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Joshua Edel

Joshua B. Edel is a professor of biosensing and analytical sciences at Imperial College London, where since 2006 he has developed single-molecule sensors, including nanopores and nanoscale tweezers.

Joshua S. Figueroa

Joshua S. Figueroa is an American inorganic and organometallic chemist, professor at UC San Diego, known for stabilizing reactive low-valent metal complexes with bulky isocyanide ligands.

Jovica D. Badjić

Jovica D. Badjić (sometimes written Badjic) is a supramolecular chemist, a professor at The Ohio State University since 2004, known for the 2004 molecular elevator.

Juan C. Carretero

Juan C. Carretero, also known as Juan Carlos Carretero, is a Spanish organic chemist and full professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, born in Madrid in 1960.

Juan Casado

Juan Casado (born 1971) is a Spanish physical-organic chemist, full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universidad de Málaga, known for spectroscopic studies of organic diradicals and π-conjugated molecules.

Judith A. Schwan

Judith A. Schwan (1925–1996) was an American photographic scientist who spent her 37-year career at Eastman Kodak, leading development of Kodachrome II and Kodacolor II.

Jule A. Rabo

Jule A. Rabo (Rabó Gyula) was a Hungarian-born chemist and chemical engineer who discovered acidic zeolite Y catalysts, the basis of motor-fuel production, and held 49 US patents.

Jules Meyer

Jules Meyer was a chemist at the ETH laboratory in Zürich who co-authored, with Hermann Staudinger, the 1919 papers reporting the reaction now called the Staudinger reaction.

Julia Laskin

Julia Laskin is an American chemist, the William F. and Patty J. Miller Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue University, known for ambient ionization and imaging mass spectrometry.

Julian Burschka

Julian Burschka is a German chemist who, as a doctoral researcher in Michael Grätzel's lab at EPFL, first authored the 2013 Nature paper on sequential perovskite deposition.

Juliane Hollender

Juliane Hollender is a German environmental chemist who has headed the Department of Environmental Chemistry at Eawag since 2005 and is known for work on organic micropollutants in water.

Julius Bredt

Julius Bredt, born 1855 in Berlin, was a German organic chemist who held the chair at TH Aachen from 1897 to 1923 and formulated Bredt's rule.

Julius Rebek

Julius Rebek, Jr. is a Hungarian-born American organic chemist and emeritus professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for self-assembled molecular capsules that form in solution around guest molecules.

Julius Stieglitz

Julius Stieglitz (1867–1937) was an American organic chemist at the University of Chicago who applied physical chemistry to organic chemistry and described the Stieglitz rearrangement.

Jun Okuda

Jun Okuda (奥田 潤爾), born 1957 in Osaka, is a Japanese organometallic chemist who held the Chair of Organometallic Chemistry at RWTH Aachen University from 2003.

Jun-ichi Yoshida

Jun-ichi Yoshida (吉田潤一; 1952–2019) was a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for the cation pool method, electroorganic synthesis, and flash chemistry in flow microreactors.

Jungwon Park

Jungwon Park is a South Korean materials chemist and professor at Seoul National University known for 3D atomic imaging of individual nanocrystals in liquid and platinum cluster catalysts.

Jürgen Caro

Jürgen Caro, born 1951, is a German physical chemist, professor at Leibniz University Hannover, known for transport-optimized zeolite, MOF, and COF membranes and membrane reactors.

Jürgen Cox

Jürgen Cox is a computational proteomics scientist known for developing MaxQuant, one of the most frequently used proteomics data analysis platforms, and its companion statistics program Perseus.

Jürgen Gauss

Jürgen Gauß, born 1960 in Konstanz, is a German theoretical chemist and professor at Mainz University, known for correlated NMR chemical-shift calculations and the CFOUR program.

Jürgen Gröll

Jürgen Gröll, also spelled Juergen Groll, is a German polymer chemist who holds the chair of Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Würzburg.

Jürgen Rühe

Jürgen Rühe (born 1961 in Enniger, Germany) is a German polymer chemist who holds the interfaces chair at the University of Freiburg and won the 2002 DECHEMA Prize.

Juri Rappsilber

Juri Rappsilber is a biochemist known for cross-linking mass spectrometry, Einstein Professor of Bioanalytics at TU Berlin since 2011 and a group leader at the University of Edinburgh.

Jurriaan Huskens

Jurriaan Huskens, born 1968, is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor of molecular nanofabrication at the University of Twente, known for the molecular printboard and the 2007 KNCV Gold Medal.

Justin D. Holmes

Justin D. Holmes is an Irish materials chemist, Professor of Nanochemistry at University College Cork, known for solution-grown silicon nanowires and for nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications.

Justin Du Bois

Justin Du Bois is an American organic chemist and Henry Dreyfus Professor at Stanford University, known for C–H functionalization methods and the synthesis of toxins such as batrachotoxin and saxitoxin.

Justus von Liebig

Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) was a German chemist who founded agricultural chemistry and created the first laboratory-based system for training research chemists at the University of Giessen.

Juyoung Yoon

Juyoung Yoon (born 1964) is a South Korean chemist at Ewha Womans University known for fluorescent probes and activatable photosensitizers for cancer imaging and therapy.

K. Barry Sharpless

K. Barry Sharpless, born 1941, is an American chemist at Scripps Research who founded click chemistry and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 and 2022.

Kai Simons

Kai Simons, born in Helsinki in 1938, is a Finnish cell biologist who introduced the lipid raft concept, led EMBL cell biology, and founded the lipidomics company Lipotype.