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James A. Yorke
James A. Yorke, born 1941, is an American mathematician at the University of Maryland who coined the term "chaos" and helped found chaos theory in 1975.
James Alexander Green
James Alexander Green, known as Sandy, was a British mathematician who introduced the equivalence relations on semigroups known as Green's relations and became a leading figure in the representation theory of finite groups.
James Arthur (scientist)
James Grieg Arthur, born 1944 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto known for the Arthur–Selberg trace formula and the endoscopic classification of automorphic representations.
James B. Elsner
James B. Elsner is an American atmospheric scientist and statistician, Professor Emeritus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, known for applying nonlinear dynamics and extreme-value statistics to hurricanes and tornadoes.
James B. Macelwane
James B. Macelwane (1883–1956) was an American seismologist and Jesuit priest who established the first geophysics department in the western hemisphere at Saint Louis University in 1925.
James B. Pollack
James B. Pollack (1938–1994) was an American astrophysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center, a leading authority on planetary atmospheres who worked on missions from Mariner 9 to Cassini.
James B. Sumner
James B. Sumner, also known as James Batcheller Sumner, was an American biochemist at Cornell University who in 1926 crystallized urease, the first enzyme ever crystallized.
James Baldwin Carrell
James Baldwin Carrell is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia whose research centers on algebraic transformation groups, algebraic geometry, and Lie theory.
James Beacham
James Beacham is a particle physicist on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, affiliated with Duke University, and a science communicator with a widely viewed TED talk.
James Berger (statistician)
James Berger is an American statistician known for pioneering work in Bayesian analysis, decision theory, and uncertainty quantification, a National Academy of Sciences member and Duke professor.
James Binney
James Binney is a British theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Oxford known for work on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and for the standard textbooks Galactic Dynamics and Galactic Astronomy.
James Bjorken
James "BJ" Bjorken (1934–2024) was an American theoretical physicist at SLAC and Fermilab known for Bjorken scaling, his 1968 proposal that made quarks inside the proton visible in electron scattering.
James Brown Fisk
James Brown Fisk (1910–1981) was an American physicist who helped develop the microwave magnetron for wartime radar and served as president of Bell Laboratories from 1959 to 1973.
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was an American organic chemist and president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953 who organized US scientific research during World War II.
James Burleigh Thompson
James Burleigh Thompson (1921–2011) was an American metamorphic petrologist and mineralogist at Harvard University who applied chemical thermodynamics to rocks and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.
James C. Bergquist
James C. Bergquist is an American physicist and NIST Fellow in Boulder, Colorado, a pioneer of single-ion optical atomic clocks elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.
James C. G. Walker
James C. G. Walker (1939–2022) was a South African-born scientist, professor at the University of Michigan, best known for research on the origin and evolution of Earth's atmosphere.
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams is a geophysical fluid dynamicist, the Louis B. Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences at UCLA, known for coherent vortices in turbulence and the isopycnal mixing scheme used in climate models.
James C. Stevens
James C. Stevens is an American industrial chemist who joined Dow in 1979, discovered the Insite constrained-geometry catalysts behind polymer families like ENGAGE and INFUSE, and won the 2006 Perkin Medal.
James C. Wyant
James C. Wyant (1943–2023) was an American optical scientist who pioneered phase-shifting interferometry, founded WYKO and 4D Technology, and led the University of Arizona's optics college.
James C. Zachos
James C. Zachos is an American paleoceanographer and geochemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, known for the global deep-sea isotope record and the PETM.
James Chadwick
James Chadwick (1891–1974) was a British physicist who discovered the neutron in 1932, won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics, and later led the British Mission to the Manhattan Project.
James Charles Phillips
James Charles Phillips is a condensed matter physicist known for his work on glass physics, who led research at Bell Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
James Cooley
James Cooley (1926–2016) was an American applied mathematician who spent his career at IBM's Watson Research Center and co-invented the fast Fourier transform with John Tukey in 1965.
James Crafts
James Mason Crafts (1839–1917) was an American chemist who, with Charles Friedel, described the Friedel–Crafts reaction in 1877, and who served as president of MIT from 1897 to 1900.
James Craig Watson
James Craig Watson (1838–1880) was a Canadian-American astronomer who discovered 22 asteroids, directed the Detroit and Washburn observatories, and left a bequest funding the National Academy's Watson Medal.
James Cronin
James Watson Cronin (1931–2016) was an American particle physicist at the University of Chicago who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with Val Fitch for discovering CP violation in neutral K-meson decay.
James D. Byerlee
James D. Byerlee is an experimental rock-mechanics geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey whose 1978 paper established Byerlee's law, the standard rule for rock fault friction.
James D. Callen
James D. Callen is a fusion plasma theorist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a National Academy of Engineering member known for tokamak transport theory.
James D. D'Ianni
James D. D'Ianni was an American polymer and rubber chemist who spent his career at Goodyear in Akron, Ohio, retiring as director of research in 1978.