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David J. Anderson

David J. Anderson, also known as D.J. Anderson, is an American neuroscientist at Caltech who studies how the brain's circuits encode emotions such as fear and aggression.

David J. Asai

David J. Asai is an American cell biologist known for research on the motor protein dynein and for leading inclusive science education programs at HHMI from 2008 to 2024.

David J. Barron

David J. Barron (born 1967) is chief judge of the First Circuit since 2022, an Obama 2014 appointee, former Harvard Law professor, OLC acting assistant attorney general, and Stevens clerk.

David J. Beebe

David J. Beebe is a biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for microfluidics in cancer research, diagnostics, and founding several biotech companies.

David J. Brenner

David J. Brenner, born 1953 in Liverpool, is a British-born radiation biophysicist who directs Columbia University's Center for Radiological Research and quantifies cancer risks from CT scans.

David J. Brewer

David Josiah Brewer (1837-1910), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1890-1910, born in Smyrna, nephew of Stephen J. Field; author of Muller v. Oregon and In re Debs, labeled a laissez-faire conservative but a revisionist subject.

David J. C. MacKay

David J. C. MacKay (David John Cameron MacKay) was a British physicist at Cambridge who wrote Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air and advised the UK government on energy.

David J. Cohen

David J. Cohen is an American interventional cardiologist and outcomes researcher, Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York.

David J. Dean

David J. Dean is an American theoretical nuclear physicist known for quantum many-body methods, a 1997 PECASE award, and the first quantum-computer calculation of a nucleus.

David J. Des Marais

David J. Des Marais, also published as D. J. Des Marais, is a geochemist and astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center who led NASA's Astrobiology Roadmap and served on Mars rover science teams.

David J. Dunlop

David J. Dunlop is a Canadian geophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga, known for rock magnetism, paleomagnetism, and the 1997 textbook Rock Magnetism.

David J. Freedman

David J. Freedman is a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago who studies how the primate brain learns visual categories and uses them to make decisions, chairing Neurobiology since 2024.

David J. Galas

David J. Galas (1944–2023) was an American molecular biologist who co-invented DNase footprinting and directed the Department of Energy's Human Genome Program from 1990 to 1993.

David J. Glass

David J. Glass is an American molecular biologist at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals known for research on skeletal muscle signaling and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.

David J. Goodman

David J. Goodman is an American electrical engineer, a Professor Emeritus at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for wireless communications research.

David J. Grain

David J. Grain, born in 1962, is an American investment executive who founded Grain Management in 2007, a private equity firm investing in fiber networks, wireless spectrum, and cell towers.

David J. Grainger

David J. Grainger is a molecular biologist known for TGF-β research in vascular disease and a rapid blood test for coronary heart disease, later co-founding the venture firm Medicxi.

David J. Greenblatt

David J. Greenblatt is an American clinical pharmacologist at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for work defining clinical pharmacokinetics, benzodiazepine studies, and drug-drug interaction research.

David J. Gross

David J. Gross, born 1941 in Washington, D.C., is an American theoretical physicist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering asymptotic freedom in the strong interaction.

David J. Hale

David J. Hale, born David Jason Hale, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky since 2014.

David J. Heeger

David J. Heeger is an American cognitive and computational neuroscientist, a Silver Professor at New York University known for the normalization model of neural computation and fMRI analysis.

David J. Heldebrant

David J. Heldebrant is an American organic chemist who directs the Physical Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for CO2-binding organic liquids for carbon capture.

David J. Hunter

David J. Hunter is a rheumatologist and osteoarthritis researcher who holds the Florence and Cope Chair of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney and leads the Kolling Institute's osteoarthritis team.

David J. Kemp

David J. Kemp (1945–2013) was an Australian molecular biologist and parasitologist who was the first to clone malaria parasite genes, in 1983, and later studied the scabies mite.

David J. Kupfer

David J. Kupfer is an American psychiatrist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh who chaired the American Psychiatric Association task force for DSM-5.

David J. Kwiatkowski

David J. Kwiatkowski is an American cancer geneticist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for identifying the TSC1 gene, which causes tuberous sclerosis complex.

David J. Lenschow

Deborah J. Lenschow is an immunologist credited by the Nobel Committee's 2018 background for showing in 1992 that CTLA4-Ig costimulation blockade can treat autoimmune disease.

David J. Linden

David J. Linden is an American neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins who studies memory storage, addiction, and cerebellar synaptic plasticity, and writes science books for general audiences.

David J. Lipman

David J. Lipman is an American bioinformatician who co-developed the sequence-search tools FASTA and BLAST and was the founding director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.

David J. Loskutoff

David J. Loskutoff is a cell biology professor at The Scripps Research Institute who joined in 1975, discovered plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and studied obesity, inflammation, and thrombosis.