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John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson is an American mathematician known for the odd-order theorem and the classification of finite simple groups, who won the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize.
John Gamble Kirkwood
John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959) was an American theoretical chemist who helped found the statistical mechanics of liquids, known for Kirkwood–Buff solution theory and the BBGKY hierarchy.
John Garnett (mathematician)
John Garnett (John Brady Garnett) is an American mathematician at UCLA known for harmonic analysis, a 1970 analytic capacity counterexample, and the Steele Prize-winning Bounded Analytic Functions.
John Gatenby Bolton
John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993) was a radio astronomer who made the first identifications of radio sources with optical objects, and was the first Director of the Parkes Telescope in Australia.
John George Sclater
John George Sclater (1940–2024) was a Scottish-born American marine geophysicist, educated at Cambridge and a professor at MIT, Texas, and Scripps, whose heat-flow studies gave plate tectonics a quantitative foundation.
John Graham Ramsay
John Graham Ramsay (1931–2021) was a British structural geologist, a Fellow of the Royal Society, who held professorships at Imperial College, Leeds, and ETH Zurich and wrote the influential Folding and Fracturing of Rocks (1967).
John Griffiths (Welsh mathematician)
John Griffiths (1837–1916) was a Welsh mathematician from Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, known for work in analytic geometry, with Griffiths' Theorem and Griffiths Points named for him; he held posts at Jesus College, Oxford.
John Guckenheimer
John Guckenheimer, born 1945, is an American mathematician and Cornell professor known for work on chaos, bifurcations, and the influential 1983 textbook with Philip Holmes.
John H. Halton
John H. Halton was a mathematician and computer scientist whose 1960 paper introduced the Halton sequence, a low-discrepancy construction used in quasi-Monte Carlo integration and rendering; he taught at UNC Chapel Hill.
John H. Martin
John H. Martin (died 1993) was an oceanographer at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories who proposed the iron hypothesis, that iron scarcity limits phytoplankton growth in much of the ocean.
John H. Northrop
John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist at the Rockefeller Institute who shared the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for preparing enzymes and virus proteins in pure form.
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld, born 1942 in Elmira, New York, is an American chemical engineer at Caltech who founded mathematical modeling of air pollution and pioneered atmospheric aerosol chemistry.
John H. Sinfelt
John H. Sinfelt (1931–2011) was an American chemist and chemical engineer who spent his career at Esso, later Exxon, and pioneered bimetallic cluster catalysts, including a platinum–iridium reforming catalyst that made lead-free gasoline practical.
John H. Van Vleck
John H. Van Vleck, also known as John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, was an American theoretical physicist at Harvard who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics.
John H. Walter
John H. Walter (died 2021) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, known for Walter's theorem and his work with Daniel Gorenstein.
John Hammersley
John Hammersley (1920–2004) was a British mathematician who founded percolation theory and pioneered Monte Carlo methods, spending most of his career at Oxford from 1959.
John Hannay
John Howard Hannay (born 1951) is a British theoretical physicist and University of Bristol professor, known for the Hannay angle, the classical counterpart of Berry's phase.
John Harry Williams
John Harry Williams (1908–1966) was a Canadian-American experimental physicist who built the University of Minnesota's nuclear physics program and led accelerator work at Los Alamos.
John Henry Alexander
John Henry Alexander (1812–1867) was an American scientist and civil engineer from Annapolis, Maryland, who directed Maryland's first topographical and geological survey from the 1830s.
John Henry Michell
John Henry Michell (1863–1940) was an Australian mathematician who spent his career at the University of Melbourne; his 1898 thin-ship formula for wave-making resistance has never been improved upon.
John Henry Poynting
John Henry Poynting (1852–1914) was a British physicist who introduced the Poynting vector for electromagnetic energy flow and, known as the man who weighed the Earth, measured its mean density.
John Henry Schwarz
John Henry Schwarz, born in 1941, is an American theoretical physicist and co-founder of superstring theory who spent his career at Caltech and shared the 2014 Breakthrough Prize.
John Hinch (fluid dynamicist)
Edward John Hinch (born 1947) is a British fluid dynamicist, Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Cambridge from 1998 to 2014, known for micro-hydrodynamics, suspension rheology, and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics.
John Holdren
John Holdren is an American physicist and science policy scholar who served as President Obama's science advisor from 2009 to 2017, the longest-serving in that role.
John Horne
John Horne (1848–1928) was a Scottish geologist who, with collaborator Ben Peach, resolved the NW Highlands controversy by proving the Moine thrust, and rose to Assistant Director of the Geological Survey of Scotland.
John Houghton (Welsh atmospheric physicist)
Sir John Theodore Houghton was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who pioneered satellite measurement of the atmosphere, directed the UK Met Office, and co-chaired IPCC assessments.
John Hubbard (physicist)
John Hubbard (1931–1980) was a British theoretical solid-state physicist at AERE Harwell whose 1963–1965 series of papers on electron correlations introduced the Hubbard model, central to strongly correlated electron physics.
John Huchra
John Huchra (1948–2010) was an American observational astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics whose redshift surveys revealed the Great Wall and helped fix the Hubble constant.
John I. Brauman
John I. Brauman (1937–2024) was an American physical organic chemist at Stanford University who pioneered gas-phase ion chemistry and made SN2 reactions a model system for reaction dynamics.
John I. Hedges
John I. Hedges (1946–2002) was an American organic geochemist and chemical oceanographer at the University of Washington, known for lignin tracers of land plant carbon in the sea.