Physical and mathematical scientists

Jin‐Ho Choy

Jin-Ho Choy (최진호), born in 1948, is a South Korean inorganic and materials chemist known for two-dimensional nanohybrid materials and drug and gene delivery research.

Jin'ichi Nagumo

Jin'ichi Nagumo (南雲仁一, 1926–1999) was a Japanese applied mathematician and engineer, professor at the University of Tokyo, best known for the 1962 FitzHugh–Nagumo nerve-axon equation.

Jing Li

Jing Li (李静) is a solid-state inorganic chemist who is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers, known for metal–organic frameworks and hybrid semiconductors for clean-energy applications.

Jing-Li Luo (骆静利), also published as Jingli Luo, is a Canadian electrochemist known for solid oxide fuel cells, formerly a professor at the University of Alberta and now a distinguished professor at Shenzhen University.

Jingguang G. Chen

Jingguang G. Chen is an American chemical engineer and Thayer Lindsley Professor at Columbia University who studies bimetallic and carbide catalysts for hydrogen production and CO2 conversion.

Jingrong Jean Cui

Jingrong Jean Cui, known as J. Jean Cui, is a medicinal chemist who led the design of the FDA-approved cancer drugs crizotinib, lorlatinib, and repotrectinib.

Jingsheng Chen

Jingsheng Chen (陈景升) is a materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for current-induced and field-free spin–orbit torque switching of perpendicular magnetization.

Jinsang Kim

Jinsang Kim is a materials chemist at the University of Michigan, where he holds the Raoul Kopelman Collegiate Professorship and works on metal-free organic phosphors and biosensors.

Jinwoo Cheon

Jinwoo Cheon (천진우) is a South Korean inorganic chemist and nanomedicine researcher who works on magnetic nanoparticles for imaging, therapy, and wireless cell control, and founded magnetogenetics.

Jiong Lu

Jiong Lu (吕炯) is a Singapore-based chemist and professor at the National University of Singapore known for atomically precise work on graphene nanoribbons, quantum antidots, and single-atom catalysts.

Jiri Jonas

Jiri Jonas is a Czech-born physical chemist, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who pioneered high-pressure NMR spectroscopy and directed the Beckman Institute from 1993 to 2001.

Jiří Souček

Jiří Souček (1943–2024) was a Czech mathematician born in Prague who worked on analysis and the calculus of variations, coauthoring the two-volume Springer monograph Cartesian Currents in the Calculus of Variations (1998).

Jiro Abe

Jiro Abe (阿部二朗) is a Japanese materials chemist and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, known since 2005 for the world's first high-speed photochromic molecule, decolorizing in about 180 milliseconds.

Jirō Maki

Jirō Maki (牧二郎, born 1929) is a Japanese theoretical particle physicist who worked in Shoichi Sakata's Nagoya group and co-authored the 1962 paper introducing two-neutrino mixing, the origin of the PMNS matrix.

Jiro Takeuchi

Jiro Takeuchi (竹内二郎) is a Japanese mathematician and professor at Tokyo University of Science known for work on the Cauchy problem for Schrödinger-type partial differential operators.

Jiwoong Park

Jiwoong Park is a condensed-matter physicist and James Franck Professor at the University of Chicago, known for growing and imaging atomically thin two-dimensional materials like graphene.

Joachim Barrande

Joachim Barrande (1799–1883) was a French geologist and paleontologist who settled in Prague after the 1830 July Revolution and spent decades describing Bohemia's Early Palaeozoic fossils in his 22-volume Système silurien.

Joachim Burgdörfer

Joachim Burgdörfer is an Austrian theoretical atomic physicist, professor at TU Wien since 1997, known for the over-the-barrier model of ion neutralization and attosecond photoemission delays.

Joachim Lambek

Joachim (Jim) Lambek (1922–2014) was a German-born Canadian mathematician at McGill University who founded the Lambek calculus and became a central figure in category theory.

Joachim Maier

Joachim Maier (born 1955) is a German physical chemist known for pioneering nanoionics and for leading solid-state research at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.

Joachim Sauer

Joachim Sauer, born 1949, is a German quantum chemist at Humboldt University known for applying quantum chemical methods to heterogeneous catalysis, especially zeolites, and for his marriage to Angela Merkel.

Joachim Spatz

Joachim P. Spatz is a German materials scientist and biophysicist who directs the Department of Cellular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.

Joachim Stadel

Joachim Stadel is a Swiss-based computational astrophysicist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for cosmological N-body simulations of dark-matter structure and parallel codes such as pkdgrav.

Joan Birman

Joan Birman (born 1927) is an American mathematician at Barnard College, Columbia University, known for her work on braid groups, mapping class groups, and knot theory.

Joanna Dorothy Haigh

Joanna Dorothy Haigh, also known as Joanna D. Haigh, is a British atmospheric physicist at Imperial College London known for her work on the Sun's influence on Earth's climate.

Joanna Kiryluk

Joanna Kiryluk is an experimental particle astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, a member of the IceCube collaboration and a recipient of the 2017 PECASE award.

Joanne Simpson

Joanne Simpson was an American tropical meteorologist, the first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology, who co-proposed the hot tower hypothesis and led NASA's TRMM satellite mission.

JoAnne Stubbe

JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist and biochemist, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at MIT, known for establishing how radical intermediates drive enzyme catalysis in ribonucleotide reductases.

Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger

Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, known as Quin Luttinger, was an American condensed-matter physicist at Columbia University known for Luttinger's theorem, Luttinger liquids, and the Kohn–Luttinger mechanism.