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James R. Downing

James R. Downing is a physician-scientist in pediatric cancer genomics who spent his career at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, serving as president and CEO from 2014, and co-founded the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project.

James R. Durrant

James R. Durrant is a photochemist and Professor of Photochemistry and Sustainable Energy at Oxford, after professorial appointments at Imperial College London and Swansea University.

James R. Ehleringer

James R. Ehleringer is an ecologist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, known for pioneering stable isotope ecology and founding the SIRFER isotope facility in 1986.

James R. Fair

James R. Fair (1920–2010) was an American chemical engineer known for distillation and mass-transfer technology, who worked at Monsanto and later taught at the University of Texas at Austin.

James R. Feramisco

James R. Feramisco is a molecular biologist known for microinjecting purified ras oncogene proteins into living cells, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and later UCSD.

James R. Fitzgerald

James R. Fitzgerald, retired FBI supervisory special agent, criminal profiler, and forensic linguist known for the Unabomber manifesto analysis; also called Jim "Fitz" Fitzgerald, first FBI-trained forensic linguist.

James R. Gilstrap

James R. Gilstrap, also known as James Rodney Gilstrap, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Texas since 2011.

James R. Gosler

James R. Gosler is an American cybersecurity scientist, Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and first Director of the CIA's Clandestine Information Technology Office.

James R. Hall

James R. Hall, full name James Randal Hall, is an American judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia since 2008.

James R. Harris

James R. Harris, full name James Robert Harris, is a Denver consulting structural engineer who founded J.R. Harris & Company in 1984 and chaired the ASCE 7 seismic standards committee.

James R. Heath

James R. Heath is an American chemist who co-discovered C60 fullerenes in 1985 and has led the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle since 2018.

James R. Holton

James R. Holton (1938–2004) was an American dynamic meteorologist and University of Washington professor who explained the quasi-biennial oscillation with Richard Lindzen and wrote the standard graduate textbook.

James R. Johnson

James R. Johnson (died 2019) was an American ceramic engineer who spent 23 years at 3M and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1972.

James R. Jordan Sr.

James R. Jordan Sr. (1936-1993), father of Michael Jordan, GE worker murdered July 23, 1993 near Lumberton, NC; Daniel Green and Larry Demery convicted 1996, evidence disputes persist.

James R. Katzer

James R. Katzer (1941–2012) was an American chemical engineer in catalysis, a University of Delaware professor and Mobil research executive elected to the NAE in 1998.

James R. Knepp II

James R. Knepp II, born 1964 in Akron, Ohio, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, nominated by President Trump and confirmed in 2020.

James R. Lupski

James R. Lupski (born 1957) is an American medical geneticist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine who defined genomic disorders through his research on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Oct 10, 2026

James R. Markusen

James R. Markusen (born 1948) is an American international trade economist at the University of Colorado Boulder, best known for the knowledge-capital model of foreign direct investment.

James R. Nowlin

James R. Nowlin is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Texas, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981.

James R. O’Dell

James R. O'Dell is an American rheumatologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha whose trials established combination drug therapy for rheumatoid arthritis.

James R. O’Neil

James R. O'Neil is an American stable isotope geochemist and University of Michigan professor emeritus known for calibrating oxygen isotope geothermometers and for work on paleoclimate and the Adirondack anorthosite.

Oct 10, 2026

James R. Powell

James R. Powell was an American nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who co-invented superconducting maglev with Gordon Danby, earning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal.

James R. Rice

James R. Rice, born 1940 in Maryland, is an American engineer and geophysicist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for the J-integral and studies of how earthquake ruptures begin and spread.

James R. Stone

James R. Stone (born 1967) is an American cardiovascular pathologist, Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who heads cardiovascular pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital and studies atherosclerosis and vasculitis.

James R. Swartz

James R. Swartz is an American biochemical engineer and James H. Clark Professor at Stanford who pioneered cell-free protein synthesis and co-founded biotech companies including Sutro Biopharma.

James R. Sweeney II

James R. Sweeney II is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2018, appointed by President Trump.

James R. Tillotson

James R. Tillotson was an American physician-investigator in pulmonary and infectious-disease medicine who published influential pneumonia studies from Wayne State University and later Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital.

James R. Wait

James R. Wait (1924–1998) was a Canadian electrical engineer whose waveguide theory of very-low-frequency radio propagation between the earth and the ionosphere framed long-distance VLF and ELF communication.

James R. Williamson

James R. Williamson is a biochemist and structural biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for his work on RNA structure, RNA-protein interactions, and ribosome assembly.