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Junuthula N. Reddy
Junuthula N. Reddy, known as J. N. Reddy, is a mechanical engineer at Texas A&M University whose plate and shell theories carry his name; he joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
Junyao Group
Juneyao Group (均瑶集团), also romanized Junyao Group, is a private Chinese conglomerate founded in 1991 by three brothers from Wenzhou, built on aviation and dairy drinks and controlling Juneyao Air.
Junyao Health
Junyao Health (均瑶健康), formally Juneyao Grand Healthy Drinks Co., Ltd., is a Chinese maker of room-temperature lactic acid bacteria drinks, controlled by Juneyao Group and listed in Shanghai since 2020.
Junyue Cao
Junyue Cao (曹俊越) is a Chinese-born computational biologist and Rockefeller University associate professor known for sci-RNA-seq combinatorial indexing methods and single-cell atlases of mammalian development and aging.
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Junzaburō Nishiwaki (西脇順三郎, 1894–1982) was a Japanese poet and scholar of English literature who taught at Keio University and is regarded as the father of literary surrealism in Japan.
Junzhai dushuzhi
Junzhai dushuzhi (郡齋讀書志) is an annotated private-library catalog compiled by the Southern Song scholar Chao Gongwu, completed in 1151 and the oldest surviving in China.
Juosan
Juosan (縦横さん) is a Nikoli pencil logic puzzle from 2014: fill an m×n grid's territories with horizontal or vertical bars, honoring clue counts and run limits; NP-complete since 2018.
Juozas Aputis
Juozas Aputis (1936–2010) was a Lithuanian prose writer, editor, translator, and critic who modernized the Lithuanian short story during the Soviet-era revival of the 1970s and 1980s.
Juozas Grušas
Juozas Grušas (1901–1986) was a Lithuanian writer and playwright, regarded as one of the most prominent Lithuanian dramatists of the twentieth century, known for historical dramas and tragicomedies.
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869–1933) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest, prose writer, and literary historian, a leading figure of the National Revival and author of Pragiedruliai.
Juozas Urbšys
Juozas Urbšys (1896–1991) was a Lithuanian diplomat who served as the last foreign minister of independent interwar Lithuania, from 1938 until the Soviet occupation in 1940.
Juozas Vitkus
Juozas Vitkus, codename Kazimieraitis (1901–1946), was a Lithuanian lieutenant colonel who organized and led the anti-Soviet partisans of southern Lithuania and was killed by Soviet security forces in 1946.
Jupally Krishna Rao
Jupally Krishna Rao, born 1955, is an Indian National Congress politician from Telangana, a minister holding the Prohibition and Excise, Tourism and Culture, and Archaeology portfolios.
Jupiá hydroelectric plant
The Jupiá hydroelectric plant, officially Usina Hidrelétrica Engenheiro Souza Dias, is a hydroelectric plant on the Paraná River in Brazil, operating since 1969 with 1,551 MW of installed capacity.
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the solar system, a gas giant with 115 known moons and a day of 9.9 hours.
Jupiter (god)
Jupiter (Iuppiter), sovereign god of the Romans, a sky and storm god whose name derives from Indo-European dyeu-peter, cognate with Zeus; worshipped as Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill and invoked through the auspices before major political action.
Jupiter (supercomputer)
Jupiter is an exascale supercomputer operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany, the first European machine to reach one quintillion floating-point operations per second.
Jupiter Ascending
Jupiter Ascending (2015) is the Wachowskis' original space opera starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum, delayed from July 2014, budgeted $150-175 million, opening to $18 million and about 22-28% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jupiter Hammerheads
Jupiter Hammerheads: Miami Marlins Single-A Florida State League team in Jupiter, Florida, sharing Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium with the Palm Beach Cardinals; founded 1998, FSL champions in 2023 and 2026.
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice, is a European Space Agency spacecraft launched in April 2023 to study Jupiter and the icy moons Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.
Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA mission, studied under Project Prometheus in the early 2000s, to orbit Jupiter's moons Callisto, Ganymede, and Europa with nuclear electric propulsion.
Jupiter Island, Florida
Jupiter Island, Florida is an incorporated barrier-island town in Martin County, established 1953, population about 804-820, with nine miles of oceanfront, multimillion-dollar estates, the Hobe Sound refuge, and severe beach erosion.
Jupiter Jetson
Jupiter Jetson, also known as Nova Sky, is an American adult film performer who worked at Sheri's Ranch brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, and leads its union drive.
Jupiter mass
The Jupiter mass is a unit of mass in astronomy, defined by Jupiter's mass of about 1.898 × 10^27 kg, standard for giant planets and brown dwarfs.
JUPITER trial
JUPITER (Justification for the Use of Statins in Prevention) trial: 2008 AstraZeneca-funded randomized trial of rosuvastatin 20 mg in 17,802 adults with LDL-C under 130 mg/dL and hsCRP at least 2.0 mg/L; stopped at 1.9 years with 44% relative risk reduction, contested absolute benefit, and increased diabetes incidence.
Jupiter trojan
A Jupiter trojan, also known as a Jovian trojan, is an asteroid sharing Jupiter's orbit, librating 60 degrees ahead of or behind the planet; over 15,000 are cataloged, the largest being Hektor at about 250 km.
Jupiter Trojans
The Jupiter Trojans are asteroids sharing Jupiter's orbit around the Sun at its L4 and L5 Lagrange points, first seen in 1906 and visited by NASA's Lucy mission.
Jupiter-mass binary objects
Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) are candidate pairs of planetary-mass objects, 0.7 to 13 Jupiter masses, found in the Orion Nebula's Trapezium Cluster by JWST in 2023; no theory explains them.
Jupiter, Florida
Jupiter, Florida is a coastal Palm Beach County town incorporated February 9, 1925, population 61,047 (2020), known for the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, first lit July 10, 1860, the oldest structure in Palm Beach County.
Jupiter's dilute core
Jupiter's dilute core is an interior structure in which heavy elements are dissolved into the planet's hydrogen and helium envelope, revealed by NASA's Juno spacecraft.