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John M. Lachin

John M. Lachin is an American biostatistician at George Washington University who, from 1982 to 2020, led the DCCT and EDIC clinical trials that transformed type 1 diabetes treatment.

John M. Lupton

John M. Lupton, also published as J. M. Lupton, is a physicist who has held the chair in experimental physics at the University of Regensburg since 2010.

John M. Maris

John M. Maris is an American pediatric oncologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia whose laboratory discovered the genetic basis of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma, including the ALK gene.

John M. Martinis

John M. Martinis, also known as John Martinis, is an American physicist who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics and works on superconducting quantum computing at UC Santa Barbara.

John M. Pandolfi

John M. Pandolfi is an Australian-based palaeoecologist and coral reef scientist, an emeritus professor at the University of Queensland who uses the fossil record to measure reef decline.

John M. Pollard (mathematician)

John M. Pollard is a mathematician who worked at Plessey Telecommunications in Berkshire and invented the rho, p−1, and kangaroo methods, and co-invented the number field sieve.

John M. Prausnitz

John M. Prausnitz (J. M. Prausnitz), born 1928 in Berlin, is an American chemical engineer at UC Berkeley known as the originator of molecular thermodynamics.

John M. Rogers

John M. Rogers, born 1948 in Rochester, New York, is a US Court of Appeals judge for the Sixth Circuit, appointed by George W. Bush in 2002.

John M. Scott

John M. Scott, also known as J. M. Scott, was an Irish biochemist and professor of experimental nutrition at Trinity College Dublin whose research shaped folic acid fortification policy.

John M. Seabright

John M. Seabright (born 1959) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Hawaii, appointed by George W. Bush in 2005.

John M. Sedivy

John M. Sedivy is a molecular biologist at Brown University who directs its Center on the Biology of Aging and studies senescence, c-Myc, and retrotransposons in aging.

John M. Shapiro

John M. Shapiro is an American investor who co-founded the New York value investing firm Chieftain Capital Management in 1984 and led it after its 2009 split.

John M. Sternhagen

John M. Sternhagen was a federal tax judge who joined the Board of Tax Appeals in its first year, 1924, and served until his term expired in 1946.

John M. Torkelson

John M. Torkelson is an American polymer scientist, a Walter P. Murphy Professor at Northwestern University since 1983, known for polymer glass-transition confinement research and recyclable thermosets.

John M. Tranquada

John M. Tranquada is an American condensed matter physicist and Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for using neutron scattering to establish stripes in high-temperature superconductors.

John M. Undrill

John M. Undrill is an American electric power systems engineer, architect of the PSS/E and developer of the PSLF simulation software that became industry standards for grid planning.

John M. Walker, Jr.

John M. Walker, Jr., also known as John Mercer Walker, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the Second Circuit since 2006.

John M. Wallace

John M. Wallace, known as Mike Wallace, is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington who identified the Arctic Oscillation and El Niño's climate patterns.

John M. Warman

John M. Warman (J.M. Warman) is a Dutch-based physical and radiation chemist known for developing time-resolved microwave conductivity, a contact-free technique measuring charge movement in ice and organic semiconductors.

John M. West

John M. West (1920–2004) was an American nuclear engineer and Manhattan Project veteran who led Combustion Engineering's nuclear division and pioneered the boiling-water reactor program.

John M. Younge

John M. Younge, also known as John Milton Younge, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Pennsylvania since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.

John M. Zachara

John M. Zachara was an American environmental geochemist who spent his career, 1979 to 2016, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, studying metals, radionuclides, and contaminants at Hanford.

John MacArthur (American pastor)

John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. was an American evangelical pastor who led Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, for over 56 years and wrote the MacArthur Study Bible.

John Macdonald (forensic psychiatrist)

John Macdonald, full name John Marshall Macdonald (1920–2007), was a New Zealand-born forensic psychiatrist who spent his career in Denver, examined defendants including Ted Bundy, and proposed the Macdonald triad.

John MacHale

John MacHale (Irish: Eoin Mac Éil; 1791–1881) was an Irish Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tuam from 1834, known as "The Lion of the West" for opposing British education policy.

John Mackenzie

John Mackenzie (1876–1949), Scottish yachtsman of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club; won 1908 Olympic gold in the 12-metre class aboard Hera; also the name of a 1908 Olympic wrestler, a 1956 Canadian hockey bronze medalist, a South African missionary, and a Canadian bacteriologist.

John Mackey (businessman)

John Mackey (born 1954) is the American co-founder and longtime CEO of Whole Foods Market, which he started via SaferWay in Austin in 1978, led through its 2017 $13.7 billion Amazon sale, and left in 2022; author of Conscious Capitalism.

John Macleod

John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist who directed the Toronto research that discovered insulin in 1921, sharing the 1923 Nobel Prize with Frederick Banting.

John MacMicking

John D. MacMicking is a Yale immunologist and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator known for work on cell-autonomous immunity, including interferon-inducible guanylate-binding proteins that defend cells against pathogens.

John Macmillan Brown

John Macmillan Brown (1845 or 1846 – 1935) was a Scottish-born New Zealand academic, a foundation professor at Canterbury College from 1874 and later a writer on Pacific anthropology.