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John R. Fox

John R. Fox (1915–1944), U.S. Army first lieutenant of the 92d Infantry Division's 598th Field Artillery Battalion, called artillery on his own surrounded position at Sommocolonia, Italy, on December 26, 1944, killing about 100 Germans; awarded the Medal of Honor in 1997.

John R. Glenney

John R. Glenney, Jr. (J. R. Glenney) is a cell biologist who established fodrin as the general spectrin-like protein of non-erythroid cells and worked at the Salk Institute.

John R. Haynes

John R. Haynes was a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited with proving that germanium and silicon electroluminescence arises from hole-electron recombination at a p-n junction.

John R. Hicks

John Richard Hicks (1904–1989) was a British economist at All Souls College, Oxford, who shared the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Kenneth Arrow.

John R. Hodges

John R. Hodges, born in 1952, is a British cognitive neurologist who founded the FRONTIER research group in Sydney and studies frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

John R. Huguenard

John R. Huguenard is a Professor of Neurology at Stanford University who studies thalamocortical synchrony and epilepsy, known for a 1999 Science paper showing thalamic inhibition restrains network synchrony.

John R. Huizenga

John R. Huizenga (1921–2014) was an American nuclear chemist at the University of Rochester who co-discovered einsteinium and fermium and led the 1989 DOE cold fusion review.

John R. Hutchinson

John R. Hutchinson is an American evolutionary biomechanicist and professor at the Royal Veterinary College in London, known for his 2002 finding that Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner.

John R. Johnson

John R. Johnson (1900–1983) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1945, known for organoborane oxidation and gliotoxin structure work.

John R. Kiely

John R. Kiely (1906–1996) was an American civil engineer at Bechtel who directed the Churchill Falls hydroelectric project and chaired the joint venture that built BART.

John R. Kirtley

John R. Kirtley is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist who developed scanning SQUID microscopy at IBM and helped establish d-wave pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors.

John R. Kitchin

John R. Kitchin is an American chemical engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who designs alloy and oxide catalysts using density functional theory and machine learning.

John R. Klauder

John R. Klauder (1932–2024) was an American theoretical physicist who introduced the modern theory of coherent states, rigorously reformulated Feynman path integrals, and spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories.

John R. L. Allen

John R. L. Allen, also known as John Robert Lawrence Allen, was a British geologist who helped found quantitative, process-based sedimentology and spent his career at the University of Reading.

John R. Lukens

John R. Lukens, also known as John Lukens, is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Virginia who studies how microglia drive neurodegenerative disease.

John R. Lumpkin

John R. Lumpkin is an American physician and public health leader, the first African American trained in emergency medicine, who led the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years.

John R. Mascola

John R. Mascola, also known as John Mascola, is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who directed NIAID's Vaccine Research Center from 2013 to 2022 and is known for broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies such as VRC01.

John R. Monnier

John R. Monnier (1948–2024) was an American chemical engineer who spent 32 years in industrial catalysis at Eastman Kodak and Eastman Chemical, then became a professor at the University of South Carolina.

John R. Mott

John R. Mott, also known as John Raleigh Mott, was an American Methodist evangelist who organized the student missionary movement and shared the 1946 Nobel Peace Prize.

John R. Padova

John R. Padova (born 1935) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

John R. Paul

John Rodman Paul (1893–1971) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who spent his career at Yale, researched poliomyelitis for three decades, and founded the field of clinical epidemiology.

John R. Pierce

John R. Pierce (1910–2002) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs, called the father of communications satellites Echo and Telstar, who also coined the name transistor.

John R. Preer

John R. Preer was an American geneticist at Indiana University who studied non-Mendelian inheritance in Paramecium and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

John R. Rice

John R. Rice (1934–2024) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at Purdue University who made mathematical software a recognized discipline and was the founding editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

John R. Rickford

John R. Rickford, born 1949 in Guyana, is a Stanford sociolinguist and National Academy of Sciences member known for studies of African American Vernacular English and Guyanese Creole.

John R. Riordan

John R. Riordan is a Canadian biochemist known for his central role in the 1989 discovery of the cystic fibrosis gene and its most common mutation, ΔF508.

John R. Roth

John R. Roth is an American bacterial geneticist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for decades of Salmonella typhimurium genetics and a central role in the adaptive mutation debate.

John R. Stanley

John R. Stanley is an American physician-scientist and Emeritus Professor of Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, known for molecularly cloning the pemphigus and pemphigoid autoantigens.

John R. Swanton

John Reed Swanton (1873–1958) was an American anthropologist who spent his career at the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, known for studies of Southeastern Native peoples.

John R. Teerlink

John R. Teerlink is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs heart failure and echocardiography at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and led the GALACTIC-HF trial of omecamtiv mecarbil.