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- Sabrina KitakaUgandan physician
- Sabrina ThompsonAmerican aerospace engineer (born 1985)
- Saint-AffriqueSaint-Affrique (French: ; Languedocien: Sant Africa) is a commune in the Aveyron departmen
- Sainte-Foy-lès-LyonSainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (French pronunciation: , literally Sainte-Foy near Lyon) is a commune
- Sakichi ToyodaJapanese inventor and industrialist
- Salinee TavarananMechanical engineer
- Salk Institute for Biological StudiesResearch institute in California, US
- Sallie BaliunasAmerican astronomer
- Sally FloydAmerican computer scientist (1950–2019)
- Sally PoncetAustralian-born scientist and adventurer
- Sally TempleAmerican neuroscientist
- Salome DadianiPrincess Salomé Dadiani (Georgian: სალომე დადიანი; 13 October 1848 – 23 July 1913) was a G
- Salome MaswimeSouth African clinician and health expert
- Salvatore De RenziSalvatore De Renzi (19 January 1800, in Paternopoli – 26 February 1872, in Naples) was an
- Samantha TrossBritish orthopaedic surgeon
- Samuel Alfred MitchellSamuel Alfred Mitchell (April 29, 1874 – February 22, 1960) was a Canadian-American astron
- Samuel C. C. TingNobel prize winning physicist
- Samuel CromptonInventor, pioneer of the spinning industry (1753–1827)
- Samuel EilenbergPolish-American mathematician (1913–1998)
- Samuel H. CaldwellSamuel Hawks Caldwell (January 15, 1904 – October 12, 1960) was an American electrical eng
- Samuel LangleyAmerican astronomer, physicist and inventor (1834–1906)
- San Francisco volcanic fieldThe San Francisco volcanic field is an area of volcanoes in northern Arizona, north of Fla
- Sandra Díaz (ecologist)Argentine ecologist
- Sandra FaberAmerican astrophysicist (born 1944)
- Sandra SaouafAmerican immunologist
- Sandra SchmidCanadian biologist
- Sandra VehrencampAmerican ornithologist
- Sandrine DudoitFrench-American bioinformatician
- Sandrine HeutzProfessor of Functional Molecular Materials
- Sandy blind mole-ratThe sandy blind mole-rat (Spalax arenarius) is an endangered species of rodent in the fami
- Sara CherrySara R. Cherry is an American microbiologist who is John W. Eckman Professor of Medical Sc
- Sara SeagerCanadian astronomer
- Sarah Blaffer HrdyAmerican anthropologist and primatologist
- Sarah KiguliUgandan pediatrician, academic
- Sarah SeagerSarah Seager (born 1958) is a conceptual artist associated with the California Conceptuali
- Sarah Stewart (cancer researcher)Mexican-American cancer researcher
- Saruhashi PrizeAward for Japanese women scientists
- Sarvadaman ChowlaSarvadaman D. S. Chowla (22 October 1907 – 10 December 1995) was an Indian American mathem
- Satoshi NakamotoPseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin
- Saul PerlmutterAmerican astrophysicist and Nobel laureate (born 1959)
- Saunders Mac LaneAmerican mathematician (1909–2005)
- Schneider flowSchneider flow describes the axisymmetric outer flow induced by a laminar or turbulent jet
- ScholarPerson who pursues academic and intellectual activities
- SchönebergQuarter of Berlin in Germany
- Schrieffer–Wolff transformationIn quantum mechanics, the Schrieffer–Wolff transformation is a unitary transformation used
- Schwarzschild coordinatesIn the theory of Lorentzian manifolds, spherically symmetric spacetimes admit a family of
- Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transferIn the study of heat transfer, Schwarzschild's equation is used to calculate radiative tra
- Science BargeThe Science Barge is a floating urban farm and environmental education center that has bee
- Science Mission DirectorateThe Science Mission Directorate (SMD) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Science World (Vancouver)Science World is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization called ASTC Science
- Scott A. SmallScott A. Small is an American neurologist and neuroscientist known for his work in Alzheim
- Scottish peopleEthnic group native to Scotland
- Sedimentation equilibriumSedimentation equilibrium in a suspension of different particles, such as molecules, exist
- Seki TakakazuJapanese mathematician (c. 1642–1708)
- Selma CalmesAnesthesiologist
- Selman WaksmanAmerican biochemist and microbiologist (1888–1973)
- Senate of the Republic (Italy)Upper house of the Italian Parliament
- Serafima BryusovaBorn Serafima Semyonovna Sidorova, Serafima Bryusova (31 December 1894 - 1958 in Moscow) w
- Serge HarocheFrench physicist, Nobel laureate (born 1944)
- Serge LangFrench-American mathematician
- Setsuko Matsunaga NishiAmerican sociologist and community activist
- Severo AntonelliSevero Antonelli (ca. July 17, 1907 – December 9, 1995) was an Italian-American photograph
- Seymour CrayAmerican supercomputer architect (1925–1996)
- Shadows of the MindShadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness is a 1994 book by m
- Shannon ZenkShannon Nicole Zenk is an American nurse scientist specialized in researching social inequ
- Sharla BoehmAmerican computer scientist (1929–2023)
- Sharon GlotzerAmerican physicist
- Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering EducationAward
- Sharon MosherAmerican geologist
- Sharon WeissAmerican pathologist
- Sharpsburg, PennsylvaniaSharpsburg is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, 5 miles (8 km) n
- Shashi WadhwaIndian scientist
- Sheila NirenbergAmerican neuroscientist
- Sheila SherlockBritish physician and educator (1918–2001)
- Sheila TinneyIrish mathematical physicist (1918–2010)
- Sheina MarshallScottish marine biologist
- Shekhar C. MandeShekhar C. Mande is Structural and Computational Biologist. He was the Director General of
- Sheldon C. ReedSheldon Clark Reed (November 7, 1910 – February 1, 2003) was an American biologist and gen
- Sheldon GlashowAmerican theoretical physicist
- Sheri McCoyAmerican scientist and business executive
- Shigefumi MoriJapanese mathematician (born 1951)
- Shiing-Shen ChernChinese-American mathematician and poet
- Shin'ichirō TomonagaJapanese physicist (1906-1979)
- Shing-Tung YauChinese-American mathematician (born 1949)
- Shinya YamanakaJapanese stem cell researcher (born 1962)
- Shoichiro ToyodaShoichiro Toyoda (Japanese: 豊田 章一郞, Hepburn: Toyoda Shōichirō, February 27, 1925 – Februar
- Shoshana GrossbardEconomist
- Shuji NakamuraJapanese–American electronics engineer (born 1954)
- Sian BeilockAmerican cognitive scientist (born 1976)
- Sidney Martin WebsterSidney Martin Webster (born 12 November 1945 in Danville, Illinois) is an American mathema
- Siemens cycleThe Siemens cycle is a technique used to cool or liquefy gases. A gas is compressed, leadi
- Sierpiński's constantSierpiński's constant is a mathematical constant usually denoted as K. One way of defining
- Signe NormandDanish biologist (born 1979)
- Silver Medal (Zoological Society of London)The Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London is "Awarded to a Fellow of the Societ
- Simon NewcombCanadian-American polymath (1835–1909)
- Simon van der MeerDutch physicist (1925–2011)
- Sine LarsenDanish chemist and crystallographer (1943–2025)
- Singularity theoryMathematical theory
- Siouxsie WilesNew Zealand microbiologist
- Sir George Stokes, 1st BaronetBritish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
- Sirisha BandlaAmerican aeronautical engineer and commercial astronaut (born 1988)
- Sliding filament theoryExplanation of muscle contraction
- Slow lightIn optics, slow light is the propagation of an optical pulse or other modulation of an opt
- Smart antennaSmart antennas (also known as adaptive array antennas, digital antenna arrays, multiple an
- Sneh BhargavaIndian radiologist
- Socially assistive robotA socially assistive robot (SAR) aids users through social engagement and support rather t
- Société Française de PhysiqueThe Société Française de Physique (SFP), or the French Physical Society, is the main profe
- Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and CommerceThe Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, founded in 1754, was
- Soddy (crater)Soddy is an eroded lunar impact crater lying on the far side of the Moon, invisible from t
- Software patent debateThe software patent debate is the argument about the extent to which, as a matter of publi
- Sofya YanovskayaRussian mathematician (1896-1966)
- Solid state ionicsSolid-state ionics is the study of ionic-electronic mixed conductor and fully ionic conduc
- Sophia BraheDanish horticulturalist
- Sophia GetzowaBelarusian-Israeli scientist (1872–1946)
- Sophia Jex-BlakeBritish physician and suffragist (1840–1912)
- Sophia KleegmanRussian American gynecologist
- Sophie BryantIrish mathematician (1850–1922)
- Sophie GermainFrench mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776–1831)
- Sophie SpitzAmerican pathologist
- Sophie WilsonEnglish computer scientist (born 1957)
- Sophus LieNorwegian mathematician (1842–1899)
- Sossina M. HaileEthiopian-American chemist
- Soul theoremIn mathematics, the soul theorem is a theorem of Riemannian geometry that largely reduces
- Soumya SwaminathanIndian and WHO Deputy Director general
- Southern Regional Research CenterThe United States Department of Agriculture Southern Regional Research Center (SRRC) is on
- Sphenomorphus helenaeSphenomorphus helenae, also known commonly as the Notaburi forest skink, is a species of l
- SphuṭacandrāptiSphuṭacandrāpti (Computation of True Moon) is a treatise in Sanskrit composed by the fourt
- Spitz nevusA Spitz nevus is a benign skin lesion. A type of melanocytic nevus, it affects the epiderm
- Spontaneous generationTheory of life arising from non-living matter
- Spread (intuitionism)In intuitionistic mathematics, a spread is a particular kind of species of infinite sequen
- Springfield, MassachusettsCity in Massachusetts, United States
- St Mary's Church, WhitkirkSt Mary's Church in Whitkirk, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish
- St Peter's MedalThe St Peter's Medal is awarded annually by the British Association of Urological Surgeons
- Standard complexIn mathematics, the standard complex, also called standard resolution, bar resolution, bar
- Stanford, CaliforniaCensus-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, US
- Stanisław UlamPolish mathematician and physicist (1909–1984)
- Stanley SkewesStanley Skewes (; 1899–1988) was a South African mathematician, best known for his discove
- Statue of Joseph HenryProfessor Joseph Henry, also known as the Joseph Henry Memorial, is an outdoor bronze scul
- Status of women's testimony in IslamThe status of women's testimony in Islam is disputed. Muslim societies' attitudes range fr
- Stefan MazurkiewiczStefan Mazurkiewicz (25 September 1888 – 19 June 1945) was a Polish mathematician who work
- Stefi BaumAmerican-Canadian astronomer (born 1958)
- Steinitz exchange lemmaThe Steinitz exchange lemma is a basic theorem in linear algebra used, for example, to sho
- STEM Women of the YearAcademic award of South Korea
- StemmingProcess of reducing words to word stems
- Stephanie KwolekAmerican chemist who invented Kevlar (1923–2014)
- Stéphanie P. LacourFrench neurotechnologist
- Stephen Bernard LibbyStephen Bernard Libby is an American theoretical physicist and the Theory and Modeling Gro
- Stephen CookAmerican-Canadian computer scientist, contributor to complexity theory
- Stephen Gray (scientist)English physicist
- Stephen HalesEnglish clergyman and scientist (1677–1761)
- StereoscopeDevice for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images
- Steven ChuAmerican physicist and government official (born 1948)
- Steven WeinbergAmerican theoretical physicist (1933–2021)
- Stilwell, KansasStilwell is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and part
- Strangeways Research LaboratoryStrangeways Research Laboratory is a research institution in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It
- Stuart L. ShapiroStuart Louis Shapiro (born December 6, 1947, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American the
- Stuart MuddStuart Mudd (September 23, 1893, St. Louis, Missouri – March 6, 1975, Haverford, Pennsylva
- Stuart–Landau equationThe Stuart–Landau equation describes the behavior of a nonlinear oscillating system near t
- Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharIndian-American astrophysicist (1910–1995)
- Suchitra SebastianCondensed matter physicist
- Sue Black (computer scientist)British computer scientist
- Sue HendricksonAmerican explorer and fossil collector
- Sue Savage-RumbaughPsychologist and primatologist (born 1946)
- Suffrage Science awardPrize for women in science, engineering and computing
- Sulamith GoldhaberAmerican high-energy physicist (1923–1965)
- Sullam al-sama'Sullam al-sama', also known as Resaleh-ye Kamaliyyeh (Arabic*: سُلَم السماء, Transliterate
- Sumathi RaoIndian theoretical physicist
- Sunita WilliamsU.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut (born 1965)
- SuperalgebraIn mathematics and theoretical physics, a superalgebra is a Z2-graded algebra. That is, it
- Superreal numberIn abstract algebra, the superreal numbers are a class of extensions of the real numbers,
- Surindar Kumar TrehanSurindar Kumar Trehan (S.K. Trehan) was an Indian mathematician who specialised in non-lin
- Surreal numberGeneralization of the real numbers
- Susan DumaisAmerican computer scientist (born 1953)
- Susan E. AlcockAmerican classical archaeologist
- Susan FiskeAmerican psychologist
- Susan G. BondBritish scientific officer and computer programmer
- Susan GerbiAmerican biologist
- Susan GerhartAmerican computer scientist
- Susan Greenfield, Baroness GreenfieldBritish scientist
- Susan HockfieldAmerican neuroscientist (born 1951)
- Susan J. EggersAmerican computer scientist
- Susan Ngongi NamondoCameroonian administrator and diplomat
- Susan R. BarryAmerican neurobiologist
- Susan SolomonAmerican atmospheric chemist
- Susane NabulindoKenyan consultant anesthesiologist
- SushrutaAncient Indian physician and surgeon
- Susmita DattaIndian biostatistician
- Sutherland, VirginiaSutherland is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. Su
- Suzanne CorkinSuzanne Corkin (May 18, 1937 – May 24, 2016) was an American professor of neuroscience in
- Suzanne CoryAustralian biologist (born 1942)
- Suzanne VeilFrench chemist (1886–1956)
- Svante PääboSwedish geneticist (born 1955)
- Švarc–Milnor lemmaIn the mathematical subject of geometric group theory, the Švarc–Milnor lemma (sometimes a
- Svetha VenkateshIndian computer scientist
- Swiss peopleThe Swiss people (German: die Schweizer, French: les Suisses, Italian: gli Svizzeri, Roman
- Sydney BrennerSouth African biologist and Nobel prize winner (1927–2019)
- Sylvania Electric ProductsSylvania Electric Products Inc. was an American manufacturer of diverse electrical equipme
- Sylvester H. RoperAmerican inventor and builder of vehicles
- Sylvester–Gallai theoremThe Sylvester–Gallai theorem in geometry states that every finite set of points in the Euc
- Sylvester's sequenceIn number theory, Sylvester's sequence is an integer sequence in which each term is the pr
- Sylvester's triangle problemSylvester's theorem or Sylvester's formula describes a particular interpretation of the su
- Sylvia Agnes Sophia TaitEnglish biochemist
- Sylvia EarleAmerican marine biologist and lecturer
- Sylvia EdlundCanadian botanist
- Sylvy KornbergAmerican biochemist
- Synthetic iceSynthetic ice is a solid polymer material designed for skating using normal metal-bladed i