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James S. Dunlop
James S. Dunlop, also published as J. S. Dunlop, is a Scottish observational cosmologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies the first galaxies using the largest telescopes.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical condensed-matter physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for work on nonequilibrium phenomena, including dendritic crystal growth, fracture, and earthquake dynamics.
James Thomson (nuclear physicist)
James Thomson is a nuclear physicist and policy analyst who was the fourth president and CEO of the RAND Corporation from 1989 to 2011, the longest tenure in its history.
James W. York
James W. York, also known as James Wesley York Jr., was an American mathematical physicist who reformulated Einstein's constraint equations and shared the 2003 Heineman Prize.
James Wadsley
James Wadsley is a computational astrophysicist and professor at McMaster University, lead author of the GASOLINE simulation code used to study planet, star, and galaxy formation.
Jan Ambjørn
Jan Ambjørn is a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, best known as co-creator of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a lattice formulation of quantum gravity.
Jan E. Mooij
Jan E. Mooij, known as Hans Mooij, is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology, a pioneer of superconducting flux qubits.
Jan Genzer
Jan Genzer is a polymer physicist known for mechanically assembled monolayers and surface-grafted molecular density gradients, and a distinguished professor at North Carolina State University.
Jan Hendrik Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900–1992) was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation, measured the galactic disk's mass density, and proposed the Oort cloud.
Jan M. Rost
Jan M. Rost (Jan-Michael Rost, born 1961) is a German theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
Jan Myrheim
Jan Myrheim is a Norwegian theoretical physicist, professor at NTNU in Trondheim, who with Jon Magne Leinaas predicted in 1977 the fractional statistics behind anyons.
Jan Tauc
Jan Tauc (1922–2010) was a Czech-born American semiconductor physicist who worked in Prague and was a professor at Brown University from 1970 to 1992, known for the Tauc plot.
Jan van Deemter
Jan Jozef van Deemter (1918–2004) was a Dutch physicist and Shell researcher known for the van Deemter equation, from his 1956 paper on band broadening in chromatography.
Jan Zaanen
Jan Zaanen (1957–2024) was a Dutch condensed matter theorist, professor at Leiden University, known for predicting stripe order in copper-oxide superconductors and for Planckian dissipation.
Jane Luu
Jane Luu, born 1963 in South Vietnam, is an astronomer who with David Jewitt discovered 1992 QB1 in 1992, the first Kuiper Belt object, earning the 2012 Kavli and Shaw Prizes.
Janna Levin
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist, the Claire Tow Professor at Barnard College, and author of Black Hole Blues, an account of the campaign to detect gravitational waves.
Jannik Meyer
Jannik Meyer, also known as Jannik C. Meyer, is a German physicist who studies two-dimensional materials by atomic-resolution electron microscopy and has been a professor at Tübingen since 2018.
János Hajdu
János Hajdu, born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born physicist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University known for "diffraction before destruction" X-ray laser imaging and the first imaging of an intact virus with an X-ray laser.
Janusz S. Wilczynski
Janusz S. Wilczynski is a physicist and optical engineer known for designing optics for semiconductor manufacturing during a career at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Jascha Repp
Jascha Repp is a German experimental physicist and professor at the University of Regensburg since 2007, known for controlling and measuring individual molecules with scanning probe microscopes.
Jason Valentine
Jason Valentine is an optical physicist and mechanical engineering professor at Vanderbilt University, known for a 2008 Nature paper reporting the first bulk optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index.
Jason W. Fleischer
Jason W. Fleischer is an American physicist and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, known for the first observation of two-dimensional discrete solitons.
Javier Santaolalla
Javier Santaolalla, born in Burgos in 1982, is a Spanish physicist who worked at CERN on the CMS experiment and became a leading Spanish-language science communicator.
Jay Fineberg
Jay Fineberg is an experimental physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Racah Institute, known for laboratory studies of fracture, friction, and earthquake nucleation.
Jayant Narlikar
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938–2025) was an Indian astrophysicist and cosmologist who co-developed the Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravitation, proposed the quasi-steady state cosmology, and founded IUCAA in Pune.
Jayanth R. Banavar
Jayanth R. Banavar is an Indian-born American theoretical physicist known for work on metabolic scaling, river networks, and protein geometry, and coauthor of a 1999 Nature paper on quarter-power scaling.
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942) was a French physicist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments establishing the reality of atoms and molecules.
Jean Brossel
Jean Brossel (1918–2003) was a French atomic physicist who co-invented the double resonance method and made the first demonstrations of double resonance and optical pumping, work behind Alfred Kastler's 1966 Nobel Prize.
Jean Cabannes
Jean Cabannes (1885–1959) was a French physicist who proved in 1914 that transparent gases scatter light and derived the generalized scattering law for anisotropic molecules.
Jean Chazy
Jean Chazy (1882–1955) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose 1922 classification of three-body final motions remains standard; he held the Sorbonne's analytical mechanics chair.