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J. van Paradijs
Jan van Paradijs (1946–1999) was a Dutch high-energy astrophysicist who measured the first neutron star mass and found the first gamma-ray-burst optical afterglow in 1997.
J. W. S. Cassels
J. W. S. Cassels, also known as John William Scott Cassels, was a British number theorist who was Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at Cambridge from 1967 to 1984.
J. Will Medlin
J. Will Medlin, also known as Will Medlin, is an American chemical engineer and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder known for controlling catalyst selectivity with organic monolayers.
J. William Schopf
J. William Schopf is a paleobiologist at UCLA who studies Precambrian life and is known for his claim to have found the oldest cellular fossils, in 3,465-million-year-old rocks of Western Australia.
J.‐F. Donati
Jean-François Donati is a French astrophysicist and CNRS research director at IRAP in Toulouse, known for mapping stellar magnetic fields and leading the ESPaDOnS and SPIRou instruments.
J.‐G. Schilling
Jean-Guy Ernest Schilling (1936–2018) was a Swiss-born marine geochemist at the University of Rhode Island whose 1973 Reykjanes Ridge study founded the Iceland mantle plume hypothesis.
J.W. de Leeuw
J.W. de Leeuw, born Jan Willem de Leeuw, is a Dutch organic geochemist known for work on organic sulfur compounds as recorders of ancient marine environments.
Jaak Peetre
Jaak Peetre (1935–2019) was an Estonian-born Swedish mathematician who, with Jacques-Louis Lions, co-created the real interpolation method of Banach spaces and proved Peetre's theorem on local operators.
Jaan Einasto
Jaan Einasto, born 1929 in Tartu, Estonia, is an Estonian astrophysicist who helped discover dark matter around galaxies and the cosmic web, and created the Einasto profile.
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, born 1959 in Baarn, is a Dutch organic geochemist at NIOZ and Utrecht University, known for the TEX86 paleothermometer and the 2004 Spinoza Prize.
Jacek Klinowski
Jacek Klinowski (born 1943 in Kraków) is a Polish-born chemist at the University of Cambridge, a pioneer of solid-state NMR studies of zeolites and editor of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
Jack Baldwin (organic chemist)
Sir Jack Edward Baldwin (1938–2020) was a British organic chemist and Waynflete Professor at Oxford whose 1976 Baldwin's rules predict which ring-forming reactions succeed; he also elucidated penicillin biosynthesis.
Jack D. Dunitz
Jack D. Dunitz (1923–2021) was a Scottish chemical crystallographer and professor of chemical crystallography at ETH Zurich from 1957 to 1990, known for the Bürgi–Dunitz angle.
Jack E. McLaughlin
Jack E. McLaughlin (1923–2001) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who discovered the McLaughlin group, one of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups.
Jack E. Taunton
Jack E. Taunton is a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF whose laboratory's reversible covalent chemistry produced the BTK inhibitor rilzabrutinib and who co-founded biotechnology companies including Terremoto Biosciences.
Jack Edmonds
Jack Edmonds, born 1934, is an American mathematician and computer scientist who founded modern combinatorial optimization at the National Bureau of Standards, creating the blossom algorithm for maximum matching.
Jack F. Douglas
Jack F. Douglas is an American polymer physicist at NIST known for the string model of glass formation and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Jack Halpern (inorganic chemist)
Jack Halpern (1925–2018) was a Polish-born inorganic chemist at the University of Chicago, a founder of mechanistic organometallic chemistry and homogeneous catalysis whose group made the first homogeneous transition-metal hydrogenation catalyst in 1961.
Jack Horner (paleontologist)
Jack Horner, born John R. Horner, is an American paleontologist who discovered the Maiasaura nesting grounds at Egg Mountain, Montana, and was the scientific adviser to the Jurassic Park films.
Jack J. Lissauer
Jack J. Lissauer is a space scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, best known for identifying resonance features in Saturn's rings and discovering the six-planet system Kepler-11 in 2011.
Jack Kiefer (statistician)
Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981) was an American mathematical statistician who spent 28 years at Cornell, then joined Berkeley, and introduced the Kiefer–Wolfowitz algorithm and optimal design theory.
Jack Kilby
Jack Kilby (Jack St. Clair Kilby) was an American engineer at Texas Instruments who built the first integrated circuit in 1958 and shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Jack L. Koenig
Jack L. Koenig (1933–2021) was an American polymer spectroscopist and founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University's macromolecular science department, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (1928 to 2014) was a British inorganic chemist who helped pioneer modern inorganic chemistry and was Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge from 1970 to 1995.
Jack M. Mochel
Jack M. Mochel is a low-temperature physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign known for third-sound experiments on thin superfluid helium films.
Jack Oliver (seismologist)
Jack Oliver, born John Ertle Oliver (1923–2011), was an American seismologist at Columbia and Cornell whose earthquake evidence helped establish plate tectonics, and who pioneered deep seismic imaging of the continents.
Jack R. Jokipii
Jack R. (Randy) Jokipii (1939–2022) was an American space plasma and cosmic-ray physicist, Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for quasi-linear theory and the 22-year cosmic-ray cycle.
Jack Sandweiss
Jack Sandweiss (1930–2020) was an American experimental particle and nuclear physicist at Yale University from 1957, a National Academy of Sciences member, and editor of Physical Review Letters for 25 years.
Jack Simons
Jack Simons (Jack Peter Simons, born 1945) is a theoretical chemist at the University of Utah known for his work on negative molecular ions and electron affinities.
Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger, born Hans Jakob Steinberger, was a German-born American physicist at CERN who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the muon neutrino.