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Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato is an Italian organic chemist known for the Prato reaction, the standard method for functionalizing fullerenes, and for work on carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Mauro Nisoli
Mauro Nisoli is an Italian physicist at Politecnico di Milano, born in 1965, who invented hollow-fiber pulse compression in 1996 and leads attosecond research there.
Mauro Pasta
Mauro Pasta is Professor of Applied Electrochemistry at the University of Oxford, working on lithium metal anodes and solid-state batteries, and won the Royal Society of Chemistry's Corday-Morgan Prize in 2025.
Mauro Picone
Mauro Picone (1885–1977) was an Italian mathematician known for Picone's identity and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem, who founded the Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo.
Maury Tigner
Maury Tigner is an American accelerator physicist and Cornell's Hans A. Bethe Professor Emeritus, known for applying superconductivity to particle accelerators and leading CESR's design.
Mauve
Mauve is a pale purple color ranging between lilac and violet, named from the French word for mallow, and also the dye mauveine discovered in 1856.
Mauveine
Mauveine, also known as aniline purple or Perkin's mauve, is a purple synthetic dye first prepared from coal tar by William Henry Perkin in 1856.
Mawsynram
Mawsynram is a village in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya in north-eastern India, known as the wettest place on Earth with an average annual rainfall of 11,872 mm.
Max A. Woodbury
Max A. Woodbury was a mathematician and statistician whose name is attached to the Woodbury matrix identity, completed in a 1950 report at Princeton's Statistical Research Group.
Max Abraham
Max Abraham (1875–1922) was a German theoretical physicist who proposed the rigid-sphere electron theory, gave his name to the Abraham–Lorentz force and the Abraham–Minkowski controversy, and spent his last decade opposing Einstein's relativity theory.
Max August Zorn
Max August Zorn (1906–1993) was a German-born American algebraist who published Zorn's lemma in 1935 and proved the structure theorem for semisimple alternative rings and the uniqueness of the octonions.
Max Bodenstein
Max Bodenstein (1871–1942) was a German physical chemist regarded as a founder of chemical kinetics, who introduced the chain reaction, the steady-state approximation, and the Bodenstein number.
Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who coined the term quantum mechanics, formulated the Born rule, and won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Coleman
Max L. Coleman is an isotope geochemist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading and a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on stable-isotope biosignatures and the search for life on Mars.
Max Dehn
Max Dehn (1878–1952) was a German-American mathematician who solved Hilbert's third problem, launched the study of finitely presented groups, and ended his career at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally is an American materials scientist who held named surface science chairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for quantitative surface diffraction, thin-film growth studies, and silicon nanomembranes.
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory is a Swedish national synchrotron light source in Lund, hosted by Lund University and opened in 2016 as the first fourth-generation storage-ring light source.
Max Koecher
Max Koecher (1924–1990) was a German mathematician who held chairs at Munich and Münster, known for the Koecher principle in Siegel modular forms and for Jordan-algebra methods applied to bounded symmetric domains.
Max Lemme
Max C. Lemme is a German electrical engineer and nanoelectronics researcher who heads the Chair of Electronic Devices at RWTH Aachen University and directs AMO GmbH.
Max Little
Max Little is an applied mathematician at the University of Birmingham known for algorithms that detect Parkinson's disease from voice recordings, and for the 2012 Parkinson's Voice Initiative.
Max M. Hansmann
Max M. Hansmann (Max Martin Hansmann) is an organic chemist and full professor of organic chemistry at TU Dortmund University since 2023, known for isolating the first room-temperature stable diazoalkenes.
Max Margules
Max Margules (1856–1920) was an Austrian meteorologist at the Vienna Meteorological Institute, a founder of theoretical meteorology known for his frontal-slope formula and storm energy analysis.
Max Mason
Max Mason was an American mathematician and scientific administrator, president of the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 and of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1929 to 1936.
Max Newman
Max Newman (Maxwell Herman Alexander Newman, 1897–1984) was an English mathematician who led the Bletchley Park Newmanry breaking the Lorenz cipher and established the laboratory where the world's first stored-program computer ran in 1948.
Max Noether
Max Noether (1844–1921) was a German mathematician who led the algebraic-geometric school at Erlangen, proved the AF + BG theorem, and was the father of Emmy Noether.
MAX phases
MAX phases are a family of layered hexagonal carbides and nitrides, first identified in the 1960s, that combine ceramic stiffness with metallic conductivity and machinability.
Max Planck
Max Planck (1858–1947) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Berlin University, who originated quantum theory in 1900 and received the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Max Planck Institute for Physics
The Max Planck Institute for Physics (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), or Werner Heisenberg Institute, is a particle physics and cosmology research institute in Garching near Munich, Germany.
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (German: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, MPIWG) is a Berlin research institute, founded in 1994, studying the history of science and technology.
Max Planck Society
The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) is Germany's largest organization for basic research, an independent non-profit founded in Göttingen in 1948 as successor to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, operating some 85 research institutes.