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John H. Moxley III
John H. Moxley III (born 1935) is an American physician and health-policy leader who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and dean of two medical schools.
John H. Northrop
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute who shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for preparing enzymes and virus proteins in pure form.
John H. Perepezko
John H. Perepezko is an American physical metallurgist and IBM Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for solidification processing innovations.
John H. Postlethwait
John H. Postlethwait is an American developmental geneticist and emeritus professor of biology at the University of Oregon, known for establishing the zebrafish as a molecular genetic model organism.
John H. R. Maunsell
John H. R. Maunsell is an American neuroscientist at the University of Chicago who studies how attention changes visual neurons' responses, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
John H. Reagan
John H. Reagan (John Henninger Reagan, 1818-1905), Texas Democrat and Confederate postmaster general, U.S. congressman and senator, and first chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, nicknamed the "Old Roman."
John H. Schmertmann
John H. Schmertmann, born 1928, is an American geotechnical engineer and University of Florida professor emeritus, best known for the Schmertmann settlement method for footings on sand.
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld, born 1942 in Elmira, New York, is an American chemical engineer at Caltech who founded mathematical modeling of air pollution and pioneered atmospheric aerosol chemistry.
John H. Sinfelt
John H. Sinfelt (1931–2011) was an American chemist and chemical engineer who spent his career at Esso, later Exxon, and pioneered bimetallic cluster catalysts, including a platinum–iridium reforming catalyst that made lead-free gasoline practical.
John H. Stone
John H. Stone is an American rheumatologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, who led major trials in vasculitis and IgG4-related disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.
John H. Stracey
John H. Stracey (born 1950, Bethnal Green) is an English boxer who won British, European and WBC welterweight titles, beating José Nápoles in Mexico City in 1975 and losing the belt to Carlos Palomino in 1976.
John H. Sununu
John H. Sununu is an American Republican politician and mechanical engineer who served as governor of New Hampshire and as White House chief of staff under George H. W. Bush.
John H. Van Vleck
John H. Van Vleck, also known as John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics.
John H. Vaughan
John H. Vaughan was an American immunologist and rheumatologist who established the role of rheumatoid factor, autoantibodies, and complement in rheumatoid arthritis, and served as President of the American Rheumatism Association.
John H. Walter
John H. Walter (died 2021) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, known for Walter's theorem and his work with Daniel Gorenstein.
John H. Werren
John H. Werren is an American evolutionary geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Rochester, known for research on Wolbachia bacteria, Nasonia wasps, and selfish genetic elements.
John H. Williams
John H. Williams (John Henry Williams) was an American economist at Harvard and the New York Fed, the leading American critic of the Bretton Woods agreements.
John H.J. Petrini
John H.J. Petrini, also known as John Petrini, is an American molecular biologist who studies DNA repair and chairs the Molecular Biology Program at the Sloan Kettering Institute.
John Haack
John Haack (born 1993) is an American raw powerlifter from Madison, Wisconsin. Eight-time world record setter across 82.5-100 kg classes; best total 1,044 kg (2,302 lb) raw at 100 kg, 2026; 2016 IPF Classic 83 kg champion.
John Hagan (criminologist)
John Hagan (born 1946) is an American sociologist and criminologist at Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation, known for research on legal cynicism and genocide.
John Hagee
John Hagee, born in 1940 in Texas, is an American pastor and televangelist who leads Cornerstone Church in San Antonio and founded Christians United for Israel.
John Hagelin
John Hagelin is an American particle physicist and leader of the Transcendental Meditation movement, and a three-time US presidential candidate who founded the Natural Law Party in 1992.
John Haigh
John George Haigh (1909–1949), the English "Acid Bath Murderer", dissolves six victims' bodies in sulphuric acid; convicted despite no body and hanged in 1949. Distinguished from the Sussex mathematician John Haigh.
John Haltiwanger
John C. Haltiwanger is an American economist at the University of Maryland who developed measures of job creation and destruction and documented the decline in U.S. business dynamism.
John Hammersley
John Hammersley (1920–2004) was a British mathematician who founded percolation theory and pioneered Monte Carlo methods, spending most of his career at Oxford from 1959.
John Hammond (Jurassic Park)
John Hammond, Dr. John Alfred Hammond, is the fictional founder of InGen and Jurassic Park, created by Michael Crichton and portrayed by Richard Attenborough in the films.
John Hancock
John Hancock (1737–1793), Massachusetts merchant and Patriot, president of the Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence; first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1780–1785 and 1787–1793.
John Hancock Center
The John Hancock Center, now officially 875 North Michigan Avenue, is a 100-story, 344-meter mixed-use skyscraper on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, completed in 1969 and known for its exterior X-bracing.
John Hancock Infrastructure
John Hancock Infrastructure is the infrastructure private equity platform of insurer John Hancock and its parent Manulife, organized in 2018 around a Boston-based fund that closed with about $2 billion in commitments.
John Hancock Tower
The John Hancock Tower, officially 200 Clarendon Street, is a 790-foot mirrored-glass skyscraper in Boston designed by Henry N. Cobb, opened in 1976 as New England's tallest building.