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Martin Bridson

Martin Robert Bridson (born 1964, Isle of Man) is a mathematician at Oxford known for geometric group theory, and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute since 2018.

Martin D. Burke

Martin D. Burke, born 1976, is a chemical biologist and physician-scientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for MIDA boronates, automated small-molecule synthesis, and molecular prosthetics.

Martin D. Smith

Martin D. Smith is a British organic chemist and Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Oxford, known for asymmetric catalysis and the 2023 discovery of a molecule whose only stereogenic center is oxygen.

Martin David Kruskal

Martin David Kruskal (1925–2006) was an American mathematician and mathematical physicist who discovered the soliton, devised the inverse scattering transform, and created the Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates for black holes.

Martin Davis (mathematician)

Martin David Davis (1928–2023) was an American mathematician and logician at NYU's Courant Institute, known for solving Hilbert's Tenth Problem and co-creating the DPLL satisfiability algorithm.

Martin Deutsch

Martin Deutsch (1917–2002) was an Austrian-American physicist at MIT who discovered positronium, the electron-positron atom, in 1951 and headed MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science from 1973 to 1979.

Martin Elsner

Martin Elsner (born 1972 in Hamburg) is a German environmental chemist who uses isotope analysis to trace how pesticides and other pollutants degrade in groundwater.

Martin F. Jarrold

Martin F. Jarrold, also published as M. F. Jarrold, is a physical and analytical chemist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for ion mobility spectrometry and charge detection mass spectrometry.

Martin Fürer

Martin Fürer is a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Pennsylvania State University, known for his 2007 integer multiplication algorithm, the first improvement over Schönhage–Strassen in more than 35 years.

Martin G. Lockley

Martin G. Lockley (1950–2023) was a Welsh-born paleontologist and geologist who became a leading specialist in vertebrate ichnology, the study of fossil footprints and trackways.

Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner, who also wrote as Armand T. Ringer, was an American popular mathematics and science writer, best known for the Scientific American "Mathematical Games" column from 1957 to 1980.

Martin Gutzwiller

Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014) was a Swiss-born theoretical physicist who spent his career at IBM, known for the Gutzwiller projection in correlated-electron physics and the trace formula founding quantum chaos.

Martin H. Studier

Martin H. Studier was an American chemist who spent 35 years at Argonne National Laboratory, known for selective-oxidation studies of coal and for Fischer-Tropsch-type hypotheses on meteorite organic matter.

Martin Hairer

Martin Hairer, born 1975, is an Austrian mathematician who won the 2014 Fields Medal for regularity structures, a theory giving rigorous meaning to stochastic partial differential equations.

Martin Hanczyc

Martin Michael Hanczyc is a chemist at the University of Trento who builds protocells, including self-moving oil droplets that show chemotaxis like primitive living cells.

Martin Harwit

Martin Harwit, born 1931 in Prague, is a Czechoslovak-born American infrared astronomer who built the first rocket-borne liquid-helium-cooled telescopes and wrote Cosmic Discovery in 1981.

Martin Head-Gordon

Martin Head-Gordon, born in Canberra in 1962, is a theoretical chemist and Kenneth S. Pitzer Professor at UC Berkeley, known for the ωB97X density functionals and Q-Chem.

Martin Heeney

Martin Heeney is a chemist known for conjugated polymers and organic semiconductors, a professor at KAUST since 2022 after Imperial College London, and a winner of the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize.

Martin Heimbeck

Martin Heimbeck is a German-born American research physicist leading advanced sensing work at the Army Aviation & Missile Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and a 2017 PECASE recipient.

Martin J. Buerger

Martin J. Buerger (1903–1986) was an American crystallographer and mineralogist at MIT who invented the X-ray precession camera in 1937 and wrote the textbooks that taught crystallography to generations of students.

Martin J. Klein

Martin J. Klein (1924–2009) was an American physicist turned historian of modern physics at Yale, best known as general editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein.

Martín J. Siegert

Martín J. Siegert, also known as Martin Siegert, is a British glaciologist who led the first sampling attempt of Antarctica's subglacial Lake Ellsworth and won the 2013 Martha T. Muse Prize.

Martin J. Whitehouse

Martin J. Whitehouse is a British-born isotope geochemist and professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, where he has directed the NordSIMS ion microprobe facility since 2000.

Martin Jansen

Martin Jansen (born 1944) is a German solid-state chemist and director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, known for predictive materials discovery and non-toxic pigments.

Martin Kaltenbrunner

Martin Kaltenbrunner is a physicist working in soft matter and flexible electronics, Full Professor and Head of Soft Matter Physics at Johannes Kepler University Linz since 2019.

Martin Kamen

Martin Kamen was an American chemist who co-discovered carbon-14 with Sam Ruben at Berkeley in 1940, enabling radiocarbon dating and tracer biochemistry, and won the 1995 Enrico Fermi Award.

Martin Kaupp

Martin Kaupp is a German theoretical chemist who holds the Theoretical Chemistry chair at Technische Universität Berlin, known for density functional theory and NMR and EPR calculations.

Martin Kneser

Martin Kneser (1928–2004) was a German mathematician, professor at Göttingen from 1963, known for the Kneser–Tits conjecture, strong approximation, Kneser's addition theorem, and the Kneser graphs whose chromatic number Lovász proved in 1978.

Martin Knudsen

Martin Knudsen (1871–1949) was a Danish physicist who founded the quantitative study of rarefied gas flow and set the international standards for measuring sea water salinity.

Martin L. Perl

Martin L. Perl (1927–2014) was an American particle physicist at Stanford who discovered the tau lepton and won half of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.