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Kurt Heegner
Kurt Heegner was a German high school teacher and radio engineer whose 1952 proof of the class number one problem was vindicated after his death.
Kurt Hensel
Kurt Hensel (1861–1941) was a German mathematician and student of Kronecker who became professor at Marburg in 1902, introduced the p-adic numbers in 1897, and proved Hensel's lemma.
Kurt Hirsch
Kurt August Hirsch (1906–1986) was a German-born British mathematician who pioneered polycyclic group theory and gave his name to the Hirsch number and Hirsch–Plotkin radical.
Kurt Kremer
Kurt Kremer, born 1956, is a German statistical physicist who developed the Kremer-Grest bead-spring model and led polymer theory at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz.
Kurt Lambeck
Kurt Lambeck, born 1941 in Utrecht, is a Dutch-born Australian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at ANU known for reconstructing ice-volume and sea-level history, winning the 2012 Balzan Prize.
Kurt Lehovec
Kurt Lehovec was a Bohemian-born American physicist who patented p–n junction isolation, letting many transistors share one silicon die, and helped explain the first LEDs.
Kurt Mahler
Kurt Mahler (1903–1988) was a German-born mathematician, a central figure in transcendence theory who gave his name to Mahler's method, the Mahler measure, and a classification of transcendental numbers.
Kurt Mislow
Kurt Mislow was a German-born American stereochemist who held the Hugh Stott Taylor Professorship at Princeton University, pioneered modern chirality theory, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1972.
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser is a geomicrobiologist and professor at the University of Alberta known for research on banded iron formations, the textbook Introduction to Geomicrobiology, and founding the journal Geobiology.
Kurt Otto Friedrichs
Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1901–1982) was a German-American applied mathematician who joined Richard Courant at NYU in 1937 and shaped the modern theory of partial differential equations.
Kurt Peters (chemist)
Kurt Peters (1897–1978) was an Austrian chemist who trained under Walther Nernst, helped convert methane to acetylene, and served as rector of the Vienna Institute of Technology.
Kurt Reidemeister
Kurt Reidemeister (1893–1971) was a German mathematician who proved the Reidemeister moves characterizing equivalent link diagrams, wrote the 1932 standard work Knotentheorie, and defined Reidemeister torsion in 1935.
Kurt Symanzik
Kurt Symanzik (1923–1983) was a German theoretical physicist who shaped quantum field theory through the LSZ formalism and the Callan–Symanzik equation, winning the 1981 Max Planck Medal.
Kurtosis
Kurtosis is a measure of the tailedness of a probability distribution, introduced by Karl Pearson in 1905 and used with skewness to quantify departure from normality.
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan is an environmental toxicologist and analytical chemist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, known for 2001 surveys showing perfluorinated chemicals had spread worldwide.
Kutta condition
The Kutta condition is a boundary condition in potential-flow aerodynamics requiring that flow leave an airfoil's sharp trailing edge smoothly, thereby fixing the circulation and lift of the solution.
Kuznetsk Alatau
The Kuznetsk Alatau (Кузнецкий Алатау) is a mountain system in southern Siberia, Russia, about 300 km long, separating the Kuznetsk Basin from the Minusinsk Basin.
KV UMa
KV UMa, also cataloged as XTE J1118+480, is a black hole X-ray transient in Ursa Major, discovered in outburst in 2000, with a 4.1-hour orbit.
KV3Sb5
KV3Sb5 is a layered kagome metal of potassium, vanadium, and antimony, discovered in 2019, showing charge order below about 80 K and superconductivity below 0.93 K.
Kwabena Bediako
Kwabena Bediako is a Ghanaian-born chemist who studies electrocatalysis and two-dimensional materials as an associate professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Kwang S. Kim
Kwang S. Kim, also known as Kwang Soo Kim, is a South Korean theoretical and computational chemist at UNIST who designs functional nanomaterials and nanodevices by quantum-chemical calculation.
Kwangyeol Lee
Kwangyeol Lee (이광렬) is a South Korean chemist who joined Korea University in Seoul in 2003, working on nanocrystal synthesis and electrocatalysts for water splitting and fuel cells.
Ky Fan
Ky Fan (樊畿, 1914–2010) was a Chinese-American mathematician at UC Santa Barbara known for the Ky Fan inequalities, Ky Fan norms, and the 1972 minimax inequality.
Kyanite
Kyanite is a blue, bladed aluminosilicate mineral, Al₂SiO₅, named in 1789 from the Greek for dark blue, whose crystals scratch easily along their length but not across it.
Kyejo
Kyejo (Kieyo, Kiejo) is a 2,176 m trachytic stratovolcano in the Rungwe Volcanic Province, SW Tanzania, NW of Lake Malawi. Its only historical eruption, around 1800 CE from the Sarabwe and Fiteko cones, produced 8 km lava flows that overran villages.
Kyeng Min Park
Kyeng Min Park (박경민) is a South Korean supramolecular chemist known for cucurbituril host–guest chemistry, including a supramolecular latching system for protein imaging; he has taught at Daegu Catholic University since 2021.
Kyle Anderson (chemist)
Kyle W. Anderson is an American research chemist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who leads its HDX-MS program for biopharmaceutical analysis and won a 2025 PECASE.
Kyle Cranmer
Kyle Cranmer is an American physicist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose statistical framework enabled the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider.
Kyle M. Shen
Kyle M. Shen is a Canadian-American condensed matter physicist at Cornell University, where he directs LASSP and combines oxide molecular beam epitaxy with ARPES to create and probe quantum materials.
Kyō-yaki
Kyō-yaki (京焼) is Kyoto ware, ceramics made in and around Kyoto since the early modern period, best known through Kiyomizu-yaki and prized for tea utensils.