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John Imbrie
John Imbrie (1925–2016) was an American paleoceanographer who founded quantitative study of past ocean climates, led CLIMAP and SPECMAP, and empirically demonstrated Milankovitch theory of the ice ages.
John Irvine (chemist)
John T. S. Irvine is a solid state chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews, known for solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysers.
John J. Boland
John J. Boland is an Irish surface and materials chemist, a professor at Trinity College Dublin since 2002, known for his work on silicon surfaces and nanoscale materials.
John J. Macklin
John J. Macklin is an American applied physicist and Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for co-developing GCaMP5, jGCaMP7, and red-shifted calcium indicators for neural imaging.
John Jackson (Scottish astronomer)
John Jackson (1887–1958) was a Scottish astronomer who served as His Majesty's Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope from 1933 to 1950, leading a stellar parallax program.
John Joly
John Joly (1857–1933) was an Irish physicist and geologist at Trinity College Dublin who invented the first practical color-photography process and pioneered radium treatment of cancer.
John K. Hulm
John K. Hulm, also known as John Kenneth Hulm, was a British-born physicist who discovered the A-15 superconducting alloys and turned niobium-tin into practical high-field conductor at Westinghouse.
John Kenneth Stille
John Kenneth Stille was an American chemist at Colorado State University whose studies of palladium-catalyzed organotin coupling gave organic chemistry the Stille reaction; he died in a 1989 airline crash.
John Kerr (physicist)
John Kerr (1824–1907) was a Scottish physicist and mathematical lecturer in Glasgow who discovered the electro-optic Kerr effect in 1875 and the magneto-optic Kerr effect.
John Kingman
John Kingman is a British mathematician who founded coalescent theory in population genetics and proved Kingman's formula in queueing theory and the subadditive ergodic theorem.
John Kirtland Galt
John Kirtland Galt was an American solid-state physicist who spent 1948 to 1974 at Bell Laboratories, then led research at Sandia National Laboratories until retiring in 1985.
John L. Bohn
John L. Bohn is a theoretical physicist and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for the collision physics of ultracold atoms and dipolar quantum gases.
John L. Hall
John L. Hall, known as Jan, is an American laser physicist at NIST and JILA who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser-based precision spectroscopy.
John L. Kelley
John L. Kelley (1916–1999) was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley whose 1955 textbook General Topology became a standard graduate reference and whose appendix set out Kelley–Morse set theory.
John L. Margrave
John L. Margrave (1924–2003) was an American inorganic and fluorine chemist at Rice University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, who pioneered direct fluorination.
John L. Tonry
John L. Tonry is an American astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi known for dark energy research, the surface brightness fluctuation distance method, Pan-STARRS, and the ATLAS asteroid warning system.
John Larry Kelly
John Larry Kelly Jr. (1923–1965) was an American Bell Labs physicist known for the 1956 Kelly criterion and the 1961 machine singing of "Daisy Bell."
John Lawrence Oncley
John Lawrence Oncley (1910–2004) was an American biophysical chemist at Harvard and Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1947, known for protein dielectric studies and the LDL/HDL distinction.
John LeConte
John LeConte (1818–1891) was an American physicist and physician who discovered the sensitive flame and led the newly founded University of California as president from the mid-1870s to 1881.
John Leech (British mathematician)
John Leech (1926–1992) was a British mathematician and computing pioneer who discovered in 1965 the Leech lattice, which gives the optimal sphere packing in 24 dimensions.
John Lennard-Jones
John Edward Lennard-Jones (1894–1954) was a British theoretical chemist who created the Lennard-Jones potential, brought quantum chemistry to Britain, and held the world's first chair of theoretical chemistry at Cambridge from 1932.
John Little (operations researcher)
John Dutton Conant Little (1928–2024) was an American operations researcher and MIT Institute Professor who proved Little's Law, coined "branch and bound," and co-founded the journal Marketing Science.
John Louis Emil Dreyer
John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926) was a Danish-born astronomer who spent his career in Ireland, directing Armagh Observatory and compiling the New General Catalogue of 7,840 nebulae and clusters.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) was an English banker, Liberal politician, and scientist who coined Palaeolithic and Neolithic and steered the Bank Holidays Act 1871 through Parliament.
John M. Ball
John M. Ball is a British mathematician who works on the calculus of variations and nonlinear elasticity, and was Sedleian Professor at Oxford from 1996 to 2018.
John M. Bremner
John M. Bremner, known as Jack, was a Scottish-born soil chemist and Iowa State agronomy professor who in 1984 became the first soil chemist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
John M. Danskin
John M. Danskin (born 1923) is an American mathematician known for Danskin's theorem, a formula for the directional derivative of max-functions still used in optimization and adversarial machine learning.
John M. Dawson
John M. Dawson (1930–2001) was an American computational plasma physicist at Princeton and UCLA, remembered as the father of plasma-based particle accelerators and of computer simulation of plasmas.
John M. Doyle
John M. Doyle is a Harvard physicist who pioneered buffer-gas cooling of molecules, laser-cooled a polyatomic molecule, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and became APS president in 2025.
John M. Edmond
John M. Edmond (1943–2001) was a Scottish-born marine geochemist and MIT professor who helped discover deep-sea hydrothermal vents and established the first oceanic distributions of many trace elements.