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John C. Slater
John Clarke Slater (1900–1976) was an American theoretical physicist who led MIT's physics department for two decades and created the Slater determinant, Slater-type orbitals, and the Xα method.
John C. Tully
John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist and Professor Emeritus at Yale University who created surface hopping, the standard method for simulating chemical reactions with electronic transitions.
John Campbell Brown
John Campbell Brown (1947–2019) was a British solar physicist who held Glasgow's Regius Professorship of Astronomy and served as the 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
John Cardy
John Cardy is a British theoretical physicist, long at Oxford, known for the Cardy formula, boundary conformal field theory, and the a-theorem, and a 2024 Breakthrough Prize laureate.
John Carlstrom
John Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American experimental astrophysicist at the University of Chicago who leads the South Pole Telescope, measuring the cosmic microwave background.
John Chalker
John T. Chalker is a condensed matter theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford, known for the 1988 Chalker–Coddington network model describing the integer quantum Hall plateau transition.
John Chapman Frye
John Chapman Frye (1912–1982) was an American geologist, state geologist of Kansas and chief of the Illinois State Geological Survey from 1954 to 1974, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
John Chappell
John Michael Arthur Chappell (1940–2018) was a New Zealand-born Australian geoscientist at the Australian National University, called the father of Quaternary research in Australia for his sea-level work.
John Chaput
John C. Chaput is an American chemical biologist and professor at UC Irvine whose laboratory engineers polymerases for xeno-nucleic acids and evolved the TNA-synthesizing enzyme 10-92.
John Church (Australian oceanographer)
John Church, born 1951, is an Australian oceanographer known for measuring and explaining global sea-level rise during a long career at CSIRO and later UNSW.
John Clarke (physicist)
John Clarke, born 1942, is a British-born condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley known for pioneering SQUIDs and for one third of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
John Clauser
John F. Clauser, born 1942 in Pasadena, California, is an American physicist who shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons that violated Bell inequalities.
John Clive Ward
John Clive Ward (1924–2000) was a British theoretical physicist who proved the 1950 Ward identity, a foundation of renormalization theory, and co-developed electroweak theory with Abdus Salam.
John Cockcroft
John Cockcroft, also known as Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, was a British nuclear physicist who shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for splitting the atom and directed Britain's Harwell atomic research establishment.
John Coleman Moore
John Coleman Moore (1923–2016) was an American algebraic topologist who spent his career at Princeton University and is known for the Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence and the Milnor–Moore theorem.
John Corbett (chemist)
John Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, known for six decades of work on metal-rich solid-state compounds, Zintl phases, and metal clusters.
John Cornforth
John Cornforth, also known as Sir John Warcup Cornforth, was an Australian organic chemist who won half of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on enzyme stereochemistry.
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (1819–1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer at Cambridge who independently predicted Neptune's position and worked on the Moon's motion and the Leonid meteors.
John Cunningham McLennan
John Cunningham McLennan (1867–1935) was a Canadian physicist who led the University of Toronto physics laboratory and identified the auroral green line as emission from atomic oxygen.
John D. Baldeschwieler
John D. Baldeschwieler, born 1933 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is an American chemist and emeritus Caltech professor known for spectroscopic methods, entrepreneurship, and the 2000 National Medal of Science.
John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow, also known as John David Barrow, was a British cosmologist and Cambridge professor who won the 2006 Templeton Prize for popularizing science.
John D. Bredehoeft
John D. Bredehoeft (1933–2023) was an American groundwater hydrologist who spent 32 years at the U.S. Geological Survey, pioneering digital simulation of groundwater flow and contaminant transport.
John D. Corbett
John D. Corbett (1926–2013) was an American inorganic chemist, Distinguished Professor at Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory scientist, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992.
John D. Ferry
John D. Ferry (1912–2002) was a Canadian-born American polymer chemist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for the Williams-Landel-Ferry equation and viscoelasticity research.
John D. Hoffman
John D. Hoffman (1922–2004) was an American polymer physicist who co-developed the Lauritzen–Hoffman theory of polymer crystallization, a standard model, during a career at the National Bureau of Standards.
John D. Joannopoulos
John D. Joannopoulos (1947–2025) was an MIT condensed-matter theoretical physicist who helped create photonic crystals, materials that control light the way semiconductors control electrons, and co-founded six startups.
John D. Roberts
John D. Roberts (1918–2016) was an American physical organic chemist at Caltech who used carbon-14 tracers and NMR spectroscopy to work out how organic reactions proceed.
John D. Storey
John D. Storey is a statistician and genomicist, professor at Princeton University, known for the q-value and direct approach to false discovery rates in multiple testing.
John David Jackson
John David Jackson (1925–2016) was a Canadian-born theoretical physicist who worked in particle, nuclear, and atomic physics at UC Berkeley, best known for the graduate textbook Classical Electrodynamics.
John Dougall (mathematician)
John Dougall (1867–1960) was a Scottish mathematician, born in Kippen and trained at Glasgow, remembered for Dougall's theorem on hypergeometric series, prize-winning elasticity work, and mathematical publishing.