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John A. Canning Jr.
John A. Canning Jr. is an American private equity investor who co-founded Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago buyout firm, in 1992 and led it as chief executive until 2007.
John A. Chapman
John A. Chapman, also known as John Allan Chapman, was a US Air Force combat controller posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2018 for the Battle of Takur Ghar.
John A. Cherry
John A. Cherry is a Canadian hydrogeologist who helped found the science of contaminant hydrogeology, co-authored the 1979 textbook Groundwater, and won the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize.
John A. Cidlowski
John A. Cidlowski is an American molecular endocrinologist who has led the Molecular Endocrinology Group at NIEHS in North Carolina since 1995, studying glucocorticoid receptor signaling and apoptosis.
John A. Clausen
John A. Clausen (1915–1996) was an American sociologist and social psychologist who studied mental health, socialization, and the life course, leading a laboratory at the National Institute of Mental Health.
John A. Clements
John A. Clements (1923–2024) was an American pulmonary physiologist at UCSF who discovered pulmonary surfactant, designed Exosurf, and won the 1994 Lasker Award; his work raised premature infant survival.
John A. Dani
John A. Dani is a neuroscientist who studies nicotine addiction and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, chair of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine since 2013.
John A. Downey
John A. Downey was an American physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Columbia University, where he chaired the department from 1974 to 1991 and studied temperature regulation in spinal cord injury.
John A. Eisman
John A. Eisman is an Australian endocrinologist and bone researcher who led the Garvan Institute's osteoporosis division for nearly three decades and founded the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study in 1989.
John A. Flynn
John A. Flynn is an American rheumatologist and medical educator at Johns Hopkins, where he directed the spondyloarthritis program and a Johns Hopkins professorship was dedicated to him in 2015.
John A. Focht Jr.
John A. Focht Jr., born John Arnold Focht Jr. (1923–2010), was a Houston geotechnical engineer who led McClelland Engineers, designed Texas dams, and served as ASCE president.
John A. Gibney, Jr.
John A. Gibney, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010.
John A. Gladysz
John A. Gladysz (J. A. Gladysz), born 1952, is an American organometallic chemist and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, known for molecular gyroscopes and recoverable fluorous catalysts.
John A. Glomset
John A. Glomset is an American biochemist at the University of Washington known for discovering protein prenylation, the attachment of prenyl groups that anchor proteins to membranes.
John A. Gotti
John A. "Junior" Gotti, eldest son of Gambino boss John Gotti Sr., served as acting boss, pleaded guilty to racketeering in 1999, and beat four later trials including the 2005 Sliwa-kidnapping RICO case.
John A. Hanover
John A. Hanover is an American glycobiologist who leads a laboratory at the NIH's NIDDK in Bethesda and pioneered research on O-GlcNAc, a nutrient-sensing sugar modification of proteins, winning the 2021 Karl Meyer Award.
John A. Hansen
John A. Hansen was an American transplant immunologist who spent four decades at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, performed an early unrelated-donor marrow transplant in 1979, and helped launch the National Marrow Donor Program.
John A. Herbst
John A. Herbst, also known as John Arthur Herbst, was an American mineral processing engineer at the University of Utah, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.
John A. Houston
John A. Houston, born 1952, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.
John A. Hrones
John Anthony Hrones (1912–2000) was an American mechanical engineer and engineering-education leader, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 as a pioneer in automatic control.
John A. Jansen
John A. Jansen, also known as J.A. Jansen, is a Dutch biomedical engineer and dentist known for research on implant surfaces, calcium phosphate cements, and synthetic bone substitutes at Radboud University Nijmegen.
John A. Jernigan
John A. Jernigan, also published as John Jernigan, is an American infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist directing CDC research on healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance.
John A. Kastor
John A. Kastor is an American cardiologist who helped establish clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Pennsylvania and chaired medicine at the University of Maryland from 1984.
John A. Kazen
John A. Kazen is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2024, after six years as a magistrate judge.
John A. Kellum
John A. Kellum, also known as John Kellum, is an American critical care nephrologist at the University of Pittsburgh known for his work on acute kidney injury and sepsis.
John A. Kessler
John A. Kessler is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, known for research on neural stem cells and spinal cord regeneration.
John A. Kirkpatrick Jr
John A. Kirkpatrick Jr (1926–1994) was an American pediatric radiologist who helped define pediatric radiology as a specialty, leading Boston Children's Hospital radiology from 1974 to 1992.
John A. Klingensmith
John A. Klingensmith is an American developmental biologist at Duke University Medical Center who uses mouse genetics to study how the head, foregut, and heart form in embryos.
John A. Kronstadt
John A. Kronstadt, also known as John Arnold Kronstadt, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
John A. Lejeune
John A. Lejeune (1867-1942), 13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps (1920-1929), born Pointe Coupee, Louisiana; only Marine to command an Army division (2d Division, AEF, WWI); founded the Marine Corps birthday observance and modern amphibious doctrine.