All articles starting with J

James Evangelista

James Philip Evangelista is a venture capital executive serving as Partner and Chief Financial Officer of The Column Group, a San Francisco life-science venture firm he joined in 2012.

James Evans Robertson

James Evans Robertson (1924–1993) was an American computer scientist at the University of Illinois, known for the SRT division method and ORDVAC and ILLIAC I circuitry.

James Ewing (pathologist)

James Ewing (1866–1943) was an American pathologist, first professor of pathology at Cornell, best known for describing Ewing sarcoma and founding American cancer research organizations.

James F. Blake (1913-2002) was the Montgomery, Alabama bus driver who ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat on December 1, 1955, precipitating the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott and Browder v. Gayle.

James F. Bonner

James Frederick Bonner (1910–1996) was an American molecular and plant biologist at Caltech who showed that chromatin, not naked DNA, carries gene regulation in higher organisms.

James F. Byrnes

James F. Byrnes, also known as James Francis Byrnes, was an American statesman from South Carolina, the only person to serve as congressman, senator, Supreme Court justice, secretary of state, and governor.

James F. Crow

James F. Crow (1916–2012) was an American population geneticist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who co-authored the 1970 textbook with Motoo Kimura and mentored over 50 scientists.

James F. Fries

James F. Fries (1938–2021) was an American rheumatologist and Stanford professor who proposed the "compression of morbidity" hypothesis and developed the Health Assessment Questionnaire for arthritis patients.

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James F. Gusella

James F. Gusella is a Canadian human geneticist, Bullard Professor of Neurogenetics at Harvard Medical School, who mapped the Huntington's disease gene in 1983 and identified its CAG repeat cause in 1993.

James F. Holland

James F. Holland (1925–2018) was an American physician and cancer researcher, a founding father of combination chemotherapy and the modern cooperative clinical trial in oncology.

James F. Kasting

James F. Kasting, also published as James Kasting, is an American geoscientist at Penn State known for his 1993 theory of habitable zones around stars.

James F. Lardner

James F. Lardner (1924–2012) was an American manufacturing engineer who spent 44 years at Deere & Co. and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

James F. Leckman

James F. Leckman is an American child psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist, a Yale Child Study Center professor from 1976 to 2025, known for research on Tourette syndrome and pediatric OCD.

James F. O'Connell

James F. O'Connell, born 1943 in San Francisco, is an American anthropologist at the University of Utah known for applying optimal foraging theory to hunter-gatherers and for the grandmother hypothesis.

James F. Roth

James F. Roth (1925–2021) was an American industrial chemist who discovered the low-pressure rhodium-catalyzed process for making acetic acid from methanol, the basis of the Monsanto process.

James F. Rusling

James F. Rusling is an American analytical and bioanalytical chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut since 1990, known for biosensors and cancer diagnostics.

James F. Scott

James F. Scott, also known as James Floyd Scott (1942–2020), was an American physicist known as the father of integrated ferroelectrics, whose work enabled FeRAM memory in game consoles and railway fare cards.

James F. Stahl

James F. Stahl is an American environmental engineer who led the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County for 38 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

James Farentino

James Farentino (James Ferrantino, 1938-2012), American actor; Emmy-nominated as Simon Peter in Jesus of Nazareth, Golden Globe winner for The Pad and How to Use It; TV roles in Dynasty, The Bold Ones, and ER.

James Farmer

James Farmer (1920–1999), American civil rights leader, co-founder and national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), architect of the 1961 Freedom Rides, later HEW assistant secretary and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

James Farquhar (geochemist)

James Farquhar is a geochemist at the University of Maryland, College Park, best known for mass-independent sulfur isotope signatures that trace oxygen's rise in Earth's early atmosphere.

James Faulkner (cricketer)

James Faulkner (James Peter Faulkner, born 1990, Launceston), Australian left-arm medium-fast all-rounder; 2013 IPL leading wicket-taker (28 at 15.25) for Rajasthan Royals and player of the match, 3-36, in the 2015 World Cup final; ODI career 2013-2017.

James Fauntleroy

James Fauntleroy (James Edward Fauntleroy II, born 1984) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer from Inglewood, California, a four-time Grammy winner known for 24K Magic, The 20/20 Experience, and the Nova EP with Terrace Martin.

James Fearon

James Fearon is an American political scientist at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, known for explaining why wars and ethnic violence occur.

James Feast

William James Feast is a British polymer chemist at Durham University, best known for the 1980 Durham precursor route to polyacetylene and for applying ROMP to functional polymers.

James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American novelist of Cooperstown, New York, author of Precaution, The Spy, and the five Leatherstocking Tales featuring Natty Bumppo; former U.S. Navy midshipman and best-known American novelist of the early 19th century.

James Files

James E. Files is an Illinois ex-prisoner who claims he was the grassy knoll gunman in the JFK assassination, promoted by Joe West and Bob Vernon; telephone records place him in Chicago on November 22, 1963, and researchers reject the confession.

James Fishback

James Fishback, founder and CEO of Azoria and a former Greenlight Capital macro investor, ran for Florida governor as a Republican in 2026, finished third in the primary with 10.5 percent, and survived a residency ballot challenge by Lt. Gov. Jay Collins.

James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster

James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster (1722–1773), 20th earl of Kildare, Irish Patriot politician and borough patron; MP for Athy, opponent of Dorset and Stone, builder of Leinster House, husband of Emily Lennox.