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Earth scientists

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  • Matthew Carrano - American paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution. ; ; ; ;
  • Chaogejilatu – Environmental scientist from Inner Mongolia, based in Japan. Research focuses on climate change impacts on agriculture, land-use/land-cover monitoring, crop yield modeling, and applications of satellite remote sensing and GIS in agrometeorology. Publications include Scientific Reports (2025) , Journal of Agricultural Meteorology (2025) , and Global Asia Review (2023) . Independent coverage includes interviews in NETIB-NEWS (2023) and Independent Speech Forum (2024) .
  • Isabelle Durance – Professor of Integrated Water Sciences at Cardiff University, Director of the Water Research Institute, and freshwater ecologist using a systems approach to address sustainable catchment management. , , , , ,
  • Claudia C. Johnson – Herman B Wells Endowed Professor of Geology at Indiana University, paleo-ecologist, reef scientist. ; ; ; ; ;
  • Petros Koutrakis – a Greek environmental scientist, researcher, and head of the Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is known for his contribution to air pollution epidemiology and creation of personal ozone monitors, ambient particle concentrators, high-volume samplers, and continuous fine particle measurement techniques. Fracking
  • Mathieu Lapôtre – Planetary geologist, Assistant Professor in Geological Sciences at Stanford University. Discovered a new type of ripples on Mars. Was part of the science team that operates NASA's Curiosity rover. Is interested in geological processes that shape the surfaces of planets and how they vary from planet to planet. He also has interests in the geology of the Earth before complex life evolved. He has published over 30 papers including in Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. He received several awards including the American Geophysical Union's Luna Leopold Early Career Award and is a Kavli Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
  • Robert Lillis – Planetary Space physicist and Geophysicist at UC Berkeley. Principal Investigator of the NASA ESCAPADE twin satellite mission to Mars, launching in September 2024. Associate Director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Published >125 articles, mostly on Mars, focusing on: crustal magnetism and the history/loss of Mars' magnetic field, giant impact, volcanoes, atmospheric escape & climate history, and space weather effects on Mars. Discoverer of new kind of aurora ("Mars Sinuous Aurora"). ;
  • Edward L. Miles – expert on marine policy, one of the first African-American members of the NAS;
  • Ralph Milliken – geologist and planetary scientist at Brown University who is currently working with the Mars Curiosity rover. A protege of Lisa Pratt at Indiana University and John Grotzinger at Caltech. ; ; ;
  • Haydn Murray (1924–2015) – American clay mineralogist, foremost expert in the world on applied clay mineralogy. He was the recipient of the Hardinge Award in Industrial Minerals from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME; 1976); Marilyn and Sturges W. Bailey Distinguished Member Award from the Clay Minerals Society (1980), which also selected him as its Pioneer in Clay Science Lecturer (2009); and University of Illinois Department of Geology Alumni Achievement Award (2004). In addition to his election to the NAE, he was recognized as a distinguished member of the Society for Mining, and Exploration (SME; 1975) and honorary member of the AIME (2014). He served as president of the Clay Minerals Society (1965–1966), SME (1988), American Institute of Professional Geologists (1991), and Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Argiles (1993–1997). He received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Buenos Aires (2000). He is listed on List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Earth resources). ; ; ; ;
  • Naseem Rangwala – astrophysicist at NASA Ames Research Center in the Space Science and Astrobiology Division. She is also the NASA Project Scientist for SOFIA airborne observatory. ; ; ;
  • Clive D. Rodgers – (Dr Clive Rodgers BA, PhD Cantab is an Atmospheric Physicist who won the symons gold medal, The Society’s awards for excellence in meteorology are held in high regard across the international community. With a BA in Maths and Physics, University of Cambridge. PhD, Cambridge. Reader in Physics at Oxford until 2001, now retired but still research active. Radiative transfer, molecular spectroscopy, the application of estimation theory to the inverse problem of radiative transfer, and the application of satellite data to stratospheric and mesospheric dynamics and chemistry. Has been Co-Investigator on several Oxford satellite instruments, and most recently on two instruments flying on NASA's Aura satellite of the Earth Observing System, the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (Oxford and NCAR) and the Tropospheric Emission Sounder (JPL).) Editorial note: This one looks good; see Symons Gold Medal.
  • Diana C. Roman – American geophysicist and volcanologist. Roman is currently H.O. Wood Chair of Seismology in the Earth and Planets Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science. She is a 2008 recipient of the Walker Medal from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth's Interior (IAVCEI). She has published over 65 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Nature and Science. ; ; ;
  • Pat Shipman – American palaeontologist and science writer. ; ; ;
  • Terry Tickhill Terrell – Environmental scientist and was one of the first women to reach the South Pole. ; ;
  • Donald U. Wise – structural geologist and planetary geologist; Professor Emeritus of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Career Contribution Award from the Geological Society of America in 2001. ; ; ; ; ;
  • Chuanlun Zhang – An American-trained Chinese Biogeochemist and Geomicrobiologist who had worked at many research facilities in both the United States (NASA, ORNL, UGA, Texas A&M) and China (Southern University of Science and Technology) and is an expert in Archaea. He has authored or co-authored nearly 300 high-impact papers. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

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Material scientists

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  • Moataz M. Attallah – Dean of the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical, and Materials Engineering and Professor of Advanced Materials Processing at the Loughborough University. He is one of the pioneers of the field of metal 3D printing in the UK, with significant work on 3D printing of jet engine components, smart materials, nuclear materials, functional and biomedical materials. He was a Professor at the University of Birmingham. ; ; ;
  • Kazuyuki Hirao – Professor of Material Chemistry at Material Chemistry. ; ; ; ;
  • Howard J. Stone – Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses on the development of novel metallic and intermetallic materials for high-temperature service, neutron and synchrotron X-ray scattering to understand metallurgical phenomena, and the computer-aided design of high-performance alloys. ;

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Medical scientists

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Physicists

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Other scientists

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  • John Warltire (1725-1810) – Lecturer in Natural Philosophy. Member of Lunar Society. Author of numerous books on Natural and Experimental philosophy. Subject of Painting - "Experiment on a bird in the air pump". Colleague of Erasmus Darwin and Benjamin Franklin. ; ; ;

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  • Umberto Quattrocchi [it; es; fr] – author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work, CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, received strong praise as being "... an unparalleled starting place-a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other, a learned finger pointing in the right direction." *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biography/Biologists ***



  • Gavin Pereira (Epidemiologist. Dr Pereira is an epidemiologist at Curtin University, Australia. He leads an multi-national interdisciplinary team and is a leading authority on impacts of sub-optimal birth spacing. He has held two national research fellowships, national awards and was an expert witness in a recent Australian Federal Senate Committee hearing on stillbirth) ; ; . *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine ***
  • Krishnendu Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. ; ; Previous appointments in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Austin (2002-2013) and in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (2013-2023). While at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, he served as Director of the NSF Engineering Research Consortium (ERC) for Cell Manufacturing Technologies (CMaT), the Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing (MC3M), and the Center for ImmunoEngineering. ; ; ; He has been honored by many local and national academic societies and institutions. Biomedical; ; Roy; His research expertise is in immunoengineering with focuses on biomaterial-based technologies for cell and gene therapies, organ-on-chip for disease modeling, and vaccine development. ; *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine ***
  • Jose Roberto Trujillo   PhD in neurology and molecular virology from Harvard. Founder and CEO of Trubios LLC, a US-based biotechnology services company focused on the Latin American region offering customized clinical research, commercialization, and venture capital solutions. Also, president and founder of The Medical Sciences Foundation on behalf of the Americas, a young non-profit organization created to promote medical sciences and general health education in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine ***
  • Floris Wuyts (PhD Physiology And Biophysics, Neuroscience Floris Wuyts is a well-respected authority on the effects that space has on the brain, He and his team conducted MRI-Scans on Astronauts to quantify changes in the brain. Floris is attributed for accurately quantifying changes in the brain's volume for the first time.) (, ) *** NEEDS TO BE MOVED TO Wikipedia:Requested articles/Medicine/People in medicine ***



References

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  1. Aparece en Galicia un calamar gigante de 54 kilos y más de un metro de largo. Europa Press, 11 February 2013. (in Spanish)
  2. Physics Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 195-290, 1964 Physics Publishing Co. Printed in the United States
  3. Bertlmann, Reinhold; Zeilinger, Anton (2016). Quantum [Un]Speakables II: Half a Century of Bell's Theorem. Springer. p. 25.
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  5. Anderson, P. W.; Matthias, B. T. (1964). "Editorial foreword". Physics Physique Fizika. 1: i. doi:10.1103/PhysicsPhysiqueFizika.1.i.
  6. "Philip W. Anderson - Session IV". 2014-12-10.