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John G. Torrey

John G. Torrey (1921–1993) was an American plant biologist, a Harvard professor for 30 years and National Academy member, known for root development and Frankia research.

John G. Webb

John G. Webb is a Canadian interventional cardiologist at the University of British Columbia and St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, who pioneered transcatheter aortic valve implantation and trained valve groups in over 25 countries.

John G.F. Cleland

John G.F. Cleland, known as John Cleland, is a British cardiologist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow, known for leading the CARE-HF trial of cardiac resynchronization therapy.

John Gaddum

John Henry Gaddum (1900–1965) was a British pharmacologist who made pharmacology quantitative: he founded probit analysis, wrote the first equation for competitive drug antagonism, and co-discovered substance P with Ulf von Euler.

John Geddes (psychiatrist)

John Richard Geddes is a British psychiatrist at the University of Oxford whose research on mood disorders and clinical trial methods has influenced practice internationally.

John Godwin Downing

John Godwin Downing, also known as John G. Downing, was an American dermatologist in Boston who built Tufts' dermatology department into a center of industrial dermatology.

John Groffen

John Groffen is a Dutch-born molecular hematologist known for identifying the fused bcr/c-abl gene and messenger RNA in chronic myelocytic leukemia, and is a professor at USC.

John H. Alexander

John H. Alexander is an American cardiologist, Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, known for the ARISTOTLE and AUGUSTUS apixaban trials.

John H. Beigel

John H. Beigel is a physician-scientist and Associate Director for Clinical Research at NIAID in Bethesda, Maryland, known for leading the government's pivotal Covid-19 treatment trials.

John H. Brumell

John H. Brumell is a Canadian cell biologist who studies how Salmonella and Listeria subvert host cells, leading a laboratory at SickKids in Toronto since 2002.

John H. Cummings

John H. Cummings is a gastroenterologist and Emeritus Professor of Experimental Gastroenterology at the University of Dundee, known for establishing how dietary fiber acts in the human colon.

John H. Dingle

John H. Dingle (1908–1973) was an American epidemiologist who led the Cleveland Family Study of 25,000 illnesses and won the 1950 Lasker Award for respiratory-disease research.

John H. Edwards

John H. Edwards, or John Hilton Edwards, was a British physician and geneticist who identified trisomy 18, now called Edwards syndrome, in 1960 and built clinical genetics at Birmingham.

John H. Exton

John H. Exton (1933–2022) was a New Zealand-born biochemist at Vanderbilt University known for cell signaling research and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

John H. Flavell

John Hurley Flavell (1928–2025) was an American developmental psychologist at Stanford University who coined "metacognition" and "metamemory" and wrote the first major English evaluation of Jean Piaget's theories.

John H. Frenster

John H. Frenster, also known as J. H. Frenster, was an American physician-scientist who proposed nuclear RNA as a gene de-repressor and practiced oncology at Stanford.

John H. Hartwig

John H. Hartwig is an American cell biologist and emeritus professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, known for his work on platelet actin cytoskeletons.

John H. Humphrey

John Herbert Humphrey (1915–1987) was a British immunologist and bacteriologist who founded the immunology division at the National Institute for Medical Research in London and helped establish cellular immunology as a discipline.

John H. Kehrl

John H. Kehrl is an American immunologist and tenured senior investigator at NIAID, NIH, in Bethesda, Maryland, known for identifying the mammalian RGS protein family and for studies of B lymphocytes.

John H. Kersey

John H. Kersey (1938–2013) was an American physician-scientist in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Minnesota; in 1975 he led the world's first successful bone marrow transplant for lymphoma.

John H. Krystal

John H. Krystal is an American psychiatrist-scientist who chairs the Yale Department of Psychiatry and is best known for leading the discovery of ketamine's rapid antidepressant effects.

John H. Law

John H. Law is an American insect biochemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, known for work on insect transferrin, ferritin, and lipophorin.

John H. Lawrence

John H. Lawrence (John Hundale Lawrence, 1904–1991) was an American physician at Berkeley, hailed as the Father of Nuclear Medicine, who first treated a patient with a cyclotron-produced isotope in 1936.

John H. Lawton

Sir John Hartley Lawton (J. H. Lawton), born 1943, is a British ecologist known for insect ecology and biodiversity, and for leading UK science policy.

John H. Morrison

John H. Morrison is an American neuroscientist at UC Davis known for research on brain aging and Alzheimer's disease, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

John H. Postlethwait

John H. Postlethwait is an American developmental geneticist and emeritus professor of biology at the University of Oregon, known for establishing the zebrafish as a molecular genetic model organism.

John H. R. Maunsell

John H. R. Maunsell is an American neuroscientist at the University of Chicago who studies how attention changes visual neurons' responses, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

John H. Stone

John H. Stone is an American rheumatologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, who led major trials in vasculitis and IgG4-related disease at Massachusetts General Hospital.

John H. Vaughan

John H. Vaughan was an American immunologist and rheumatologist who established the role of rheumatoid factor, autoantibodies, and complement in rheumatoid arthritis, and served as President of the American Rheumatism Association.

John H. Werren

John H. Werren is an American evolutionary geneticist and emeritus professor at the University of Rochester, known for research on Wolbachia bacteria, Nasonia wasps, and selfish genetic elements.