In 2002, Joseph Krzyxki, professor with the Department of Microbiology at Ohio State, and Michael Chan, former professor with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, discovered the 22nd amino acid, providing
Samir Mathur, professor at Ohio State’s Department of Physics, pioneered the “Mathur Conjecture”, resolving the paradox of black holes and the matter trapped inside of them.
Jin-Fa Lee, professor at Ohio State’s College of Engineering, is a leading authority in computational electromagnetics He is credited for developing the first ever commercial-level toolset, later marketed under the program name HF
Ruth Ella Moore (1903-1994) was the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a PhD in the natural sciences – delivering her doctoral dissertation at Ohio State on the bacteriology of tuberculosis.
Gary Stoner, former Ohio State professor and chair of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the College of Public Health and Associate Director of Basic Research in the Comprehensive Cancer Center, is a pioneer of cance