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Laughlin wavefunction
The Laughlin wavefunction is a variational many-body wavefunction proposed by Robert Laughlin in 1983 describing the fractional quantum Hall effect as an incompressible quantum liquid.
Laura Barge
Laura Barge, also known as Laurie Barge, is an American astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies the origin of life on Mars and ocean worlds.
Laura DeMarco
Laura DeMarco is a mathematician at Harvard University, a professor there since 2020, who works in dynamical systems and arithmetic dynamics and won the 2017 Satter Prize.
Laura Fields
Laura Fields is an experimental particle physicist at the University of Notre Dame who studies how neutrino beams are produced and oscillate, and received a 2025 PECASE award.
Laura Gagliardi
Laura Gagliardi is a theoretical and materials chemist who has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 2020, known for multireference quantum chemical methods such as MC-PDFT.
Laura Greene (physicist)
Laura Greene is an American experimental condensed matter physicist known for tunneling spectroscopy of unconventional superconductors and Chief Scientist of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
Laura Herz
Laura Herz (Laura M. Herz) is a semiconductor photophysicist and Professor of Physics at Oxford, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and awarded the 2024 Michael Faraday Medal.
Laura L. Kiessling
Laura L. Kiessling is an American chemical biologist who studies how cells use carbohydrate coats, called glycans, to signal; she has been the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at MIT since 2017.
Laura Lee McConnell
Laura Lee McConnell is an American environmental chemist known for tracking pesticides through water, air, and soil, a 1997 PECASE recipient and later a Bayer Science Fellow.
Laura Na Liu
Laura Na Liu is a physicist working in nanophotonics and DNA-origami plasmonics, and professor and director of the 2nd Physics Institute at the University of Stuttgart since 2020.
Laura Robinson (geochemist)
Laura Robinson is a geochemist and Professor at the University of Bristol who reconstructs past ocean circulation and carbon cycling using isotope dating of deep-sea corals.
Laura Slivinski
Laura Slivinski is an American applied mathematician at NOAA's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, known for co-leading the 20th Century Reanalysis version 3 weather reconstruction.
Laura Tobin
Laura Tobin is an English broadcast meteorologist who trained with the Met Office and has presented the weather on ITV's Good Morning Britain since 2014.
Laure Saint-Raymond
Laure Saint-Raymond (born 1975) is a French mathematician known for proving hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation, work answering part of Hilbert's sixth problem; she holds a chair at the Collège de France.
Laurence L. Sloss
Laurence L. Sloss (1913–1996) was an American stratigrapher at Northwestern University who subdivided the North American craton's sedimentary record into six unconformity-bounded sequences, pioneering sequence stratigraphy.
Laurens D. A. Siebbeles
Laurens D. A. Siebbeles, an honorary Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor, leads the Opto-electronic Materials group at TU Delft, where his ultrafast spectroscopy studies showed efficient carrier multiplication in lead chalcogenide nanosheets.
Laurens Molenkamp
Laurens Molenkamp is a Dutch condensed matter physicist, professor at the University of Würzburg since 1999, known for the first observation of the quantum spin Hall effect in 2007.
Laurent Lafforgue
Laurent Lafforgue, born 1966 in Antony, France, is a French mathematician who proved the Langlands correspondence for GL(r) over function fields, winning the Fields Medal in 2002.
Laurent Schwartz
Laurent Schwartz (1915–2002) was a French mathematician who created the theory of distributions, rigorously generalizing functions, and in 1950 became the first French Fields Medalist.
Laurent series
A Laurent series, also called a Laurent expansion or bilateral power series, is a doubly infinite power series in positive and negative powers of z, valid on an annulus.
Laurentia
Laurentia, the North American craton, is the ancient geological core of North America, assembled by 1.7 billion years ago and including Greenland and northwest Scotland until the Late Cretaceous.
Lauric acid
Lauric acid, also known as dodecanoic acid, is a saturated fatty acid with a straight twelve-carbon chain, the main fatty acid in coconut oil and used in soaps and detergents.
Lauric arginate
Lauric arginate (LAE, ethyl lauroyl arginate, E 243) is a cationic surfactant food preservative made from lauric acid, L-arginine, and ethanol; GRAS in the US up to 200 ppm and an EU-approved preservative up to 225 ppm, acting by membrane damage and oxidative stress.
Lauryl alcohol (dodecanol)
Lauryl alcohol, also known as dodecanol, is a straight-chain C12 fatty alcohol, a white crystalline solid made from coconut and palm kernel oil and used to make surfactants.
Lauryldimethylamine
Lauryldimethylamine (N,N-dimethyldodecylamine) is a tertiary fatty amine with a twelve-carbon chain and formula C14H31N, used as an intermediate for amine oxides, quats, and betaine surfactants.
Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium bromide
Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium bromide (benzododecinium bromide, lauralkonium bromide, CAS 7281-04-1) is a C12 quaternary ammonium disinfectant; marketed for instrument sterilization in the Americas, it failed sporicidal and tuberculocidal testing.
Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium chloride
Lauryldimethylbenzylammonium chloride (benzododecinium chloride, CAS 139-07-1) is the C12 quaternary ammonium homolog of benzalkonium chloride, a cationic surfactant and disinfectant not approved as an EU pesticide since Decision 2004/129/EC.
Lava
Lava, also known as volcanic lava, is molten rock erupted onto a planet's surface, called magma underground, that cools into igneous rock, forming flow types such as pāhoehoe and ʻaʻā.
Lava dome
A lava dome, also called a volcanic dome, is a steep-sided mound formed when viscous lava piles up over its vent instead of flowing away.
Lava lake
A lava lake is a persistent body of molten lava at the top of a volcano's magma column, kept molten by convection for years to decades.