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Jerome Percus
Jerome Percus, also known as Jerome Kenneth Percus, was an American physicist and mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the Percus–Yevick equation of liquid-state theory.
Jérôme Waser
Jérôme Waser, born 1977 in Sierre, is a Swiss organic chemist and full professor at EPFL, known for hypervalent-iodine EBX alkynylation reagents and redox gold catalysis.
Jerrold Meinwald
Jerrold Meinwald (1927–2018) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University who co-established chemical ecology, the study of the chemicals organisms use to defend themselves and communicate.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at MIT who developed the first commercial atomic clocks and founded the PSSC science education reform.
Jerry Gollub
Jerry Gollub (1944–2019) was an American physicist at Haverford College who performed the first experiments demonstrating the transition from order to chaos in fluid systems.
Jerry L. Atwood
Jerry L. Atwood (born 1942) is an American supramolecular chemist and Curators' Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, known as a founder of host-guest chemistry and for his work on calixarenes.
Jerry Nelson (scientist)
Jerry Nelson (1944–2017) was an American astronomer who was chief designer of the 10-meter Keck telescopes, pioneered segmented-mirror technology, and later led the Thirty Meter Telescope.
Jerry Woodall
Jerry Woodall is an American electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for the gallium arsenide heterojunctions behind high-efficiency LEDs and the 2001 National Medal of Technology.
Jery R. Stedinger
Jery R. Stedinger is an American hydrologist and Cornell professor since 1977, known for flood frequency analysis and the 1981 textbook Water Resource Systems Planning and Analysis.
Jerzy Ciosłowski
Jerzy Ciosłowski is a Polish theoretical chemist, professor of physics at the University of Szczecin since 2004, known for endohedral fullerenes and density-matrix functional theory.
Jerzy Łoś
Jerzy Łoś (1920–1998) was a Polish mathematician and logician who defined the ultraproduct construction and proved the fundamental Łoś theorem, with further results in algebra, probability, and economics.
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) was a Polish statistician who co-created the Neyman–Pearson theory of hypothesis testing, introduced confidence intervals, founded the statistics department at Berkeley, and received the 1968 National Medal of Science.
Jerzy Plebański
Jerzy Franciszek Plebański (1928–2005) was a Polish mathematical physicist who co-wrote the classic Motion and Relativity with Leopold Infeld and founded the Mexican relativity school at CINVESTAV in Mexico City.
Jesper V. Olsen
Jesper V. Olsen is a Danish mass spectrometrist and proteomics researcher, professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for quantitative phosphoproteomics and the TiO2 enrichment method.
Jess F. Adkins
Jess F. Adkins is an American chemical oceanographer and paleoceanographer at Caltech since 2000, known for developing deep-sea corals as an archive of past deep-ocean circulation.
Jesse Beams
Jesse Wakefield Beams (1898–1977) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Virginia who invented the magnetically suspended ultracentrifuge, beginning the gas-centrifuge method of uranium enrichment.
Jesse Douglas
Jesse Douglas (1897–1965) was an American mathematician who solved the Plateau problem, earning one of the two first Fields Medals in 1936 and later teaching at City College of New York.
Jesse DuMond
Jesse DuMond (1892–1976) was an American experimental physicist at Caltech known for X-ray spectroscopy and, with E. Richard Cohen, the standard least-squares adjustments of the atomic constants.
Jesse L. Beauchamp
Jesse L. Beauchamp is an American chemist at Caltech known for ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy and gas-phase ion chemistry, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jesse L. Greenstein
Jesse L. Greenstein was an American astronomer at Caltech who built its astronomy program around the 200-inch Hale Telescope and became the leading observational student of white dwarfs.
Jessica Elzea Kogel
Jessica Elzea Kogel was an American mining geologist who led NIOSH's mining research program from 2016 to 2022 and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Jessica Fridrich
Jessica Fridrich, born 1964 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, is a Binghamton University professor known for steganography and camera forensics and for systematizing the CFOP speedcubing method.
Jessica Jewell
Jessica Jewell is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Bergen who studies whether energy transitions assumed by climate models can happen.
Jessica Tierney
Jessica E. Tierney is an American paleoclimatologist and professor at the University of Arizona who reconstructs past climates and serves as a lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment report.
Jessie Christiansen
Jessie Christiansen is an Australian astrophysicist who serves as Chief Scientist of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech and leads the NASA Exoplanet Archive.
Jessie MacWilliams
Florence Jessie Collinson MacWilliams (1917–1990) was a British-born mathematician at Bell Laboratories whose 1963 MacWilliams identities became a standard coding theory tool; she also co-wrote the field's encyclopedic 1977 textbook.
Jesus Carrera
Jesús Carrera is a Spanish hydrogeologist and Research Professor at Spain's CSIC since 2006, known for inverse modeling of groundwater flow, reactive transport simulation, and managed aquifer recharge.
Jethro Teall
Jethro Teall (1849–1924) was a British geologist who wrote the landmark British Petrography (1888) and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1901 to 1914.
Jhe Wan-Young
Jhe Wan-Young (제원호) is a South Korean physicist who performed the Yale experiment suppressing spontaneous emission between mirrors, a founding result of cavity quantum electrodynamics, and has taught at Seoul National University since 1992.
Jia Lanpo
Jia Lanpo (贾兰坡, 1908–2001) was a Chinese paleoanthropologist and Quaternary geologist who directed the Peking Man excavations at Zhoukoudian, helping unearth 45 Homo erectus fossils there.