All articles starting with J

Joseph Haines Moore

Joseph Haines Moore (1878–1949) was an American astronomer at Lick Observatory who discovered 64 spectroscopic binaries and compiled the standard 1932 catalog of radial velocities.

Joseph Hall (1574–1656), bishop of Exeter and Norwich, English satirist and devotional writer nicknamed 'our English Seneca'; defended episcopacy against Smectymnuus and Milton, imprisoned 1641, ejected 1647.

Joseph Halpern

Joseph Y. Halpern (1953–2026) was a computer scientist at Cornell University who shaped reasoning about knowledge, reasoning about uncertainty, and the formal definition of actual causality.

Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn, also known as Franz Joseph Haydn, was an Austrian composer who served the Esterházy court. He wrote over 100 symphonies and the oratorio The Creation.

Joseph Heitman

Joseph Heitman is an American geneticist at Duke University known for identifying FKBP12 and TOR as the targets of rapamycin, leading to the discovery of mTOR.

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (1923–1999), American novelist and WWII bombardier from Coney Island, Brooklyn; author of Catch-22 (1961), which sold over ten million copies, plus Something Happened, God Knows, and Closing Time.

Joseph Hendrie

Joseph Hendrie was an American nuclear engineer who co-invented Brookhaven's High Flux Beam Reactor and chaired the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

Joseph Henrich

Joseph Henrich is a Harvard anthropologist who studies cultural evolution, known for the WEIRD research program and for tracing Western psychological distinctiveness to the medieval Church's transformation of kinship.

Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry (1797–1878) was an American physicist, professor at Princeton, and first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, credited with discovering self-inductance; the unit of inductance, the henry, is named for him.

Joseph Henry Gilbert

Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817–1901) was an English chemist who joined John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted in 1843, co-founding the world's first agricultural experiment station and proving the value of nitrogenous fertilizers.

Joseph Henry Keenan

Joseph Henry Keenan (1900–1977) was an American mechanical engineer and thermodynamicist, a professor and department head at MIT known for his 1941 textbook Thermodynamics and the steam tables used by the power industry.

Joseph Henry Thayer

Joseph Henry Thayer (1828–1901) was an American Congregationalist New Testament scholar, Civil War chaplain, and Harvard professor best known for his Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

Joseph Hergenröther

Joseph Hergenröther (1824–1890) was a German Catholic church historian and canonist who defended papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council and became the first Cardinal-Prefect of the Vatican Archives.

Joseph Herman Hertz

Joseph Herman Hertz was a rabbi and biblical scholar who served as Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1913 to 1946, best known for the Hertz Chumash commentary.

Oct 21, 2026

Joseph Hermans

Joseph Hermans (Josephus Franciscus Hermans, 1890-1925), Belgian archer of De Hoop, Ekeren, won two golds and a bronze in pole archery at Antwerp 1920; distinct from the namesake Belgian Olympic rower.

Joseph Hooker

Joseph Hooker, nicknamed "Fighting Joe," was a Union major general in the American Civil War who commanded the Army of the Potomac from January to June 1863, losing the Battle of Chancellorsville to Robert E. Lee.

Joseph Hoover Mackin

Joseph Hoover Mackin (1905–1968) was an American geomorphologist known for the graded river concept in his 1948 paper, a mainstay of fluvial geomorphology; he was a National Academy of Sciences member.

Sep 19, 2026

Joseph Hsu

Joseph Hsu (徐祥, Hsu Hsiang), born 1957, is a Taiwanese executive who co-founded computer hardware maker Micro-Star International (MSI) in 1986 and has served as its chairman since.

Joseph Hubert Reinkens

Joseph Hubert Reinkens (1821–1896) was a German theologian who became the first bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany, elected in 1873 by clergy and lay delegates who rejected papal infallibility.

Sep 20, 2026

Joseph Hupp

Joseph T. Hupp is an American chemist known for work on metal–organic frameworks, chemical sensing, and solar energy conversion, and Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University since 2000.

Joseph Hutchinson

Joseph Burtt Hutchinson (1902–1988) was a British geneticist who established the classification of the world's cultivated cottons and later held the Drapers Professorship of Agriculture at Cambridge.

Joseph I

Joseph I, called Galesiotes, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople who twice held the throne, resigned in 1275 rather than accept union with Rome, and is venerated as a saint.

Oct 22, 2026

Joseph I of Bulgaria

Joseph I of Bulgaria, born Lazar Yovchev in 1840, was the second Bulgarian Exarch, leading the Bulgarian Exarchate for 38 years from 1877 until his death in 1915.

Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph I (1678–1711) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1705, Habsburg ruler whose reign was dominated by the War of the Spanish Succession and the Rákóczi revolt in Hungary; distinct from his brother and successor Charles VI and from Joseph II.

Oct 22, 2026

Joseph Ignace

Joseph Ignace (around 1769 to May 1802) was a free man of color and battalion commander who led the 1802 resistance in Guadeloupe to the restoration of slavery.

Joseph II

Joseph II (Ἰωσήφ ὁ Β´) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1416 until his death in 1439, leading the Church of Constantinople into the Council of Ferrara-Florence and its attempt at union with Rome.

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

Joseph II (1741–1790), Holy Roman Emperor from 1765 and sole Habsburg ruler from 1780, Enlightened Absolutist reformer who abolished juridical serfdom, issued tolerance edicts, restructured the Church, and saw most reforms overturned.

Oct 22, 2026

Joseph II's language decree

Joseph II's language decree was a 1784 edict of the Habsburg emperor replacing Latin with German as the official language of administration in Hungary and Transylvania.

Joseph in Islam

Joseph in Islam, known as Yusuf (يوسف), is the Quranic prophet whose story fills almost all of sura 12, retelling the Genesis account and called the best of stories.