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Nathan Gillett

Nathan P. Gillett is a Canadian climate scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Victoria who works on attribution of climate change and extremes.

Nathan H. Burnett

Nathan H. Burnett is a physicist who, with P. B. Corkum and M. Y. Ivanov, proposed polarization gating in a 1994 Optics Letters paper, now a standard method for isolating single attosecond pulses.

Nathan J. Mantua

Nathan J. Mantua is an American climate scientist who co-authored the 1997 paper naming the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and received a 1999 Presidential Early Career Award.

Nathan Jacobson

Nathan Jacobson, born Nachman Arbiser (1910–1999), was a Polish-born American mathematician at Yale who shaped abstract algebra through ring theory, Lie algebras, and the Jacobson radical.

Nathan Kornblum

Nathan Kornblum was an American organic chemistry professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, known for the Kornblum oxidation of alkyl halides to aldehydes with DMSO, reported in 1957.

Nathan Mendelsohn

Nathan Saul Mendelsohn (1917–2006) was a Brooklyn-born Canadian mathematician who spent 57 years at the University of Manitoba and gave his name to the Mendelsohn triple system.

Nathan Rosen

Nathan Rosen (1909–1995) was an American-Israeli theoretical physicist who co-authored the 1935 EPR paper with Einstein and Podolsky, introduced the Einstein–Rosen bridge, and founded Technion's physics department in Haifa.

Nathan S. Lewis

Nathan S. Lewis is a chemist at the California Institute of Technology known for artificial photosynthesis, who led the Department of Energy's Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and founded Energy & Environmental Science.

Nathan Seiberg

Nathan Seiberg, born in Israel in 1956, is an Israeli-American theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for Seiberg–Witten theory, Seiberg duality, and generalized global symmetries.

Nathan Sharon

Nathan Sharon (Hebrew: נתן שרון) was an Israeli biochemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science whose lectin research showed how cells recognize one another, and who named the field glycobiology.

Nathan Smith (astronomer)

Nathan Smith is an astronomer and Professor at Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, who studies the evolution and death of massive stars, supernovae, and eruptive transients like Eta Carinae.

Nathaniel Arbiter

Nathaniel Arbiter (1911–2008) was an American mineral engineer and hydrometallurgist, Professor of Mineral Engineering at Columbia, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Nathaniel David Mermin

N. David Mermin, born 1935 in New Haven, Connecticut, is an American theoretical physicist at Cornell University known for the Mermin–Wagner theorem and the textbook Solid State Physics.

Nathaniel Ferraro

Nathaniel M. Ferraro is an American plasma physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Deputy Head of its Theory Department since 2022 and a 2025 PECASE awardee.

Nathaniel Gabor

Nathaniel Gabor is an American experimental condensed matter physicist at UC Riverside, known for energy transfer in atomically thin 2D materials and receiving the 2019 PECASE award.

Nathaniel L. Rosi

Nathaniel L. Rosi (born 1976) is an American materials chemist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for work on metal-organic frameworks and nanoparticle assembly.

Nathaniel Szymczak

Nathaniel Szymczak is an Australian-born inorganic and coordination chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Michigan since 2021, known for secondary-sphere control of small-molecule activation.

National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories

The National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) is a board of the Quality Council of India that accredits testing, calibration, and medical laboratories in India and abroad.

National Ambient Air Quality Standards

The National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) are legally binding EPA limits on six common air pollutants, including ozone, lead, and particle pollution, set under the Clean Air Act.

National Bureau of Statistics of China

The National Bureau of Statistics of China (国家统计局, NBS) is the State Council agency in charge of statistics nationwide, conducting censuses and compiling and publishing China's GDP.

National Cancer Institute

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the federal government's principal cancer research agency, is part of the National Institutes of Health and was established in 1937.

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is one of the 27 institutes of the National Institutes of Health, established in December 2011 to bring new treatments to patients faster.

National Center for Atmospheric Research

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a federally funded research center in Boulder, Colorado, established in 1960 and sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

National Center for Biotechnology Information

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NLM/NIH division in Bethesda, Maryland, established November 4, 1988; maintains GenBank, PubMed, PubMed Central, BLAST, Entrez, and ClinVar, over 40 databases with 3 million daily visitors.

National Center for Science Education

The National Center for Science Education is an Oakland, California nonprofit founded in 1982 that defends accurate teaching of evolution and climate change in schools.

National Center for Toxicological Research

The National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), established in 1971, is the FDA's research arm in Jefferson, Arkansas, and its only center outside Washington, D.C.

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) is a federally chartered nonprofit based in Bethesda, Maryland, founded in 1929 and chartered by Congress in 1964 to advise on radiation protection.

National Curriculum for England

The National Curriculum for England, also known as the English National Curriculum, is the statutory curriculum that maintained schools in England must teach pupils aged 5 to 16.

National Data Buoy Center

The National Data Buoy Center is a NOAA National Weather Service organization, named in 1971 and based at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, that maintains the world's largest real-time marine observation network.

National Energy Technology Laboratory

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is a US Department of Energy national laboratory for hydrocarbons, geothermal energy, and critical minerals, the only government-operated DOE lab.