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Mark Kac
Mark Kac (1914–1984) was a Polish-American mathematician who pioneered mathematical probability, known for the Feynman–Kac formula, the Erdős–Kac theorem, and "Can one hear the shape of a drum?"
Mark Krasnoselsky
Mark Krasnoselsky (Марк Александрович Красносельский, 1920 to 1997) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who helped found nonlinear analysis, known for his fixed point theorem and the Krasnosel'skii–Mann iteration.
Mark Krein
Mark Grigorievich Krein (1907–1989) was a Soviet mathematician in functional analysis and operator theory who built a research center at Odessa University and won the 1982 Wolf Prize.
Mark L. Brusseau
Mark L. Brusseau is an American environmental scientist and professor at the University of Arizona known for foundational work on nonequilibrium solute transport and PFAS retention and vadose-zone migration models.
Mark Lautens
Mark Lautens is a Canadian organic chemist at the University of Toronto, where he joined the faculty in 1987, known for palladium and nickel catalysis that makes drug-like molecules with less waste.
Mark M. Phillips
Mark M. Phillips is an American astronomer whose 1993 Phillips relation made Type Ia supernovae precise distance markers, enabling the 1998 discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating.
Mark Naimark
Mark Aronovich Naimark (1909–1978) was a Soviet mathematician considered a founder of functional analysis, known for the 1943 Gelfand–Naimark theorem, the Naimark dilation theorem, and the GNS construction.
Mark O. Robbins
Mark O. Robbins (1956–2020) was an American condensed matter and statistical physicist at Johns Hopkins University who used molecular dynamics simulations to explain the atomic origins of friction, adhesion, and earthquakes.
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant (Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant) was an Australian nuclear physicist who discovered nuclear fusion between heavy-hydrogen nuclei and helped set the Manhattan Project in motion.
Mark Pagani
Mark Pagani (died 2016) was an organic geochemist and paleoclimatologist at Yale University who reconstructed atmospheric CO2 over 50 million years and directed the Yale Climate and Energy Institute.
Mark Pinsker
Mark Semenovich Pinsker (Марк Семёнович Пинскер, 1925–2003) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician at Moscow's Institute for Information Transmission Problems, known for Pinsker's inequality and the Pinsker factor.
Mark R. Krumholz
Mark R. Krumholz, also known as Mark Reuben Krumholz, is a theoretical and computational astrophysicist at the Australian National University, known for work on star formation and the interstellar medium.
Mark Reid
Mark Reid is an American radio astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, a pioneer of Very Long Baseline Interferometry and leader of the BeSSeL Survey.
Mark Rzchowski
Mark Rzchowski is an American condensed matter experimentalist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for complex-oxide thin films, oxide interfaces, and spin transport.
Mark S. Daskin
Mark S. Daskin is an American operations researcher known for facility location modeling and supply chain design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Mark Saffman
Mark Saffman is an American atomic physicist and quantum information scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Rydberg blockade gate mechanism and neutral-atom quantum computing.
Mark Simons
Mark Simons is an American geophysicist at Caltech who uses satellite radar and GPS to study earthquakes, volcanoes, and glaciers, and was NASA JPL's Chief Scientist from 2017 to 2023.
Mark Stephen Daskin
Mark Stephen Daskin is an American operations researcher known for facility location modeling and supply chain design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Mark Stradiotto
Mark Stradiotto (born 1972) is a Canadian organometallic chemist at Dalhousie University, known for the DalPhos ligands that make nickel a practical alternative to palladium in cross-coupling catalysis.
Mark V. Hurwitz
Mark V. Hurwitz is an American experimental astrophysicist at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory who led NASA's CHIPS satellite, launched in 2003, and won a 1997 Presidential Early Career Award.
Mark Vogelsberger
Mark Vogelsberger is a German theoretical astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at MIT who works on galaxy formation and dark matter, and led the Illustris and IllustrisTNG universe simulations.
Mark William Keller
Mark William Keller is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who works in mesoscopic physics and quantum metrology and received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2000.
Mark Z. Jacobson
Mark Z. Jacobson is an American atmospheric scientist at Stanford University known for computer modeling of air pollution and climate, and for 100% wind-water-solar energy roadmaps.
Markarian 231
Markarian 231, also cataloged as Mrk 231, is an ultraluminous infrared galaxy about 581 million light-years away and the nearest known galaxy hosting a quasar.
Markarian 421
Markarian 421, or Mrk 421, is a nearby blazar, a giant elliptical galaxy with a jet aimed at Earth, first detected at TeV gamma rays in 1992 by the Whipple Observatory.
Markarian 501
Markarian 501, also known as Mrk 501, is a nearby blazar, a type of galaxy with a jet pointed at Earth, and a source of TeV gamma rays.
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala, born 1958 in Forssa, Finland, is a Finnish physicist and Academician of Science at the University of Helsinki known for research on atmospheric aerosols and new-particle formation.
Marko Lončar
Marko Lončar is an electrical engineer and nanophotonics researcher, the Tiantsai Lin Professor at Harvard known for thin-film lithium niobate photonics and diamond quantum nanophotonics.
Marko Petkovšek
Marko Petkovšek (1955–2023) was a Slovenian mathematician and computer scientist at the University of Ljubljana, known for Petkovšek's algorithm for hypergeometric recurrences and the book A=B with Wilf and Zeilberger.
Markov additive process
A Markov additive process (MAP) is a stochastic process combining a Markov modulator with an additive component, introduced in the 1970s as a generalization of Lévy processes.