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Joachim Spatz
Joachim P. Spatz is a German materials scientist and biophysicist who directs the Department of Cellular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.
Joachim Stadel
Joachim Stadel is a Swiss-based computational astrophysicist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for cosmological N-body simulations of dark-matter structure and parallel codes such as pkdgrav.
Joanna Kiryluk
Joanna Kiryluk is an experimental particle astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, a member of the IceCube collaboration and a recipient of the 2017 PECASE award.
Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger
Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, known as Quin Luttinger, was an American condensed-matter physicist at Columbia University known for Luttinger's theorem, Luttinger liquids, and the Kohn–Luttinger mechanism.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born 1943 in Belfast, is a British astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, though the 1974 Nobel Prize went to her supervisor.
Jochen Feldmann
Jochen Feldmann (born 1961 in Olpe, Germany) is a German physicist, professor at LMU Munich since 1995, known for nanocrystal photophysics, quantum-dot LEDs, and the nano-ear sensor.
Jochen Mannhart
Jochen Mannhart (born 1960) is a German condensed matter physicist who works on oxide interfaces and high-temperature superconductivity, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Joe Vinen
Joe Vinen (William Frank Vinen, 1930–2022) was a British low-temperature physicist who gave the first direct demonstration that superfluid circulation is quantized and created the field of quantum turbulence.
Joel L. Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz is an American statistical mechanician, born in 1930 in Czechoslovakia, who has been George William Hill Professor at Rutgers University since 1977, winning the Boltzmann Medal.
Joel N. Bregman
Joel N. Bregman is an astronomer, the H.D. Curtis Professor at the University of Michigan, whose research on hot X-ray-emitting galaxy halos seeks the universe's missing baryons.
Joel N. Ullom
Joel Nathan Ullom is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who develops superconducting sensors and has been Acting Chief of the Quantum Sensors Division since 2023.
Joel R. Primack
Joel R. Primack (1945–2025) was an American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist at UC Santa Cruz, a principal originator of the cold dark matter theory of galaxy formation.
Joel Stebbins
Joel Stebbins (1878–1966) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry, measuring starlight with electrical cells, directed Washburn Observatory from 1922 to 1948, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1922.
Joel W. Ager
Joel W. Ager is a materials chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, known for research on electrocatalysis and CO2 reduction on copper catalysts.
Jogesh Pati
Jogesh Pati is a theoretical physicist who, with Abdus Salam, proposed in 1973 that quarks and leptons are unified, the Pati–Salam model of grand unification.
Johan Åkerman
Johan Åkerman is a Swedish experimental physicist and University of Gothenburg professor known for spintronics work on spin Hall nano-oscillators and magnetic droplet solitons, and founder of NanOsc Instruments.
Johann Georg Hagen
Johann Georg Hagen was an Austrian-born Jesuit priest and astronomer who directed the Georgetown University Observatory from 1888 and the Vatican Observatory in Rome from 1906 until his death in 1930.
Johann Nikuradse
Johann Nikuradse was a fluid dynamicist who took his doctorate under Ludwig Prandtl at Göttingen in 1923; his 1932–1933 pipe-friction experiments became the classical dataset of rough-wall turbulence.
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824–1914) was a German physicist at the University of Münster who discovered cathode rays in 1869 and established the transport numbers of ion migration in electrolysis.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch physicist who won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics for his equation of state for gases and liquids.
Johannes Geiss
Johannes Geiss (1926–2020) was a German-Swiss experimental physicist at the University of Bern, best known for leading the Apollo Solar Wind Composition experiment on the Moon.
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer and mathematician, 1571 to 1630, whose three laws of planetary motion, drawn from Tycho Brahe's observations, later underpinned Newton's theory of gravitation.
Johannes Rydberg
Johannes Robert Rydberg (1854–1919) was a Swedish physicist at Lund University whose 1890 formula for spectral series, with the Rydberg constant, underlies Bohr's 1913 atomic model.
Johannes Stark
Johannes Stark (1874–1957) was a German experimental physicist who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields, the Stark effect.
Johannes V. Barth
Johannes V. Barth, born 1962, is a German surface physicist who has held the chair of surface and interface physics at the Technical University of Munich since 2006.
John A. Parrish
John A. Parrish is an American physician-scientist and dermatologist, Edward Wigglesworth Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who led dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and founded the Wellman Center for Photomedicine.
John A. Peacock
John A. Peacock is a cosmologist and Professor of Cosmology at the University of Edinburgh, known for leading the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and co-inventing the halo model.
John Adams (British accelerator physicist)
John Bertram Adams (1920–1984) was a British accelerator physicist who directed the construction of CERN's Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron and twice served as the laboratory's Director-General.
John Alexander Simpson
John Alexander Simpson (1916–2000) was an American physicist at the University of Chicago who built the particle detectors that made the first cosmic-ray measurements at Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist at Princeton University who popularized the term "black hole" and co-authored the 1939 paper explaining nuclear fission with Niels Bohr.