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James Hunter Thrall

James Hunter Thrall is an American radiologist who served as Radiologist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1988 to 2013, led the American College of Radiology, and authored over 400 publications.

James Hutton

James Hutton was a Scottish natural philosopher and farmer whose 1788 Theory of the Earth established modern geology, arguing the Earth is far older than commonly accepted.

James I of Aragon

James I of Aragon, known as James the Conqueror (Catalan: Jaume I), reigned as King of Aragon for 63 years from 1213, conquering Majorca and Valencia.

James I of Scotland

James I of Scotland (1394-1437), Stewart king held captive in England 1406-1424, married Joan Beaufort, crowned at Scone 1424, wrote The Kingis Quair, reformed Scots law, and was assassinated at Perth in 1437.

James I. Cohn

James I. Cohn, born in 1948, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2016.

James I. Garrels

James I. Garrels is a biologist who created the Yeast Proteome Database, the first annotated database for a complete proteome, and directed the QUEST center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

James I. Mullins

James I. Mullins is a virologist known for studying the evolution of HIV and retroviruses, and for professorships at Stanford and the University of Washington, retiring in 2025.

James I. Robertson

James I. Robertson, full name James Ian Summers Robertson, was a Scottish cardiovascular physician at the MRC Blood Pressure Unit, Glasgow, who helped develop the first reliable renin assay.

James Ibers

James Ibers (1930–2021) was an American inorganic chemist and crystallographer who spent more than 55 years at Northwestern University, edited Inorganic Chemistry, and determined the crystal structure of buckminsterfullerene.

James Iha

James Iha, American guitarist, co-founded The Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago (1988–2000), co-wrote "Soma" and "Mayonaise," led A Perfect Circle membership, Tinted Windows, and solo albums Let It Come Down and Look to the Sky.

James II of England

James II and VII (1633–1701), last Catholic king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (r. 1685–1688); deposed in the Glorious Revolution by William of Orange and Mary II, defeated at the Boyne, died in French exile.

James II of Scotland

James II of Scotland (1430–1460), called 'Fiery Face', reigned 1437–1460; crushed the Black Douglases after stabbing the 8th Earl at Stirling in 1452, founded Glasgow University, and died when a cannon exploded at Roxburgh.

James III of Scotland

James III of Scotland (1451–1488) reigned 1460–1488; gained Orkney and Shetland via Margaret of Denmark's dowry, ruled with favourites, faced rebellions at Lauder 1482 and Sauchieburn 1488 where he died.

James Ingram

James Ingram (1952-2019), Akron-born R&B singer-songwriter and session keyboardist, two-time Grammy winner from 14 nominations, known for "Just Once," "Yah Mo B There," "Baby, Come to Me," and co-writing "P.Y.T." with Quincy Jones.

James Irvine (chemist)

James Colquhoun Irvine (1877–1952) was a Scottish organic chemist who developed the methylation method for determining sugar structures and served at the University of St Andrews.

James Irwin

James Irwin, also known as Jim Irwin, was an American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon in 1971.

James IV of Scotland

James IV of Scotland (1473-1513), Stewart king from 1488, son of James III; consolidated royal authority, married Margaret Tudor in 1503, built the Great Michael navy, and died at Flodden in 1513.

James Ivory

James Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is the American director of Merchant Ivory Productions, founded with Ismail Merchant in 1961, known for Forster and James adaptations including Howards End, and an Oscar winner for Call Me by Your Name.

James J. Bock

James J. (Jamie) Bock is an American experimental cosmologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, known for Boomerang, Planck, Spider, CIBER, and the SPHEREx mission.

James J. Braddock

James J. Braddock (1905–1974), the "Cinderella Man," was an American boxer and world heavyweight champion 1935–1937 who beat Max Baer as a 10-to-1 underdog in 1935 and lost the title to Joe Louis in 1937.

James J. Carberry

James J. Carberry (1925–2000) was an American chemical engineer who taught at Notre Dame for 40 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

James J. Chou

James J. Chou is a structural biologist known for using solution NMR spectroscopy to determine membrane protein structures, including the apoptotic protein BID and the death receptor DR5.

James J. Collins

James J. Collins is an American bioengineer, Termeer Professor at MIT since 2014, and one of the founders of synthetic biology, known for the 2000 genetic toggle switch in E. coli.

James J. Corbett

James J. Corbett, known as "Gentleman Jim," was an American boxer who held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1892 to 1897 and is remembered as a founder of scientific, movement-based boxing.

James J. De Yoreo

James J. De Yoreo is an American crystal growth scientist, a Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

James J. DiCarlo

James J. DiCarlo, also known as James DiCarlo, is an American neuroscientist at MIT who studies how the primate brain recognizes objects and created the Brain-Score benchmark.

James J. Elser

James J. Elser is an American ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist who developed the theory of biological stoichiometry and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.

James J. Gibson

James Jerome Gibson (1904–1979) was an American experimental psychologist at Cornell University who founded ecological psychology, argued that perception is direct, and coined the concept of affordance.

James J. Hogan

James J. Hogan (born Jim Cregan), known as Jim Hogan, was an Irish-born distance runner who won the 1966 European Championship marathon and set a 30 km world best.

James J. Hsieh

James J. Hsieh, also known as James Hsieh, is a physician-scientist who cloned the protease Taspase1 and studies clear cell renal cell carcinoma at Washington University.