Life scientists

J. O'H. Tobin

J. O'H. Tobin, also known as John O'Hara Tobin, was a British virologist who isolated respiratory syncytial virus in 1963 and traced Legionnaires' disease to shower water.

J. Richard McIntosh is an American cell biologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for showing that microtubule disassembly powers chromosome movement.

J. Thomas Grayston

J. Thomas Grayston (1924–2024) was an American epidemiologist at the University of Washington, founding dean of its School of Public Health, known for characterizing Chlamydia pneumoniae.

J. Troy Littleton

J. Troy Littleton, born 1967, is an American neuroscientist, the Menicon Professor at MIT, whose fruit fly work established synaptotagmin 1 as the calcium sensor triggering fast neurotransmitter release.

J. Victor Small

J. Victor Small, who publishes as J. V. Small, is a cell biologist known for research on the cytoskeleton, smooth muscle, and cell migration, working in Austria.

J. Wade Harper

J. Wade Harper is an American cell biologist at Harvard Medical School, known for co-discovering cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases and for work on mitophagy in Parkinson's disease.

J. Woodland Hastings

J. Woodland Hastings (1927–2014) was an American biochemist at Harvard University who established bioluminescent organisms, above all the dinoflagellate Gonyaulax, as model systems for circadian biology.

J.E. Folk

J.E. Folk, John E. Folk (1925–2010), was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health who discovered the hypusine modification of eIF5A, essential for cell growth.

J.H.D. Cate

J.H.D. Cate, also known as Jamie H. D. Cate, is an American structural biologist at UC Berkeley known for crystal structures of the bacterial ribosome.

J.J. Skehel

J.J. Skehel, also known as John J. Skehel, is an English virologist who determined the three-dimensional structure of influenza haemagglutinin and directed London's NIMR from 1987 to 2006.

J.J.G. Tesmer

J.J.G. Tesmer, also known as John J.G. Tesmer, is an American structural biologist at Purdue University known for determining atomic structures of GPCR signaling proteins.

J.L. Hamerton

J.L. Hamerton, full name John Laurence Hamerton, was a British-born cytogeneticist who headed Human Genetics at the University of Manitoba and co-authored the 1956 paper fixing the human chromosome count at 46.

Jack A. Elias

Jack A. Elias is an American physician-scientist and immunobiologist who established CHI3L1 (YKL-40) as a regulator of injury and repair and served as Brown University's seventh dean of medicine.

Jack D. Barchas

Jack D. Barchas is an American psychiatrist and behavioral neurochemist whose research showed how stress alters neuroregulators, the brain chemicals that shape behavior and pain.

Jack D. Griffith

Jack D. Griffith, born 1942, is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at UNC Chapel Hill who pioneered electron microscopy of DNA-protein complexes and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Jack D. Keene

Jack D. Keene is a molecular biologist who spent 47 years at Duke University, defined the RNA recognition motif, and proposed the RNA regulon model.

Jack E. Dixon

Jack E. Dixon, born in 1943, is an American biochemist whose laboratory defined protein tyrosine phosphatases, showed the tumor suppressor PTEN acts on a lipid, and discovered bacterial virulence factors.

Jack Gilbert

Jack A. Gilbert is a microbial ecologist, professor of microbial oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and co-founder of the Earth Microbiome Project and American Gut Project.

Jack Gorski

Jack Gorski (1931–2006) was an American molecular endocrinologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose mid-1960s work produced the first molecular characterization of a steroid hormone receptor, the estrogen receptor.

Jack Greenblatt

Jack Greenblatt, or Jack F. Greenblatt, is a Canadian molecular biologist and University Professor at the University of Toronto known for the first genome-wide protein interaction network.

Jack H. Freed

Jack H. Freed (J. H. Freed) is an American physical chemist and biophysicist at Cornell University, on its faculty since 1963, known for building electron spin resonance into a quantitative tool for studying membranes and proteins.

Jack Heslop-Harrison

Jack Heslop-Harrison (1920–1998) was a British botanist, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1970, who directed the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from 1971 to 1976.

Jack L. Feldman

Jack L. Feldman is an American neurobiologist at UCLA who identified the pre-Bötzinger complex, the brainstem region that generates the rhythm of breathing in mammals.

Jack L. Gallant

Jack L. Gallant, known as Jack Gallant, is an American cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for decoding visual images and language meaning from fMRI brain activity.

Jack L. Strominger

Jack L. Strominger (born 1925) is an American immunologist and Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, at Harvard, known for determining the structures of human MHC proteins governing transplant rejection.

Jack Myers (algal physiologist)

Jack Edgard Myers (1913–2006) was an American algal physiologist who studied photosynthesis at the University of Texas at Austin and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Jack R. Bennink

Jack R. Bennink is an immunologist known for defining which influenza proteins cytotoxic T cells target and for work on antigen processing, done at The Wistar Institute and NIAID.

Jack Silver

Jack Silver is an immunologist known for amino acid sequencing of transplantation antigens at Caltech in the mid-1970s, Thy-1 gene transgenic studies, and later molecular medicine work at North Shore University Hospital.

Jacob E. Corn

Jacob E. Corn is an American genome biologist, Professor of Genome Biology at ETH Zurich, who develops genome editing technologies to understand and treat disease.