Physical and mathematical scientists

James Dewar

Sir James Dewar (1842–1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist, professor at the Royal Institution in London, who first liquefied hydrogen in 1898 and invented the vacuum flask.

James Dugundji

James Dugundji (1919–1985) was a mathematician who spent his career at the University of Southern California, known for the 1951 Dugundji extension theorem and his 1966 textbook Topology.

James Dungey

James Wynne Dungey (1923–2015) was a British space scientist who proposed in 1961 that Earth's magnetosphere is open, via magnetic reconnection, the foundation of modern magnetospheric physics.

James Dwight Dana (1813–1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, and zoologist, professor at Yale, author of A System of Mineralogy, and geologist on the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842.

James E. Gunn

James E. Gunn, born in Texas in 1938, is an American astrophysicist and Princeton professor who conceived and led the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, winning the Kyoto Prize in 2019.

James E. Hansen

James E. Hansen is an American climate scientist, former director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, known for his 1988 congressional testimony on global warming.

James E. Hutchison

James E. Hutchison is an American materials chemist at the University of Oregon who joined the faculty in 1994, known for DNA-scaffolded gold nanoparticle assemblies and founding greener nanoscience.

James E. McDonald

James E. McDonald (1920–1971) was an American atmospheric physicist at the University of Arizona, known for cloud physics, weather modification research, and prominent UFO investigations.

James E. McGrath

James E. McGrath (1934–2014) was an American polymer scientist and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech who worked on block copolymers, fuel-cell materials, and desalination membranes.

James Economy

James Economy (1929–2021) was an American polymer chemist known for liquid crystalline aromatic copolyesters and boron nitride composites, who led the University of Illinois materials science department.

James Edward Keeler

James Edward Keeler (1857–1900) was an American astronomer and astrophysicist who proved Saturn's rings are countless orbiting particles and photographed hundreds of spiral nebulae at Lick Observatory.

James F. Kasting

James F. Kasting, also published as James Kasting, is an American geoscientist at Penn State known for his 1993 theory of habitable zones around stars.

James F. Roth

James F. Roth (1925–2021) was an American industrial chemist who discovered the low-pressure rhodium-catalyzed process for making acetic acid from methanol, the basis of the Monsanto process.

James F. Scott

James F. Scott, also known as James Floyd Scott (1942–2020), was an American physicist known as the father of integrated ferroelectrics, whose work enabled FeRAM memory in game consoles and railway fare cards.

James Farquhar (geochemist)

James Farquhar is a geochemist at the University of Maryland, College Park, best known for mass-independent sulfur isotope signatures that trace oxygen's rise in Earth's early atmosphere.

James Feast

William James Feast is a British polymer chemist at Durham University, best known for the 1980 Durham precursor route to polyacetylene and for applying ROMP to functional polymers.

James Flack Norris

James Flack Norris (1871–1940) was an American organic chemist, professor of organic chemistry at MIT, and a pioneer in the systematic study of structure–reactivity relationships.

James Franck

James Franck (1882–1964) was a German-born physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics for the Franck–Hertz experiment, the first direct evidence for discrete atomic energy states.

James Freeman Gilbert

James Freeman Gilbert (1931–2014) was an American geophysicist and National Academy of Sciences member at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for the Backus–Gilbert inversion method and Earth's free oscillations.

James Furman Kemp

James Furman Kemp (1859–1926) was an American geologist and Columbia University professor known for applying petrography to economic geology and the origin of ore deposits.

James G. Anderson

James G. Anderson is an American atmospheric chemist at Harvard whose measurements of chlorine radicals from CFCs helped establish their link to Antarctic ozone depletion.

James G. Fujimoto

James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor at MIT and co-inventor of optical coherence tomography, the laser-based eye imaging method used in tens of millions of procedures yearly.

James G. Moore

James G. Moore is an American research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey known for studies of Hawaiian submarine landslides and the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

James Gilluly

James Gilluly (1896–1980) was an American field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey whose 1949 paper argued that mountain building is continuous, not periodic, and that the geologic record grows more incomplete with age.

James Glimm

James Glimm (born 1934) is an American mathematician and computational physicist at Stony Brook University, known for constructive quantum field theory and front-tracking fluid dynamics.

James H. Bramble

James H. Bramble (1930–2021) was an American numerical analyst who helped build the mathematical theory of finite element and multigrid methods, ending his career as a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

James H. Wilkinson

James H. Wilkinson, also known as James Hardy Wilkinson, was an English numerical analyst who developed backward error analysis, guided eigenvalue algorithm development, and won the 1970 Turing Award.

James Hall (American geologist)

James Hall (1811–1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist, New York State Paleontologist and first director of its state museum, whose Paleontology of New York founded American invertebrate paleontology.

James Hartle

James Hartle (1939–2023) was an American gravitational physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, best known for the no-boundary wave function of the universe.