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Marc Kamionkowski

Marc Kamionkowski is an American theoretical cosmologist, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1997 prediction that CMB polarization could reveal primordial gravitational waves.

Marc Koper

Marc Koper, full name Marc T. M. Koper (born 1967), is a Dutch electrochemist, professor of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry at Leiden University, and specialist in electrocatalytic CO2 conversion.

Marc M. Hirschmann

Marc M. Hirschmann is an American experimental petrologist and geochemist at the University of Minnesota, known for work on mantle melting and deep Earth cycles of water and carbon.

Marc Mézard

Marc Mézard (born 1957) is a French theoretical physicist known for the cavity method, developed with Parisi and Virasoro, and a professor at Bocconi University since 2022.

Marc Robert

Marc Robert is a French molecular electrochemist and Distinguished Professor at Sorbonne Université, known for molecular electro- and photocatalytic reduction of CO2 and N2, including light-driven methane formation from CO2.

Marc Suchard

Marc A. Suchard is a physician and computational statistician at UCLA who develops Bayesian methods for inferring evolutionary history and applies large-scale analysis to electronic health records for drug safety.

Marc Tiffeneau

Marc Tiffeneau (Marc Pierre Adolphe Émile Tiffeneau, 1873–1945) was a French chemist and pharmacist, professor and dean at Paris, known for the Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement published in 1937.

Marc Vendrell

Marc Vendrell is a Spanish-born chemical biologist and professor at the University of Edinburgh, known for activatable fluorescent probes that image enzyme activity in cancer and inflammation.

Marc Victor Gorenstein

Marc Victor Gorenstein is an American astrophysicist who co-authored the 1977 detection of the cosmic microwave background dipole with George Smoot and Richard Muller at Berkeley.

Marc Yor

Marc Yor (1949–2014) was a French probabilist at Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, known for work on Brownian local times and Asian option pricing.

Marcel Agueros

Marcel Agüeros is an American observational astronomer and Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University who studies how the rotation and magnetic activity of low-mass stars change with age.

Marcel Berger

Marcel Berger (1927–2016) was a French differential geometer who classified Riemannian holonomy groups, proved the quarter-pinching sphere theorem, and directed IHÉS from 1985 to 1994.

Marcel den Nijs

Marcel den Nijs is a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, co-author of the 1982 TKNN paper that explained the quantized Hall conductance using topological concepts.

Marcel J. E. Golay

Marcel J. E. Golay (1902–1989) was a Swiss-born mathematician, physicist, and information theorist who discovered the perfect Golay codes and invented the Golay infrared detector and capillary chromatography column.

Marcel Minnaert

Marcel Minnaert (1893–1970) was a Belgian-born Dutch astronomer who directed the Utrecht Observatory from 1937 to 1963 and created the Photometric Atlas of the Solar Spectrum.

Marcel Nicolet

Marcel Nicolet (1912–1996) was a Belgian geophysicist who studied the ionosphere and upper-atmosphere chemistry, taught at the Université de Bruxelles, and served as Secretary General of the International Geophysical Year.

Marcel Riesz

Marcel Riesz (1886–1969) was a Hungarian-born mathematician who spent nearly his whole career in Sweden, known for Riesz means, the Riesz potential, and the Riesz–Thorin interpolation theorem.

Marcel Schein

Marcel Schein (1902–1960) was a Slovak-born American experimental physicist who became professor at the University of Chicago and studied cosmic rays and mesotron production with balloon flights.

Marcel Vogel

Marcel Joseph Vogel (1917–1991) was an American research chemist who held 32 patents at IBM, including a magnetic disk coating, before founding a private psychic-research laboratory.

Marcel-Paul Schützenberger

Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (1920–1996) was a French mathematician, professor at the Sorbonne and member of the Academy of Sciences, known for formal language theory, combinatorics on words, and his late-life mathematical critique of Darwinian evolution.

Marcella Bonchio

Marcella Bonchio is an Italian chemist, Full Professor at the University of Padova since 2013, who leads research on polyoxometalate catalysts for artificial photosynthesis, solar fuels, and CO2 reduction.

Marcellin Berthelot

Marcellin Berthelot (1827–1907) was a French chemist who founded modern thermochemistry, invented the bomb calorimeter, and synthesized organic compounds in the laboratory, helping end the vital-force doctrine.

Marcellin Boule

Marcellin Boule (1861–1942) was a French paleontologist who held the chair of paleontology at Paris's natural history museum and reconstructed the first nearly complete Neanderthal skeleton, found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in 1908.

Marcello Conversi

Marcello Conversi (1917–1988) was an Italian experimental physicist who led the 1946–47 Rome cosmic-ray experiment showing the muon is not the Yukawa nuclear-force particle, and later directed the building of CEP, the first Italian electronic computer.

Marcellus Formation

The Marcellus Formation, also called the Marcellus Shale, is a Middle Devonian black shale in the Appalachian basin, extensively developed for natural gas since 2007.

Marcelo Gleiser

Marcelo Gleiser, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1959, is a Brazilian theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College who won the 2019 Templeton Prize and argues a theory of everything is impossible.

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg

Marcetta Y. Darensbourg is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017, known for modeling hydrogenase active sites.

Marcey L. Waters

Marcey L. Waters is a bioorganic chemist at UNC Chapel Hill who studies molecular recognition of histone modifications and won the 2023 Vincent du Vigneaud Award.

March 2025 lunar eclipse

The March 2025 lunar eclipse was a total lunar eclipse on the night of March 13–14, 2025, the first since 2022, best visible from North and South America.

March 2026 North American blizzard

The March 2026 North American blizzard was a major winter storm from March 14 to 16, 2026, dumping 30.9 inches on Wausau, Wisconsin, its largest snowstorm on record.