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Jan Peter Toennies
Jan Peter Toennies, born 1930 in Philadelphia, is a physical chemist who pioneered crossed molecular beams and helium nanodroplet isolation spectroscopy, directing a Max Planck Institute in Göttingen from 1969 to 1998.
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert is a Swedish-trained hydrologist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for the HBV-light runoff model and bias correction of climate model output.
Jan Śleszyński
Jan Śleszyński (1854–1931) was a Polish mathematician and logician who proved the Śleszyński–Pringsheim theorem and gave the first rigorous proof of a restricted central limit theorem.
Jan Smit (Dutch geologist)
Jan Smit (born 1948, The Hague) is a Dutch geologist and stratigrapher, professor emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for his work on the Chicxulub impact and dinosaur extinction.
Jan Tauc
Jan Tauc (1922–2010) was a Czech-born American semiconductor physicist who worked in Prague and was a professor at Brown University from 1970 to 1992, known for the Tauc plot.
Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek
Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek (1911–2007) was a Dutch physical chemist and professor at Utrecht University, the O in DLVO theory, the standard account of why colloidal suspensions stay dispersed or coagulate.
Jan van Deemter
Jan Jozef van Deemter (1918–2004) was a Dutch physicist and Shell researcher known for the van Deemter equation, from his 1956 paper on band broadening in chromatography.
Jan van Hest
Jan van Hest is a Dutch bio-organic chemist at Eindhoven University of Technology, known as the first to produce polymersomes and a pioneer of artificial cells.
Ján Veizer
Ján Veizer, also published as Jan Veizer, is an isotope geochemist and paleontologist at the University of Ottawa who built the Phanerozoic seawater isotope record from fossil shells.
Jan Verlet
Jan R. R. Verlet is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University known for spectroscopy of molecular anions and the hydrated electron at the water/air interface.
Jan Zaanen
Jan Zaanen (1957–2024) was a Dutch condensed matter theorist, professor at Leiden University, known for predicting stripe order in copper-oxide superconductors and for Planckian dissipation.
Jan‐E. Bäckvall
Jan-E. Bäckvall (Jan-Erling Bäckvall), born 1947, is a Swedish organic chemist and professor at Stockholm University known for chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution, palladium-catalyzed allene carbocyclizations, and biomimetic oxidation.
Jana Roithová
Jana Roithová, born 1974, is a Czech chemist who has been Professor of Spectroscopy and Catalysis at Radboud University since 2018 and leads a group at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin.
Jane Luu
Jane Luu, born 1963 in South Vietnam, is an astronomer who with David Jewitt discovered 1992 QB1 in 1992, the first Kuiper Belt object, earning the 2012 Kavli and Shaw Prizes.
Janna Levin
Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist, the Claire Tow Professor at Barnard College, and author of Black Hole Blues, an account of the campaign to detect gravitational waves.
Jannik Bjerrum
Jannik Bjerrum (1909–1992) was a Danish chemist at the University of Copenhagen whose formation function made stepwise complex formation measurable; his 1941 monograph Metal Ammine Formation in Aqueous Solution became a classic.
Jannik Meyer
Jannik Meyer, also known as Jannik C. Meyer, is a German physicist who studies two-dimensional materials by atomic-resolution electron microscopy and has been a professor at Tübingen since 2018.
János Hajdu
János Hajdu, born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born physicist and professor emeritus at Uppsala University known for "diffraction before destruction" X-ray laser imaging and the first imaging of an intact virus with an X-ray laser.
János Kollár
János Kollár, born 1956 in Budapest, Hungary, is a Hungarian-American algebraic geometer and Donner Professor at Princeton University, known for the minimal model program, rationally connected varieties, and moduli theory.
János Komlós (mathematician)
János Komlós, born 1942 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-American mathematician and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University known for the KMT strong approximation, the AKS sorting network, and the Komlós conjecture in discrepancy theory.
János Szanyi
János Szanyi, also published as Janos Szanyi, is a Hungarian-named American chemist and staff scientist in the Catalysis Science group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, known for single-atom catalysis.
Janusz Pawliszyn
Janusz Pawliszyn is a Canadian analytical chemist at the University of Waterloo who invented solid-phase microextraction (SPME), a solvent-free sampling technique used in environmental, food, forensic, and clinical analysis.
Janusz S. Wilczynski
Janusz S. Wilczynski is a physicist and optical engineer known for designing optics for semiconductor manufacturing during a career at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Jarad Mason
Jarad Mason is an American inorganic chemist and Harvard University associate professor known for metal-organic frameworks, permanently porous liquids that store gases, and solid-state refrigeration, and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932) was a Finnish mathematician who spent his career at the University of Helsinki and proved the central limit theorem under the Lindeberg condition.
Jaroslav Heyrovsky
Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist who founded polarography, an electrochemical analysis method using the dropping mercury electrode, and received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone.
Jaroslav Kurzweil
Jaroslav Kurzweil, born in Prague in 1926, was a Czech mathematician whose 1957 Riemann-type definition of the gauge integral, the Kurzweil–Henstock integral, generalized the Lebesgue integral.
Jascha Repp
Jascha Repp is a German experimental physicist and professor at the University of Regensburg since 2007, known for controlling and measuring individual molecules with scanning probe microscopes.
Jason Dunion
Jason Dunion is an American research meteorologist at NOAA's Hurricane Research Division known for Saharan Air Layer research and over 50 Hurricane Hunter flights, who received the 2025 PECASE award.
Jason Love (chemist)
Jason B. Love is a British inorganic chemist, Professor of Molecular Inorganic Chemistry and Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh.