All articles starting with D

David J. Mangelsdorf

David J. Mangelsdorf (1958–2025) was an American molecular biologist and pharmacologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who discovered the retinoid X receptor and characterized orphan nuclear receptors regulating metabolism.

David J. Meltzer

David J. Meltzer is an American archaeologist at Southern Methodist University known for work on the peopling of the Americas, including the 1997 Monte Verde paper.

David J. Nesbitt

David J. Nesbitt is an American chemical physicist at JILA, NIST, and the University of Colorado Boulder, known for single-molecule spectroscopy of quantum dots and RNA folding.

David J. Norris

David J. Norris (born 1968, St. Louis) is an American materials scientist who has been Professor of Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich since 2010, known for work on colloidal quantum dots.

Sep 27, 2026

David J. Novak

David John Novak, born 1961, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia since 2019, nominated by President Trump.

David J. Perreault

David J. Perreault is an MIT electrical engineer and Ford Professor known for very-high-frequency power conversion, a National Academy of Engineering member and 2024 IEEE Newell Award winner.

David J. Pine

David J. Pine is an American physicist at New York University known for co-developing diffusing-wave spectroscopy and for self-assembling a colloidal diamond lattice in 2020.

David J. Pinsky

David J. Pinsky is an American physician-scientist and cardiologist who has led cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan since 2003, studying protection against ischemic injury.

David J. Prezant

David J. Prezant is an American pulmonologist, FDNY Chief Medical Officer, known for defining World Trade Center cough syndrome after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

David J. Procter

David J. Procter is a British organic chemist, Professor and Head of Department at the University of Manchester, known for radical synthesis and samarium diiodide catalysis.

David J. Rush

David J. Rush, former CIA senior executive in the Directorate of Science and Technology, pleaded guilty in October 2026 to a $194 million fraud using a fabricated Special Access Program, fake credentials, gold bars, and Florida real estate.

David J. Sahn

David J. Sahn (1945–2021) was an American pediatric cardiologist who performed the first real-time two-dimensional echocardiogram in the United States in 1972 and pioneered Doppler color flow mapping.

David J. Salant

David J. Salant is a South African–trained nephrologist at Boston University whose 2009 discovery of the PLA2R antigen turned membranous nephropathy diagnosis from biopsy to blood test.

Oct 10, 2026

David J. Sharpe

David J. Sharpe was a lawyer and legal scholar at George Washington University in Washington, DC, who co-authored with embryologist Robert G. Edwards a 1971 Nature paper on human embryology ethics.

David J. Sherratt

David J. Sherratt is a British molecular biologist known for work on bacterial plasmids, site-specific recombination, and chromosome replication and segregation, appointed to Oxford's Iveagh Chair of Microbiology in 1994.

David J. Srolovitz

David J. Srolovitz, also cited as D. J. Srolovitz, is an American materials theorist and Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, known for the MacPherson–Srolovitz relation.

David J. Stevenson

David J. Stevenson, born 1948, is a New Zealand-born planetary scientist at Caltech, a Royal Society Fellow known for the Moon's giant-impact origin and work on Jupiter.

David J. Thouless

David J. Thouless (1934–2019) was a British-born theoretical condensed-matter physicist at the University of Washington who won half of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for topological phase transitions.

David J. Vocadlo

David J. Vocadlo is a chemical biologist and Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University who studies carbohydrates as drug targets, known for O-GlcNAcase inhibitors and co-founding Alectos Therapeutics.

David J. Wales

David J. Wales is a theoretical chemist, Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of Cambridge, known for developing energy landscape theory and its applications to clusters, biomolecules, and glasses.

David J. Wilner

David J. Wilner is a Senior Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, at Harvard, who studies protoplanetary disks and planet formation using ALMA and the Submillimeter Array.

David J. Wineland

David J. Wineland is an American physicist at NIST and the University of Oregon who shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on trapped ions.

Oct 10, 2026

David J. Wright

David J. Wright, also known as David Jeffrey "Jeff" Wright, is an American conservationist known for 1990s tree distribution and a Kentucky Colonels trademark dispute.

David J. Wyler

David J. Wyler is an American physician-scientist in infectious disease and geographic medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for research on malaria immunology.

David J.P. Barker

David J.P. Barker (1938–2013) was a British physician and epidemiologist at the University of Southampton, known for the Barker hypothesis that fetal undernutrition permanently programs susceptibility to chronic disease in later life.

David Jablonski

David Jablonski is an American paleobiologist and University of Chicago professor who studies macroevolution, mass extinction, and marine bivalves, and coined the concept of dead clade walking.

David Jackson (plant geneticist)

David Jackson, also published as David P. Jackson, is a British plant developmental geneticist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who studies maize stem-cell genes controlling yield.

Oct 21, 2026

David Jacobs

David Henry Jacobs (1888–1976) was a Welsh sprinter who won gold in the 4 × 100 meters relay for Great Britain at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.

David Jaffe

David Scott Jaffe, American video game designer, creator of Twisted Metal and God of War; Sony tester in 1993, founded Eat Sleep Play (2007) and Bartlet Jones (Drawn to Death, 2017), now a streamer.