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American scientists of Asian descent

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese-American physicist
Daniel C. Tsui
Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
Roger Y. Tsien
American biochemist (1952-2016)
Charles J. Pedersen
American organic chemist
Syukuro Manabe
Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)
Jane Luu
Vietnamese American astronomer
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist (1922–2015)
Nergis Mavalvala
Pakistani-American quantum astrophysicist
Narinder Singh Kapany
Indian physicist (1926-2020)
Ted Fujita
Japanese-American severe storms researcher
Abhay Ashtekar
Indian physicist
Ching Wan Tang
Hong Kong-American chemist
Frank Shu
American astronomer (1943–2023)
J. J. Sakurai
American physicist (1933-1982)
Trinh Xuan Thuan
Vietnamese-American astrophysicist
Xiaowei Zhuang
Chinese American biophysicist
Jogesh Pati
American physicist
Chi-Huey Wong
Taiwanese biochemist
Arati Prabhakar
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Benjamin Whisoh Lee
Korean-born American theoretical physicist
Anthony Zee
American physicist
Susumu Ohno
Japanese geneticist (1928–2000)
Keiiti Aki
Japanese-American professor of geophysics
Sau Lan Wu
American physicist
Masatoshi Nei
Japanese-born American geneticist and evolotionary biologist (1931 - 2023)
Akiko Iwasaki
immunobiologist
Paul Kuroda
Japanese nuclear chemist (1917–2001)
Marie Morisawa
American geomorphologist
Harvey Itano
American biochemist (1920–2010)
Yoky Matsuoka
Japanese computer scientist
Zhijian Chen
Chinese American biochemist
James Fujimoto
American electrical engineer and optical coherence tomography researcher
Subir Sachdev
Indian physicist
Toichiro Kinoshita
Japanese physicist
Ramamurti Shankar
American physicist
Masashi Yanagisawa
American medical scientist
Lu Jeu Sham
Professor emeritus of physics at UCSD
Jay Kochi
American organic chemist (1927–2008)
Takeshi Oka
Canadian chemist
Gordon H. Sato
American cell biologist (1927-2017)
Young Kee Kim
Korean physicist