the GZK cutoff in 1966 and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.

Kenneth Hsu

Kenneth Hsu, full name Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü (许靖华), born 1929, is a Chinese-Swiss geologist at ETH Zurich whose deep-sea drilling showed the Mediterranean dried up in the late Miocene.

Kenneth J. Schafer

Kenneth J. Schafer is a theoretical atomic, molecular, and optical physicist at Louisiana State University known for foundational work in strong-field physics, high-harmonic generation, and attosecond pulses.

Kenneth J. Shea

Kenneth J. Shea is an American synthetic organic, polymer, and materials chemist at UC Irvine, best known for plastic antibodies, synthetic nanoparticles that bind proteins with antibody-like affinity.

Kenneth Kellermann

Kenneth Kellermann (born 1937) is an American radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory who helped develop very long baseline interferometry and led the Very Long Baseline Array.

Kenneth Kwong

Kenneth Kin Man Kwong, born in Hong Kong in 1948, is an American physicist at Massachusetts General Hospital who performed the first successful human fMRI experiment using the BOLD signal.

Kenneth L. Walker

Kenneth L. Walker is an American optical fiber engineer who spent 21 years at Bell Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Kenneth M. Kemner

Kenneth M. Kemner is an Argonne National Laboratory scientist known for using synchrotron X-ray techniques to study microorganisms, metals, and minerals in soils, sediments, and aquifers.

Kenneth Martin O'Hara

Kenneth Martin O'Hara is an American experimental atomic physicist, formerly Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, known for ultracold fermionic lithium-6 gases, Efimov physics, and a 2005 PECASE award.

Kenneth Mees

Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (1882–1960) was a British-born photographic scientist who founded and directed the Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York, from 1912 until his retirement in 1955.

Kenneth Millett

Kenneth Millett is an American mathematician and emeritus professor at UC Santa Barbara, co-discoverer of the 1985 HOMFLY knot polynomial and developer of the average crossing number.

Kenneth Mopper

Kenneth Mopper, also published as K. Mopper, is a marine and analytical environmental chemist at Old Dominion University whose 1991 Nature paper helped establish marine photochemistry.

Kenneth N. Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond, born 1942 in Astoria, Oregon, is an American inorganic chemist at UC Berkeley known for siderophore iron transport, plutonium sequestering agents, and MRI contrast agents.

Kenneth O. Emery

Kenneth O. Emery (1914–1998) was an American marine geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, known for mapping continental margins and showing that relative sea-level change varies by location.

Kenneth Pye

Kenneth Pye, born 1956, is a British sedimentologist and coastal geomorphologist known for work on aeolian dust, sand dunes, and loess, and for the GRADISTAT grain-size statistics package.

Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier

Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier is an inorganic solid-state chemist, the Morrison Professor at Northwestern University, known for his 1998 review Noncentrosymmetric Oxides and oxide fluoride synthesis.

Kenneth Ribet

Kenneth Ribet is an American number theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1986 proof made Andrew Wiles's 1995 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem possible.

Kenneth Ross MacKenzie

Kenneth Ross MacKenzie (1912–2002) was an American experimental physicist at UCLA who co-discovered astatine in 1940, engineered cyclotron radiofrequency systems, and created the MacKenzie bucket plasma source.

Kenneth S. Johnson

Kenneth S. Johnson is a chemical oceanographer and Senior Scientist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, known for nitrate and pH sensors deployed on autonomous profiling floats.

Kenneth S. Pitzer

Kenneth S. Pitzer (1914–1997) was an American physical chemist at Berkeley whose Pitzer model for electrolyte solutions remains widely used in geochemistry and chemical engineering.

Kenneth S. Schweizer

Kenneth S. Schweizer is an American materials theorist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for PRISM, his 1987 statistical mechanical theory of polymer melts.

Kenneth S. Suslick

Kenneth S. Suslick, born in 1952, is an American chemist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign known for sonochemistry and the colorimetric sensor array, an artificial nose.