Physical world and mathematics

Lucio Mayer

Lucio Mayer is an Italian-born computational astrophysicist at the University of Zurich, known for proposing a merger-driven direct-collapse mechanism for supermassive black hole formation in a 2010 Nature paper.

Lucjan Böttcher

Lucjan Böttcher (Lucjan Emil Böttcher) was a Polish mathematician, born in Warsaw in 1872, who pioneered complex dynamics and gave his name to Böttcher's theorem and coordinate.

Lucky number

A lucky number is a positive integer surviving a position-based sieve invented at Los Alamos in 1956 as a variation of the sieve of Eratosthenes.

Lucy Verasamy

Lucy Verasamy, born in 1980, is a British meteorologist and weather presenter who has fronted ITV's national forecasts since 2012, after five years at Sky News.

Ludovic Berthier

Ludovic Berthier is a French CNRS physicist, since 2024 at ESPCI Paris, known for work on the glass transition, dynamic heterogeneities, and the 2017 swap Monte Carlo algorithm.

Ludvig Edman

Ludvig Edman is a Swedish professor of physics at Umeå University, known for his research on light-emitting electrochemical cells and for co-founding the company LunaLEC.

Ludvig Faddeev

Ludvig Faddeev (Людвиг Фаддеев, 1934–2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist known for the Faddeev equations, the Faddeev–Popov method, and the quantum inverse scattering method.

Ludwig Bieberbach

Ludwig Bieberbach (1886–1982) was a German mathematician, a student of Klein and Hilbert, whose 1916 conjecture shaped complex analysis and who became the leading ideologue of Nazi-era "German mathematics."

Ludwig Biermann

Ludwig Biermann (1907–1986) was a German theoretical astrophysicist who inferred the solar wind from comet tails in 1951 and originated the Biermann battery mechanism for cosmic magnetic fields.

Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist, born in Vienna in 1844, who founded statistical mechanics, derived the Boltzmann equation, and gave entropy a probabilistic interpretation.

Ludwig Gattermann

Ludwig Gattermann (1860–1920) was a German chemist at Heidelberg and Freiburg who gave his name to two formylation reactions and to the textbook Die Praxis des organischen Chemikers.

Ludwig Maurer

Ludwig Maurer (1859–1927) was a German mathematician who worked on Lie groups and invariant theory, taught at Strasbourg and Tübingen, and lent his name to the Maurer-Cartan forms.

Ludwig Stickelberger

Ludwig Stickelberger was a German mathematician who earned his doctorate in Berlin in 1874 and became a professor at Freiburg im Breisgau, best known for the Stickelberger theorem.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher, born in Vienna in 1889, whose Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations shaped analytic philosophy and ideas of meaning as use.

Ludwik Adamowicz

Ludwik Adamowicz is a quantum chemist at the University of Arizona known for state-selective multireference coupled-cluster methods, a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

Ludwik Leibler

Ludwik Leibler, born 1951 in Warsaw, is a Polish-born French chemist and theoretical physicist at CNRS and ESPCI Paris, known for self-healing rubber, vitrimers, and nanoparticle tissue adhesives.

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Luhman 16 A

Luhman 16 A (WISE J104915.57-531906.1 A) is the L7.5 primary brown dwarf of the Luhman 16AB binary in Vela, about 2 pc (6.5 light-years) away, with a mass near 35 Jupiter masses.

Luigi Ambrosio

Luigi Ambrosio, born in Alba, Italy, in 1963, is an Italian mathematician at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, known for calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, and optimal transport.

Luigi Cavallo

Luigi Cavallo is an Italian computational chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, known for the percent buried volume descriptor and computer-aided design of catalytic pockets.

Luigi Cremona

Luigi Cremona (1830–1903) was an Italian mathematician who gave his name to the Cremona transformation and Cremona group, and founded the Italian school of geometry.

Luigi Fantini

Luigi Fantini (1895–1978) was an Italian archivist and speleologist who founded the Gruppo Speleologico Bolognese, explored the gypsum caves of the Bolognese Apennines, and left about 1,300 photographic plates.

Luigi Galvani

Luigi Galvani, also known as Luigi Aloisio Galvani, was an Italian physician and physicist of Bologna who discovered animal electricity through experiments on frog muscles.

Luis Caffarelli

Luis Caffarelli is an Argentine-American mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin who works on partial differential equations and won the 2023 Abel Prize.

Luis Campos (organic chemist)

Luis Campos, also known as Luis M. Campos, is an American organic chemist at Columbia University working on polymer synthesis and organic electronic materials, honored with a 2015 PECASE.

Luís D. Carlos

Luís D. Carlos (born 1964) is a Portuguese physicist and Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, known for luminescence nanothermometry, reading temperature from light at the nanoscale.

Luís Echegoyen

Luis Echegoyen is an American chemist known for his work on fullerene electrochemistry and endohedral metallofullerenes, carbon cages that trap metal atoms or clusters inside.

Luis F. Rodríguez

Luis F. Rodríguez, also known as Luis Felipe Rodríguez, is a Mexican radio astronomer at UNAM who discovered the first microquasars in the Milky Way.

Luis Leloir

Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine biochemist who discovered sugar nucleotides and their role in carbohydrate biosynthesis, winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry while directing a research institute in Buenos Aires for forty years.

Luis Walter Alvarez

Luis Walter Alvarez (Luis Alvarez) was an American experimental physicist at Berkeley who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for the hydrogen bubble chamber.