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Jacques Dixmier
Jacques Dixmier, born 1924 in Saint-Étienne, is a French mathematician whose monographs on von Neumann and C-algebras defined operator algebra theory; he was a Bourbaki member and Alain Connes's teacher.
Jacques Dubochet
Jacques Dubochet, born in 1942 in Aigle, Switzerland, is a Swiss biophysicist and emeritus professor at the University of Lausanne who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy.
Jacques Friedel
Jacques Friedel (1921–2014) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on the electron theory of metals and alloys, known for Friedel oscillations and the Friedel sum rule.
Jacques Hadamard
Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963) was a French mathematician who proved the prime number theorem in 1896, introduced Hadamard matrices, and shaped the theory of well-posed problems.
Jacques Herbrand
Jacques Herbrand (1908–1931) was a French mathematician and logician whose 1930 thesis yielded Herbrand's theorem, a foundation of automated theorem proving, and ten papers on class field theory.
Jacques Lalevée
Jacques Lalevée, born 1976 in Remiremont, France, is a French photochemist and professor at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, known for NHC-borane radical photoinitiators and visible-light photopolymerization.
Jacques Neveu
Jacques Neveu (1932–2016) was a Belgian-born French probabilist, considered one of the founders of modern probability theory, who directed the Laboratoire de Probabilités at Paris VI.
Jacques Piccard
Jacques Piccard, full name Jacques Ernest Piccard, was a Swiss engineer and oceanographer who made the first crewed dive to the Challenger Deep with Don Walsh in 1960.
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits (1930–2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who introduced Tits buildings, held the Chair of Group Theory at the Collège de France, and won the 2008 Abel Prize for shaping modern group theory.
Jacques Tréfouël
Jacques Tréfouël (1897–1977) was a French chemist who showed in 1935 that the antibacterial action of Prontosil comes from its sulfanilamide portion, and directed the Institut Pasteur from 1940 to 1964.
Jacques U. Baenziger
Jacques U. Baenziger is a Swiss-born American biochemist and physician-scientist, Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, known for defining the liver receptors that clear glycoprotein hormones from blood.
Jacques Winter
Jacques Winter, also Jacques-Michel Winter, was a French physicist of the École Normale Supérieure named in the 1966 Nobel speech as a performer of the first optical pumping experiment.
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851–1940) was a French physicist and physician who invented the moving-coil galvanometer, the basis of virtually all panel pointer meters, and established high-frequency electrotherapy, known in France as darsonvalisation.
Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions (1928–2001) was a French mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, control theory, and numerical analysis, holding a Collège de France chair from 1973 to 1998.
Jae Sung Lee
Jae Sung Lee (이재성) is a South Korean chemical engineer and catalysis researcher at UNIST known for photoelectrochemical water splitting using sunlight to make hydrogen fuel.
Jaephil Cho
Jaephil Cho (조재필) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology since 2009, known for subnano-sized silicon anodes, reactive boride-infused cathodes, and founding the cathode maker SMLAB.
Jagadeesh S. Moodera
Jagadeesh S. Moodera, also published as J. S. Moodera, is an experimental condensed matter physicist at MIT known for the 1995 observation of room-temperature tunnel magnetoresistance.
Jagadese J. Vittal
Jagadese J. Vittal is an Indian-born solid-state chemist and Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for the solid-state [2+2] photocycloaddition and metal–organic frameworks.
Jaime C. Grunlan
Jaime C. Grunlan is a materials scientist and professor at Texas A&M University, known for layer-by-layer polymer nanocoatings that serve as gas barriers, flame retardants, and thermoelectrics.
Jaime Gómez Rivas
Jaime Gómez Rivas is a Spanish physicist, full professor and chair of the Surface Photonics group at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for nanophotonics and THz photonics.
Jainendra K. Jain
Jainendra K. Jain is a physicist at Penn State known for his composite-fermion theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect, honored with the 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics.
Jake MacMillan
Jake MacMillan (1924–2014) was a British organic chemist at Bristol who became the world authority on gibberellin plant hormones, isolating them from runner bean seeds.
Jakob Kibsgaard
Jakob Kibsgaard is a Danish electrocatalysis researcher, Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark since 2022, known for molybdenum sulfide and transition-metal phosphide catalysts for hydrogen evolution.
Jakob Magolan
Jakob Magolan is a medicinal chemist and professor at McMaster University who leads research in synthetic methodology and antibiotic drug discovery, including AI-guided discovery of the antibiotic enterololin.
Jakob Nielsen (Danish mathematician)
Jakob Nielsen (1890–1959) was a Danish mathematician who helped found combinatorial group theory and surface topology, and introduced Nielsen fixed point theory and Nielsen transformations.
Jakob Sederholm
Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1863–1934) was a Finnish geologist who directed the Geological Commission of Finland and, through his 1907 monograph Om granit och gnejs, founded the study of migmatites.
James A. Miller (scientist)
James A. Miller (1915–2000) was an American biochemist who, with his wife and collaborator Elizabeth C. Miller, established the electrophilic-metabolite theory of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
James A. Screen
James A. Screen is a climate scientist and professor at the University of Exeter known for attributing Arctic warming to diminishing sea ice and for the PAMIP project.
James A. Sethian
James A. Sethian, born 1954, is an American applied mathematician at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for the level-set method and fast marching methods.
James A. Van Allen
James A. Van Allen (1914–2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa who discovered Earth's radiation belts via Explorer 1 in 1958.