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Matthias Troyer
Matthias Troyer is an Austrian computational physicist, ETH Zurich professor from 1998 to 2019, known for the ALPS libraries and the sign problem, now Technical Fellow at Microsoft Quantum.
Matthias Vojta
Matthias Vojta is a German theoretical condensed-matter physicist, professor at TU Dresden since 2010, known for work on quantum phase transitions, strongly correlated electron systems, and frustrated magnetism.
Matthias Wagner
Matthias Wagner is a German inorganic and materials chemist who has been a full professor at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2000, known for boron-doped molecules for organic electronics.
Maturitas
Maturitas is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier since 1978, covering midlife and postreproductive health and serving as the official journal of the European Menopause and Andropause Society.
Maugis adhesion map
The Maugis adhesion map is a regime diagram for adhesive contact of elastic spheres, drawn by Johnson and Greenwood in 1997 to place the JKR and DMT models as limits.
Mauna Kea Observatories
The Mauna Kea Observatories are ten independent institutions operating telescopes near the summit of Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island, one of the world's best astronomy sites.
Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is the largest active volcano on Earth, a shield volcano covering over half of the Island of Hawaiʻi that last erupted in 2022.
Mauna Loa Observatory
Mauna Loa Observatory is a NOAA atmospheric research station on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, best known for the Keeling Curve, the longest continuous carbon dioxide record, begun in 1958.
Maund
The maund, also spelled mann or mun, is a traditional South Asian unit of weight for grain and produce, equal to 40 seers and varying by region.
Maunder Minimum
The Maunder Minimum was a period from 1645 to 1715 when sunspot activity on the Sun all but stopped, coinciding with the coldest part of Europe's Little Ice Age.
Maura Hagan
Maura Hagan is an American space physicist known for her work on solar atmospheric tides and for developing the Global Scale Wave Model at NCAR.
Maura McLaughlin
Maura McLaughlin is an American astrophysicist and professor at West Virginia University who co-discovered rotating radio transients, the first fast radio burst, and evidence of a gravitational-wave background.
Maureen E. Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo, born 1959, is an American paleoclimatologist and marine geologist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, known for the Uplift-Weathering Hypothesis linking Himalayan uplift to the ice ages.
Maurice Auslander
Maurice Auslander (1926–1994) was an American mathematician and Brandeis University professor who reshaped commutative algebra and representation theory, co-creating almost split sequences with Idun Reiten and proving classic results on regular local rings with David Buchsbaum.
Maurice Brookhart
Maurice Brookhart is an American organometallic chemist known for late-transition-metal olefin polymerization catalysts and the agostic bond, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.
Maurice Couette
Maurice Couette (1858–1943) was a French physicist and a father of modern rheology whose 1890 Paris thesis on liquid friction gave fluid mechanics the concentric-cylinder viscometer and Taylor–Couette flow.
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie
Maurice de Broglie, 6th Duke of Broglie (1875–1960), was a French experimental physicist who pioneered X-ray spectroscopy, discovered the corpuscular spectra of the elements, and trained a generation of French physicists.
Maurice Ewing
Maurice Ewing (1906–1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer who used seismic methods to study the ocean floor, discovered the SOFAR channel, and founded the Lamont Geological Observatory.
Maurice Françon
Maurice Françon (1913–1996) was a French engineer-physicist who spent his career at the Institut d'Optique in Paris, working on phase contrast, polarization interferometry, coherence, and holography, and winning the Optical Society's C.E.K. Mees Medal in 1981.
Maurice Gignoux
Maurice Gignoux (1881–1955) was a French geologist who directed the geology laboratory of the University of Grenoble for over 25 years and wrote Géologie stratigraphique, translated worldwide.
Maurice Goldhaber
Maurice Goldhaber (1911–2011) was an Austrian-born American nuclear physicist known for measuring the neutron's mass and establishing the neutrino's helicity, and director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1961.
Maurice Hamy
Maurice Hamy (1861–1936) was a French astronomer at the Paris Observatory who worked on the figure of planets and precision instruments, winning the Prix Lalande in 1895.
Maurice Kendall
Sir Maurice George Kendall (1907–1983) was a British statistician who introduced the rank correlation coefficient Kendall's tau in 1938, wrote The Advanced Theory of Statistics, and was knighted in 1974.
Maurice Loewy
Maurice Loewy, born Moritz Löwy (1833, Vienna – 1907, Paris), was an Austrian-born French astronomer who directed the Paris Observatory from 1896 and produced the Atlas photographique de la Lune with Pierre-Henri Puiseux.
Maurice Lugeon
Maurice Lugeon (1870–1953) was a Swiss geologist based in Lausanne, chief proponent of the nappe theory of Alpine tectonics and founder of the Lugeon test for rock permeability.
Maurice René Fréchet
Maurice René Fréchet (1878–1973) was a French mathematician who founded metric space theory in his 1906 thesis, helped create functional analysis, and became a leader in French probability and statistics.
Maurice Sion
Maurice Sion (1927–2018) was a mathematician at the University of British Columbia whose 1958 minimax theorem, generalizing von Neumann's, remains standard in game theory, optimization, and machine learning.
Maurice Stacey
Maurice Stacey (1907–1994) was a British carbohydrate chemist who helped synthesize vitamin C in 1932 and led the chemical side of the Birmingham atomic-energy project in the Second World War.
Maurice-Marie Janot
Maurice-Marie Janot (1903–1978) was a French pharmacist and chemist who held Paris's chair of galenic pharmacy from 1941 to 1974 and co-founded the Institut de chimie des substances naturelles.
Maurício Matos Peixoto
Maurício Matos Peixoto (1921–2019) was a Brazilian mathematician known for Peixoto's Theorem, which showed structurally stable flows are generic on surfaces, and for co-founding IMPA.