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James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant
The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant is a boiling water reactor on Lake Ontario in Scriba, New York, operating commercially since 1975 and now run by Constellation Energy.
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield (1831-1881), 20th U.S. president, Union major general, and nine-term Ohio congressman; shot by Charles Guiteau in July 1881 and died 79 days later, spurring the Pendleton Act civil service reform.
James A. Goodrich
James A. Goodrich is an American molecular biologist, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for defining RNA polymerase II promoter clearance.
James A. Halsted
James A. Halsted was an American physician and nutrition researcher who studied vitamin B12 absorption and, during a Fulbright post in Shiraz, Iran, opened the study of human zinc deficiency.
James A. Imlay
James A. Imlay is an American biochemist and microbiologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign whose work defines how bacteria are damaged by reactive oxygen species.
James A. Janisse
James A. Janisse (born 1989) is an American YouTuber, founder and co-owner of Dead Meat, host of The Kill Count horror series launched 2017, with Chelsea Rebecca; also the Dead Meat Podcast, Horror Awards, and cameos in Scream (2022).
James A. Lake
James A. Lake is an American molecular biologist and evolutionary genomicist at UCLA, known for the eocyte hypothesis, the ring of life genome fusion model, and the New Animal Phylogeny.
James A. Lindsay
James A. Lindsay, American mathematician (PhD, University of Tennessee, 2010), author, and founder of New Discourses, known for the 2018 Grievance Studies hoax with Pluckrose and Boghossian and for Cynical Theories and Race Marxism.
James A. McCloskey
James A. McCloskey (1936–2017) was an American analytical chemist at the University of Utah who applied mass spectrometry to nucleic acids and discovered the nucleoside Q.
James A. Merchant
James A. Merchant is an American physician and epidemiologist at the University of Iowa whose cotton dust research led to OSHA's 1978 Cotton Dust Standard.
James A. Michener
James A. Michener (1907–1997), American novelist of place-based epic historical fiction; author of Tales of the South Pacific (1948 Pulitzer), Hawaii, Centennial, and The Covenant; about 100 million copies sold.
James A. Miller (scientist)
James A. Miller (1915–2000) was an American biochemist who, with his wife and collaborator Elizabeth C. Miller, established the electrophilic-metabolite theory of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
James A. Mirrlees
James A. Mirrlees, also known as James Mirrlees, was a Scottish economist who won half of the 1996 Nobel Prize in economics for his theory of incentives under asymmetric information.
James A. Morris Jr
James A. Morris Jr is an American marine ecologist at NOAA's Beaufort, North Carolina lab, known for invasive lionfish research and leading marine aquaculture siting work.
James A. Nathanson
James A. Nathanson is a physician-scientist with MD and PhD degrees known for research on cyclic nucleotide signaling in the brain, cerebral vessels, and eye.
James A. Pittman Jr.
James A. Pittman Jr., also known as James Allen Pittman Jr., was an American endocrinologist who served as dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham medical school.
James A. R. Nicoll
James A. R. Nicoll is a British clinical neuropathologist and Professor of Neuropathology at the University of Southampton, known for the first neuropathological study of an Alzheimer brain after amyloid immunization.
James A. Robinson
James A. Robinson (born 1960) is a British-American economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, co-winner of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
James A. Russell
James A. Russell is an American psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Boston College, known for the circumplex model of affect and the concept of core affect.
James A. Screen
James A. Screen is a climate scientist and professor at the University of Exeter known for attributing Arctic warming to diminishing sea ice and for the PAMIP project.
James A. Sethian
James A. Sethian, born 1954, is an American applied mathematician at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for the level-set method and fast marching methods.
James A. Soto
James A. Soto, also known as James Alan Soto, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Arizona since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
James A. Spudich
James A. Spudich is a Stanford biochemist known for in vitro motility assays that made myosin the first measurable molecular motor; he won the 2012 Lasker Award.
James A. Teilborg
James A. Teilborg, born 1942 in Pueblo, Colorado, is a senior United States district judge of the District of Arizona, nominated by President Bill Clinton in 2000.
James A. Trainham III
James A. Trainham III is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, who spent 25 years at DuPont, rising to chief technology officer of Invista.
James A. Tulsky
James A. Tulsky is an American general internist and palliative care researcher known for studying doctor-patient communication and measuring the quality of dying and serious-illness care.
James A. Van Allen
James A. Van Allen (1914–2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa who discovered Earth's radiation belts via Explorer 1 in 1958.
James A. Wells
James A. Wells is an American chemical biologist and protein engineer who pioneered gain-of-function protein engineering, protein phage display, and Tethering, and co-founded Sunesis Pharmaceuticals.
James A. Wynn, Jr.
James A. Wynn, Jr., also known as James Andrew Wynn, Jr., is an American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 2010.
James A. Yorke
James A. Yorke, born 1941, is an American mathematician at the University of Maryland who coined the term "chaos" and helped found chaos theory in 1975.