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Jason Valentine

Jason Valentine is an optical physicist and mechanical engineering professor at Vanderbilt University, known for a 2008 Nature paper reporting the first bulk optical metamaterial with a negative refractive index.

Jason W. Fleischer

Jason W. Fleischer is an American physicist and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, known for the first observation of two-dimensional discrete solitons.

Jaume Veciana

Jaume Veciana is a Spanish chemist and materials scientist who led the NANOMOL group at ICMAB-CSIC in Barcelona, known for molecular magnets, molecular electronics, and nanomedicine.

Jaume Vilarrasa

Jaume Vilarrasa, also Jaime Vilarrasa Llorens, born 1949 in Canet de Mar, Spain, is a Spanish organic chemist and full professor at the University of Barcelona, known for the Staudinger–Vilarrasa reaction.

Javad Lavaei

Javad Lavaei is an Iranian-American control theorist and optimization researcher who is an associate professor at UC Berkeley and a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.

Javier Pérez-Ramírez

Javier Pérez-Ramírez, born 1974 in Benidorm, Spain, is a Spanish chemist and Full Professor of Catalysis Engineering at ETH Zurich, known for hierarchical zeolites and CO2-to-methanol catalysts.

Javier Read de Alaniz

Javier Read de Alaniz is an American organic chemist and professor at UC Santa Barbara, known for donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts, visible-light photochromes his group first reported in 2014.

Javier Santaolalla

Javier Santaolalla, born in Burgos in 1982, is a Spanish physicist who worked at CERN on the CMS experiment and became a leading Spanish-language science communicator.

Jay A. Switzer

Jay A. Switzer is an American materials chemist and electrochemist at Missouri University of Science and Technology, known for growing single-crystal inorganic films by electrodeposition.

Jay Fineberg

Jay Fineberg is an experimental physicist and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Racah Institute, known for laboratory studies of fracture, friction, and earthquake nucleation.

Jay K. Kochi

Jay K. Kochi (1927–2008) was an American physical organic and organometallic chemist known for establishing electron transfer as a central mechanism in organic and metal-mediated reactions, and for the Kochi Reaction.

Jay S. Siegel

Jay S. Siegel is an American organic chemist known for work on non-planar aromatic molecules like corannulene, now a vice-president at the University of Hong Kong.

Jayant Narlikar

Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (1938–2025) was an Indian astrophysicist and cosmologist who co-developed the Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravitation, proposed the quasi-steady state cosmology, and founded IUCAA in Pune.

Jayanth R. Banavar

Jayanth R. Banavar is an Indian-born American theoretical physicist known for work on metabolic scaling, river networks, and protein geometry, and coauthor of a 1999 Nature paper on quarter-power scaling.

Jayne C. Garno

Jayne Carol Garno is an American analytical chemist and professor at Louisiana State University, known for developing scanning probe microscopy methods for chemistry at the molecular level.

Jean Albert Gaudry

Jean Albert Gaudry (1827–1908) was a French geologist and paleontologist known for the fossil mammals of Pikermi, Greece, and for introducing Darwinian ideas in France.

Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont

Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798–1874) was a French geologist, professor at the École des Mines de Paris, known for the first complete geological map of France.

Jean Baptiste Perrin

Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942) was a French physicist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments establishing the reality of atoms and molecules.

Jean Bourgain

Jean Bourgain (1954–2018) was a Belgian mathematician who reshaped Fourier analysis, ergodic theory, and nonlinear partial differential equations, winning the Fields Medal in 1994 while at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Jean Brossel

Jean Brossel (1918–2003) was a French atomic physicist who co-invented the double resonance method and made the first demonstrations of double resonance and optical pumping, work behind Alfred Kastler's 1966 Nobel Prize.

Jean Cabannes

Jean Cabannes (1885–1959) was a French physicist who proved in 1914 that transparent gases scatter light and derived the generalized scattering law for anisotropic molecules.

Jean Céa

Jean Céa (1932–2024) was a French mathematician specializing in optimization and numerical analysis, known for Céa's lemma and for building applied mathematics at the University of Nice and founding CIMPA.

Jean Chazy

Jean Chazy (1882–1955) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose 1922 classification of three-body final motions remains standard; he held the Sorbonne's analytical mechanics chair.

Jean Dalibard

Jean Dalibard, born in 1958, is a French physicist at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel and the Collège de France known for laser cooling of atoms and quantum gases.

Jean Dieudonné

Jean Dieudonné (1906–1992) was a French mathematician, a founding member and principal writer of the Bourbaki group, known for work in topology and classical groups.

Jean Favard

Jean Favard (1902–1965) was a French mathematician at the Sorbonne and École Polytechnique whose name marks central results of approximation theory, including the Favard constants.

Jean Gaston Darboux

Jean Gaston Darboux (1842–1917) was a French mathematician who worked in differential geometry and analysis, and after whom the Darboux integral is named. Born in Nîmes, he held the chair of higher geometry in Paris.

Jean Ginibre

Jean Ginibre was a French mathematical physicist at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay known for the 1965 random-matrix ensembles, the circular law, and the Ginibre point process.

Jean Goguel

Jean Goguel (1908–1987) was a French geologist and geophysicist, professor at the École des Mines de Paris, who applied mechanics and gravity data to tectonics and wrote the Traité de tectonique.

Jean Jouzel

Jean Jouzel (born 1947) is a French paleoclimatologist and glaciologist who reconstructed past climates from polar ice cores and was IPCC Working Group I vice-president from 2002 to 2015.