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James Serrin
James Serrin (1926–2012) was an American applied mathematician at the University of Minnesota whose work shaped quasilinear elliptic regularity theory, Navier–Stokes uniqueness theory, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
James T. Hynes
James T. Hynes is an American theoretical chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for reaction rates and mechanisms in solution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
James Thomson (nuclear physicist)
James Thomson is a nuclear physicist and policy analyst who was the fourth president and CEO of the RAND Corporation from 1989 to 2011, the longest tenure in its history.
James Tour
James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University, known for flash graphene and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
James W. Elkins
James W. Elkins is an atmospheric scientist at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, known for measurements of ozone-depleting gases and the 2018 Nature paper on rising CFC-11 emissions.
James W. Head
James W. Head is an American planetary geologist at Brown University who worked on Apollo landing-site selection and missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
James W. Hurrell
James W. Hurrell is an American climate scientist at Colorado State University and former director of NCAR, known for the North Atlantic Oscillation index bearing his name.
James W. Jorgenson
James W. Jorgenson, born in 1952, is an American analytical chemist who invented capillary zone electrophoresis, a method whose use in DNA sequencing enabled the Human Genome Project.
James W. Kirchner
James W. Kirchner is a hydrologist and earth scientist who taught at Berkeley and ETH Zurich and led Nature studies of groundwater decline, streamflow loss to aquifers, and catchment hydrology.
James W. York
James W. York, also known as James Wesley York Jr., was an American mathematical physicist who reformulated Einstein's constraint equations and shared the 2003 Heineman Prize.
James Waddell Alexander II
James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971) was an American topologist at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study, best known for the Alexander polynomial in knot theory.
James Wadsley
James Wadsley is a computational astrophysicist and professor at McMaster University, lead author of the GASOLINE simulation code used to study planet, star, and galaxy formation.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928) was an English mathematician and astronomer at Trinity College, Cambridge, who published nearly 400 papers and edited two mathematical journals for over half a century.
James Wilfred Cook
James Wilfred Cook (1900–1975) was a British organic chemist who prepared the first pure compound shown to cause cancer, isolated coal tar's carcinogen, and became Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow.
Jan Ambjørn
Jan Ambjørn is a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, best known as co-creator of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a lattice formulation of quantum gravity.
Jan Arnoldus Schouten
Jan Arnoldus Schouten (1883–1971) was a Dutch mathematician who systematized tensor analysis in Ricci-Calculus, independently discovered the Levi-Civita connection, and named the Schouten tensor and Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket.
Jan Christoph Minx
Jan Christoph Minx, also published as Jan C. Minx, is a German climate scientist who heads the Evidence for Climate Solutions group at the Potsdam Institute since 2025.
Jan Czochralski
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953) was a Polish chemist and metallurgist who invented the crystal-pulling method in 1916, now used to grow roughly 95% of silicon for semiconductors.
Jan E. Mooij
Jan E. Mooij, known as Hans Mooij, is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology, a pioneer of superconducting flux qubits.
Jan Esper
Jan Esper is a professor of climate geography at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a dendroclimatologist known for tree-ring temperature reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Jan Feijén
Jan Feijén, also published as J. Feijen, is a Dutch polymer chemist who was professor of Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials at the University of Twente from 1979.
Jan Genzer
Jan Genzer is a polymer physicist known for mechanically assembled monolayers and surface-grafted molecular density gradients, and a distinguished professor at North Carolina State University.
Jan H. van Esch
Jan H. van Esch (Johannes Henricus van Esch) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor at TU Delft, known for chemically fueled transient assembly of active materials.
Jan Hendrik de Boer
Jan Hendrik de Boer (1899–1971) was a Dutch physical chemist at Philips who co-invented the iodide process for pure ductile metals and advanced adsorption science.
Jan Hendrik Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900–1992) was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation, measured the galactic disk's mass density, and proposed the Oort cloud.
Jan J. Weigand
Jan J. Weigand is an inorganic molecular chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic Molecular Chemistry at TU Dresden since 2013, working on cationic phosphorus chemistry.
Jan Ketelaar
Jan Arnold Albert Ketelaar (1908–2001) was a Dutch physical chemist at Amsterdam, known for the bond-type triangle, the textbook De chemische binding, and molten-salt fuel cells.
Jan M. Rost
Jan M. Rost (Jan-Michael Rost, born 1961) is a German theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
Jan Mycielski
Jan Mycielski (1932–2025) was a Polish mathematician who worked in graph theory, set theory, and logic, known for the Mycielskian and the axiom of determinacy, and taught at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Jan Myrheim
Jan Myrheim is a Norwegian theoretical physicist, professor at NTNU in Trondheim, who with Jon Magne Leinaas predicted in 1977 the fractional statistics behind anyons.