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John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler is an isotope geochemist at Caltech, known for pioneering clumped isotope thermometry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016.
John M. Greene
John M. Greene, also known as John Morgan Greene, was an American physicist at Princeton and General Atomics known for the residue criterion and BGK modes.
John M. Herbert
John M. Herbert is an American theoretical and computational chemist, professor at Ohio State University, who received a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
John M. Lupton
John M. Lupton, also published as J. M. Lupton, is a physicist who has held the chair in experimental physics at the University of Regensburg since 2010.
John M. Martinis
John M. Martinis, also known as John Martinis, is an American physicist who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics and works on superconducting quantum computing at UC Santa Barbara.
John M. Pollard (mathematician)
John M. Pollard is a mathematician who worked at Plessey Telecommunications in Berkshire and invented the rho, p−1, and kangaroo methods, and co-invented the number field sieve.
John M. Tranquada
John M. Tranquada is an American condensed matter physicist and Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for using neutron scattering to establish stripes in high-temperature superconductors.
John M. Wallace
John M. Wallace, known as Mike Wallace, is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington who identified the Arctic Oscillation and El Niño's climate patterns.
John M. Warman
John M. Warman (J.M. Warman) is a Dutch-based physical and radiation chemist known for developing time-resolved microwave conductivity, a contact-free technique measuring charge movement in ice and organic semiconductors.
John M. Zachara
John M. Zachara was an American environmental geochemist who spent his career, 1979 to 2016, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, studying metals, radionuclides, and contaminants at Hanford.
John Macnaghten Whittaker
John Macnaghten Whittaker (1905–1984) was a British mathematician, son of E. T. Whittaker, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1952 to 1965.
John Mason Clarke
John Mason Clarke (1857–1925) was an American paleontologist and geologist who directed the New York State survey and museum and became a leading authority on the Devonian system.
John Mather (mathematician)
John Mather (1942–2017) was an American mathematician and Princeton professor known for work in singularity theory and for Aubry–Mather theory, his action-minimizing approach to Hamiltonian dynamics.
John McKay
John McKay (1939–2022) was a British-Canadian mathematician at Concordia University in Montreal known for monstrous moonshine, the McKay correspondence, and the McKay conjecture on group characters.
John Meurig Thomas
Sir John Meurig Thomas (1932–2020) was a Welsh solid-state chemist and pioneer of heterogeneous catalysis, known for single-site catalysts, the Davy Medal, and directing the Royal Institution.
John Milne
John Milne (1850–1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who became a founder of modern seismology in Tokyo, developing the standard horizontal pendulum seismograph.
John Milnor
John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician at Stony Brook University, known for differential topology, algebraic K-theory, and dynamical systems, who won the Fields Medal in 1962.
John Mitchell Nuttall
John Mitchell Nuttall (1890–1958) was a British physicist who, as a junior colleague of Hans Geiger in Ernest Rutherford's Manchester laboratory, co-discovered the Geiger–Nuttall law, the 1911 relation between alpha-particle energy and radioactive decay period.
John Monteath Robertson
John Monteath Robertson (1900–1989) was a Scottish chemist who pioneered X-ray determination of organic molecular structures, held Glasgow's Gardiner Chair of Chemistry from 1942 to 1970, and won the Davy Medal in 1960.
John Montgomery (organic chemist)
John Montgomery is an American organic chemist at the University of Michigan, known for nickel-catalyzed reductive coupling reactions and for boron-catalyzed iterative glycosylation, a method for assembling carbohydrates.
John Morgan (mathematician)
John Morgan, also known as John Willard Morgan, is an American mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, known for work in topology, gauge theory, and the Ricci flow.
John Murray (oceanographer)
Sir John Murray (1841–1914) was a Scottish Canadian oceanographer and marine geologist, a founder of modern oceanography who served on the Challenger Expedition and edited its 50-volume report.
John Myhill
John Myhill (1923–1987) was an English logician and mathematician, Harvard PhD in 1949 and professor at the University at Buffalo, known for the Myhill–Nerode theorem, the Myhill isomorphism theorem, and constructive set theory.
John N. Bahcall
John N. Bahcall (1934–2005) was an American astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study who built the Standard Solar Model and championed the Hubble Space Telescope.
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows is a British atmospheric physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and professor at the University of Bremen who led the GOME and SCIAMACHY satellite instruments.
John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger is a field geologist and Harold Brown Professor of Geology at Caltech. He conducted research on geobiology and was chief scientist for NASA's Curiosity mission.
John P. Hill (physicist)
John P. Hill is an American condensed matter physicist and Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for resonant x-ray scattering studies of magnetism in correlated materials like cuprate superconductors.
John P. McTague
John P. McTague (1938–2013) was an American physical chemist who directed Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source and served as acting science advisor to President Reagan.
John P. Perdew
John P. Perdew is a Tulane University physicist whose nonempirical density-functional theory approximations, including the PBE functional, made DFT the most widely used quantum prediction method.
John P. Richard
John P. Richard is an American physical organic chemist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for research on enzyme-catalyzed reaction mechanisms and transition-state stabilization.