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J. Th. M. De Hosson
J. Th. M. De Hosson, full name Jeff Th. M. De Hosson, is a Dutch materials scientist who was professor of applied physics at the University of Groningen.
J. Thomas Bigger
J. Thomas Bigger (1935–2017) was an American cardiologist at Columbia University who led the CAST trial and defined how doctors predict sudden death after myocardial infarction.
J. Thomas Grayston
J. Thomas Grayston (1924–2024) was an American epidemiologist at the University of Washington, founding dean of its School of Public Health, known for characterizing Chlamydia pneumoniae.
J. Thomas Heflin
J. Thomas Heflin, "Cotton Tom" (1869-1951), Alabama Democrat in the U.S. House 1904-1920 and Senate 1920-1931; Father of Mother's Day, segregationist, 1928 Hoover bolt, 1930 defeat.
J. Ties Boerma
J. Ties Boerma is a Dutch-born public health researcher who directed WHO health statistics for 14 years and holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba.
J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden (1936–2023) was an American engineer and mathematician at UT Austin, widely known as the founder of computational mechanics and namesake of its Oden Institute.
J. Tomilson Hill
J. Tomilson Hill is an American investment executive who built Blackstone Alternative Asset Management from $1 billion to $75 billion in assets, leading it from 2000 to 2018.
J. Troy Littleton
J. Troy Littleton, born 1967, is an American neuroscientist, the Menicon Professor at MIT, whose fruit fly work established synaptotagmin 1 as the calcium sensor triggering fast neurotransmitter release.
J. Tuzo Wilson
J. Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist at the University of Toronto who proposed hot spots, named transform faults, and inspired the Wilson Cycle of ocean opening and closing.
J. van Gijn
Jan van Gijn (1942 to 2025) was a Dutch neurologist and professor at University Medical Center Utrecht, known for research on subarachnoid hemorrhage and stroke prevention.
J. van Paradijs
Jan van Paradijs (1946–1999) was a Dutch high-energy astrophysicist who measured the first neutron star mass and found the first gamma-ray-burst optical afterglow in 1997.
J. Vernon Henderson
J. Vernon Henderson (John Vernon Henderson) is a British-based economist working on urban economics, who has been School Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics since 2013.
J. Victor Small
J. Victor Small, who publishes as J. V. Small, is a cell biologist known for research on the cytoskeleton, smooth muscle, and cell migration, working in Austria.
J. W. Mashburn
J. W. Mashburn (Jesse William Mashburn, born 14 February 1933, Seminole, Oklahoma), American 400 m sprinter for Oklahoma A&M; 1956 Melbourne Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400 m relay, 1952 non-starter, two-time NCAA champion, later Oklahoma real estate broker.
J. W. S. Cassels
J. W. S. Cassels, also known as John William Scott Cassels, was a British number theorist who was Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge from 1967 to 1984.
J. Wade Harper
J. Wade Harper is an American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, known for co-discovering cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases and for work on mitophagy in Parkinson's disease.
J. Warner Wallace
J. Warner Wallace is an American cold-case homicide detective and Christian apologist who converted at age thirty-five after applying his detective methods to the New Testament gospels.
J. Warren Harthorne
J. Warren Harthorne is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and a longtime Massachusetts General Hospital cardiologist, known for cardiac pacing and coronary angiography.
J. Warren Perry
J. Warren Perry (1921–2010) was an American health professions educator and psychologist who served as founding dean of the School of Health Related Professions at the University at Buffalo.
J. Wayne Streilein
J. Wayne Streilein (1935–2004) was an American immunologist who showed that immune privilege in the eye is actively maintained suppression, and was president of Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.
J. Wellington Wimpy
J. Wellington Wimpy, or Wimpy, is E.C. Segar's 1931 Thimble Theatre (Popeye) character, a mooching hamburger lover famous for "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," inspired by Chester, Illinois's Windy Bill Schuchert.
J. Will Medlin
J. Will Medlin, also known as Will Medlin, is an American chemical engineer and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for controlling catalyst selectivity with organic monolayers.
J. Willard Marriott
J. Willard Marriott (1900-1985), Utah-born founder of Marriott International, opened a nine-seat A&W root beer stand in Washington, D.C. in 1927 that became Hot Shoppes, then airline catering and the Twin Bridges hotel, growing into a global lodging company.
J. William Fulbright
J. William Fulbright (1905–1995), Democratic senator from Arkansas 1945–1974, creator of the Fulbright exchange program, longest-serving Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, segregationist, and Vietnam War critic.
J. William Harbour
J. William Harbour is an American ophthalmologist and ocular oncologist who chairs ophthalmology at UT Southwestern Medical Center and developed the standard prognostic test for uveal melanoma.
J. William Langston
J. William Langston is an American neurologist who identified the toxin MPTP as a cause of parkinsonism in 1982 and founded the Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, California.
J. William Schopf
J. William Schopf is a paleobiologist at UCLA who studies Precambrian life and is known for his claim to have found the oldest cellular fossils, in 3,465-million-year-old rocks of Western Australia.
J. Woodland Hastings
J. Woodland Hastings (1927–2014) was an American biochemist at Harvard University who established bioluminescent organisms, above all the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax, as model systems for circadian biology.
J. Worra
J. Worra, born Jamie Sitter, is an American house and techno DJ and producer from Chicago based in Los Angeles, named DJ Mag's 2019 Breakthrough Producer of the Year.
J. Z. Knight
J. Z. Knight, also known as Judy Z. Knight, is an American who claims to channel Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit, and founded Ramtha's School of Enlightenment near Yelm, Washington.