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John Quade
John Quade (John William Saunders III, 1938–2009), American character actor and former JPL aerospace engineer, best known as biker-gang leader Cholla in Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can.
John Quigley (venture investor)
John Quigley is an American venture investor who cofounded YL Ventures in 2007, a Silicon Valley firm investing exclusively in Israeli cybersecurity companies from seed stage.
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), sixth U.S. president (1825-1829), son of John Adams; diplomat, Monroe's secretary of state, architect of the Monroe Doctrine and Adams-Onis Treaty, later congressman known as Old Man Eloquent.
John Quiñones
John Quiñones (born 1952, San Antonio) is an ABC News correspondent since 1982 and creator-host of What Would You Do?, known for undercover immigration reporting, seven or eight national Emmys, a Peabody, and Uvalde coverage.
John R. Adams
John R. Adams (born 1955) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
John R. Allen
John R. Allen, retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general; commanded ISAF and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan 2011-2013 as first Marine to command a theater of war, later counter-ISIL envoy and Brookings president.
John R. Anderson (cognitive scientist)
John R. Anderson, born in 1947, is an American cognitive scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who developed the ACT-R cognitive architecture and intelligent tutoring systems.
John R. B. Perry
John R. B. Perry is a human geneticist and MRC Investigator at the University of Cambridge known for landmark studies of puberty timing, menopause, and testosterone's sex-specific disease effects.
John R. Ball
John R. Ball is an American physician, lawyer, and health care executive who led the American College of Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Pathology.
John R. Birge
John R. Birge is an American operations researcher known for foundational work in stochastic programming, the optimization of decisions under uncertainty, and a professor at Chicago Booth.
John R. Blakey
John R. Blakey, also known as John Robert Blakey, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Illinois since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
John R. Brinkley
John R. (Romulus/Richard) Brinkley, 1885-1942, American quack, the "goat gland doctor" of Milford, Kansas, radio pioneer behind KFKB and XERA, and two-time Kansas gubernatorial candidate.
John R. Brobeck
John R. Brobeck (1914–2009) was an American physiologist who demonstrated that the hypothalamus controls food intake and chaired physiology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1952 to 1970.
John R. Brophy
John R. Brophy is an American aerospace engineer and Engineering Fellow at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led development of the ion engines flown on Deep Space 1 and Dawn.
John R. Carlson
John R. Carlson is an American molecular neuroscientist and Eugene Higgins Professor at Yale, known for discovering the first insect odor and taste receptors and mapping how they encode smell.
John R. Commons
John R. Commons (1862–1945) was an American economist at the University of Wisconsin, a founder of institutional economics who drafted Wisconsin's workmen's compensation and unemployment compensation laws.
John R. David
John R. David is an American physician and immunologist, emeritus professor of tropical public health at Harvard, known for cytokine research on leishmaniasis and recombinant migration inhibitory factor.
John R. Dunning
John R. Dunning was an American experimental nuclear physicist at Columbia University who verified nuclear fission in the United States and showed uranium-235 is fissionable by slow neutrons.
John R. Fox
John R. Fox (1915–1944), U.S. Army first lieutenant of the 92d Infantry Division's 598th Field Artillery Battalion, called artillery on his own surrounded position at Sommocolonia, Italy, on December 26, 1944, killing about 100 Germans; awarded the Medal of Honor in 1997.
John R. Glenney
John R. Glenney, Jr. (J. R. Glenney) is a cell biologist who established fodrin as the general spectrin-like protein of non-erythroid cells and worked at the Salk Institute.
John R. Haynes
John R. Haynes was a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited with proving that germanium and silicon electroluminescence arises from hole-electron recombination at a p-n junction.
John R. Hicks
John Richard Hicks (1904–1989) was a British economist at All Souls College, Oxford, who shared the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Kenneth Arrow.
John R. Hodges
John R. Hodges, born in 1952, is a British cognitive neurologist who founded the FRONTIER research group in Sydney and studies frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
John R. Huguenard
John R. Huguenard is a Professor of Neurology at Stanford University who studies thalamocortical synchrony and epilepsy, known for a 1999 Science paper showing thalamic inhibition restrains network synchrony.
John R. Huizenga
John R. Huizenga (1921–2014) was an American nuclear chemist at the University of Rochester who co-discovered einsteinium and fermium and led the 1989 DOE cold fusion review.
John R. Hutchinson
John R. Hutchinson is an American evolutionary biomechanicist and professor at the Royal Veterinary College in London, known for his 2002 finding that Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner.
John R. Johnson
John R. Johnson (1900–1983) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1945, known for organoborane oxidation and gliotoxin structure work.
John R. Kiely
John R. Kiely (1906–1996) was an American civil engineer at Bechtel who directed the Churchill Falls hydroelectric project and chaired the joint venture that built BART.
John R. Kirtley
John R. Kirtley is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist who developed scanning SQUID microscopy at IBM and helped establish d-wave pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors.
John R. Kitchin
John R. Kitchin is an American chemical engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who designs alloy and oxide catalysts using density functional theory and machine learning.