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Juan Estrada

Juan Estrada is an Argentine-born particle and astroparticle physicist at Fermilab who invented CCD-based dark matter detectors and won a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.

Juan Ignacio Cirac

Juan Ignacio Cirac is a Spanish theoretical physicist who directs the Theory Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and pioneered trapped-ion quantum computing.

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin, born in 1965 in Manresa, Spain, is a Spanish theoretical physicist who, with Peter Zoller, first proposed building quantum computers with trapped ions.

Juan J. de Pablo

Juan J. de Pablo is an American chemical engineer who models polymers and liquid crystals, and became Executive Dean of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering in 2024.

Juan José Gómez Cadenas

Juan José Gómez Cadenas is a Spanish experimental particle physicist at the Donostia International Physics Center, founder of the NEXT experiment seeking neutrinoless double beta decay.

Juan Maldacena

Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine-born theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, best known for proposing the AdS/CFT correspondence in 1997.

Juan Mr Parrondo

Juan M. R. Parrondo is a Spanish physicist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, known for Parrondo's paradox, where two losing games alternate into a winning one.

Judith Gamora Cohen

Judith Gamora Cohen, born 1946, is an American astronomer at Caltech who studies the Milky Way's outer halo and dwarf spheroidal galaxies and helped build Keck Observatory's first spectroscopic instruments.

Judith Lean

Judith Lean is an American solar physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory whose models of solar irradiance variability quantify the Sun's role in climate change.

Juerg Leuthold

Juerg Leuthold is a Swiss physicist, Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2013, who heads the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields and is known for plasmonic modulators and switches with record bandwidths.

Jules Joubert

Jules François Joubert (1834–1910) was a French physicist and microbiologist who, as Louis Pasteur's co-worker, co-authored the 1877 paper Charbon et septicémie, the first report of antibiosis.

Julia Shelton

Julia "Jessie" Shelton is an American theoretical high-energy particle physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for research on dark matter, top quarks, and the Higgs boson.

Julia Yeomans

Julia Yeomans is a British theoretical physicist who led Oxford's Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and is known for work on active matter, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

Julian D. Gale

Julian D. Gale is an Australian-based theoretical and computational chemist and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, best known for creating the GULP simulation code.

Julian H. Krolik

Julian H. Krolik, also published as J. H. Krolik, is an American theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1999 textbook Active Galactic Nuclei.

Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger, also known as Julian Seymour Schwinger, was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics, predicting the electron's anomalous magnetic moment in 1948.

Julie Forman-Kay

Julie D. Forman-Kay is a Canadian biophysicist who studies intrinsically disordered proteins and phase separation by NMR, as a Senior Scientist at SickKids in Toronto.

Julie Theriot

Julie A. Theriot is an American cell biologist and biophysicist known for showing how Listeria commandeers host actin to move, a MacArthur Fellow now at the University of Washington.

Julio Ángel Fernández

Julio Ángel Fernández is a Uruguayan astronomer at the Universidad de la República whose 1980 papers predicted the Kuiper belt and giant-planet migration, earning the 2018 Kuiper Prize.

Julio M. Fernández

Julio M. Fernández is a biophysicist, professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University since 2002, known for force-clamp spectroscopy of single proteins and work on titin folding in muscle.

Julio Navarro (Argentine-Canadian astrophysicist)

Julio F. Navarro, born 1962 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, is an Argentine-Canadian cosmologist at the University of Victoria, co-author of the influential Navarro–Frenk–White profile describing dark matter halos.

Julius Elster

Julius Elster (1854–1920) was a German physicist and gymnasium teacher in Wolfenbüttel who, with his lifelong collaborator Hans Geitel, laid experimental groundwork for atmospheric electricity, radioactivity, and photoelectricity.

Julius Wess

Julius Erich Wess (1934–2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who, with Bruno Zumino, constructed the first renormalizable supersymmetric quantum field theory in four spacetime dimensions in 1974.

Jun Kondō

Jun Kondō (近藤淳) was a Japanese condensed matter physicist who explained the resistance minimum of dilute magnetic alloys, a result known worldwide as the Kondo effect, and died in 2022 aged 92.

Jun Ye

Jun Ye (叶军) is a physicist at JILA and NIST known for record-setting strontium optical lattice clocks and frequency-comb spectroscopy, honored with the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Juna Kollmeier

Juna Kollmeier is an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Observatories who directs the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V and studies supermassive black holes and the intergalactic medium.

Junichiro Kono

Junichiro Kono is a physicist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, known for optical studies of condensed matter, carbon nanotube photonics, terahertz science, and cavity quantum electrodynamics.

Junsuk Rho

Junsuk Rho (노준석) is a South Korean nanophotonics researcher and endowed chair professor at POSTECH, working on metasurfaces, structural color, metalens-based AR displays, and LiDAR since 2014.

Jürg Fröhlich

Jürg Fröhlich, born 1946 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is a Swiss mathematical physicist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for his 1981 proof of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and work on Anderson localization.

Jürgen Ehlers

Jürgen Ehlers (1929–2008) was a German theoretical physicist known for work on exact solutions of the Einstein field equations and the Newtonian limit of general relativity.