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John Dove Isaacs
John Dove Isaacs III (1913–1980) was an American oceanographer and engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, known for deep-sea moorings, the Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl, and wave-powered machines.
John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw (born 1944, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American inorganic chemist at Caltech, Centennial Professor Emeritus, known for organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and C–H bond activation.
John E. Bortle
John E. Bortle is an American amateur astronomer in Stormville, New York, best known for creating the nine-level Bortle Dark-Sky Scale and for decades of comet and variable-star observing.
John E. Hilliard
John E. Hilliard (1926–1987) was a British-born metallurgist and stereologist who co-developed the Cahn-Hilliard equation for phase separation and spent 25 years as a materials science professor at Northwestern University.
John E. Kunzler
John E. Kunzler, often called Gene Kunzler, was a Bell Labs physicist whose 1961 niobium-tin discovery showed superconductors could carry huge currents in strong magnetic fields.
John E. Kutzbach
John E. Kutzbach, also published as J. E. Kutzbach, was an American climate scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who pioneered modeling how Earth's orbit drives monsoons.
John E. Ware Jr.
John E. Ware Jr. is an American health outcomes scientist who created the SF-36 Health Survey and is Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a National Academy of Medicine member.
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell (1862–1924) was an Irish-born mathematician at Hertford College, Oxford, who began the Campbell–Baker–Hausdorff formula and introduced Lie's theory to Britain through his 1903 treatise.
John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr (1857–1933) was a British geologist whose graptolite-based fieldwork in the Lake District and Wales shaped Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy; he was Woodwardian Professor at Cambridge.
John Edwin Luecke
John Edwin Luecke is a mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin known for the cyclic surgery theorem and the Gordon–Luecke theorem in knot theory.
John Ellis (theoretical physicist)
John Ellis (Jonathan Richard Ellis, born 1946) is a British theoretical particle physicist who pioneered Higgs and supersymmetry phenomenology, led CERN's Theory Division, and joined King's College London in 2010.
John Evershed
John Evershed (1864–1956) was an English astronomer who discovered the Evershed effect, the radial outflow of gases from sunspot centers, in 1909 while directing the Kodaikanal Observatory in India.
John F. Allen
John F. Allen, also known as John Frank Allen, was a Canadian physicist who discovered superfluidity in liquid helium-4 in 1937 and the fountain effect weeks later.
John F. Berry
John F. Berry is an American inorganic chemist and Lester R. McNall Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on metal–metal multiple bonds and high-valent iron.
John F. Brady
John F. Brady, born 1954, is an American fluid mechanician and rheologist, the Chevron Professor at Caltech known for Stokesian dynamics and the swim pressure of active matter.
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is an American organic and organometallic chemist at UC Berkeley, best known for the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction he reported in 1995.
John F. Hawley
John F. Hawley (1958–2021) was an American astrophysicist at the University of Virginia who, with Steven Balbus, identified the magnetorotational instability that lets gas spiral inward through accretion disks.
John F. Mitchell
John F. Mitchell is an American condensed matter physicist and chemist, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow whose synthesis-driven research spans quantum magnets, iridates, and topological materials.
John F. Mustard
John F. Mustard, known as Jack Mustard, is a planetary scientist and professor at Brown University, deputy principal investigator of the CRISM Mars spectrometer and a 2011 AAAS Fellow.
John F. Nash Jr.
John F. Nash Jr. was an American mathematician at Princeton University known for the Nash equilibrium in game theory and the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton (1961–2025) was an American quantum chemist, William R. Kenan Professor at the University of Florida, known for coupled-cluster theory and the CFOUR quantum chemistry package.
John Fillmore Hayford
John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925) was an American civil engineer and geodesist who established isostasy as a working tool of geodesy and computed the Hayford spheroid, adopted internationally in 1924.
John Finney
John L. Finney is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at University College London whose research centers on water, ices, liquids, and random packing, begun as J. D. Bernal's assistant at Birkbeck College in 1965.
John Flett (Scottish geologist)
John Smith Flett (1869–1947) was a Scottish physician-turned-geologist who directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1920 to 1935 and studied the Old Red Sandstone of Orkney.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) was an American mathematician who proved the Nash equilibrium, made major contributions to geometry, and won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
John Frederick Dewey
John Frederick Dewey, born 1937 in London, is a British and American structural geologist known for applying plate tectonics to mountain belts, above all the Caledonian and Appalachian systems.
John Fredrick MacGregor
John Fredrick MacGregor is a Canadian chemical engineer and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, known for pioneering multivariate statistical methods for monitoring and controlling industrial processes.
John Friedlander
John Friedlander (born 1941) is a Canadian analytic number theorist at the University of Toronto, known for proving infinitely many primes of the form a² + b⁴.
John Fries Frazer
John Fries Frazer, known as John F. Frazer, was an American chemist and University of Pennsylvania professor, a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences.
John G. Sclater
John G. Sclater (1940–2024) was a Scottish-born American marine geophysicist whose work on seafloor heat flow and subsidence gave plate tectonics a quantitative foundation; he died in San Diego at 84.