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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born 1943 in Belfast, is a British astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, though the 1974 Nobel Prize went to her supervisor.

Jocelyn Field Thorpe

Jocelyn Field Thorpe (1872–1940) was an English organic chemist, professor at Imperial College London from 1914, who discovered the Thorpe reaction and, with Christopher Ingold, the Thorpe–Ingold effect.

Jochem Marotzke

Jochem Marotzke, born 1959, is a German physical oceanographer and climate modeler who directs the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology's Department of Climate Variability in Hamburg.

Jochen Autschbach

Jochen Autschbach is a theoretical and computational chemist who is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for density functional theory calculations of NMR parameters and chiroptical properties of heavy-element compounds.

Jochen Blumberger

Jochen Blumberger is a chemical physicist and Professor of Chemical Physics at University College London, known for molecular simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors and electron transfer in proteins.

Jochen Feldmann

Jochen Feldmann (born 1961 in Olpe, Germany) is a German physicist, professor at LMU Munich since 1995, known for nanocrystal photophysics, quantum-dot LEDs, and the nano-ear sensor.

Jochen J. Brocks

Jochen J. Brocks, also published as Jochen Brocks, is a German-trained Australian geobiologist and professor at the Australian National University who studies molecular fossils in Precambrian rocks.

Jochen Mannhart

Jochen Mannhart (born 1960) is a German condensed matter physicist who works on oxide interfaces and high-temperature superconductivity, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

Joe Farman

Joe Farman was a British geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey who, with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, reported the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, leading to the Montreal Protocol.

Joe Harris (mathematician)

Joe Harris, full name Joseph Daniel Harris, is an American algebraic geometer and Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, known for the Brill-Noether theorem and influential textbooks.

Joe Vinen

Joe Vinen (William Frank Vinen, 1930–2022) was a British low-temperature physicist who gave the first direct demonstration that superfluid circulation is quantized and created the field of quantum turbulence.

Joel D. Blum

Joel D. Blum is an American geochemist at the University of Michigan known for mercury isotope geochemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881–1983) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for regular solution theory, the Hildebrand solubility parameter, and teaching about 40,000 students.

Joel L. Lebowitz

Joel L. Lebowitz is an American statistical mechanician, born in 1930 in Czechoslovakia, who has been George William Hill Professor at Rutgers University since 1977, winning the Boltzmann Medal.

Joel Levine

Joel S. Levine (born 1942) is an American planetary and atmospheric scientist who spent 41 years at NASA Langley, conceived the ARES Mars airplane, and chaired the panel that chose MAVEN.

Joel M. Bowman

Joel M. Bowman is an American theoretical chemist and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus at Emory University, known for reaction dynamics, permutationally invariant potential energy surfaces, and the roaming atom mechanism.

Joel N. Bregman

Joel N. Bregman is an astronomer, the H.D. Curtis Professor at the University of Michigan, whose research on hot X-ray-emitting galaxy halos seeks the universe's missing baryons.

Joel N. Ullom

Joel Nathan Ullom is an American physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who develops superconducting sensors and has been Acting Chief of the Quantum Sensors Division since 2023.

Joel R. Primack

Joel R. Primack (1945–2025) was an American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist at UC Santa Cruz, a principal originator of the cold dark matter theory of galaxy formation.

Joel S. Miller

Joel S. Miller is an American chemist known for molecule-based magnets and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah who reported an organic magnet ordering at room temperature in 1991.

Joel Schneider

Joel P. Schneider is an American chemist at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, known for self-assembling beta-hairpin peptide hydrogels that deliver drugs and cells.

Joel Spencer

Joel Spencer, born 1946, is an American mathematician and Silver Professor Emeritus at NYU's Courant Institute, coauthor of The Probabilistic Method and a direct collaborator of Paul Erdős.

Joel Stebbins

Joel Stebbins (1878–1966) was an American astronomer who pioneered photoelectric photometry, measuring starlight with electrical cells, directed Washburn Observatory from 1922 to 1948, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1922.

Joel W. Ager

Joel W. Ager is a materials chemist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, known for research on electrocatalysis and CO2 reduction on copper catalysts.

Joerg Lahann

Joerg Lahann is a chemist and biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, known for reactive polymer coatings by chemical vapor deposition, switchable surfaces, and founding its Biointerfaces Institute.

Joeri Rogelj

Joeri Rogelj is a Belgian climate scientist, professor at Imperial College London and IPCC lead author whose carbon budget research shaped the Paris Agreement's 1.5 °C warming limit.

Jogendra Chandra Bardhan

Jogendra Chandra Bardhan (1896–1964) was an Indian organic chemist at the University of Calcutta, co-creator of the Bardhan–Sengupta phenanthrene synthesis, a standard named reaction first published in 1932.

Jogesh Pati

Jogesh Pati is a theoretical physicist who, with Abdus Salam, proposed in 1973 that quarks and leptons are unified, the Pati–Salam model of grand unification.

Johan A. Martens

Johan A. Martens is a Belgian chemist at KU Leuven known for work on zeolites and nanoporous materials in catalysis, adsorption, and molecular separation, and founder of five spin-off companies.

Johan Åkerman

Johan Åkerman is a Swedish experimental physicist and University of Gothenburg professor known for spintronics work on spin Hall nano-oscillators and magnetic droplet solitons, and founder of NanOsc Instruments.