edgepedia

All articles starting with J

20,615 articles

John H. Bruning

John H. Bruning is an American optical engineer who led Corning Tropel as president and CEO and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

John H. Bryant

John H. Bryant, also known as John Harland Bryant or Jack Bryant, was an American physician who led the US delegation to the 1978 Alma-Ata primary health care conference.

John H. Chesters

John H. Chesters, full name John Hugh Chesters, was a British metallurgist whose research on heat-resistant furnace linings improved steelmaking furnaces; he was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 1969.

John H. Chun

John Hyungseung Chun, born 1970 in Portland, Oregon, is a US district judge for the Western District of Washington, confirmed in 2022 after serving on Washington state courts.

John H. Cochrane

John H. Cochrane is an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution, author of the textbook Asset Pricing and of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (2023).

John H. Cox

John H. Cox (born 1955) is an Illinois-born Republican businessman from Rancho Santa Fe, California, lawyer, accountant, and investment manager; GOP nominee for California governor in 2018 and recall candidate in 2021, losing both to Gavin Newsom.

John H. Cummings

John H. Cummings is a gastroenterologist and Emeritus Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology at the University of Dundee, known for establishing how dietary fiber acts in the human colon.

John H. Dessauer

John H. Dessauer (1905–1993) was a German-born American chemical engineer who, as research director of Haloid and later Xerox, brought Chester Carlson's xerography into the office.

John H. Dingle

John H. Dingle (1908–1973) was an American epidemiologist who led the Cleveland Family Study of 25,000 illnesses and won the 1950 Lasker Award for respiratory-disease research.

John H. Edwards

John H. Edwards, or John Hilton Edwards, was a British physician and geneticist who identified trisomy 18, now called Edwards syndrome, in 1960 and built clinical genetics at Birmingham.

John H. Exton

John H. Exton (1933–2022) was a New Zealand-born biochemist at Vanderbilt University known for cell signaling research and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

John H. Flavell

John Hurley Flavell (1928–2025) was an American developmental psychologist at Stanford University who coined "metacognition" and "metamemory" and wrote the first major English evaluation of Jean Piaget's theories.

John H. Frenster

John H. Frenster, also known as J. H. Frenster, was an American physician-scientist who proposed nuclear RNA as a gene de-repressor and practiced oncology at Stanford.

John H. Gibbons

John H. Gibbons was an American nuclear physicist who directed the congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 to 1993 and served as President Clinton's science adviser.

John H. Gray

John H. Gray (1859-1946) was an American economist who taught at Northwestern and Minnesota, specialized in public utility economics, and led the American Economic Association in 1914.

John H. Halton

John H. Halton was a mathematician and computer scientist whose 1960 paper introduced the Halton sequence, a low-discrepancy construction used in quasi-Monte Carlo integration and rendering; he taught at UNC Chapel Hill.

John H. Hartwig

John H. Hartwig is an American cell biologist and emeritus professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his work on platelet actin cytoskeletons.

John H. Humphrey

John Herbert Humphrey (1915–1987) was a British immunologist and bacteriologist who founded the immunology division at the National Institute for Medical Research in London and helped establish cellular immunology as a discipline.

John H. Kehrl

John H. Kehrl is an American immunologist and tenured senior investigator at NIAID, NIH, in Bethesda, Maryland, known for identifying the mammalian RGS protein family and for studies of B lymphocytes.

John H. Kersey

John H. Kersey (1938–2013) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Minnesota; in 1975 he led the world's first successful bone marrow transplant for lymphoma.

John H. Koon

John H. Koon is an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for designing systems to treat complex industrial wastewaters.

John H. Krystal

John H. Krystal is an American psychiatrist-scientist who chairs the Yale Department of Psychiatry and is best known for leading the discovery of ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.

John H. Larsen, Sr.

John H. Larsen, Sr. (John Harry Larsen, 1913–1989), Norwegian sport shooter with Oslo Sportsskyttere; 1952 Helsinki Olympic gold in 100 m running deer single and double shot with world record 413, four world titles, father of John H. Larsen, Jr.

John H. Law

John H. Law is an American insect biochemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, known for work on insect transferrin, ferritin, and lipophorin.

John H. Lawrence

John H. Lawrence (John Hundale Lawrence, 1904–1991) was an American physician at Berkeley, hailed as the Father of Nuclear Medicine, who first treated a patient with a cyclotron-produced isotope in 1936.

John H. Lawton

Sir John Hartley Lawton (J. H. Lawton), born 1943, is a British ecologist known for insect ecology and biodiversity, and for leading UK science policy.

John H. Linehan

John H. Linehan is an American biomedical engineer, a Northwestern University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for pulmonary mechanics research and medical device regulation.

John H. Martin

John H. Martin (died 1993) was an oceanographer at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories who proposed the iron hypothesis, that iron scarcity limits phytoplankton growth in much of the ocean.

John H. McElroy

John H. McElroy (1936–2007) was an American electrical engineer who led NASA Goddard's CO2 laser communications research, directed NOAA's satellite programs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

John H. Morrison

John H. Morrison is an American neuroscientist at UC Davis known for research on brain aging and Alzheimer's disease, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.