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J. Georg Bednorz
J. Georg Bednorz, also known as Georg Bednorz, is a German physicist who discovered high-temperature superconductivity in 1986 and won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.
J. George Harrar
J. George Harrar (1906–1982) was an American plant pathologist who directed the Rockefeller Foundation's Mexican Agricultural Program, hired Norman Borlaug, and served as Foundation president from 1961 to 1972.
J. George Thon
J. George Thon (c. 1908–1988) was a Polish-born civil engineer who designed major hydroelectric, nuclear, and transit systems and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
J. Gordon Scannell
J. Gordon Scannell (John Gordon Scannell, 1914–2002) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon who built the cardiac surgery service at Massachusetts General Hospital and led the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
J. Gregor Sutcliffe
J. Gregor Sutcliffe is a molecular biologist and professor at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for discovering the hypocretin neuropeptides and pioneering open-system gene discovery in the brain.
J. H. C. Whitehead
J. H. C. Whitehead, full name John Henry Constantine Whitehead, was a British mathematician and a founder of modern algebraic topology, best known for the CW complex and the Whitehead theorem.
J. H. Leopold
J. H. Leopold (Jan Hendrik Leopold, 1865–1925) was a Dutch symbolist poet and classicist, best known for the long poem Cheops and his free translations of Persian and Arabic poetry.
J. H. Morgan
J. H. Morgan (John Hartman Morgan, 1876–1955) was a British brigadier-general and barrister who investigated German atrocities in 1914 and advised the Nuremberg war crimes commission.
J. H. Pate Skene
J. H. Pate Skene (Jesse Haynes Pate Skene) is a cellular and molecular neuroscientist who identified GAP-43, a growth-cone protein, and now studies decision-making and scientific evidence in the courts.
J. Halcombe Laning
J. Halcombe Laning, Jr. (1920–2012) was an American computer pioneer and aerospace engineer at MIT known for the George compiler, Q-guidance, and Apollo's onboard software.
J. Hans D. Jensen
J. Hans D. Jensen, born Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1907–1973), was a German nuclear physicist at Heidelberg who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for the nuclear shell model.
J. Hartwell Harrison
J. Hartwell Harrison was an American urological surgeon and Harvard professor who removed the donor kidney in the first successful human organ transplant in 1954.
J. Herbert Taylor
James Herbert Taylor (1916–1998) was a biologist at Florida State University whose 1957 tritiated-thymidine experiment gave the first proof of semiconservative DNA replication, leading to his 1977 election to the National Academy of Sciences.
J. Herbert Waite
J. Herbert Waite is an American biochemist and materials scientist at UC Santa Barbara who identified the DOPA-rich proteins that let mussels glue themselves underwater.
J. Herschel (lunar crater)
J. Herschel, lunar crater 154.44 km wide at 62.31°N 41.86°W, IAU-named 1935 for astronomer John Herschel; floor hosts dark mantle deposits and probable volcanic features, distinct from Mimas' Herschel crater.
J. Howard Marshall
J. Howard Marshall, also known as James Howard Marshall II, was an American lawyer and oil executive whose fortune came from a 16 percent stake in Koch Industries.
J. Howard Marshall III
J. Howard Marshall III is the eldest son of Texas oil executive J. Howard Marshall II, disinherited in 1995 and known for two decades of litigation over the estate.
J. Howard Redfield
J. Howard Redfield (1879–1944) was an American engineer whose single 1927 paper established the Pólya–Redfield enumeration theorem, anticipating results usually credited to George Pólya by a decade.
J. I. Segal
J. I. Segal, born Yaakov Yitzchak Skolar (1896–1954), was a Canadian Yiddish poet and journalist based in Montreal, one of Canada's first Yiddish writers and its most renowned Yiddish poet.
J. I. Wedgwood
James Ingall Wedgwood (1883–1951) was an English chemist, organist, and Theosophist who, with C. W. Leadbeater, founded the Liberal Catholic Church and became its first Presiding Bishop.
J. Ilja Siepmann
J. Ilja Siepmann (Joern Ilja Siepmann) is a German-born chemist and professor at the University of Minnesota since 1994, known for the TraPPE force fields and Monte Carlo algorithms.
J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams (Jeffrey Jacob Abrams, born 1966) is an American writer-director-producer, creator of Felicity, Alias, and Lost, founder of Bad Robot Productions, and director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
J. J. Barea
J.J. Barea (José Juan Barea Mora, born 1984, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico) is a former NBA point guard, undrafted from Northeastern in 2006, who won the 2011 title with Dallas and became a Denver Nuggets assistant coach in 2025.
J. J. Brown (physician)
Justin Brown, born Jehoiada John Brown and published as J. J. Brown, was a Welsh physician and clinical scientist (1926 to 2009) known for research on renin and hypertension.
J. J. McCarthy
J.J. McCarthy (Jonathan James McCarthy), Michigan quarterback and 2023 national champion, drafted 10th overall by Minnesota in 2024; injured rookie year, 6-4 in 10 starts in 2025, traded to the Giants in 2026.
J. J. McCullough
J.J. McCullough (John James McCullough, born 1984) is a Vancouver-based Canadian YouTuber, columnist, and commentator with over 1 million subscribers, a former Sun News Network TV pundit, Washington Post and National Review columnist, and Bill C-11 opponent.
J. J. Philbin
J. J. Philbin, also known as Jennifer Joy Philbin, is an American television writer and producer known for The O.C., New Girl, and Only Murders in the Building.
J. J. Spaun
J.J. Spaun (John Michael Spaun Jr., born 1990) is an American PGA Tour golfer and 2025 U.S. Open champion at Oakmont; also won the 2022 and 2026 Valero Texas Opens and the 2026 BMW PGA Championship.
J. J. Thomson
J. J. Thomson, born Joseph John Thomson, was an English physicist who discovered the electron in 1897 and won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics.
J. J. van Rood
J. J. van Rood, born Johannes Joseph van Rood (1926–2017), was a Dutch immunologist at Leiden University who co-discovered the HLA system and founded Eurotransplant.