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Jerome H. Friedman
Jerome H. Friedman (J. H. Friedman) is an American statistician at Stanford known for creating gradient boosting, MARS, and CART, and for The Elements of Statistical Learning.
Jerome H. Milgram
Jerome H. Milgram, known as Jerry Milgram, was an American naval architect and ocean engineer who taught at MIT for over fifty years and held 12 oil-spill cleanup patents.
Jerome I. Friedman
Jerome I. Friedman, born in Chicago in 1930, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for evidence that protons contain quarks.
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter is an American medical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist known for the genetics of common diseases, especially diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease, in multi-ethnic American populations.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman, also known as Jerome I. Friedman, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct evidence of quarks.
Jerome J. Cuomo
Jerome J. Cuomo, known as Jerry Cuomo, is an American materials scientist who spent 30 years at IBM and won the 1995 National Medal of Technology for amorphous magnetic materials.
Jerome J. Tiemann
Jerome J. Tiemann was an American physicist at General Electric who co-invented the surface-charge transistor, independently invented as the CCD, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
Jerome Jeannet
Jérôme Jeannet (born 1977, Fort-de-France) is a French right-handed épée fencer, brother of Fabrice Jeannet, twice Olympic team champion (2004, 2008), four-time world team champion, 2007 European individual champion, later SportCloud entrepreneur.
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome (Jerome Klapka Jerome, 1859–1927), English humorist and editor, author of Three Men in a Boat (1889) and Three Men on the Bummel; leading New Humour writer, founder of To-Day and co-editor of The Idler.
Jerome Karle
Jerome Karle (1918–2013) was an American crystallographer at the US Naval Research Laboratory who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (1885–1945), American Broadway and Hollywood composer of over 700 songs; creator of the Princess Theatre musicals and, with Oscar Hammerstein II, Show Boat (1927); two Academy Award-winning songs.
Jérôme Kerviel
Jérôme Kerviel is a French former Société Générale trader whose concealed index-futures positions, discovered in January 2008, cost the bank €4.9 billion, the largest loss then attributed to a single trader.
Jerome Kim
Jerome Kim (Korean name Kim Han-sik, 김한식) is an American physician-scientist who has led the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul since 2015, after leading the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand.
Jerome Kohlberg
Jerome Kohlberg, also known as Jerry Kohlberg, is an American financier who co-founded KKR in 1976 and is regarded as a pioneer of the leveraged buyout.
Jerome L. Sackman
Jerome L. Sackman (1929–2016) was an American engineer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992, known for his work on viscoelastic material identification.
Jérôme Le Banner
Jérôme "Geronimo" Le Banner is a French heavyweight kickboxer, born in Le Havre in 1972, who starred in Japan's K-1 promotion and also works as an actor.
Jerome M. Hershman
Jerome M. Hershman (1932–2022) was an American endocrinologist and thyroid researcher, Distinguished Professor of Medicine Emeritus at UCLA, past president of the American Thyroid Association, and founding editor of its journal Thyroid.
Jerome Namias
Jerome Namias (1910–1997) was an American meteorologist who pioneered long-range weather forecasting at the U.S. Weather Bureau and later founded climate research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Jerome O. Klein
Jerome O. Klein (1931–2021) was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-researcher who spent his career at Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center, best known for research on otitis media.
Jerome of Prague
Jerome of Prague (Jeroným Pražský) was a Czech philosopher and itinerant master of arts who spread John Wyclif's realist thought in Bohemia and was burned at Constance in 1416.
Jerome Oziel
Jerome Oziel, Beverly Hills clinical psychologist who treated Erik and Lyle Menendez, recorded their 1989 murder confessions, testified as key prosecution witness in 1993, and surrendered his California psychology license in 1997.
Jerome P. Kassirer
Jerome P. Kassirer, also known as J.P. Kassirer, is an American nephrologist and Tufts professor who edited the New England Journal of Medicine from 1991 to 1999.
Jerome P. Lynch
Jerome P. Lynch is an American structural engineer, Vinik Dean of Engineering at Duke University, who pioneered wireless sensor networks for monitoring bridges and civil infrastructure.
Jerome Percus
Jerome Percus, also known as Jerome Kenneth Percus, was an American physicist and mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the Percus–Yevick equation of liquid-state theory.
Jerome Powell
Jerome "Jay" Powell was the chair of the United States Federal Reserve from 2018 to 2026, leading its response to the pandemic and the post-2021 inflation surge.
Jerome Ritz
Jerome Ritz is an American physician-scientist in hematology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, known for work on graft-versus-host disease and cellular therapies for blood cancers.
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (1918–1998), born Jerome Rabinowitz, American choreographer and director of West Side Story, Fancy Free, and Fiddler on the Roof; five Tonys, two Oscars, NYCB ballet master.
Jerome Rothenberg
Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024) was an American poet, translator, and anthologist who founded ethnopoetics, the study of oral and tribal poetries, and published more than eighty books over a sixty-year career.
Jerome S. Spevack
Jerome S. Spevack was an American chemical engineer who invented the dual-temperature heavy water process in 1943, held 34 US patents, and sued the government over its use.
Jérôme Seydoux
Jérôme Seydoux Fornier de Clausonne (born 21 September 1934, Paris) is a French billionaire businessman who led the Chargeurs acquisition of Pathé in 1990 and built it into France's largest cinema circuit (857 screens in 2024) and a leading European film producer.