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James M. Stone
James M. Stone is a computational astrophysicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for the ZEUS and Athena astrophysical simulation codes.
James M.D. Day
James M.D. Day (James Martin Dines Day) is an isotope geochemist and planetary scientist, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who directs its Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory.
James Maynard (mathematician)
James Maynard (born 1987) is a British analytic number theorist, Professor of Number Theory at Oxford, known for proving small and large gaps between primes and winning the 2022 Fields Medal.
James McKernan
James McKernan, born in London in 1964, is a British algebraic geometer at UC San Diego known for proving the existence of flips in all dimensions.
James Melville Gilliss
James Melville Gilliss (1811–1865) was an American naval officer and astronomer who planned the first United States Naval Observatory and founded the observatory that became the Chilean National Observatory.
James Mercer (mathematician)
James Mercer (1883–1932) was an English mathematician at Cambridge, bracketed Senior Wrangler in 1907, whose 1909 memoir introduced positive definite kernels and proved Mercer's theorem, now central to kernel methods in machine learning.
James N. Pitts
James N. Pitts was an American atmospheric chemist who established the photochemistry of urban smog, co-founded UC Riverside's air pollution research center, and shaped California's clean-air rules.
James P. Collman
James P. Collman, born 1932, is an American bioinorganic chemist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for picket fence porphyrins that mimic hemoglobin's oxygen-binding site.
James P. Eisenstein
James P. Eisenstein, known as Jim Eisenstein, is an experimental condensed-matter physicist and emeritus professor at Caltech, known for the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state and bilayer exciton condensation.
James P. Ferris
James P. Ferris (1932–2016) was an American chemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who worked on prebiotic chemistry, known for montmorillonite clay-catalyzed RNA oligomer synthesis and planetary photochemistry.
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett, born 1940 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a marine geologist and paleoceanographer at UC Santa Barbara known as a founding figure of paleoceanography.
James P. Morken
James P. Morken is an American synthetic organic chemist, professor at Boston College since 2006, known for enantioselective diboration and stereospecific cross-coupling of boronic esters.
James P. Sethna
James P. Sethna is a condensed-matter and statistical physicist, Professor of Physics at Cornell University since 1995, known for crackling noise, hysteresis in disordered systems, and the sloppy models framework.
James Peebles (cosmologist)
James Peebles is a Canadian-born American cosmologist at Princeton who won half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
James Perrin Smith
James Perrin Smith (1864–1931) was an American geologist and paleontologist, professor at Stanford from 1892 to 1930, best known for studying western Mesozoic formations and ammonites.
James Power Gordon
James Power Gordon (1928–2013) was an American physicist who built the first maser as a doctoral student at Columbia University, then worked on optical communication at Bell Labs.
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was an English physicist who established that heat is a form of energy, measured the mechanical equivalent of heat, and formulated Joule's law.
James R. Arnold
James R. Arnold (1923–2012) was an American nuclear chemist and cosmochemist who helped develop radiocarbon dating, discovered beryllium-10, and founded UC San Diego's chemistry department.
James R. Asay
James R. Asay is an American shock physicist who spent 32 years at Sandia National Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
James R. Chelikowsky
James R. Chelikowsky is a computational materials scientist who held the Moncrief Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and introduced the finite-difference pseudopotential method in 1994.
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant is a photochemist and Professor of Photochemistry and Sustainable Energy at Oxford, after professorial appointments at Imperial College London and Swansea University.
James R. Holton
James R. Holton (1938–2004) was an American dynamic meteorologist and University of Washington professor who explained the quasi-biennial oscillation with Richard Lindzen and wrote the standard graduate textbook.
James R. Katzer
James R. Katzer (1941–2012) was an American chemical engineer in catalysis, a University of Delaware professor and Mobil research executive elected to the NAE in 1998.
James R. O’Neil
James R. O'Neil is an American stable isotope geochemist and University of Michigan professor emeritus known for calibrating oxygen isotope geothermometers and for work on paleoclimate and the Adirondack anorthosite.
James R. Powell
James R. Powell was an American nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who co-invented superconducting maglev with Gordon Danby, earning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal.
James R. Rice
James R. Rice, born 1940 in Maryland, is an American engineer and geophysicist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for the J-integral and studies of how earthquake ruptures begin and spread.
James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater (1917–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at Columbia University who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the structure of atomic nuclei.
James Ross MacDonald
James Ross MacDonald, born 1923 in Savannah, Georgia, is an American physicist who shaped impedance spectroscopy, led research at Texas Instruments, and won the IEEE Edison Medal.
James S. Dunlop
James S. Dunlop, also published as J. S. Dunlop, is a Scottish observational cosmologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies the first galaxies using the largest telescopes.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical condensed-matter physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for work on nonequilibrium phenomena, including dendritic crystal growth, fracture, and earthquake dynamics.