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John W. Broomes
John Wesley Broomes, born 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Kansas since 2018 and its chief judge since 2025.
John W. Bussman
John W. Bussman is an American physician and health-policy official who, as Medical Director of Oregon's Medicaid agency, wrote the 1993 defense of the Oregon Health Plan.
John W. Cahn
John W. Cahn was an American materials scientist and metallurgist at NIST whose namesake Cahn–Hilliard equation describes phase separation, and who co-discovered quasicrystals, winning the 1998 National Medal of Science.
John W. Campbell
John W. Campbell (John Wood Campbell, Jr., 1910–1971), American science fiction editor of Astounding/Analog 1937–1971 and author of Who Goes There?; shaped the Golden Age, discovered Asimov and Heinlein, controversial for racism and Dianetics advocacy.
John W. Childs
John W. Childs, known as Jack Childs, is an American private equity investor who founded J.W. Childs Associates in 1995 and led the 1992 Snapple buyout.
John W. Coltman
John W. Coltman (1915–2010) was an American physicist who spent his career at Westinghouse, co-invented the scintillation counter, developed the X-ray image amplifier, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John W. Daly
John W. Daly (1933–2008) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who spent nearly fifty years studying poison frog alkaloids, including the painkiller lead epibatidine.
John W. Daniels
John W. Daniels was an American businessman who founded the Daniels Linseed Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1902, the flaxseed crushing firm that became ADM.
John W. deGravelles
John W. deGravelles, born 1949, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Louisiana since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
John W. Eaton
John W. Eaton is an American biomedical researcher in hematology known for work on oxidant stress in red blood cells, including findings on sickle cell disease and malaria resistance.
John W. Eckstein
John W. Eckstein, also known as John William Eckstein, was an American cardiovascular physician-scientist at the University of Iowa, serving 21 years as dean of its College of Medicine.
John W. Eikelboom
John W. Eikelboom is an Australian-trained hematologist and thrombosis researcher who is Professor of Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and led the COMPASS trial.
John W. Erdman Jr.
John W. Erdman Jr. is an American nutrition scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for research on soy protein, carotenoids, and Dietary Reference Intakes.
John W. Farquhar
John W. "Jack" Farquhar (1927–2018) was a Canadian-born American physician and Stanford professor, a National Academy of Medicine member who pioneered communitywide cardiovascular prevention research.
John W. Fondahl
John W. Fondahl (1924–2008) was an American civil engineer and Stanford professor who developed the precedence diagramming method of project scheduling and co-founded one of the first graduate programs in construction management.
John W. Funder
John W. Funder, born 1940 in Adelaide, is an Australian physician-scientist known for research on aldosterone and mineralocorticoid receptors in hypertension and heart failure, and chaired the 2008 Endocrine Society primary aldosteronism guidelines.
John W. Gnann
John W. Gnann is an American infectious-diseases physician and clinical virology researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina, known for reviews of herpesvirus infections.
John W. Griffin
John W. "Jack" Griffin (1942–2011) was an American neurologist and peripheral nerve researcher at Johns Hopkins, where he headed neurology, founded the Brain Science Institute, and helped prove plasmapheresis treats Guillain-Barré syndrome.
John W. Henry
John W. Henry is an American investor and sports owner who founded John W. Henry & Company in 1981 and owns the Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC.
John W. Holaday
John W. Holaday (1945–2019) was an American neuropharmacologist and Army researcher who showed that endorphins contribute to shock and spinal cord injury, and later co-founded Medicis, EntreMed, and MaxCyte.
John W. Holcomb
John W. Holcomb, also known as John William Holcomb, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2020.
John W. Hutchinson
John W. Hutchinson (J. W. Hutchinson) is an American solid mechanics researcher, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for nonlinear fracture mechanics, the HRR fields, and strain gradient plasticity.
John W. Kalb
John W. Kalb was an electric-power engineer at the Ohio Brass Company of Barberton, Ohio, known for full-scale switching-surge and lightning-arrester research on extra-high-voltage transmission lines in the 1960s.
John W. Kirklin
John W. Kirklin (1917–2004) was an American cardiac surgeon who led the first successful series of open-heart operations using a heart-lung machine, at the Mayo Clinic in 1955.
John W. Landis
John W. Landis (1917–2013) was an American nuclear engineer who directed early civilian nuclear power projects, led Gulf General Atomic, and served as president of the American Nuclear Society in 1971.
John W. Little
John W. Little is a molecular biologist at the University of Arizona known for showing that the LexA repressor self-cleaves to switch on the SOS system.
John W. Lungstrum
John Watson Lungstrum is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Kansas, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991.
John W. Lyons
John W. Lyons was an American physical chemist known for fire-retardant chemistry who led NIST from 1990 to 1993 and was the first permanent director of the Army Research Laboratory.
John W. M. Whiting
John W. M. Whiting (1908–1999) was an American anthropologist who helped found psychological anthropology and led the Six Cultures Study of child development in six societies.
John W. McEvoy
John W. McEvoy, known as Bill McEvoy, is an Irish preventive cardiologist who is Established Professor of Preventive Cardiology at the University of Galway and chaired the 2024 ESC hypertension guidelines.