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John M. Balbus

John M. Balbus is an American physician who led the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity from 2021 to 2025 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

John M. Ball

John M. Ball is a British mathematician who works on the calculus of variations and nonlinear elasticity, and was Sedleian Professor at Oxford from 1996 to 2018.

John M. Bremner

John M. Bremner, known as Jack, was a Scottish-born soil chemist and Iowa State agronomy professor who in 1984 became the first soil chemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

John M. Buchanan

John M. Buchanan, known as Jack Buchanan, was an American biochemist who worked out how cells build purine nucleotides, work underlying anticancer chemotherapy drugs, and led MIT's biochemistry division from 1953 to 1967.

John M. Carethers

John M. Carethers is an American gastroenterologist and physician-scientist who became UC San Diego's vice chancellor for Health Sciences in 2023, known for research on DNA mismatch repair in colorectal cancer.

John M. Clark

John M. Clark, also known as John Maurice Clark, was an American economist at Columbia University known for the acceleration principle, overhead cost analysis, and workable competition.

John M. Coffin

John M. Coffin is an American retrovirologist and Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, known for his work on HIV persistence during antiretroviral therapy.

John M. Danskin

John M. Danskin (born 1923) is an American mathematician known for Danskin's theorem, a formula for the directional derivative of max-functions still used in optimization and adversarial machine learning.

John M. Dawson

John M. Dawson (1930–2001) was an American computational plasma physicist at Princeton and UCLA, remembered as the father of plasma-based particle accelerators and of computer simulation of plasmas.

John M. Denu

John M. Denu is an American biochemist and professor of biomolecular chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for research on sirtuins, protein acetylation, and metabolism.

John M. Dietschy

John M. Dietschy (1932–2020) was an American physician-scientist in gastroenterology and hepatology who spent 49 years at UT Southwestern, known for work on cholesterol and bile acid metabolism.

John M. Dowd

John M. Dowd (born 1941) is an American white-collar defense lawyer and independent investigator, author of the 225-page 1989 Dowd Report that led to Pete Rose's lifetime baseball ban, and a Trump lawyer in the Mueller investigation.

John M. Doyle

John M. Doyle is a Harvard physicist who pioneered buffer-gas cooling of molecules, laser-cooled a polyatomic molecule, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and became APS president in 2025.

John M. Edmond

John M. Edmond (1943–2001) was a Scottish-born marine geochemist and MIT professor who helped discover deep-sea hydrothermal vents and established the first oceanic distributions of many trace elements.

John M. Eiler

John M. Eiler is an isotope geochemist at Caltech, known for pioneering clumped isotope thermometry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.

John M. Eisenberg

John M. Eisenberg was an American physician and health economist who directed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1997 until his death in 2002.

John M. Freeman

John M. Freeman (1933–2014) was an American pediatric neurologist at Johns Hopkins who founded its pediatric neurology division and revived the ketogenic diet and hemispherectomy for children's epilepsy.

John M. Gallagher

John M. Gallagher, also known as John Michael Gallagher, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2019.

John M. Gerrard

John M. Gerrard, born 1953, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Nebraska, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2012.

John M. Goldman

John M. Goldman (John Michael Goldman, 1938–2013) was a British haematologist at Hammersmith Hospital who transformed chronic myeloid leukemia treatment, pioneering transplantation and bringing imatinib into clinical use.

John M. Googin

John M. Googin (1922–1994) was an American physical chemist at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge who developed isotope-separation processes and won the 1967 Lawrence Award.

John M. Greene

John M. Greene, also known as John Morgan Greene, was an American physicist at Princeton and General Atomics known for the residue criterion and BGK modes.

John M. Gregoire

John M. Gregoire is an American materials scientist, Research Professor at Caltech since 2021, who uses high-throughput, combinatorial, and AI-driven methods to discover energy materials.

John M. Hayes

John M. Hayes (1940–2017) was an American biogeochemist who pioneered compound-specific isotope analysis, taught at Indiana University, and directed the NOSAMS facility at Woods Hole.

John M. Hedgepeth

John M. Hedgepeth is an aerospace structures engineer who was a main architect of NASA's large space structures research in the 1970s and 1980s, known for back-of-the-envelope design methods.

John M. Herbert

John M. Herbert is an American theoretical and computational chemist, professor at Ohio State University, who received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

John M. Jackson

John M. Jackson (John Murice Jackson, born 1950) is an American actor, best known as Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden on CBS's JAG (1996-2004), later on Bones, NCIS, and NCIS: Los Angeles; distinct from the Dallas litigator and other namesakes.

John M. Kane

John M. Kane is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher who chaired psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital for 34 years, led the RAISE-ETP first-episode treatment trial, and received a 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award.

John M. Kirkwood

John M. Kirkwood is an American oncologist and melanoma researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, whose trials established the first effective adjuvant therapy for high-risk melanoma.

John M. Kulicki

John M. Kulicki is an American bridge engineer who led development of the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.