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John A. Luetscher
John A. Luetscher (1913–2005) was an American endocrinologist at Stanford University who spent over 40 years there, isolated aldosterone, and identified plasma prorenin as a marker of diabetic microvascular disease.
John A. Macdonald
Sir John A. Macdonald, born in Scotland in 1815, was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as Canada's first prime minister from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891.
John A. Mannick
John A. Mannick (1928–2019) was an American vascular surgeon and immunologist, chief of surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Moseley Professor at Harvard from 1976 to 1994.
John A. Mendez
John A. Mendez is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of California, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008.
John A. Oates Jr
John A. Oates Jr (John Alexander Oates, 1932–2019) was an American clinical pharmacologist at Vanderbilt University, a founder of clinical pharmacology known for first-pass drug metabolism and eicosanoid research.
John A. Orcutt
John A. Orcutt, also published as J. A. Orcutt, is an American marine geophysicist and Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who discovered magma chambers beneath mid-ocean ridges.
John A. Parrish
John A. Parrish is an American physician-scientist and dermatologist, Edward Wigglesworth Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who led dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and founded the Wellman Center for Photomedicine.
John A. Peacock
John A. Peacock is a cosmologist and Professor of Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh, known for leading the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and co-inventing the halo model.
John A. Pickett
John A. Pickett, born 1945, is a British chemical ecologist at Cardiff University known for pioneering semiochemical pest control and the push-pull cropping system used across East Africa.
John A. Pople
Sir John Anthony Pople (1925–2004) was a British theoretical chemist who developed the computational methods and GAUSSIAN program that made quantum chemistry practical, winning the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John A. Porco
John A. Porco Jr. is an organic chemist at Boston University, the Samour Family Professor of Chemistry since 2018, known for total synthesis of natural products and dearomatization strategies.
John A. Pyle
John A. Pyle is a British atmospheric chemist at Cambridge known for modeling ozone depletion by CFCs and co-chairing the Montreal Protocol's Scientific Assessment Panel from 2008 to 2023.
John A. Quinn
John A. Quinn was an American chemical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for mass transfer research.
John A. Raven
John A. Raven, also known as J. A. Raven, was a British botanist and ecophysiologist at the University of Dundee who studied how algae acquire carbon dioxide.
John A. Ripmeester
John A. Ripmeester is a Canadian materials chemist at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa, known for the structural chemistry of clathrate hydrates and solid-state NMR methods.
John A. Roebling
John A. Roebling, born Johann August Röbling in 1806, was a German-born American civil engineer who invented wire rope and designed suspension bridges, including the Brooklyn Bridge.
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, also called the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, is an 1867 suspension bridge over the Ohio River linking Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers, born 1967, is an American materials scientist at Northwestern University known for stretchable, skin-like electronics and transient devices that dissolve harmlessly in the body.
John A. Ross
John A. Ross, also known as John Andrew Ross, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2023.
John A. Schey
John A. Schey is a manufacturing engineering researcher at the University of Waterloo known for his 1983 monograph Tribology in Metalworking and his textbook Introduction to Manufacturing Processes.
John A. Spertus
John A. Spertus is an American cardiologist and outcomes researcher at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, known for developing the Seattle Angina Questionnaire and Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire.
John A. Tainer
John A. Tainer is an American structural biologist who determines atomic structures of DNA repair proteins, work linking mutations in those machines to cancer, at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
John A. Todd (medical geneticist)
John A. Todd (John Andrew Todd) is a British medical geneticist known for his work on the genetics and prevention of type 1 diabetes, and a professor at Oxford.
John A. Volpe
John A. Volpe (1908–1994), Italian-American construction magnate and Republican, was thrice governor of Massachusetts, the first Federal Highway Administrator, second U.S. Secretary of Transportation (Amtrak's creator), and Ambassador to Italy.
John A. Woodcock, Jr.
John A. Woodcock, Jr. (born 1950) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Maine, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003.
John A. Young
John A. Young was an American electrical engineer and business executive who led Hewlett-Packard as president and CEO from 1978 to 1992, succeeding founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
John Abbott
Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (1821–1893), Canadian lawyer and Conservative politician, third Prime Minister of Canada 1891–1892, first Canadian-born PM and first to govern from the Senate, McGill law dean and CPR counsel.
John Abelson
John Abelson (born 1938 in Washington) is an American molecular biologist and Caltech emeritus professor known for tRNA splicing, yeast RNA ligase, and the spliceosome machinery his lab named the spliceozyme.
John Abernethy
John Abernethy (1680–1740) was an Irish Presbyterian minister, pastor at Antrim and later Dublin, who led the movement against compulsory subscription to the Westminster Confession.
John Abraham
John Abraham (जॉन अब्राहम), born 1972, is an Indian Hindi-film actor, producer, and former model; debut Jism (2003), breakthrough Dhoom (2004), producer of Vicky Donor; distinct from the 1937-born Malayalam filmmaker of the same name.