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Jin Wu (吴京)
Jin Wu (吴京, 1934–2008) was an ocean engineer and fluid dynamicist elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1995, who served as Taiwan's Minister of Education from 1996 to 1998.
Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande (1799–1883) was a French geologist and paleontologist who settled in Prague after the 1830 July Revolution and spent decades describing Bohemia's Early Palaeozoic fossils in his 22-volume Système silurien.
Joanna Dorothy Haigh
Joanna Dorothy Haigh, also known as Joanna D. Haigh, is a British atmospheric physicist at Imperial College London known for her work on the Sun's influence on Earth's climate.
Joanne Simpson
Joanne Simpson was an American tropical meteorologist, the first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology, who co-proposed the hot tower hypothesis and led NASA's TRMM satellite mission.
Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke, born 1959, is a German physical oceanographer and climate modeler who directs the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology's Department of Climate Variability in Hamburg.
Jochen J. Brocks
Jochen J. Brocks, also published as Jochen Brocks, is a German-trained Australian geobiologist and professor at the Australian National University who studies molecular fossils in Precambrian rocks.
Joe Farman
Joe Farman was a British geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey who, with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, reported the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, leading to the Montreal Protocol.
Joel D. Blum
Joel D. Blum is an American geochemist at the University of Michigan known for mercury isotope geochemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Joel Levine
Joel S. Levine (born 1942) is an American planetary and atmospheric scientist who spent 41 years at NASA Langley, conceived the ARES Mars airplane, and chaired the panel that chose MAVEN.
Joeri Rogelj
Joeri Rogelj is a Belgian climate scientist, professor at Imperial College London and IPCC lead author whose carbon budget research shaped the Paris Agreement's 1.5 °C warming limit.
Johan Herman Lie Vogt
Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1858–1932) was a Norwegian geologist and metallurgist who applied physical chemistry to magmatic melts and helped establish the magmatic-segregation hypothesis for nickel-copper sulfide ores.
Johan Rockström
Johan Rockström is a Swedish scientist best known as lead author of the planetary boundaries framework and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger
Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (1857–1923) was a German geodesist and mathematician whose 1912 monograph turned Gauss's ellipsoidal mapping into the practical Gauss–Krüger projection, the basis of UTM.
Johanna Blake
Johanna M. Blake is an American research hydrologist and geochemist at the USGS New Mexico Water Science Center in Albuquerque, who received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Johannes Walther
Johannes Walther (1860–1937) was a German geologist and paleontologist who formulated Walther's Law of correlation of facies, founded modern sediment research and biogeology, and served as president of the Leopoldina academy from 1924 to 1931.
John A. Cherry
John A. Cherry is a Canadian hydrogeologist who helped found the science of contaminant hydrogeology, co-authored the 1979 textbook Groundwater, and won the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize.
John A. Orcutt
John A. Orcutt, also published as J. A. Orcutt, is an American marine geophysicist and Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who discovered magma chambers beneath mid-ocean ridges.
John A. Pyle
John A. Pyle is a British atmospheric chemist at Cambridge known for modeling ozone depletion by CFCs and co-chairing the Montreal Protocol's Scientific Assessment Panel from 2008 to 2023.
John Adam Fleming
John Adam Fleming (1877–1956) was an American geophysicist who directed the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism from 1935 to 1946 and led the World Magnetic Survey.
John Aitken (meteorologist)
John Aitken (died 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist and former marine engineer who showed in 1880 that fogs and clouds form on airborne dust particles, and built the first dust counter.
John Arthur Jacobs
John Arthur Jacobs (1916–2003) was a British geophysicist who studied the Earth's core and geomagnetic field, and won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2002.
John C. Branner
John C. Branner, full name John Casper Branner, was an American geologist of Arkansas and Brazil who became Stanford University's first professor of geology and second president.
John C. Crowell
John C. Crowell (1917–2015) was an American geologist and National Academy of Sciences member who worked out the displacement history of the San Andreas fault system.
John Chapman Frye
John Chapman Frye (1912–1982) was an American geologist, state geologist of Kansas and chief of the Illinois State Geological Survey from 1954 to 1974, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
John Chappell
John Michael Arthur Chappell (1940–2018) was a New Zealand-born Australian geoscientist at the Australian National University, called the father of Quaternary research in Australia for his sea-level work.
John Church (Australian oceanographer)
John Church, born 1951, is an Australian oceanographer known for measuring and explaining global sea-level rise during a long career at CSIRO and later UNSW.
John D. Bredehoeft
John D. Bredehoeft (1933–2023) was an American groundwater hydrologist who spent 32 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, pioneering digital simulation of groundwater flow and contaminant transport.
John Dove Isaacs
John Dove Isaacs III (1913–1980) was an American oceanographer and engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for deep-sea moorings, the Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl, and wave-powered machines.
John E. Kutzbach
John E. Kutzbach, also published as J. E. Kutzbach, was an American climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered modeling how Earth's orbit drives monsoons.
John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr (1857–1933) was a British geologist whose graptolite-based fieldwork in the Lake District and Wales shaped Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy; he was Woodwardian Professor at Cambridge.