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Lenticular lens
A lenticular lens, also called a lenticular screen, is a plastic sheet of parallel cylindrical lenses that sends different images to different viewing angles, enabling 3D prints and glasses-free displays.
Lenvatinib
Lenvatinib, also known as Lenvima, is an oral multikinase inhibitor marketed by Eisai that was first approved in 2015 for radioactive iodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.
Lenz's law
Lenz's law is the rule of electromagnetic induction that an induced current opposes the change in magnetic flux causing it, formulated by Heinrich Lenz in 1833.
Leo (constellation)
Leo, the Lion, is a zodiacal constellation of the northern sky between Cancer and Virgo, recognizable by the Sickle of stars anchored by its brightest star, Regulus.
Leo A. Paquette
Leo A. Paquette (1934–2019) was an American organic chemist at Ohio State University best known for the first synthesis of dodecahedrane in 1982 and over 50 total syntheses.
Leo August Pochhammer
Leo August Pochhammer (1841–1920) was a German mathematician who taught at the University of Kiel and is known for the Pochhammer symbol, the Pochhammer function, and the generalized hypergeometric function.
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland, also known as Leo Hendrik Baekeland, was a Belgian-born American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper and Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic.
Leo Blitz
Leo Blitz (1945–2022) was an American radio astronomer, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, and director of its Radio Astronomy Laboratory, known for work on molecular clouds and black-hole masses.
Leo Brewer
Leo Brewer (1919–2005) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern high-temperature chemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1959.
Leo C.M. de Maeyer
Leo C.M. de Maeyer (1927–2014) was a Belgian physical chemist who spent his career at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, developing chemical relaxation techniques with Manfred Eigen.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki (江崎玲於奈), born in Osaka in 1925, is a Japanese semiconductor physicist known for the tunnel diode and the semiconductor superlattice, winning the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Leo Goldberg
Leo Goldberg (1913–1987) was an American astronomer known for pioneering studies of the sun from space, including the first recognition of coronal holes in solar wind data.
Leo Goodman
Leo Goodman (1928–2020) was an American statistician and sociologist who transformed categorical data analysis, taught at Chicago and Berkeley, and gave his name to Goodman–Kruskal Lambda, Gamma, and Tau.
Leo Graetz
Leo Graetz (1856–1941) was a German physicist at the University of Munich known for the Graetz number, the Graetz problem, and the Graetz bridge rectifier.
Leo Groß
Leo Gross is a German physicist at IBM Research Zurich who leads its atom and molecule manipulation group and pioneered bond-resolving AFM with CO-functionalized tips in 2009.
Leo Harrington
Leo Anthony Harrington is a mathematical logician and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Paris–Harrington theorem and work in recursion theory and set theory.
Leo Hollberg
Leo W. Hollberg is an American physicist known for precision laser spectroscopy and the chip-scale atomic clock, developed at NIST in Boulder before he joined Stanford in 2011.
Leo Kadanoff
Leo Kadanoff (1937–2015) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago whose 1966 block-spin work explained universality and laid the basis for the renormalization group.
Leo Lesquereux
Leo Lesquereux (1806–1889) was a Swiss-born American bryologist and paleobotanist who described the fossil floras of North America's coal measures and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1864.
Leo Moser
Leo Moser (1921–1970) was an Austrian-born Canadian mathematician at the University of Alberta who published over 100 papers and posed the worm problem and the Moser spindle.
Leo Murata
Leo Murata is a Japanese analytic number theorist at Meiji Gakuin University, known for Murata's constant, about 2.8264, from his work on least primitive roots.
Leo P. Kouwenhoven
Leo P. Kouwenhoven (born 1963) is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor at TU Delft and QuTech, known for spin qubits and Majorana bound states.
Leo Radom
Leo Radom, born 1944 in Shanghai, is an Australian computational quantum chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney known for Gaussian theory extensions and radical thermochemistry.
Leo Szilard
Leo Szilard (Leó Szilárd, born Leó Spitz) was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction, co-patented the first nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and drafted the Einstein letter that launched the Manhattan Project.
Leó Szilárd
Leó Szilárd, born Leo Spitz, was a Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933 and helped demonstrate the first self-sustaining one in 1942.
Leo T
Leo T is a faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation Leo, a Local Group member discovered in 2007 that still contains neutral hydrogen and forms stars.
Leon Balents
Leon Balents, born 1967, is an American theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara known for spin liquids, topological insulators, and his 2010 Nature review of frustrated magnets.
Léon Brillouin
Léon Brillouin (1889–1969) was a French-born physicist who helped found solid-state theory, contributed to quantum mechanics and information theory, and named Brillouin zones and Brillouin scattering.
Leon E. Borgman
Leon E. Borgman (1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer and University of Wyoming professor, called the father of modern ocean-wave statistical analysis and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Leon Emry Borgman
Leon Emry Borgman (1928–2007) was an American statistical oceanographer called the father of modern ocean-wave statistical analysis, a University of Wyoming professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.