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Jeppe Vang Lauritsen
Jeppe Vang Lauritsen (Jeppe V. Lauritsen, born 1975) is a Danish chemist and professor at Aarhus University's iNANO center, known for atom-resolved imaging of catalyst surfaces under working conditions.
Jeppe Zink
Jeppe Zink, also known as Jeppe Heinrich Zink, is a Danish venture capital investor and Partner at Northzone, which he joined in 2012 to found its London office.
Jeppesen
Jeppesen is an American aviation navigation company founded in 1934 by airmail pilot Elrey Borge Jeppesen, known for aeronautical charts and electronic navigation databases used by pilots worldwide.
Jeppson's Malört
Jeppson's Malört is a Chicago wormwood-based bitter liqueur (Swedish malört = wormwood), created by Carl Jeppson in the 1920s, made by CH Distillery since its 2018 purchase, sold in 30 states, and famous for its punishing aftertaste.
Jequitinhonha
Jequitinhonha, Rio Jequitinhonha: Brazilian river rising in Minas Gerais' Espinhaço range, flowing 1,086 km to the Atlantic; 70,315 km² basin, historic diamond mining, Irapé dam, lithium boom.
Jer T. Yu
Jer T. Yu (Jer-tsang Yu) is a Hong Kong astronomer who, as Peebles' first graduate student at Princeton, co-authored the 1970 paper computing primeval density perturbations.
JERA
JERA is a Japanese energy company established in 2015 as a joint venture of TEPCO and Chubu Electric, generating about 30% of Japan's power and operating 26 thermal plants.
Jerablus Tahtani
Jerablus Tahtani, also called Tell Jerablus Tahtani, is a multi-period tell on the Euphrates River in Aleppo governorate, Syria, near Carchemish, excavated from 1991 to 2004.
Jerahmeel (king's son)
Jerahmeel (Hebrew ירחמאל), styled "the king's son," was an official of King Jehoiakim of Judah sent to arrest Jeremiah and Baruch, as told in Jeremiah 36:26.
Jerald Ericksen
Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021) was an American mathematician and University of Minnesota professor, a central figure in the postwar revival of continuum mechanics who formulated the Ericksen–Leslie theory of liquid crystals.
Jerald L. Schnoor
Jerald L. "Jerry" Schnoor is an American environmental engineer at the University of Iowa, widely described as a founding father of phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean contaminated environments.
Jerald P. Radich
Jerald P. Radich, known as Jerry Radich, is an American physician-scientist who directs the Molecular Oncology Lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, studying leukemia monitoring.
Jerald Sadoff
Jerald C. Sadoff is an American vaccinologist and physician who spent 22 years at Walter Reed, led vaccine development at Merck and Aeras, and helped develop the Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 vaccine.
Jeram Patel
Jeram Patel (1930–2016) was an Indian abstractionist known for black ink drawings and for pioneering blowtorch-burnt plywood works, and a founding member of Group 1890.
Jerami Grant
Jerami Grant (born 1994, Portland, Oregon) is an NBA forward, nephew of Horace Grant, Syracuse product, 2014 second-round pick, Olympic gold medalist, traded from Portland to Memphis with Kris Murray for Ja Morant in June 2026.
Jeramie Rain
Jeramie Rain, born Susan Davis, is an American actress known for playing Sadie in Wes Craven's debut film The Last House on the Left (1972), and for roles in The Abductors and The Doctors.
Jerard Hurwitz
Jerard Hurwitz (1928–2019) was an American biochemist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who co-discovered DNA-dependent RNA polymerase in 1960 and polynucleotide kinase, DNA ligase, and RNA ligase.
Jerash (جرش)
Jerash (جرش), ancient Gerasa, is a city in northern Jordan and capital of Jerash Governorate, famed for one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman sites: oval forum, cardo, theaters, hippodrome, devastated by the 749 AD earthquake, refounded in 1878.
Jerash Festival
The Jerash Festival (مهرجان جرش) is an annual summer festival of music, poetry, theater, and heritage held since 1981 in the Roman ruins of Jerash, north of Amman, Jordan.
Jerash Hippodrome
The Jerash Hippodrome is a Roman chariot-racing circus at Jerash, Jordan, built in the 2nd century AD, among the smallest and best preserved hippodromes of the Roman Empire.
Jerboa
Jerboa: desert rodent of family Dipodidae, also called jumping desert mice; bipedal hoppers of North Africa and central Asia with fused cannon-bone hind feet, no drinking water, and bipedalism that arose in humid forests, not deserts.
Jere Burns
Jere Burns (Jerald Eugene Burns, born 1954) is an American character actor known for Kirk Morris on Dear John, Wynn Duffy on Justified, Anson Fullerton on Burn Notice, and Chet Atkins on Angie Tribeca.
Jere H. Lipps
Jere H. Lipps is an American paleontologist and Professor Emeritus at the UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, known for studies of foraminifera, extinction patterns, and possible life on Europa.
Jere Klein
Jere Klein is the stage name of Jeremías Tobar Llevul, a Chilean urbano singer from Santiago whose song 'Mándame tu ubi' went viral in 2022.
Jere Richard Behrman
Jere Richard Behrman (born 1940) is an American economist, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on human capital and development.
Jereed
Jereed (Turkish cirit, also Çavgan) is a traditional Turkish equestrian team sport in which mounted riders throw blunt wooden javelins at opponents; developed from cavalry training, banned by Mahmud II in 1826, played on a 120x40 m field with 7-rider teams.
Jerel Davis
Jerel Davis is a Managing Director at Versant Ventures, a life-science venture capital firm based in Vancouver, Canada, where he has helped launch more than 25 companies since joining in 2011.
Jeremain Lens
Jeremain Lens (born 1987, Amsterdam) is a Dutch forward and winger who earned 34 caps and 8 goals for the Netherlands and played at the 2014 World Cup, with AZ, PSV, Dynamo Kyiv, Sunderland, Beşiktaş and Versailles.
Jeremi Suri
Jeremi Suri is an American historian of U.S. foreign relations and the presidency at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of eleven books.
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612–1651) was a Polish magnate and voivode of Ruthenia, a leading commander against the Khmelnytsky uprising, remembered for defending Zbaraż in 1649 and harsh reprisals against the Cossacks.