Wikipedia:Requested articles/Natural sciences

Spacecraft

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Astronomers

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Biologists

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Abhay H. Pande (Indian biotechnologist and professor at NIPER Mohali; research in engineered antibodies, biopharmaceutical innovation, neurotherapeutics, and bio-entrepreneurship; recipient of Best Researcher Award; Vice President and Fellow of ERDA) ([(https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/scientists-should-be-prepared-well-for-future-pandemic-niti-member/) Scientists should be prepared well for future pandemic: NITI member], [(https://www.babushahi.com/education.php?id=189521) NIPER-Mohali Scientists developing engineered antibody to address inflammation-driven diseases], [(https://tejsagarnewspaper.com/english/News/Details/13017) NIPER-Mohali Scientists developing engineered antibody to address inflammation-driven diseases], [(https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/national-bio-entrepreneurship-prize-for-niper-scholar/) National bio-entrepreneurship prize for NIPER scholar], [(https://academicexcellenceawards.com/abhay-h-pande-biotechnology-best-researcher-award-1957/) Prof. Dr. Abhay H Pande | Biotechnology | Best Researcher Award], [(https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/niper-scientists-develop-novel-neurohealer/) NIPER scientists develop novel neurohealer], [(https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/chandigarh/niper-team-visits-japanese-varsity-557124/) NIPER team visits Japanese varsity], [(https://www.5dariyanews.com/news/249052-A-Two-Week-Intensive-Training-Program-on-Recent-Trends-and-Challenges-in-Biopharmaceuti) A Two Week Intensive Training Program on Recent Trends and Challenges in Biopharmaceuticals at NIPER], [(https://erda.org.in/index.php/sate-executive-body/) ERDA State Executive Body – Vice President – Punjab], [(https://erda.org.in/index.php/fellow-members-academia/) Fellow ERDA])

Computer scientists

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Earth scientists

• Warren Allmon - American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist; Director of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and its Museum of the Earth, and Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology Emeritus at Cornell University. Paleontological Society fellow. Google Scholar profile: Cornell University Profile: PRI profile:
• Awa Bousso Dramé (Cabo Verdean and Senegalese ocean scientist and environmental researcher focusing on ocean sciences, geospatial AI applications, and environmental economics for climate resilience in West African and Atlantic island states; founder of the CoastGIS Research Institute (Senegal and Cabo Verde); member of the UN Ocean Decade Advisory Board and UNESCO STEM Working Group expert.) (Winners 2022 L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talents Awards, Forbes Afrique 30 Under 30 – les étoiles venues du Sénégal, 2025 UNESCO Global Virtual Science Museum – Women in Science – Dr Awa Bousso Dramé, The Atlantic African Island Ocean Scientist,PMI Future 50 2024: Awa Bousso Dramé, UN Ocean Decade Advisory Board – Members, AUC – Women in GMES Africa governing council, Google Scholar profile, ResearchGate publications)

• 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) .

• Sarah Ivory - Ecologist and geologist at Pennsylvania State University (https://www.geosc.psu.edu/directory/sarah-ivory)

• Anton Brants (or Antoni Brants) - 19th century Dutch zoologist - article on French Wikipedia: fr:Anton Brants

• Colin Bull (currently a redirect) - British-born American polar scientist and one of the founders and directors of what is now the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center; instrumental in getting women scientists to be allowed to work in areas of Antarctica that were controlled by the Unites States. ; ; ; ; ;

• Peter A. Burrough (1944–2009) - British soil scientist, author of the first widely used GIS textbook, Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land Resource Assessment

• Dr. Ugo Dall'asta - curator of Lepidoptera at the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Namesake of Pterophorus dallastai, a species of moth. wikimedia

• Dr. Kenneth De Baets - Belgian invertebrate paleontologist/paleobiologist at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is most known for his research on paleoparasitology and cephalopod paleobiology to macroevolution.

• 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. , , , , ,

• Ian Eisenman - Climate scientist. Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) and inaugural holder of Jerome Namias Chair. AGU Cryosphere Young Investigator Award, 2012 winner. (AGU News, EGU News, Scripps News, CS Monitor, Nature News, Science News, NBC News, university profile, CV)

• Vittorio (Victor) A. Gensini - Meteorology professor at Northern Illinois University and tornado expert. Created a way to predict tornadoes weeks in advance. , , , ,

• Erle Kauffman (1933–2016) - American geologist and paleontologist who was a curator at the US National Museum and was on the faculties of George Washington University, University of Colorado Boulder, and Indiana University. Was a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Won several awards. ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

• 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.)

• Julie Loisel American ecosystem ecologist and geographer known for peatland research in the Arctic, Antarctic, southern Patagonia, and the tropics. Working group leader of C-PEAT, a collaborator on the United Nations' Global Peatland Assessment, former associate professor at Texas A&M University, and current associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno . Lab website and Google Scholar. Received the 2021 Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal For Outstanding Young Quaternary Scientists Award.

• Glen MacDonald (Glen M. MacDonald) - paleoecologist and biogeographer (gscholar)

• Carl R. McFarland (Carl McFarland) – Geologist active in Washington state

• Edward L. Miles - expert on marine policy, one of the first African-American members of the NAS;

• Katie Stack Morgan, geologist and planetary scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a project manager for the Mars Perseverance (rover); ; ;; ; ; ; ; ;

• 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). ; ; ; ;

• Phillip A. Murry - American paleontologist; ;

• Donna O'Meara (Volcano researcher and author, subject of multiple Nat Geo documentaries) (Amazon author page) (a Nat Geo article) (Scholastic author page) (interview with a newspaper) (Twitter feed)

• György Pantó - Hungarian geochemical scientist hu:Pantó György

• 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).)

• 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. ; ; ;

• Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1921 - 2004) (Gordon de Q. Robin) - glaciologist; long-time director, Scott Polar Research Institute ; ;

• Demian M. Saffer - American geophysicist. Saffer is professor at the Department of Geological Sciences of The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences and director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. He is prominent in subduction zone research and has been co-chief scientist of five major scientific ocean drilling expeditions to investigate large earthquake faults at the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, including the deepest scientific drilling of a subduction zone. His discoveries include previously undetected shallow slow-slip events at Japan's Nankai fault, lower than expected stresses at Nankai, and that clay minerals in fault gouge play a much smaller role in fault slip behavior than previously thought. He is also an executive steering committee member of Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions (SZ4D), a new multinational initiative to investigate the processes that underlie subduction zone hazards and was one of the architects of its latest report. Among other awards, he was selected to give AGU's Francis Birch Lecture in 2022, its highest honor in the field of tectonophysics. Before being hired to lead UTIG, Saffer was a professor and head of the Department of Geosciences at Penn State University. He has published over 120 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. ; ;

• Compton Tucker - NASA earth scientist, pioneer in the use of satellite crop monitoring (gscholar)

• Desmond Walling (Desmond E. Walling) (born 1945) - British hydrologist and fluvial geomorphologist faculty page gscholar; ;

• 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. ; ; ; ; ;

• Aaron T. Wolf - hydrologist and expert on transboundary water conflict management; Heinz Award recipient in 2015 faculty page

• Mehdi Zare (fa:مهدی_زارع) – Iranian seismologist. ; ;

• 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. ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

• Vilen Andreyevich Zharikov (1926–2006) (ru:Жариков, Вилен Андреевич) - Russian geologist. ; ;

Material scientists

• Kazuyuki Hirao – Professor of Material Chemistry at Material Chemistry. ; ; ; ;

• Peter Kazansky – Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Southampton. Research includes the investigation of new optical materials and phenomena, including 5D optical data storage. ; ; ; ; ; ;

• 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. ;

• 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. ; ; ;

Mathematicians

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Medical scientists

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Physicists

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Other scientists

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• Claus-Michael Lehr - Professor of Biopharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, Saarland University, Germany. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus-Michael_Lehr
• Marco E. Franco - Environmental Toxicologist, 2020 Colgate-Palmolive awardee for Research Training in Alternative Methods, Author, Guatemalan. , ,
• Robert Lillis - Planetary Space physicist and Geophysicist. 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").
• Chuck Bargeron - invasive species and information technology scientist, Director of Bugwood, EDDMapS, Wild Spotter and Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at the University of Georgia^[7], ^[8], ^[9]
• Prof. Dr. Emil Baur (1873-1944) - A ETH Zurich professor who worked on fuel cell, photolysis, gold extraction from seawater etc.
• Otto Hahn (1828-1904) - Mineralogist, geologist; author of Die Urzelle (1879)^[10] and Die Meteorite (Chondrite) und ihre Organismen (1880)^[11]; contributed to the discussion about the Eozoon canadense^[12]; proposed the theory of the organic nature of the chondrites.^[13]. Photograph and biography ^[14].
• Lists of things named after scientists: see here.
• Xu Liu – neuroscientist
• Frank Henry Ludlam - British meteorologist (1920 - 1977) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Ludlam https://academictree.org/meteorology/peopleinfo.php?pid=942090
• Genrikh Mavrikiyevich Ludvig - philosopher , a scholar of ancient languages, and
• Katsuyuki Ooyama - (1929-2006) Japanese American meteorologist
• 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) (https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/Gavin.F.Pereira/)(https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Stillbirth_Research_and_Education/Stillbirth/~/media/Committees/stillbirth_ctte/report.pdf)(https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/attachments/grant%20documents/investigator-grants-for-funding-commencing-2020.pdf)
• Phillip W. Signor - Co-proposer of the Signor–Lipps effect and former professor at UC Davis. Works by or about Phillip W. Signor in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Dr. MONA SPIEGEL-ADOLF Temple University Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, published 31 papers between 1926 and 1962 on biochemistry and biomedical chemistry. e.g Spiegel-Adolf, M.D. M: Cerebrospinal Fluids in Neurolues. A Physicochemical Study. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 1939;2:1-14. doi: 10.1159/000106231
• 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.
• John Warltire - 1725-1810^[15] Lecturer in Natural Philosophy. Member of Lunar Society.^[16] Author of numerous books on Natural and Experimental philosophy.^[17] Subject of Painting - "Experiment on a bird in the air pump".^[18] Colleague of Erasmus Darwin and Benjamin Franklin.
• 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.) (, )
• Victor Yvart (3 March 1763 - 19 June 1831); French agronomist (see fr:Victor Yvart). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women, Frederic Rowland Marvin, p. 188.
• Umberto Quattrocchi, 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." https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Quattrocchi; https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Quattrocchi; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Quattrocchi
• Krishnendu Roy, Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Bio from Vanderbilt Vanderbilt names esteemed biomedical engineer Krishnendu Roy as next dean of School of Engineering 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). Krishnendu Roy Named Regents' Professor 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. Faces of Research at Georgia Tech: Meet Krishnendu Roy Engineering Research Center Will Help Expand Use of Therapies Based on Living Cells Center Will Develop Consistent Manufacturing Processes for Cell-based Therapies Georgia Tech Selected as NIH Cell Characterization Hub He has been honored by many local and national academic societies and institutions. Biomedical Engineering Faculty Honored at Society for Biomaterials 2023 Awards Krishnendu Roy Elected Fellow of the Controlled Release Society Roy, Andino Take Top Georgia Bio Honors for Impact on Lifesciences Industry AIChE bio 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. Researchers At Georgia Tech Receive NIH Funding For Coronavirus Vaccines Roy Lab website at Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University
• Jacob Harrison Fine, EIT - certified Mechanical-Engineer-In-Training under EGBC, Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia, focused in disability accessibility and HVAC design with Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy. Co-Founder of Breaking Barriers' Foundation of North Carolina, a disability rights organization headquartered in Eastern North Carolina. Author, Inspirational Writer, Graduate of Campbell University in Buies Creek NC, class of 2023 (ABET, SACSCOC, KEEN), Born 2000 - present. Working in Building Systems in the Research Triangle area. Registered Notary Public. Biomedical Accessibility design under futer company "Fine and Bullock Products Limited. Sources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-fine-6742451a2/ [Online Linkedin Portfolio]; https://tools.egbc.ca/Registrant-Directory/Individual-Registrants/RegistrantProfile?id=440fa26a-4019-4818-960d-26776b75a849 [Engineers and Geoscientists British Colombia]; https://www.sosnc.gov/online_services/notary/search_notary_number [North Carolina Notary Search 202416400045]
• Tom Gaunt, Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics at University of Bristol. Web of Science highly cited: (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/O-3918-2014). Institutional web-page: (https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-r-gaunt). Turing Institute web-page: (https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/tom-gaunt). ORCiD: (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0924-3247). Scopus record: (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603377285). LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomrgaunt/). NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre profile: (https://www.bristolbrc.nihr.ac.uk/people/tom-gaunt/)
• Giulia Bassani (Space Ambassador, public speaker, science communicator, sci-fi novels writer, aspiring astronaut and aerospace engineering student at Polytechnic of Turin. Mainly known as Astro Giulia.)
• Joseph Banovetz (Chemist, research scientist, science communicator, doctor, food journalist (specialty in balogna), NASA enthusiast, and father. Mainly known as Dr. Joe.)

Others

• Alex McColgan (A very well known astronomy and science communication guy who is operating Astrum YouTube channel).
• Some other science people needing a page are Anton Petrov and Joe Barnard