Physical world and mathematics

Martin Laurberg

Martin Laurberg is a structural biologist who, in Harry Noller's laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, led the 3.2 Å crystal structure of the ribosome with release factor RF1.

Martin Löb

Martin Hugo Löb (1921–2006) was a German-born mathematical logician who worked in Britain and the Netherlands, best known for Löb's theorem of 1955 and the provability logic GL.

Martin Lüscher

Martin Lüscher is a theoretical physicist at CERN working on quantum chromodynamics and lattice QCD, best known for relating finite-volume two-particle energies to scattering phase shifts.

Martin M. Fejer is a Stanford professor of applied physics known for quasi-phase-matched nonlinear optics and microstructured ferroelectrics, and for LIGO coatings research; he joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Martin Menzies

Martin A. Menzies is a British isotope geochemist and volcanologist, a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, known since 1980 for work on the enriched mantle.

Martin Möller

Martin Möller is a German polymer and materials chemist who led the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen and won the Hermann-Staudinger-Preis in 2014.

Martin Moskovits

Martin Moskovits is a physical chemist known for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and plasmonics, and for the 2013 autonomous plasmonic water-splitting device reported in Nature Nanotechnology.

Martin Näbauer

Martin Näbauer (1879–1950) was a German geodesist, professor of geodesy and topography at the Technische Hochschule München from 1926 to 1949, and founding chairman of the Deutsche Geodätische Kommission.

Martin Oestreich

Martin Oestreich (born 1971 in Pforzheim) is a German organic chemist and Einstein Professor at Technische Universität Berlin, known for silylium-ion chemistry and silicon-based Lewis acid catalysis.

Martin Onslow Forster

Martin Onslow Forster (1872–1945) was a British organic chemist who devoted his career to camphor chemistry, was elected to the Royal Society in 1905, and was knighted in 1933.

Martin Pope

Martin Pope, born Isidore Poppick, was an American physical chemist at New York University whose experiments on organic molecular crystals established the physical basis of OLED displays.

Martin Pumera

Martin Pumera is a Czech chemist who leads the Future Energy & Innovation Lab at CEITEC Brno and studies two-dimensional nanomaterials, nanorobots, and graphene electrocatalysis.

Martin R. Bryce

Martin R. Bryce is a British materials chemist at Durham University, a Professor of Chemistry since 1995, known for organic conductors, OLED materials, and single-molecule electronics.

Martin R. Palmer

Martin R. Palmer is a geochemist and Professor of Geochemistry at the University of Southampton since 2000, known for seawater strontium isotopes and boron isotope paleo-pH work.

Martin Rees

Martin Rees, also known as M. J. Rees, is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist who has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and studies black holes and galaxy formation.

Martin Ryle

Sir Martin Ryle was a British radio astronomer at Cambridge who invented aperture synthesis and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first awarded for astronomical research.

Martin Saunders (chemist)

Martin Saunders is an American chemist who spent 67 years on the Yale faculty, pioneered NMR methods, and trapped noble gases and small molecules inside fullerene cages.

Martin Schadt

Martin Schadt, born 1938 in Liestal, Switzerland, is a Swiss physicist who co-invented the twisted nematic liquid-crystal effect at Roche in 1970, the basis of LCDs.

Martin Schröder (chemist)

Martin Schröder is a British coordination and materials chemist at the University of Manchester, where he was dean from 2015 to 2025, known for porous metal-organic frameworks for gas capture.

Martin Schwarzschild

Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997) was a German-born American astronomer, Higgins Professor at Princeton from 1950 to 1979, who made stellar evolution quantitative and pioneered balloon-borne telescopes above the atmosphere.

Martin T. Zanni

Martin T. Zanni is a chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for pioneering two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Martin van Hecke

Martin van Hecke, born 1967 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch physicist, professor at Leiden University and group leader at AMOLF, known for programmable, shape-shifting mechanical metamaterials.

Martin Wainwright (statistician)

Martin J. Wainwright is a Canadian-trained statistician and information theorist, Cecil H. Green Professor at MIT since 2022 and director of its Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.

Martin Waldseemüller

Martin Waldseemüller, Latinized as Martinus Ilacomilus, was a German humanist and cartographer whose 1507 Universalis Cosmographia was the first map to name "America" and depict the New World as a separate continent.

Martin Wegener

Martin Wegener is a German physicist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology known for 3D laser-printed photonic and mechanical metamaterials, including invisibility cloaks working at optical wavelengths.

Martin Weitz

Martin Weitz is a German experimental physicist and professor at the University of Bonn, known for the Bose–Einstein condensate of photons reported in Nature in 2010.

Martin White (cosmologist)

Martin White is a theoretical cosmologist, a professor of physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley who works on the cosmic microwave background, galaxy formation, and dark energy.

Martin Wild

Martin Wild is a professor at ETH Zurich's Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science known for his work on global dimming and brightening, including his 2005 Science paper.

Martin Wilhelm Kutta

Martin Wilhelm Kutta (1867–1944) was a German mathematician who gave the classical fourth-order Runge–Kutta method for solving differential equations and, independently of Zhukovsky, the airfoil lift theorem.