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James Dungey

James Wynne Dungey (1923–2015) was a British space scientist who proposed in 1961 that Earth's magnetosphere is open, via magnetic reconnection, the foundation of modern magnetospheric physics.

James Dunn (actor)

James Howard Dunn (1901–1967), American film and television actor and vaudeville performer, Fox contract star of Bad Girl and Shirley Temple's first features, won the 1945 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and later starred in TV's It's a Great Life.

James Duval

James Duval (born 1972, Detroit) is an American actor known for Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse trilogy, Frank in Donnie Darko, and roles in Independence Day and Go; namesake of a filmmaker (1962-2023).

James Dwight Dana

James Dwight Dana (1813–1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist, professor at Yale, author of A System of Mineralogy, and geologist on the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842.

James Dyson

James Dyson, also known as Sir James Dyson, is a British inventor and entrepreneur born in Norfolk, England, in 1947, best known for inventing the bagless vacuum cleaner.

James E Fitzgerald

James E Fitzgerald is a theoretical neuroscientist, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Northwestern University, who led a research group at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus from 2017 to 2023.

James E. Bear

James E. Bear is an American cell biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies how cells control the actin cytoskeleton to move.

James E. Bradner

James E. Bradner, known as Jay Bradner, is an American physician-scientist and chemical biologist known for JQ1, the first BET bromodomain inhibitor, which he shared freely with other researchers.

James E. Cleaver

James E. Cleaver is an American scientist at UCSF who showed in 1968 that the skin cancer disease xeroderma pigmentosum arises from defective DNA repair.

James E. Crowe

James E. Crowe Jr. is an American pediatric infectious-disease physician-scientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who directs the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center and develops human monoclonal antibodies against emerging viruses.

James E. Dahlberg

James E. Dahlberg is an American RNA biochemist and University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus whose enzyme research led to diagnostic tests, including the Cologuard colon cancer screen.

James E. Dalen

James E. Dalen was an American cardiologist whose research reshaped the understanding of pulmonary embolism; he was dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine from 1988 to 2001.

James E. Ferrell

James E. Ferrell is an American systems biologist and physician-scientist at Stanford School of Medicine, known for work on ultrasensitivity, bistability, and trigger waves in cell-cycle control.

James E. Gebhardt

James E. Gebhardt (born 1955) is an American metallurgical and mineral-processing engineer, a UC Berkeley alumnus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

James E. Gern

James E. Gern is an American pediatric allergist and immunologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose research links common cold viruses, especially rhinoviruses, to childhood asthma.

James E. Goldman

James E. Goldman is an American neuropathologist and Columbia University professor who has studied glial cells for over 30 years, especially Alexander disease and its GFAP genetic cause.

James E. Graves, Jr.

James E. Graves, Jr., born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2011, appointed by President Barack Obama.

James E. Gritzner

James E. Gritzner, born 1947 in Charles City, Iowa, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Iowa, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.

James E. Gunn

James E. Gunn, born in Texas in 1938, is an American astrophysicist and Princeton professor who conceived and led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, winning the Kyoto Prize in 2019.

James E. Haber

James E. Haber, born 1943 in Pittsburgh, is an American molecular biologist at Brandeis University who studies DNA repair in yeast and won the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal in 2011.

James E. Haddow

James Edward Haddow (1934–2020) was an American pediatrician and perinatal screening researcher who co-founded Maine's Foundation for Blood Research and led landmark 1994 and 1999 studies on maternal serum screening and thyroid deficiency.

James E. Hansen

James E. Hansen is an American climate scientist, former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, known for his 1988 congressional testimony on global warming.

James E. Heubi

James E. Heubi (1948–2021) was an American pediatric gastroenterologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, known for research on childhood liver disease and inborn errors of bile acid metabolism.

James E. Hutchison

James E. Hutchison is an American materials chemist at the University of Oregon who joined the faculty in 1994, known for DNA-scaffolded gold nanoparticle assemblies and founding greener nanoscience.

James E. Kinkeade

James E. Kinkeade (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Texas since 2002, appointed by President George W. Bush.

James E. Lock

James E. Lock is a pediatric cardiologist and Harvard professor who led cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital and pioneered transcatheter treatment of congenital heart disease.

James E. Loyd

James E. Loyd is a pulmonary physician-scientist and Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, known for genetic studies of pulmonary hypertension and fibrosis, including a 2001 NEJM study.

James E. McDonald

James E. McDonald (1920–1971) was an American atmospheric physicist at the University of Arizona, known for cloud physics, weather modification research, and prominent UFO investigations.

James E. McGrath

James E. McGrath (1934–2014) was an American polymer scientist and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech who worked on block copolymers, fuel-cell materials, and desalination membranes.

James E. McGuigan

James E. McGuigan (1931–2018) was an American gastroenterologist who developed the radioimmunoassay of the hormone gastrin, enabling diagnosis of Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, and spent most of his career at the University of Florida.