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Michael V. Mirkin
Michael V. Mirkin is an electrochemist and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Queens College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1993, known for scanning electrochemical microscopy and nanoelectrochemistry.
Michael Victor Berry
Michael Victor Berry, born 1941, is a British theoretical physicist at the University of Bristol, best known for discovering the geometric phase, called the Berry phase.
Michael Woolfson
Michael Mark Woolfson (1927–2019) was a British physicist and crystallographer at the University of York whose MULTAN software solved many of the world's crystal structures.
Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction
The Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction, or Arbuzov reaction, is an organic reaction in which a trialkyl phosphite reacts with an alkyl halide to form an alkylphosphonate ester, reported in 1898.
Michaelmas
Michaelmas, also called Michaelmas Day or the Feast of St. Michael, is the Christian feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, kept on 29 September and once one of four English quarter days.
Michał Gryziński
Michał Gryziński was a Polish physicist at the Institute of Nuclear Research in Świerk near Otwock, best known for a classical theory of atomic collisions and the free-fall atomic model.
Michał Kamieński
Michał Kamieński (1879–1973) was a Polish astronomer, remembered as the nestor of Polish astronomy and founder of the Polish school of cometary research, who directed the University of Warsaw Observatory from 1923.
Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson is a physicist and pioneer of silicon photonics, the Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University, known for slot waveguides and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.
Michał Misiurewicz
Michał Misiurewicz is a Polish mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Indiana University Indianapolis, whose work in dynamical systems gave his name to Misiurewicz maps and Misiurewicz points.
Michal Szostak
Michal Szostak is an organic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University–Newark, known for developing acyclic twisted amide bond activation and metal-free amide conversion methods.
Michel André (mathematician)
Michel André (1936–2009) was a Swiss mathematician in homological algebra and category theory, known for André–Quillen homology and his 1974 monograph Homologie des algèbres commutatives.
Michel Armand
Michel Armand (born 1946) is a French electrochemist known for the rocking-chair battery concept behind lithium-ion cells and for pioneering solid polymer electrolytes; he leads polymer electrolyte research at CIC energiGUNE in Spain.
Michel Balinski
Michel Balinski (1933–2019) was a Swiss-born mathematician working in combinatorics, apportionment, and voting theory, known for Balinski's theorem, the Balinski–Young apportionment theory, and majority judgment.
Michel Boudart
Michel Boudart (1924–2012) was a Belgian-born chemical engineer at Stanford and a leading authority on heterogeneous catalysis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
Michel Brune
Michel Brune (born 1964) is a French experimental physicist and CNRS Research Director who co-leads the cavity QED team at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris.
Michel Chasles
Michel Chasles (1793–1880) was a French mathematician who led the nineteenth-century revival of synthetic geometry through his 1837 Aperçu historique, winning the Copley Medal in 1865.
Michel Che
Michel Che (1941–2019) was a French chemist who originated the concept of molecular surface reactivity in heterogeneous catalysis, using electron spin resonance to study solid surfaces.
Michel della Negra
Michel della Negra, born 1942, is a French experimental particle physicist who took part in the W and Z boson discovery at CERN and the Higgs boson discovery.
Michel Eugène Chevreul
Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist who isolated fatty acids, discovered cholesterol, and formulated the law of simultaneous contrast of colors at the Gobelins.
Michel Gaudin (mathematical physicist)
Michel Gaudin (1931–2023) was a French mathematical physicist at the CEA in Saclay, a founder of random matrix theory and the Bethe-ansatz solution of quantum many-body models.
Michel Goemans
Michel Goemans, also Michel Xavier Goemans, is a Belgian mathematician at MIT, head of its mathematics department, known for the Goemans–Williamson MAX CUT algorithm using semidefinite programming.
Michel H. Devoret
Michel H. Devoret, born in Paris in 1953, is a French quantum physicist who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for macroscopic quantum tunnelling in an electric circuit.
Michel Hénon
Michel Hénon (1931–2013) was a French mathematician and astronomer at the Observatoire de Nice, known for the Hénon map and its strange attractor and the Hénon–Heiles model of chaos.
Michel Julliere
Michel Julliere is a French physicist at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes credited with the first report of tunneling magnetoresistance in a 1975 paper.
Michel Loève
Michel Loève (1907–1979) was a probabilist and measure theorist who joined UC Berkeley in 1948, wrote the influential textbook Probability Theory, and helped establish the Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem.
Michel Mayor
Michel Mayor is a Swiss astronomer who codiscovered 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet around a sunlike star, and won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Michel Orrit
Michel Orrit (born 1956) is a French physicist, professor emeritus at Leiden University, who in 1990 first detected a single molecule by fluorescence, founding single-molecule optical spectroscopy.
Michel Plancherel
Michel Plancherel (1885–1967) was a Swiss mathematician at ETH Zurich, where he served as Rektor from 1931 to 1935, best known for the 1910 Plancherel theorem in harmonic analysis.
Michel R. Gagné
Michel R. Gagné is an organic chemist and Mary Ann Smith Distinguished Professor at UNC Chapel Hill, known for silylium-ion late-stage functionalization of natural products.
Michel Raynaud
Michel Raynaud (1938–2018) was a French mathematician at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay who worked in algebraic geometry and proved the Manin–Mumford and Abhyankar conjectures.