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John Pasta
John Pasta (1918–1981) was an American physicist who co-authored the 1955 Fermi–Pasta–Ulam report, a founding result of computational physics, and later directed computing research at the National Science Foundation.
John Paul Wild
John Paul Wild (1923–2008) was an Australian radio physicist who classified the Sun's radio bursts, built the Culgoora radioheliograph, developed the Interscan landing system, and chaired CSIRO from 1978 to 1985.
John Pendry
John Pendry is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, regarded as the founder of metamaterials and known for the perfect lens and invisibility cloak.
John Pethica
Sir John Bernard Pethica is a physicist best known for inventing nanoindentation and for work that paved the way for atomic force microscopy; he was elected FRS in 1999 and knighted in 2014.
John Preskill
John Preskill, born 1953, is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who has worked on quantum computing since the mid-1990s and coined the terms quantum supremacy and NISQ.
John R. Dunning
John R. Dunning was an American experimental nuclear physicist at Columbia University who verified nuclear fission in the United States and showed uranium-235 is fissionable by slow neutrons.
John R. Haynes
John R. Haynes was a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited with proving that germanium and silicon electroluminescence arises from hole-electron recombination at a p-n junction.
John R. Kirtley
John R. Kirtley is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist who developed scanning SQUID microscopy at IBM and helped establish d-wave pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors.
John R. Klauder
John R. Klauder (1932–2024) was an American theoretical physicist who introduced the modern theory of coherent states, rigorously reformulated Feynman path integrals, and spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories.
John R. Winckler
John R. (Jack) Winckler was an American experimental physicist at the University of Minnesota who discovered auroral X rays and made the first confirmed visual documentation of sprites.
John Reppy
John Reppy is an American experimental low-temperature physicist and longtime Cornell University professor, a National Academy of Sciences member known for experiments on persistent currents and superfluidity in helium films.
John Rowell (scientist)
John Rowell is a British-born condensed matter physicist who, with Philip Anderson at Bell Labs, made the first observation of the Josephson effect in 1963.
John S. Tse
John S. Tse is a Canadian computational materials scientist and Tier I Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, known for high-pressure studies of ice and dense hydrogen.
John Slonczewski
John Slonczewski (1929–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who spent his career at IBM's Yorktown Heights lab, predicted spin-transfer torque in 1996, and shared the 2013 Buckley Prize.
John Stanley Plaskett
John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941) was a Canadian astronomer who rose from machinist to found the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, and measured the Milky Way's size, mass, and rotation.
John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) was a Northern Irish theoretical physicist at CERN whose 1964 theorem made the Einstein–Bohr debate over quantum mechanics experimentally testable; the 2022 Nobel Prize honored the experimentalists who tested it.
John T. Yates
John T. Yates (1935–2015) was an American surface chemist who developed ESDIAD, a technique for imaging chemical bond directions on crystal surfaces, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
John Teufel
John D. Teufel is an American experimental physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, known for cooling a micromechanical membrane to its quantum ground state and demonstrating macroscopic entanglement.
John Torrence Tate, Sr.
John Torrence Tate, Sr. (1889–1950) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Minnesota, known for electron-impact experiments and mass spectroscopy, who edited Physical Review from 1926 to 1950.
John Trowbridge (physicist)
John Trowbridge (1843–1923) was an American physicist at Harvard University who worked on electrical discharges and early X-ray research and founded the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.
John Wheatley
John Wheatley (1927–1986) was an American experimental physicist in low-temperature physics who built the first practical dilution refrigerator and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, known as Lord Rayleigh, was a British physicist who won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering argon and wrote The Theory of Sound.
John Zarnecki
John Zarnecki, born 1949, is a British planetary scientist who led the Huygens probe's Surface Science Package, which landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.
John Zeleny
John Zeleny (1872–1951) was an American physicist at Minnesota and then Yale, president of the American Physical Society in 1940, known for ion mobilities in gases and pioneering electrospray experiments.
Jon M. Miller
Jon M. Miller (Jon Matthew Miller) is an American high-energy astrophysicist at the University of Michigan who studies black holes and neutron stars through X-ray spectroscopy.
Jon Magne Leinaas
Jon Magne Leinaas, born 1946 in Oslo, is a Norwegian theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Oslo whose 1977 work with Jan Myrheim first described anyons.
Jon R. Pratt
Jon R. Pratt is an American mechanical engineer who leads the Quantum Measurement Division at NIST and managed the measurement that redefined the kilogram in 2019.
Jonathan Barrett
Jonathan Barrett (born 1976) is a British quantum information scientist at the University of Oxford, known for the PBR theorem on the reality of the quantum state.
Jonathan E. Menard
Jonathan E. Menard is a fusion plasma physicist who serves as Deputy Director for Research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and led the STAR spherical tokamak power-plant design.
Jonathan Fan
Jonathan Fan is an American electrical engineer and Associate Professor at Stanford University, known for inverse-designed nanophotonics and metasurfaces and winner of the 2014 PECASE award.