Life and health scientists

James R. Tillotson

James R. Tillotson was an American physician-investigator in pulmonary and infectious-disease medicine who published influential pneumonia studies from Wayne State University and later Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital.

James R. Williamson

James R. Williamson is a biochemist and structural biologist at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for his work on RNA structure, RNA-protein interactions, and ribosome assembly.

James R. Woodgett

James R. Woodgett is a Canadian molecular biologist known for isolating the GSK-3, Akt, and JNK kinase genes and leading the Terry Fox Research Institute.

James Ramsay Hunt

James Ramsay Hunt was an American neurologist and Columbia University professor who described Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2, herpes zoster oticus with facial paralysis, and died in 1937.

James Read Chadwick

James Read Chadwick (1844–1905) was an American gynecologist in Boston who founded the American Gynecological Society in 1876 and established the Boston Medical Library in 1875.

James Reilly (French pathologist)

James Reilly (1887–1974) was a French physician and experimental pathologist known for the "irritation syndrome," who worked at the Pasteur Institute and Hôpital Claude-Bernard in Paris and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

James S. Forrester (cardiologist)

James S. Forrester, also known as James Forrester (died 2026), was an American cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA known for the Forrester hemodynamic subsets and coronary angioscopy.

Sep 20, 2026

James S. Goodwin

James S. Goodwin is an American geriatrician and health services researcher, a University of Texas Medical Branch professor since 1992 who founded its Sealy Center on Aging in 1995.

James S. Marks

James S. Marks is an American physician and epidemiologist who directed the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and later led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's grantmaking.

James S. Nowick

James S. Nowick is a chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for chemical models of amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease and teixobactin-based antibiotic design.

James S. Trimmer

James S. Trimmer, known as Jim Trimmer, is an American molecular neurobiologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis who studies how neurons regulate voltage-sensitive ion channels.

James S. Wainscoat

James S. Wainscoat, also recorded as J.S. Wainscoat, is a consultant haematologist and Oxford professor known for DNA-based prenatal diagnosis of β-thalassaemia and fetal RhD genotyping.

James Samuel Clark

James Samuel Clark is an American ecologist and statistician at Duke University known for work on forest biodiversity, hierarchical Bayesian methods, and election to the National Academy of Sciences.

James Shepherd (cardiovascular biochemist)

James Shepherd, known as J.B. Shepherd, was a Scottish cardiovascular biochemist (1944–2022) at the University of Glasgow who led the WOSCOPS and PROSPER statin trials that shaped cholesterol-lowering treatment.

James Shorter

James Shorter is a molecular biologist and Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania whose laboratory studies protein misfolding and phase transitions in ALS and frontotemporal dementia.

James Stegen

James C. Stegen is an American ecologist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working on community ecology, microbiology, and organic matter biogeochemistry, and a 2025 PECASE recipient.

Sep 20, 2026

James T. Kadonaga

James T. Kadonaga is an American biochemist at the University of California San Diego known for purifying transcription factor Sp1 and discovering chromatin assembly factors ACF and ASF1.

James T. Randerson

James T. Randerson is an American Earth system scientist at UC Irvine who studies the global carbon cycle and the role of fires, combining NASA satellite observations with climate models.

James T. Stivers

James T. Stivers is an American biochemist and Professor of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins, known for research on uracil in DNA and DNA repair enzymes.

James T. Stull

James T. Stull is an American muscle physiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center who earned his PhD from Emory University in 1971 and defined how myosin light chain kinase initiates smooth muscle contraction.

Sep 20, 2026

James T. Willerson

James T. Willerson (1939–2020) was an American cardiologist who explained how unstable coronary plaques cause heart attacks, led early stem cell trials for heart failure, and edited Circulation.

James Thorson

James Thorson is an American quantitative fisheries ecologist at NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, a 2013 PECASE recipient, and lead developer of the VAST spatio-temporal modeling software.

James Till

James Edgar Till (1931–2025) was a Canadian biophysicist who, with Ernest McCulloch at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, discovered stem cells in 1961 through the spleen colony assay.

James Travis

James Travis (1935–2020) was a Canadian-born American biochemist at the University of Georgia who co-introduced the term serpin and showed how alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency and smoking cause emphysema.

James Truman (insect neurobiologist)

James W. Truman is an American insect neurobiologist and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, known for work on the hormonal control of insect metamorphosis and ecdysis.

James Tumlinson

James Homer Tumlinson III (1938–2022) was an American chemical ecologist and entomologist who identified the boll weevil's sex pheromone and won the 2008 Wolf Prize in Agriculture.

James V. Donadío

James V. Donadio, also known as James V. Donadio Jr., was an American nephrologist at the Mayo Clinic known for controlled trials of fish oil in IgA nephropathy.

James V. Haxby

James V. Haxby is a cognitive neuroscientist and Dartmouth College professor known for face perception research, founding multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI, and developing hyperalignment.

James V. Lavery

James V. Lavery is a bioethicist and global health researcher who holds the inaugural Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics at Emory University, appointed in 2016.