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MIKE 11

MIKE 11 is a one-dimensional river modeling software package developed by the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) for simulating water levels, flows, and water quality in rivers and estuaries.

Mike Archer (Australian paleontologist)

Mike Archer is an Australian paleontologist known for his work on the evolution of Australian marsupials and monotremes and for developing the Riversleigh fossil deposits in Queensland.

Mike Keith (mathematician)

Mike Keith, born 1955, is an American mathematician and software engineer known for Keith numbers and record-setting Pilish texts, including a 10,000-digit encoding of pi.

Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)

Mikhael Gromov, also known as Misha Gromov, is a French-Russian mathematician known for work in Riemannian geometry, symplectic geometry, and geometric group theory, and winner of the 2009 Abel Prize.

Mikhail Budyko

Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko (1920–2001) was a Soviet climatologist whose 1969 energy-balance model pioneered ice-albedo feedback study and whose 1972 warming forecast held up remarkably well.

Mikhail E. Gertsenshtein

Mikhail E. Gertsenshtein (Михаил Евгеньевич Герценштейн; 1926–2010) was a Soviet physicist who in 1962 described the Gertsenshtein effect and, with V. I. Pustovoit, the first laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector.

Mikhail Gorodetsky

Mikhail Leonidovich Gorodetsky (Михаил Городецкий; 1966–2019) was a Russian physicist at Moscow State University who pioneered ultra-high-quality dielectric microresonators and worked on quantum measurement for gravitational-wave detectors, including LIGO.

Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)

Mikhail Gromov, born in 1943, is a Soviet-born French mathematician known for Riemannian geometry, hyperbolic groups, and pseudoholomorphic curves, winner of the 2009 Abel Prize.

Mikhail Ioffe

Mikhail Solomonovich Ioffe (Михаил Соломонович Иоффе) was a Soviet experimental plasma physicist who stabilized the magnetic-mirror plasma trap against the flute instability in 1961, after which the stabilizing coils became known as Ioffe rods.

Mikhail Katsnelson

Mikhail Katsnelson, born 1957 in Magnitogorsk, is a Russian-Dutch theoretical physicist at Radboud University, a pioneer of graphene theory and winner of the 2013 Spinoza Prize.

Mikhail Khovanov

Mikhail Khovanov is a mathematician, formerly at Columbia and now a professor at Johns Hopkins University, who created Khovanov homology, a link invariant that categorifies the Jones polynomial and detects the unknot.

Mikhail Lavrentyev

Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrentyev (Михаил Лаврентьев) was a Soviet mathematician who created the theory of quasiconformal mappings and founded and chaired the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Mikhail Lomonosov

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, chemist, physicist, astronomer, and poet who founded Russia's first chemical laboratory in 1748 and discovered the atmosphere of Venus.

Mikhail Lukin

Mikhail Lukin is an American physicist at Harvard University, a University Professor who co-invented the DLCZ quantum repeater protocol and co-founded the quantum companies QuEra Computing and Quantum Diamond Technologies.

Mikhail Lyubich

Mikhail Lyubich, born 1959, is a mathematician in real and complex dynamics who proved the Feigenbaum–Coullet–Tresser conjecture and directs Stony Brook's Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Mikhail Postnikov

Mikhail Postnikov, full name Mikhail Mikhailovich Postnikov (Михаил Михайлович Постников), was a Soviet and Russian mathematician in algebraic topology, known for the Postnikov system and the 1961 Lenin Prize.

Mikhail Sadovsky

Mikhail Alexandrovich Sadovsky (Михаил Александрович Садовский; 1904–1994) was a Soviet geophysicist who led physical measurements at the first Soviet atomic bomb test and derived the Sadovsky formulas.

Mikhail Shaposhnikov

Mikhail Shaposhnikov, born 1956 in Sochi, Russia, is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist, professor emeritus at EPFL, known for electroweak baryogenesis, the νMSM, and the Higgs-as-inflaton proposal.

Mikhail Shifman

Mikhail Shifman (Михаил Шифман) is a theoretical physicist at the University of Minnesota, born in Riga in 1949, known for the penguin mechanism, QCD sum rules, and supersymmetric Yang-Mills results.

Mikhail Somov

Mikhail Somov (Михаил Михайлович Сомов) was a Soviet oceanologist and polar explorer, Hero of the Soviet Union, who led the North Pole-2 drifting station and the first Soviet Antarctic expedition.

Mikhail Suslin

Mikhail Suslin, also known as Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin, was a Russian mathematician who discovered analytic sets by finding an error in Lebesgue's 1905 memoir and posed the Suslin problem.

Mikhail Tsetlin

Mikhail Lvovich Tsetlin (Михаил Львович Цетлин; 1924–1966) was a Russian mathematician and physicist known for the Tsetlin automaton, the Tsetlin library, and the Gelfand–Tsetlin basis.

Mikhail Zamkov

Mikhail Zamkov is a materials chemist and physics professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, known for developing colloidal quantum shells for solar energy.

Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect

The Mikheyev–Smirnov–Wolfenstein effect (MSW effect) is the conversion of neutrinos between flavors as they pass through matter of varying density, proposed by Wolfenstein in 1978 and Mikheyev and Smirnov in 1985.

Mikiko Sodeoka

Mikiko Sodeoka is a Japanese organic chemist and chemical biologist known for asymmetric catalysis with palladium and nickel, fluorination methods, and alkyne-tag Raman imaging; she directs RIKEN CSRS since 2025.

Mikio Kozuma

Mikio Kozuma (上妻幹旺) is a Japanese atomic physicist who, in 1999 at the University of Tokyo, demonstrated phase-coherent amplification of matter waves simultaneously with MIT's group.

Mikio Sato

Mikio Sato (佐藤幹夫, 1928–2023) was a Japanese mathematician who created the theory of hyperfunctions, founded algebraic analysis, and led RIMS at Kyoto University, winning the Wolf Prize.

Miklós Kertész

Miklós Kertész (Miklos Kertesz) is a computational chemist and professor at Georgetown University known for carbon materials research and the 1999 carbon nanotube actuators paper.

Miklós Laczkovich

Miklós Laczkovich (born 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician at Eötvös Loránd University and University College London, best known for his 1990 solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem, open since 1925.

MIL-100/MIL-127

MIL-100 and MIL-127 are biocompatible iron-based metal-organic frameworks of the MIL (Materials of Institut Lavoisier) family, built from iron(III) trimers and carboxylate linkers, prominent for drug delivery and gas separation.