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John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger is a field geologist and Harold Brown Professor of Geology at Caltech. He conducted research on geobiology and was chief scientist for NASA's Curiosity mission.
John P. Hammond
John P. Hammond (1942–2026), also billed as John Hammond Jr., was an American blues singer, guitarist, and rack-harmonica player, son of producer John H. Hammond Jr., known for the 1963 Vanguard debut and the Grammy-winning Blues Explosion.
John P. Hayslett
John P. Hayslett (1935–2012) was an American nephrologist at Yale University School of Medicine known for research on kidney disease progression and pregnancy in renal insufficiency.
John P. Hill (physicist)
John P. Hill is an American condensed matter physicist and Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for resonant x-ray scattering studies of magnetism in correlated materials like cuprate superconductors.
John P. Hirth
John P. Hirth, also known as John Price Hirth, is an American materials scientist known for dislocation theory and the textbook Theory of Dislocations with Jens Lothe.
John P. Huelsenbeck
John P. Huelsenbeck is a computational and evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for Bayesian phylogenetic inference and for writing the widely used program MrBayes.
John P. Hughes
John P. Hughes, born 1942, is a British pharmacologist who co-discovered the enkephalins, the brain's natural morphine-like peptides, at Aberdeen in 1975, winning the 1978 Lasker Award.
John P. Kampine
John P. Kampine is an American anesthesiologist-scientist at the Medical College of Wisconsin whose laboratory explained how anesthetics affect the heart, including why propofol lowers blood pressure.
John P. Kinsella
John P. Kinsella is an American neonatologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, known for developing inhaled nitric oxide therapy for newborn lung disease.
John P. Kress
John P. Kress is an American critical care physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, known for the 2000 trial establishing daily sedation interruption in ICUs.
John P. Leonard
John P. Leonard is an American hematologist and medical oncologist who directs the Center for Blood Cancers at NYU Langone Health and led trials of lenalidomide plus rituximab for lymphoma.
John P. McTague
John P. McTague (1938–2013) was an American physical chemist who directed Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source and served as acting science advisor to President Reagan.
John P. Merlie
John P. Merlie, born John Paul Merlie (1945–1995), was an American molecular biologist at Washington University in St. Louis who worked out how the muscle acetylcholine receptor is synthesized and assembled.
John P. Merrill
John P. Merrill was an American nephrologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard who co-led the world's first successful organ transplant, a 1954 twin kidney transplant.
John P. Moore
John P. Moore is a virologist who has been Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Weill Cornell Medical College since 2000, known for HIV-1 entry inhibitors and the SOSIP.664 vaccine trimer.
John P. Neoptolemos
John P. Neoptolemos is a pancreatic cancer surgeon-scientist, Professor of Surgery at Heidelberg since 2017 and formerly Liverpool's Chair of Surgery, known for the ESPAC adjuvant chemotherapy trials and founding the ISGPS.
John P. O’Doherty
John P. O'Doherty is a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the neural basis of reward-related learning and decision making, and is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Decision Neuroscience at Caltech.
John P. O'Neill
John Patrick O'Neill (1952–2001) was the FBI's leading al-Qaeda counterterrorism agent, investigating the 1993 WTC bombing, Khobar Towers, embassy bombings, and USS Cole, then died as WTC security chief on 9/11.
John P. Perdew
John P. Perdew is a Tulane University physicist whose nonempirical density-functional theory approximations, including the PBE functional, made DFT the most widely used quantum prediction method.
John P. Peters
John Punnett Peters (1887–1955) was an American clinical chemist at Yale whose Quantitative Clinical Chemistry with Donald Van Slyke made clinical chemistry a quantitative discipline.
John P. Richard
John P. Richard is an American physical organic chemist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for research on enzyme-catalyzed reaction mechanisms and transition-state stabilization.
John P. Saunders
John Poyntz Saunders was a British police assistant superintendent in Lahore, shot dead in 1928 by HSRA members who mistook him for Superintendent James A. Scott.
John P. Schiffer
John P. Schiffer (1930–2022) was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, known for the Nolen–Schiffer anomaly and a 66-year career.
John P. Utz
John P. Utz, known as Jack Utz, was an American infectious-diseases physician and medical mycologist who led NIH's infectious disease service and later served as dean of Georgetown's medical school.
John P. Wheeler III
John P. (Jack) Wheeler III, American veteran and West Point and Harvard Business School graduate, chaired the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund; found dead in a Delaware landfill in 2010, ruled homicide, unsolved.
John Paine
John Paine (full name John Bryant Paine, 1870–1951) was an American pistol shooter who won the military pistol event at the 1896 Athens Olympics, then withdrew so his brother Sumner could win the free pistol.
John Palmer (criminal)
John 'Goldfinger' Palmer (c. 1950–2015), English criminal acquitted of handling Brink's-Mat gold in 1987, convicted in 2001 of the largest recorded timeshare fraud (16,000 victims), and shot dead unsolved at his Essex home in June 2015.
John Pankow
John Pankow is an American actor born in St. Louis, known as Ira Buchman on Mad About You (1993-1999) and Merc Lapidus on Episodes (2011-2017), with extensive Broadway and Shakespeare in the Park credits.
John Panozzo
John Panozzo (1948–1996), American rock drummer and founding member of Styx alongside twin brother Chuck and Dennis DeYoung; the band's only drummer until 1996, playing on every album through Edge of the Century.
John Papa ʻĪʻī
John Papa ʻĪʻī (Ioane Kaneiakama Papa ʻĪʻī; 1800–1870) was a Native Hawaiian statesman, judge, and historian who joined the royal household at age ten and wrote a firsthand memoir of the Hawaiian Kingdom.