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Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937–2025) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton and Cambridge whose 1973 simulations showed galaxies are unstable without massive dark matter halos, helping launch dark matter cosmology.
Jeremy Baumberg
Jeremy J. Baumberg is a British physicist, Harold Aspden Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for squeezing light into metallic nanostructures smaller than a cubic nanometer.
Jeremy Levy
Jeremy Levy is a condensed matter physicist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for writing conductive circuits at an oxide interface with an atomic force microscope.
Jeremy M. Hutson
Jeremy M. Hutson, born in 1957, is a British theoretical molecular physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor at Durham University and a leading researcher on ultracold molecules.
Jeremy Mould
Jeremy Mould, born 1949 in Bristol, is an Australian astronomer who co-led the Hubble Key Project, which measured the Hubble constant to 10 percent accuracy, earning the 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize.
Jeremy O'Brien
Jeremy L. O'Brien is a quantum optics and quantum information scientist, co-founder and executive chairman of PsiQuantum, known for the 2003 all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate and integrated quantum photonics.
Jeroen van den Brink
Jeroen van den Brink is a Dutch condensed-matter physicist who directs the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics at IFW Dresden and is a professor at TU Dresden.
Jerome I. Friedman
Jerome I. Friedman, born in Chicago in 1930, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for evidence that protons contain quarks.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
Jerome Isaac Friedman, also known as Jerome I. Friedman, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct evidence of quarks.
Jerome Percus
Jerome Percus, also known as Jerome Kenneth Percus, was an American physicist and mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the Percus–Yevick equation of liquid-state theory.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at MIT who developed the first commercial atomic clocks and founded the PSSC science education reform.
Jerry Gollub
Jerry Gollub (1944–2019) was an American physicist at Haverford College who performed the first experiments demonstrating the transition from order to chaos in fluid systems.
Jerry Nelson (scientist)
Jerry Nelson (1944–2017) was an American astronomer who was chief designer of the 10-meter Keck telescopes, pioneered segmented-mirror technology, and later led the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Jerry Woodall
Jerry Woodall is an American electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for the gallium arsenide heterojunctions behind high-efficiency LEDs and the 2001 National Medal of Technology.
Jerzy Plebański
Jerzy Franciszek Plebański (1928–2005) was a Polish mathematical physicist who co-wrote the classic Motion and Relativity with Leopold Infeld and founded the Mexican relativity school at CINVESTAV in Mexico City.
Jesse Beams
Jesse Wakefield Beams (1898–1977) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Virginia who invented the magnetically suspended ultracentrifuge, beginning the gas-centrifuge method of uranium enrichment.
Jesse DuMond
Jesse DuMond (1892–1976) was an American experimental physicist at Caltech known for X-ray spectroscopy and, with E. Richard Cohen, the standard least-squares adjustments of the atomic constants.
Jesse L. Greenstein
Jesse L. Greenstein was an American astronomer at Caltech who built its astronomy program around the 200-inch Hale Telescope and became the leading observational student of white dwarfs.
Jessie Christiansen
Jessie Christiansen is an Australian astrophysicist who serves as Chief Scientist of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech and leads the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
Jhe Wan-Young
Jhe Wan-Young (제원호) is a South Korean physicist who performed the Yale experiment suppressing spontaneous emission between mirrors, a founding result of cavity quantum electrodynamics, and has taught at Seoul National University since 1992.
Jiadong Zhou
Jiadong Zhou (周家东) is a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist, and a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, known for synthesizing atomically thin 2D metal chalcogenides.
Jian-Sheng Wang
Jian-Sheng Wang, born 1960 in China, is a Singaporean computational physicist at the National University of Singapore known for co-developing the Swendsen–Wang cluster algorithm and pioneering replica Monte Carlo methods.
Jianwei Miao
Jianwei (John) Miao is a UCLA physicist who pioneered coherent diffraction imaging in 1999 and atomic electron tomography in 2012, lensless methods that determine structure from diffraction patterns and algorithms.
Jie Shan
Jie Shan is an experimental condensed matter physicist, Walter S. Carpenter Professor at Cornell University, known for work on two-dimensional materials and moiré quantum matter, and a Max Planck Institute director since 2024.
Jill Tarter
Jill Tarter is an American astronomer who spent her career searching for signals from extraterrestrial technology, leading NASA's SETI program, Project Phoenix, and the Allen Telescope Array.
Jim Peebles
Jim Peebles, born Phillip James Edwin Peebles in 1935, is a Canadian-born American cosmologist at Princeton who won half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Jingsheng Chen
Jingsheng Chen (陈景升) is a materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for current-induced and field-free spin–orbit torque switching of perpendicular magnetization.
Jirō Maki
Jirō Maki (牧二郎, born 1929) is a Japanese theoretical particle physicist who worked in Shoichi Sakata's Nagoya group and co-authored the 1962 paper introducing two-neutrino mixing, the origin of the PMNS matrix.
Jiwoong Park
Jiwoong Park is a condensed-matter physicist and James Franck Professor at the University of Chicago, known for growing and imaging atomically thin two-dimensional materials like graphene.
Joachim Burgdörfer
Joachim Burgdörfer is an Austrian theoretical atomic physicist, professor at TU Wien since 1997, known for the over-the-barrier model of ion neutralization and attosecond photoemission delays.