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Joseph Fourier
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) was a French mathematician and prefect of Isère who founded heat conduction theory and systematized Fourier series in his 1822 book Théorie analytique de la chaleur.
Joseph Francis Shea
Joseph Francis Shea (1926–1999) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who directed the studies fixing lunar orbit rendezvous for Apollo and ran the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office.
Joseph Francisco
Joseph S. Francisco is an American theoretical and atmospheric chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for discovering that single water molecules catalyze gas-phase radical reactions.
Joseph Franz Allioli
Joseph Franz Allioli (1793–1873) was a German Catholic theologian, professor of Oriental languages and Biblical exegesis, and translator of the Allioli Bible, the standard German Catholic Bible of the 19th century.
Joseph Frederick Engelberger
Joseph Frederick Engelberger (1925–2015) was an American engineer and entrepreneur known as the father of robotics; his Unimate robot entered a General Motors plant in 1961.
Joseph G. Altonji
Joseph G. Altonji is an American labor economist, the Thomas DeWitt Cuyler Professor of Economics at Yale University and a National Bureau of Economic Research research associate.
Joseph G. Culotti
Joseph G. Culotti is a neuroscientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto who discovered the axon guidance cue UNC-6/netrin and its receptors in C. elegans.
Joseph G. Gall
Joseph G. Gall (1928–2024) was an American cell biologist who invented in situ hybridization, determined the first telomeric DNA sequence, and characterized Cajal bodies, earning the 2006 Lasker Award.
Joseph G. Gleeson
Joseph G. Gleeson is an American physician-scientist in neurogenetics, the Rady Professor of Neuroscience at UC San Diego whose research has identified over 100 genetic causes of pediatric brain disease.
Joseph G. Jacangelo
Joseph G. Jacangelo is an American environmental engineer, vice president and director of research at Stantec and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, working on water and wastewater treatment.
Joseph G. Richardson
Joseph G. Richardson (1923–2007) was an American petroleum reservoir engineer whose waterflooding research at Humble Oil and Exxon earned election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Joseph Gatt
Joseph Gatt (born 1974, Notting Hill, London) is a British actor of Maltese descent known for Star Trek Into Darkness, Banshee, Game of Thrones, Dumbo, and motion capture for Kratos in God of War.
Joseph Georg Strossmayer
Joseph Georg Strossmayer (Josip Juraj Strossmayer, 1815–1905) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Đakovo who founded the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Zagreb.
Joseph Gerber
H. Joseph Gerber (1924–1996) was an Austrian-born American inventor who founded Gerber Scientific, invented the Gerber Variable Scale, and won the 1994 National Medal of Technology.
Joseph Gilbert Hamilton
Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (1907–1957) was an American medical physicist at UC Berkeley who pioneered radioisotope cancer therapy and organized the secret human plutonium injection experiments of 1945–1947.
Joseph Gilbert Totten
Joseph Gilbert Totten (1788–1864) was an American Army engineer, Chief of Engineers for over 20 years, and a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Joseph Glidden
Joseph Glidden, also known as Joseph Farwell Glidden, was an American farmer from DeKalb, Illinois, who in 1874 patented the form of barbed wire still widely used today.
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) was Nazi Party propaganda chief and Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from 1933 to 1945, Gauleiter of Berlin, instigator of Kristallnacht, and Hitler's brief successor as Reich Chancellor.
Joseph Goldberger
Joseph Goldberger (1874–1929) was a Slovak-born American epidemiologist with the US Public Health Service who demonstrated between 1914 and 1923 that pellagra was caused by dietary deficiency, not infection.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born 1982) is an American actor, filmmaker, and HitRecord founder: child star of 3rd Rock from the Sun, lead in (500) Days of Summer, Inception, and Looper, and writer-director of Don Jon.
Joseph Greenberg
Joseph Greenberg (1915–2001) was an American linguist and Stanford professor known for classifying Africa's languages into four families, his controversial classification of the Americas' languages, and founding modern language typology.
Joseph Guillemot
Joseph Guillemot was a French long-distance runner who won gold in the 5,000 meters, defeating Paavo Nurmi, and silver in the 10,000 meters at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics.
Joseph Gurney Cannon
Joseph Gurney Cannon, "Uncle Joe" (1836–1926), Illinois Republican and 34th Speaker of the U.S. House (1903–1911), whose concentration of Speaker powers, called "Cannonism," provoked the 1910 House revolt.
Joseph H. Antin
Joseph H. Antin is an American hematologist-oncologist who led the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's stem-cell transplant program from 1997 to 2018, known for work on graft-versus-host disease.
Joseph H. Burchenal
Joseph H. Burchenal (Joseph Holland Burchenal, 1912–2006) was an American oncologist who helped found modern cancer chemotherapy, bringing 6-mercaptopurine to the first long-term remissions of childhood leukemia.
Joseph H. McKinley, Jr.
Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. is an American jurist, a United States district judge for the Western District of Kentucky since 1995, nominated by President Clinton.
Joseph H. Nadeau
Joseph H. Nadeau is a geneticist known for mouse genetics, comparative genomics, and complex traits, best known for the first chromosome substitution strain panel in mammals.
Joseph H. Newman
Joseph H. Newman (Joseph Herbert Newman) was an American engineer who led Tishman Research Corporation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.
Joseph H. Phillips
Joseph H. Phillips is an immunologist known for work on natural killer cell receptors at Becton Dickinson and the DNAX Research Institute in Palo Alto.
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (Joseph Hooton Taylor) is an American radio astronomer who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the first binary pulsar.