Physical and mathematical scientists

Jens Biegert

Jens Biegert is a German physicist working in attoscience and ultrafast optics at ICFO in Barcelona, where he has been a tenured professor and ICREA Research Professor since 2007.

Jens C. Skou

Jens C. Skou, also known as Jens Christian Skou, was a Danish physiologist who discovered the sodium–potassium pump and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Jens Gundlach

Jens Gundlach, also known as Jens H. Gundlach, is an experimental physicist at the University of Washington who leads the Eöt-Wash gravity group and shared the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.

Jens Nørskov

Jens Nørskov, also known as Jens K. Nørskov, is a Danish theoretical physicist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for computational catalyst design.

Jens-Uwe Sommer

Jens-Uwe Sommer is a German polymer physicist who directs the Theory of Polymers institute at Leibniz IPF Dresden and holds a chair at TU Dresden.

Jeong Woo Han

Jeong Woo Han (한정우) is a South Korean computational catalysis researcher, professor of materials science and engineering at Seoul National University since 2023, known for perovskite exsolution.

Jeong Young Park

Jeong Young Park (박정영) is a South Korean surface chemist and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for detecting hot electrons released during catalytic reactions on metal surfaces.

Jeppe C. Dyre

Jeppe C. Dyre, born 1956, is a Danish physicist and professor at Roskilde University known for work on the glass transition, viscous liquids, and isomorph theory.

Jeppe Vang Lauritsen (Jeppe V. Lauritsen, born 1975) is a Danish chemist and professor at Aarhus University's iNANO center, known for atom-resolved imaging of catalyst surfaces under working conditions.

Jer T. Yu

Jer T. Yu (Jer-tsang Yu) is a Hong Kong astronomer who, as Peebles' first graduate student at Princeton, co-authored the 1970 paper computing primeval density perturbations.

Jerald Ericksen

Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021) was an American mathematician and University of Minnesota professor, a central figure in the postwar revival of continuum mechanics who formulated the Ericksen–Leslie theory of liquid crystals.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937–2025) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton and Cambridge whose 1973 simulations showed galaxies are unstable without massive dark matter halos, helping launch dark matter cosmology.

Jérémie Szeftel

Jérémie Szeftel is a French mathematician and CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne Université who works on nonlinear partial differential equations, known for proving the stability of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes.

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Jeremy Bassis

Jeremy Bassis is an American glaciologist and professor at the University of Michigan who studies iceberg calving and ice shelf stability, received a 2016 Presidential Early Career Award, and challenged worst-case Antarctic sea-level projections.

Jeremy Baumberg

Jeremy J. Baumberg is a British physicist, Harold Aspden Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for squeezing light into metallic nanostructures smaller than a cubic nanometer.

Jeremy K. M. Sanders

Jeremy K. M. Sanders is a British supramolecular chemist and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge, known for dynamic combinatorial chemistry, catenanes, and the organic trefoil knot.

Jeremy Levy

Jeremy Levy is a condensed matter physicist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for writing conductive circuits at an oxide interface with an atomic force microscope.

Jeremy M. Hutson

Jeremy M. Hutson, born in 1957, is a British theoretical molecular physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor at Durham University and a leading researcher on ultracold molecules.

Jeremy M. Smith

Jeremy M. Smith is an inorganic chemist raised in Benoni, South Africa, and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington since 2013, known for iron nitrido chemistry.

Jeremy Mould

Jeremy Mould, born 1949 in Bristol, is an Australian astronomer who co-led the Hubble Key Project, which measured the Hubble constant to 10 percent accuracy, earning the 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize.

Jeremy Nicholson

Jeremy K. Nicholson is a British biochemist who founded NMR-based metabonomics and metabolic phenotyping, and leads the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University in Perth.

Jeremy O'Brien

Jeremy L. O'Brien is a quantum optics and quantum information scientist, co-founder and executive chairman of PsiQuantum, known for the 2003 all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate and integrated quantum photonics.

Jeroen A. van Bokhoven

Jeroen A. van Bokhoven is a Dutch chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who holds the catalysis chair at ETH Zurich and heads a Paul Scherrer Institute laboratory.

Jeroen van den Brink

Jeroen van den Brink is a Dutch condensed-matter physicist who directs the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics at IFW Dresden and is a professor at TU Dresden.

Jerome Berson

Jerome Berson (1924–2017) was an American physical organic chemist at Yale University who studied reactive intermediates, especially diradicals and non-Kekulé molecules, and later wrote on chemistry's history.

Jérôme Faist

Jérôme Faist is a Swiss physicist, born in Geneva, who co-invented the quantum cascade laser at Bell Laboratories and has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2007.

Jerome I. Friedman

Jerome I. Friedman, born in Chicago in 1930, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for evidence that protons contain quarks.

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Jerome Isaac Friedman

Jerome Isaac Friedman, also known as Jerome I. Friedman, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct evidence of quarks.

Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle (1918–2013) was an American crystallographer at the US Naval Research Laboratory who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.