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Josephine L. Staton
Josephine L. Staton is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2010, appointed by Barack Obama.
Josephine Laba
Josephine Laba (Josephine Laba Abbass), Nova Scotia sprinter from Sydney active in the 1920s-1930s; Canadian junior 100-yard dash champion, 1931 national sprint gold in 7.6, 1995 Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame inductee.
Josephine Langford
Josephine Langford (born 1997, Perth) is an Australian actress, sister of Katherine Langford, known as Tessa Young in the After film series (2019–2023), plus Wish Upon, Moxie, and The Other Zoey.
Josephine Mckim
Josephine Eveline McKim (Chalmers), American freestyle swimmer (1910-1992): 1928 Olympic 400m freestyle bronze, 1932 relay gold in world record 4:38.0, six world records, and Maureen O'Sullivan's body double in Tarzan and His Mate.
Josephine Ortleb
Josephine Ortleb, born 1986 in Saarbrücken, is a German SPD politician who has represented Saarbrücken in the Bundestag since 2017 and served as Vice-President since 2025.
Joséphine Pagnier
Joséphine Pagnier is a French ski jumper, born in 2002 in Pontarlier, who won two World Cup events in 2023/24 and set the French record at 181 meters.
Josephine Park
Josephine Park (born 1987) is a Danish actress trained at Aarhus Theatre, known for Arvingerne, Doggystyle, Baby Fever/Skruk, The Nurse, and Attachment, with four Robert Awards and a Reumert Talent Prize.
Josephine Pitz Egan
Josephine Pitz Egan was a Manitowoc, Wisconsin, woman who became its first licensed woman pilot in 1930 and served as a WASP ferrying Army aircraft in World War II.
Josephine reforms
The Josephine reforms (German: Josephinische Reformen) were enlightened-absolutist measures in the Habsburg Monarchy under Emperor Joseph II, ruling alone from 1780 until his death in 1790.
Josephine Ruby Trevorrow
Josephine Ruby Trevorrow, also known as Khalsom binti Abdullah, was an English woman who married Sultan Iskandar of Johor and was the mother of Sultan Ibrahim.
Josephine Skriver
Josephine Skriver is a Danish model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2016 to 2021 and for walking more than 300 shows for major fashion houses.
Josephine Teo
Josephine Teo is a Singaporean politician who has served as Minister for Digital Development and Information and Minister-in-charge of Smart Nation and Cybersecurity since 2021.
Josephine Tewson
Josephine Ann Tewson (1931-2022), English character actress known as Elizabeth Warden in Keeping Up Appearances, Mrs H in Shelley, and Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine, also a regular foil to Ronnie Barker.
Josephine Touray
Josephine Touray (Josephine Maria Touray), Danish handball right wing born 1979 in Aarhus; Olympic gold 2004 with Denmark, 2002 European champion, 123 caps and 383 national-team goals, later HAND ambassador in Sierra Leone.
Josephinism
Josephinism is the name for the enlightened absolutist reform program of Emperor Joseph II, especially his subordination of the Catholic Church to the state in the Habsburg Monarchy.
Josephson diode effect
The Josephson diode effect is the nonreciprocal behavior of a Josephson junction, the superconducting analog of a semiconducting diode, carrying supercurrent with zero resistance in only one direction.
Josephson diode in van der Waals junctions
A Josephson diode in van der Waals junctions is a superconducting device that conducts supercurrent in one direction only, demonstrated field-free in stacked NbSe2 crystals in 2022.
Josephson effect
The Josephson effect, also known as Josephson tunneling, is the flow of a supercurrent across a thin barrier between two superconductors, predicted by Brian Josephson in 1962.
Josephson junction
A Josephson junction is a pair of superconducting electrodes separated by a thin weak link, predicted by Brian Josephson in 1962 and honored with the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Josephson parametric amplifier
A Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) is a superconducting microwave amplifier using the nonlinearity of Josephson junctions to read out superconducting qubits with noise at or near the quantum limit.
Josephson parametric converter
A Josephson ring modulator amplifier is a superconducting microwave parametric amplifier using a ring of four Josephson junctions, capable of amplification near the quantum limit.
Josephson photomultiplier
The Josephson photomultiplier is a superconducting detector for single microwave photons, proposed in 2009 and used in qubit readout, quantum sensing, and dark-matter axion searches.
Josephson voltage standard
The Josephson voltage standard is a quantum instrument producing exact, calculable voltages from superconducting junctions driven by microwaves, realizing the volt from fundamental constants since 2019.
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (Yosef ben Matityahu, c. 37–c. 100 CE), Jewish priest and Galilee commander in the First Jewish War, later Roman protégé in Rome; author of Jewish War, Antiquities, Life, and Against Apion, the principal source for first-century Judea.
Josephus on Jesus
Josephus on Jesus concerns two passages in Flavius Josephus's Judean Antiquities, completed in 93–94 CE, that mention Jesus of Nazareth: the disputed Testimonium Flavianum and a shorter notice about James.
Josephus problem
The Josephus problem, named for the historian Flavius Josephus, asks where the sole survivor stands when n people in a circle are removed every q-th in turn.
Josetsu
Josetsu (如拙) was a Japanese Zen painter-monk active in the early 1400s at the Shokoku-ji in Kyoto, best known for the National Treasure painting Catching a Catfish with a Gourd.
Josette Arene
Josette Arene (Josette Andree Arene, born Delmas; 1924-2019), French swimmer of the 1940s-1950s; two-time Olympian (London 1948, Helsinki 1952), ten French titles, and 1954 world record in the 4x100 m medley relay.
Josette Simon
Josette Simon, British actress from Leicester, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama; played Dayna Mellanby in Blake's 7, led RSC Shakespeare roles, won 1990 Evening Standard Award, OBE 2000.
Josey Garcia
Josey Garcia is an American politician and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 124, covering West San Antonio, and the first active-duty veteran woman to serve there.