All articles starting with J

Joseph Valentin Boussinesq

Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842–1929) was a French mathematician and physicist known for the Boussinesq approximation, the Boussinesq equation for water waves, and the eddy-viscosity hypothesis in turbulence.

Sep 23, 2026

Joseph Vaz

Joseph Vaz (জোসে ভাজ) was a Goan Oratorian missionary who rebuilt the Catholic Church in Ceylon and was canonized by Pope Francis as Sri Lanka's first saint.

Joseph Veverka

Joseph Frank Veverka, born 1941, is an American planetary astronomer and Cornell professor emeritus who led imaging teams on Voyager, Galileo, NEAR, and Deep Impact, and won the 2013 Kuiper Prize.

Joseph Victor Smith

Joseph Victor Smith (1928–2007) was an English mineralogist and crystallographer who spent 45 years as a University of Chicago professor, known for feldspar crystal structures, zeolite frameworks, and Apollo lunar sample analysis.

Joseph Victor Widmann

Joseph Victor Widmann (1842–1911) was a Swiss journalist, poet, and leading literary critic who edited the feuilleton of Bern's Der Bund from 1880 until his death.

Oct 22, 2026

Joseph von Eichendorff

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788–1857) was a German lyric poet and novelist of the Romantic movement, born in Silesia, best known for the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts.

Joseph von Hartzheim

Joseph von Hartzheim (Hermann Joseph Hartzheim, 1694–1763) was a German Jesuit historian and bibliographer of Cologne, known for the Concilia Germaniae and the Bibliotheca Coloniensis.

Joseph von Mering

Joseph von Mering (Josef Freiherr von Mering) was a German pharmacologist who showed in 1889 that removing the pancreas causes diabetes and developed Veronal, the first barbiturate.

Joseph Votel

Joseph L. Votel, retired U.S. Army four-star general; commanded 75th Rangers, JSOC, SOCOM (2014-2016), and CENTCOM (2016-2019), leading the 79-nation coalition that defeated the ISIS caliphate.

Joseph W. Eschbach

Joseph Wetherill Eschbach was an American nephrologist who established that erythropoietin deficiency causes kidney failure anemia and led the first clinical trials of the treatment.

Joseph W. Kennedy

Joseph W. Kennedy (1916–1957) was an American chemist who co-discovered plutonium at Berkeley in 1941, led Los Alamos' Chemistry and Metallurgy Division, and chaired chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joseph W. Orenstein

Joseph W. Orenstein is an experimental condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for ultrafast optical studies of quantum materials.

Joseph W. Perry

Joseph W. Perry (1955–2022) was an American physical chemist and Georgia Tech professor known for two-photon absorption, optical limiting, and 3D microfabrication, and a 1999 Nature paper.

Joseph W. St. Geme

Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. (1931–1986) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric infectious disease who showed mumps virus crosses the human placenta, leaving children with cellular immunity.

Joseph W. St. Geme III

Joseph W. St. Geme III is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist, Physician-in-Chief of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a National Academy of Medicine member.

Joseph W. Thornton

Joseph W. Thornton is an American evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago who pioneered ancestral gene resurrection, reconstructing ancient proteins to test how their functions evolved.

Joseph W. Ziller

Joseph W. Ziller is an American X-ray crystallographer and staff scientist who has directed UC Irvine's X-ray Crystallography Facility since 1986, co-authoring actinide and lanthanide structures.

Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Wambaugh (1937–2025), American crime writer and former LAPD detective sergeant, author of The New Centurions, The Onion Field, and The Blooding, creator of Police Story, and reinventer of the police novel.

Sep 20, 2026

Joseph Wang

Joseph Wang, born 1948, is an electrochemist and nanoengineer who holds the SAIC Endowed Chair at UC San Diego, known for wearable chemical sensors, synthetic nanomotors, and on-body energy systems.

Joseph Wapner

Joseph Wapner (1919–2017), Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, first presiding judge of The People's Court (1981–1993, 2,484 episodes), later Judge Wapner's Animal Court, 2009 Hollywood Walk of Fame star.

Joseph Warren

Joseph Warren (1741-1775), Boston physician, orator, and Massachusetts Patriot leader; drafted the Suffolk Resolves, chaired the Committee of Safety, and was killed at Bunker Hill June 17, 1775.

Joseph Weber

Joseph Weber (1919–2000) was an American physicist at the University of Maryland who founded the experimental search for gravitational waves and pioneered the resonant bar detector.

Joseph Wedderburn

Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn was a Scottish mathematician who proved in 1905 that every finite division algebra is commutative, and gave the structure theory of semisimple algebras.

Joseph Weizenbaum

Joseph Weizenbaum (1923–2008) was a German-American computer scientist who created ELIZA, the first chatbot, and later criticized artificial intelligence in his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason.

Joseph Wenzel I of Liechtenstein

Joseph Wenzel I (Josef Wenzel Lorenz, 1696–1772), Prince of Liechtenstein, Habsburg field marshal, envoy to Berlin and Versailles, and reformer of the Austrian artillery who won Piacenza and reigned 1748–1772.

Joseph Wheeler

Joseph Wheeler (1836–1906), "Fighting Joe," Confederate cavalry commander of the Army of Tennessee, later Democratic congressman from Alabama and Union major general in the Spanish-American War.

Joseph Williams (musician)

Joseph Stanley Williams (born 1960), American singer, son of composer John Williams. Toto lead vocalist 1986-1988 (Fahrenheit, The Seventh One) and again from 2010; sang adult Simba in The Lion King; Emmy-nominated composer; ten solo albums including Denizen Tenant (2021).

Joseph Winlock

Joseph Winlock (1826–1875) was an American astronomer, third director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1866, and a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Joseph Wiseman

Joseph Wiseman (1918-2009), Canadian-born stage and screen actor, played Dr. Julius No in Dr. No (1962), the first James Bond film, creating the Bond-villain prototype; also Broadway roles in Detective Story, Viva Zapata!, and In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer.