Physicists and astronomers

Jean Dalibard

Jean Dalibard, born in 1958, is a French physicist at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel and the Collège de France known for laser cooling of atoms and quantum gases.

Jean Ginibre

Jean Ginibre was a French mathematical physicist at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay known for the 1965 random-matrix ensembles, the circular law, and the Ginibre point process.

Jean Laval

Jean Laval (1900–1980) was a French physicist who studied X-ray diffusion by crystals and was professor of theoretical physics at the Collège de France from 1950 to 1970.

Jean Thibaud (1901–1960) was a French experimental physicist who measured the positron's charge and, with Frédéric Joliot, first observed positron annihilation in 1933, later founding the Institut de physique atomique de Lyon.

Jean-Baptiste Duhamel

Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, also written Du Hamel, was a French Oratorian priest and natural philosopher who served as the first secretary of the Académie royale des sciences from 1666 to 1697.

Jean-Baptiste Vincent

Jean-Baptiste Vincent, born 1983, is a planetary scientist at the DLR Institute of Space Research in Berlin who studies asteroid and comet surfaces and activity.

Jean-Loup Puget

Jean-Loup Puget, born 1947 in France, is a French astrophysicist who identified interstellar PAH molecules, made the first detection of the cosmic infrared background, and led Planck's HFI, winning the 2018 Shaw Prize.

Jean-Michel Raimond

Jean-Michel Raimond, born in 1955 in Orléans, France, is a French physicist who spent his career at the École Normale Supérieure controlling photons and atoms in microwave cavities.

Jean‐Jacques Greffet

Jean-Jacques Greffet, born 1959, is a French physicist working in nanophotonics at Institut d'Optique, Université Paris-Saclay, known for his 2002 discovery of coherent thermal emission.

Jean‐Loup Bertaux

Jean-Loup Bertaux (born 1942) is a French planetary scientist at CNRS known for the 2005 discovery of an aurora on Mars and for leading the SPICAM and SWAN ultraviolet spectrometers.

Jean‐Marc Triscone

Jean-Marc Triscone (born 1959) is a Swiss physicist at the University of Geneva, a full professor since 1996, known for field-effect control of superconductivity at oxide interfaces.

Jedidah C. Isler

Jedidah C. Isler is an American astrophysicist who studies blazars, jets from supermassive black holes, and became the first African American woman to earn a Yale astrophysics Ph.D. in 2014.

Jeff A. Valenti

Jeff A. Valenti is an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore who serves as Mission Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope and studies cool stars and exoplanet atmospheres.

Jeff Thompson (physicist)

Jeff Thompson is an American physicist and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, known for neutral-atom quantum computing with ytterbium and erasure conversion.

Jeffrey A. Harvey

Jeffrey A. Harvey is an American theoretical physicist, the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, known for heterotic string theory, orbifolds, and Umbral Moonshine.

Jeffrey B. Neaton

Jeffrey B. Neaton is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for first-principles methods for molecular electronics.

Jeffrey C. Blackmon

Jeffrey C. Blackmon is an American experimental nuclear astrophysicist who measures reaction rates governing how stars burn and explode, a 2002 PECASE recipient, and chair of physics at Louisiana State University.

Jeffrey F. Morris

Jeffrey F. Morris is an American chemical engineer who directs the Benjamin Levich Institute at The City College of New York and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Jeffrey Goldstone

Jeffrey Goldstone is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at MIT, best known for the Nambu–Goldstone boson and the Goldstone theorem proved with Salam and Weinberg in 1962.

Jeffrey Mandula

Jeffrey Ellis Mandula is an American theoretical elementary-particle physicist, co-author with Sidney Coleman of the 1967 Coleman–Mandula theorem, which limits how spacetime and internal symmetries can combine.

Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

Jeffrey N. Cuzzi is an American planetary scientist who spent 1978 to 2023 at NASA's Ames Research Center studying Saturn's rings and the formation of chondrules and planetesimals.

Jeffrey Shainline

Jeffrey Shainline is a physicist who pioneered a neuromorphic computer using photonics and superconducting circuits at NIST in Boulder, winning a 2024 PECASE award, and founded Great Sky in 2024.

Jenifer Haselgrove

Jenifer Haselgrove, born Jenifer Wheildon Brown in 1930, is a British physicist whose Haselgrove equations became a standard tool for computing how radio waves travel through the ionosphere.

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Jennifer Dionne

Jennifer Dionne is an American physicist and Stanford professor of materials science known for negative-index metamaterials, quantum plasmonics, and nanoscale chemical imaging, and winner of the 2019 Waterman Award.

Jennifer E. Hoffman

Jennifer E. Hoffman, also published as Jenny Hoffman, is a physicist and Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University who builds low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes to image quantum materials.

Jens Biegert

Jens Biegert is a German physicist working in attoscience and ultrafast optics at ICFO in Barcelona, where he has been a tenured professor and ICREA Research Professor since 2007.

Jens Gundlach

Jens Gundlach, also known as Jens H. Gundlach, is an experimental physicist at the University of Washington who leads the Eöt-Wash gravity group and shared the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.

Jens-Uwe Sommer

Jens-Uwe Sommer is a German polymer physicist who directs the Theory of Polymers institute at Leibniz IPF Dresden and holds a chair at TU Dresden.

Jeppe C. Dyre

Jeppe C. Dyre, born 1956, is a Danish physicist and professor at Roskilde University known for work on the glass transition, viscous liquids, and isomorph theory.