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James Hone
James Hone is an experimental condensed-matter physicist and Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, known for pioneering work on graphene and 2D materials.
James Hough
Sir James (Jim) Hough, born in 1945, is a British experimental physicist at Glasgow who led development of the mirror suspensions that made LIGO's 2015 gravitational-wave detection possible.
James Hutton
James Hutton was a Scottish natural philosopher and farmer whose 1788 Theory of the Earth established modern geology, arguing the Earth is far older than commonly accepted.
James Ibers
James Ibers (1930–2021) was an American inorganic chemist and crystallographer who spent more than 55 years at Northwestern University, edited Inorganic Chemistry, and determined the crystal structure of buckminsterfullerene.
James Irvine (chemist)
James Colquhoun Irvine (1877–1952) was a Scottish organic chemist who developed the methylation method for determining sugar structures and served at the University of St Andrews.
James J. Bock
James J. (Jamie) Bock is an American experimental cosmologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, known for Boomerang, Planck, Spider, CIBER, and the SPHEREx mission.
James J. McCarthy
James J. McCarthy (1944–2019) was an American biological oceanographer and Alexander Agassiz Professor at Harvard, known for plankton and nitrogen cycling research and co-chairing the IPCC's 2001 impacts assessment.
James J. Morgan
James J. Morgan (1932–2020) was an American environmental engineer and aquatic chemist at Caltech who coauthored Aquatic Chemistry, the field's standard reference, and won the 1999 Stockholm Water Prize.
James J. Stoker
James J. Stoker was an American applied mathematician and engineer who directed the Courant Institute at New York University from 1958 to 1966 and studied water waves.
James J. Watkins
James J. Watkins is an American materials chemist and polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for supercritical-fluid processing and block-copolymer self-assembly as nanoscale templates.
James J. Wynne
James J. Wynne is an American physicist at IBM Research, born in Brooklyn, New York, best known as co-discoverer of excimer laser surgery, which underlies LASIK and PRK refractive procedures.
James Jackson (earth scientist)
James Jackson is a British earth scientist and Emeritus Professor of Active Tectonics at the University of Cambridge, known for combining earthquake seismology, geomorphology, and space geodesy to study continental deformation.
James Jeans
Sir James Jeans was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for the Rayleigh-Jeans law and the Jeans instability, and for popular books like The Mysterious Universe.
James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) was a British mathematician who, with Arthur Cayley, cofounded invariant theory, worked on matrix theory and number theory, and coined algebraic terms including "matrix."
James K. Gimzewski
James K. Gimzewski is a physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA who pioneered use of the scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate single molecules and discovered single-molecule rotors.
James K. McCusker
James K. McCusker, born in 1965, is a physical-inorganic chemist at Michigan State University whose work on excited-state dynamics of first-row transition metal complexes underpins solar fuels and photoredox catalysis.
James Kendall (chemist)
James Pickering Kendall was a British physical chemist, professor at the University of Edinburgh from 1928 to 1959, known for work on heats of vaporization.
James Kenneth Mitchell
James Kenneth Mitchell (1930–2023) was an American geotechnical engineer who led NASA's Apollo lunar soil mechanics studies, taught at UC Berkeley and Virginia Tech, and wrote Fundamentals of Soil Behavior.
James L. Dye
James L. Dye (1927–2021) was an American inorganic chemist at Michigan State University who discovered alkalides and electrides, compounds with alkali metals or electrons as anions.
James L. Hedrick
James L. Hedrick is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, known for pioneering metal-free organic catalysts for ring-opening polymerization.
James L. Kinsey
James L. Kinsey (1934–2014) was an American physical chemist who co-invented stimulated emission pumping with Robert W. Field, taught at MIT, and served as dean at Rice University.
James L. Skinner
James L. Skinner is an American theoretical chemist known for his theory of vibrational spectroscopy and line shapes in liquids, especially water, and in solids.
James Lighthill
James Lighthill (1924–1998) was a British applied mathematician who founded aeroacoustics, the study of sound generated by fluid flow, and held the Lucasian chair at Cambridge.
James Lupton Hedrick
James Lupton Hedrick is a polymer chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Stanford visiting scholar, known for metal-free organocatalytic polymerization, biodegradable antimicrobial polymers, and recyclable thermosets.
James Lynn Hoard
James Lynn Hoard (1905–1993) was an American chemist and X-ray crystallographer, a Cornell professor and National Academy of Sciences member known for boron and metalloporphyrin structures.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen (1939–2022) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Washington who co-authored the 1973 four laws of black hole mechanics with Stephen Hawking.
James M. Harrison
James M. Harrison (1915–1990) was a Canadian geologist who directed the Geological Survey of Canada and was the first President of the International Union of Geological Sciences.
James M. Mayer
James M. Mayer is an American inorganic chemist, the Charlotte Fitch Roberts Professor at Yale University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer research and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
James M. Moran
James M. Moran is an American radio astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian who works on very-long-baseline interferometry, cosmic masers, and supermassive black holes.
James M. Robins
James M. Robins, known as Jamie Robins, is an American physician, epidemiologist, and biostatistician at Harvard who founded modern causal inference and created the g-methods.