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- Vacuum flaskDouble-walled insulated storage vessel
- Val Logsdon FitchAmerican nuclear physicist (1923–2015)
- Valdemar Poulsen Gold MedalThe Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal, named after radio pioneer Valdemar Poulsen, was awarded e
- Valdés, AsturiasValdés is a Spanish municipality in the province of Asturias. Its capital is Luarca. It bo
- Valerie Masson-DelmotteFrench engineer and climatologist
- Valerie MizrahiSouth African biologist
- Valerie Taylor (computer scientist)American computer scientist
- Valerie WeissValerie Heather Weiss is an American filmmaker and producer.
- Vanaja IyengarIndian mathematician, educationist
- Vannevar BushAmerican science official (1890–1974)
- Varia KipianiGeorgian scientist
- VechtaVechta (German pronunciation: ; Northern Low Saxon: Vechte) is the capital and largest cit
- Veena ParnaikIndian cell biologist (born 1953)
- Venki RamakrishnanBritish-American structural biologist (born 1952)
- Vera DanchakoffRussian anatomist, cell biologist and embryologist, 1879-1950
- Vera KistiakowskyAmerican physicist (1928–2021)
- Vera LebedevaSoviet physician (1881–1968)
- Vera Mae GreenAmerican anthropologist and academic
- Vera RubinAmerican astronomer (1928–2016)
- Vera Yevstafievna PopovaRussian chemist (1867–1896)
- Veronica DahlCanadian computer scientist
- Veronica RodriguesKenyan-born Indian biologist
- Veronika HubenyAmerican physicist
- Véronique GouverneurBelgian chemist
- Vesto SlipherAmerican astronomer (1875–1969)
- Victor A. McKusickAmerican geneticist (1921–2008)
- Victor ChangAustralian cardiac surgeon (1936–1991)
- Victor Chang Cardiac Research InstituteThe Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI) is an Australian non-profit medical re
- Victor GoldschmidtNorwegian mineralogist (1888–1947)
- Victor GrignardFrench chemist (1871–1935)
- Victor HessAustrian–American physicist (1883–1964)
- Vieta's formulasRelating coefficients and roots of a polynomial
- Viktor AmbartsumianSoviet Armenian astrophysicist (1908–1996)
- Vilhelm BjerknesNorwegian geophysicist and meteorologist (1862–1951)
- Vincent RacanielloVincent R. Racaniello (born January 2, 1953) is a Higgins Professor in the Department of M
- Vinod K. SinghVinod K. Singh (Hindi: विनोद कुमार सिंह; born 9 September 1959) is a Rahula and Namita Gau
- Vint CerfAmerican computer scientist and Internet pioneer (born 1943)
- Violence against women in GuatemalaViolence against women in Guatemala reached severe levels during the long-running Guatemal
- Virchows ArchivVirchows Archiv: European Journal of Pathology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal
- Virginia ApgarAmerican physician and obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909–1974)
- Virginia GraceAmerican archaeologist (1901–1994)
- Virginia HinshawAmerican microbiologist
- Virginia Lacy JonesAmerican librarian
- Virginia R. DomínguezAmerican anthropologist
- Virginia RagsdaleVirginia Ragsdale (December 13, 1870 – June 4, 1945) was a teacher and mathematician speci
- Visual cliffThe visual cliff is an apparatus created by psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D.
- Vitalik ButerinRussian-Canadian programmer (born 1994)
- Vitaly GinzburgRussian physicist (1916–2009)
- Vito VolterraItalian mathematician and physicist (1860–1940)
- Vivian LeeAmerican radiologist
- Vladimir ArnoldRussian mathematician (1937–2010)
- Vladimir Grigoryevich FyodorovRussian and Soviet weapons designer (1874–1966)
- Vladimir K. ZworykinRussian-American engineer (1888–1982)
- Vladimir ShukhovRussian polymath, engineer, scientist and architect (1853–1939)
- Vladimir VernadskySoviet geochemist (1863–1945)
- VMG 1927The VMG 1927 is a light machine gun designed by Heinrich Vollmer in 1927.
- Volvo Environment PrizeThe Volvo Environment Prize is a highly regarded annual scientific award. The prize is awa
- VoorschotenVoorschoten (Dutch pronunciation: ) is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands,