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Junji Kido
Junji Kido (城戸 淳二) is a Japanese engineer and materials scientist at Yamagata University known as the inventor of the white OLED, first made in 1993.
Junji Takeda
Junji Takeda (竹田 潤二) is a Japanese molecular biologist at Osaka University whose 1993 Cell paper identified PIG-A mutations as the cause of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Junjie Chen
Junjie Chen is a cancer biologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for work on the DNA damage response and genomic stability.
Junjie Hu (胡俊杰)
Junjie Hu (胡俊杰) is a Chinese cell biologist who studies how the endoplasmic reticulum takes shape, leading a lab at the Institute of Biophysics in Beijing.
Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance (純情ロマンチカ)
Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance (純情ロマンチカ) is a boys' love manga by Shungiku Nakamura, serialized since 2002 in Ciel TresTres and later Emerald, with 31 volumes, novelizations, a three-season Studio DEEN anime (2008, 2015), and 15 million copies sold by 2020.
Junk (ship)
A junk is a Chinese sailing ship distinguished by watertight bulkheads, a sternpost rudder, and battened sails; it served for centuries as a trading vessel across East Asia.
Junk food
Junk food: informal term for high-calorie, low-nutrient foods high in sugar, salt, or fat; term coined by Michael Jacobson (CSPI) in 1972; no accepted legal definition; regulators use HFSS or ultra-processed food categories instead.
Junk journal
Junk journal, also called junk journaling or formerly smashbooking, is a handmade book craft using recycled and found materials like packaging, tickets, and magazine cutouts, collaged with stickers and ephemera; distinct from photo-centered scrapbooking, it surged in popularity around 2025.
Junk science
Junk science: unvalidated theories or methods presented as scientific fact, especially in court. Term popularized by Peter Huber's 1991 Galileo's Revenge; Daubert (1993) and the 2009 NAS forensic report are its legal landmarks.
Junker
Junker (German Junker, from juncherre, "young lord"): the east-Elbian landed lesser nobility of Prussia who personally ran Rittergut estates with service-bound peasants, supplied the Prussian officer corps, and dominated court, army, and administration into the twentieth century.
Junker (Prussia)
Junker (Prussia): the lesser landowning nobility of Prussia's historic eastern provinces, from Middle High German Juncherre, "young nobleman"; a military and farming gentry that dominated Prussian politics via the three-class franchise until expropriation after 1945.
Junkers
Junkers, also known as Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, was a German industrial group founded by Hugo Junkers, best known for pioneering all-metal aircraft and the Ju 52 transport.
Junkers Ju 287
The Junkers Ju 287 was a German experimental jet bomber with forward-swept wings, the first swept-wing aircraft to fly, in 1944; later work continued in the Soviet Union as the EF-131.
Junkers Ju 390
The Junkers Ju 390 was a German six-engine long-range aircraft of World War II, developed from the Ju 290 and submitted for the Luftwaffe's Amerika Bomber program.
Junkers Ju 52
The Junkers Ju 52, nicknamed Tante Ju and Iron Annie, was a German tri-motor transport aircraft with a corrugated duralumin skin, flown from 1930 as the backbone of Lufthansa and the Luftwaffe.
Junkers Ju 86
The Junkers Ju 86 was a German twin-engine aircraft of the 1930s built as both a Luft Hansa airliner and a Luftwaffe medium bomber, later converted into a pressurized high-altitude reconnaissance plane.
Junkers Ju 87
The Junkers Ju 87, known as the Stuka, was a two-seat German dive bomber of the Second World War, feared for its accurate diving attacks and screaming sirens.
Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a twin-engine multirole combat aircraft of the German Luftwaffe, produced from 1939 to 1945 in greater numbers than any other twin-engine German type.
Junkers Jumo 004
The Junkers Jumo 004 was a German axial-flow turbojet designed by Anselm Franz, the world's first mass-produced operational turbojet, which powered the Me 262 and Arado Ar 234.
Junkers Jumo 205
The Junkers Jumo 205 is a German six-cylinder, twelve-piston opposed-piston two-stroke diesel aircraft engine developed in the early 1930s and used from the mid-1930s through World War II.
Junkers Jumo 222
The Junkers Jumo 222 was a 24-cylinder, liquid-cooled German aircraft engine of World War II, intended to power the Luftwaffe's Bomber B program but kept out of production by development troubles.
Junkgowa Corona
Junkgowa Corona is a 280-km-wide corona on Venus at 37.0N, 257.0E, IAU-approved in 1994 and named for a Yulengor (Australia) fertility goddess; one of 347 named Venusian coronae.
Junko Asari
Junko Asari (浅利純子, born 1969, Kazuno, Akita) is a retired Japanese marathon runner; 1993 World Championships gold medalist in 2:30:03, the first Japanese woman's athletics gold at Olympics or Worlds, with a 2:26:10 personal best.
Junko Ohashi (大橋純子)
Junko Ohashi was a Japanese singer and city pop icon, known for her powerful, soulful vocals and hits like "Silhouette Romance" and "Tasogare My Love."
Junko Tabei (田部井 淳子)
Junko Tabei (田部井 淳子, 1939–2016), Japanese mountaineer, founder of the Joshi-Tohan women's climbing club, first woman on Everest (May 16, 1975) and first woman to complete the Seven Summits in 1992.
Junko Takeuchi (竹内順子)
Junko Takeuchi (竹内順子), born 1972, is a Japanese voice actress and stage actress with Ogipro THE NEXT, famous as the voice of Naruto Uzumaki since 2002, plus Gon Freecss, Mamoru Endou, and Cure Rouge.
Junkyard Dog
Junkyard Dog (Sylvester Ritter, 1952–1998), American pro wrestler and ex-college football star; Mid-South Wrestling's top draw, WWF star, first Wrestling Classic winner, 2004 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.
Junlebao Dairy
Junlebao Dairy is a Chinese dairy company based in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, founded by Wei Lihua in 1995, ranked third in China by 2025 dairy retail sales.
Junliangcheng power station
Junliangcheng power station (华电天津军粮城发电厂) is a coal- and gas-fired combined heat and power plant in Dongli District, Tianjin, China, rated at more than 1,700 MW.
Junmin Xue
Junmin Xue is a materials scientist at the National University of Singapore known for a 2022 Nature paper on light-triggered oxygen evolution in water splitting.