10,219 articles
Jean Laval
Jean Laval (1900–1980) was a French physicist who studied X-ray diffusion by crystals and was professor of theoretical physics at the Collège de France from 1950 to 1970.
Jean Leray
Jean Leray (1906–1998) was a French mathematician who founded weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations and sheaf theory, holding a Collège de France chair from 1947 to 1978.
Jean M. J. Fréchet
Jean M. J. Fréchet, born 1944 in Burgundy, France, is a polymer chemist known for convergent dendrimer synthesis, chemically amplified photoresists for microchips, and the 2019 King Faisal Prize in Science.
Jean Manfred Grosheintz
Jean Manfred Grosheintz (1909–2003) was a Swiss carbohydrate chemist trained at ETH Zurich who worked in Toronto with Hermann O. L. Fischer and is known for the Grosheintz-Fischer-Reissert aldehyde synthesis.
Jean Roncali
Jean Roncali is a French CNRS emeritus research director at the University of Angers known for π-conjugated systems and organic photovoltaics, including the 2014 'Small is Beautiful' paper.
Jean Rouxel
Jean Rouxel (1935–1998) was a French chemist and professor at the University of Nantes, a founder of "chimie douce" whose intercalation chemistry of layered chalcogenides fed into lithium-battery cathodes.
Jean Servais Stas
Jean Servais Stas (1813–1891) was a Belgian analytical chemist who disproved Prout's hypothesis through precise atomic weight determinations and devised the Stas-Otto forensic toxicology method.
Jean Thibaud
Jean Thibaud (1901–1960) was a French experimental physicist who measured the positron's charge and, with Frédéric Joliot, first observed positron annihilation in 1933, later founding the Institut de physique atomique de Lyon.
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault
Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887) was a French agricultural chemist who showed that plants take nitrogen from soil nitrates rather than air, clarifying the nitrogen cycle; he ran an experimental farm in Alsace and taught in Paris.
Jean-Baptiste Duhamel
Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, also written Du Hamel, was a French Oratorian priest and natural philosopher who served as the first secretary of the Académie royale des sciences from 1666 to 1697.
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800–1884) was a French chemist, professor in Paris and perpetual secretary of the Académie des Sciences, known for the Dumas nitrogen method and substitution theory.
Jean-Baptiste Senderens
Jean-Baptiste Senderens (1856–1937) was a French Catholic priest and chemist who, in a two-decade collaboration with Paul Sabatier at Toulouse, co-founded direct catalytic hydrogenation and discovered the methanation reaction known as the Sabatier reaction.
Jean-Baptiste Vincent
Jean-Baptiste Vincent, born 1983, is a planetary scientist at the DLR Institute of Space Research in Berlin who studies asteroid and comet surfaces and activity.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957–2016) was a French mathematician in dynamical systems, known for work on circle maps and small divisors, who received the 1994 Fields Medal.
Jean-François Fauvarque
Jean-François Fauvarque is a French chemist whose 1977 report with Anny Jutand on palladium-catalyzed coupling of Reformatsky reagents was cited in the Nobel Committee's 2010 background.
Jean-François Le Gall
Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959) is a French probabilist and professor at Université Paris-Saclay, known for the Brownian snake, random trees, and the Brownian map.
Jean-François Lutz
Jean-François Lutz is a French polymer chemist, a CNRS research director who studies sequence-controlled and informational polymers, and director of the ISIS institute in Strasbourg since 2024.
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin is a French paleoanthropologist who led the discovery of 315,000-year-old Homo sapiens fossils at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and received the 2023 Balzan Prize.
Jean-Jacques Moreau
Jean-Jacques Moreau (1923–2014) was a French mathematician and mechanician, professor at Montpellier from 1952, who discovered helicity in fluids, founded infinite-dimensional convex analysis, and created nonsmooth mechanics.
Jean-Louis Hérisson
Jean-Louis Hérisson is a French chemist who, as Yves Chauvin's student at the Institut Français du Pétrole, co-authored the 1971 paper first proposing the accepted mechanism of olefin metathesis.
Jean-Louis Koszul
Jean-Louis Koszul (1921–2018) was a French mathematician known for the Koszul complex, Koszul duality, and the Koszul connection, who worked in homological algebra and differential geometry at Strasbourg and Grenoble and belonged to the Bourbaki group.
Jean-Louis Nicolas
Jean-Louis Nicolas is a French number theorist at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, best known for a 1983 theorem exactly equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis and for work on highly composite numbers.
Jean-Louis Verdier
Jean-Louis Verdier was a French mathematician and student of Alexander Grothendieck who introduced triangulated categories and Verdier duality, co-authored SGA 4, and led the Société Mathématique de France from 1984.
Jean-Loup Puget
Jean-Loup Puget, born 1947 in France, is a French astrophysicist who identified interstellar PAH molecules, made the first detection of the cosmic infrared background, and led Planck's HFI, winning the 2018 Shaw Prize.
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas (born 1954) is a Belgian computational chemist known for his theory of the electronic structure of conjugated polymers, and a Regents Professor at the University of Arizona.
Jean-Marc Fontaine
Jean-Marc Fontaine (1944–2019) was a French mathematician, a founder of p-adic Hodge theory, known for his period rings, the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture, and proving no abelian variety over the rationals has good reduction everywhere.
Jean-Marie Basset
Jean-Marie Basset is a French catalysis chemist, emeritus professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, and founder of surface organometallic chemistry, known for discovering alkane metathesis.
Jean-Michel Bismut
Jean-Michel Bismut, born 1948 in Lisbon, is a French mathematician at Université Paris-Saclay known for probability theory, the index theorem, the hypoelliptic Laplacian, and the 2021 Shaw Prize.
Jean-Michel Lasry
Jean-Michel Lasry is a French mathematician and professor at Paris-Dauphine who, with Pierre-Louis Lions, founded mean field game theory in 2006 and co-founded the energy-data company Kayrros in 2015.
Jean-Michel M. Rendu
Jean-Michel M. Rendu is a French-educated mining engineer and member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a foremost authority on mineral resource and reserve estimation.