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John P. Schiffer
John P. Schiffer (1930–2022) was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, known for the Nolen–Schiffer anomaly and a 66-year career.
John Pardon
John Pardon is an American symplectic geometer and professor at the Simons Center, Stony Brook, who won the 2026 Fields Medal for work on holomorphic curves and Fukaya categories.
John Pasta
John Pasta (1918–1981) was an American physicist who co-authored the 1955 Fermi–Pasta–Ulam report, a founding result of computational physics, and later directed computing research at the National Science Foundation.
John Paul Wild
John Paul Wild (1923–2008) was an Australian radio physicist who classified the Sun's radio bursts, built the Culgoora radioheliograph, developed the Interscan landing system, and chaired CSIRO from 1978 to 1985.
John Pendry
John Pendry is a British theoretical physicist at Imperial College London, regarded as the founder of metamaterials and known for the perfect lens and invisibility cloak.
John Peter Lesley
John Peter Lesley (1819–1903) was an American geologist, a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences, and director of the Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.
John Pethica
Sir John Bernard Pethica is a physicist best known for inventing nanoindentation and for work that paved the way for atomic force microscopy; he was elected FRS in 1999 and knighted in 2014.
John Philip Simons
John Philip Simons is a British chemist known for pioneering laser-based techniques in photochemistry and molecular reaction dynamics, and winner of the Royal Society's Davy Medal.
John Preskill
John Preskill, born 1953, is an American theoretical physicist at Caltech who has worked on quantum computing since the mid-1990s and coined the terms quantum supremacy and NISQ.
John R. Birge
John R. Birge is an American operations researcher known for foundational work in stochastic programming, the optimization of decisions under uncertainty, and a professor at Chicago Booth.
John R. Dunning
John R. Dunning was an American experimental nuclear physicist at Columbia University who verified nuclear fission in the United States and showed uranium-235 is fissionable by slow neutrons.
John R. Haynes
John R. Haynes was a physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, credited with proving that germanium and silicon electroluminescence arises from hole-electron recombination at a p-n junction.
John R. Huizenga
John R. Huizenga (1921–2014) was an American nuclear chemist at the University of Rochester who co-discovered einsteinium and fermium and led the 1989 DOE cold fusion review.
John R. Johnson
John R. Johnson (1900–1983) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1945, known for organoborane oxidation and gliotoxin structure work.
John R. Kirtley
John R. Kirtley is an American experimental condensed-matter physicist who developed scanning SQUID microscopy at IBM and helped establish d-wave pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors.
John R. Kitchin
John R. Kitchin is an American chemical engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who designs alloy and oxide catalysts using density functional theory and machine learning.
John R. Klauder
John R. Klauder (1932–2024) was an American theoretical physicist who introduced the modern theory of coherent states, rigorously reformulated Feynman path integrals, and spent 35 years at Bell Laboratories.
John R. L. Allen
John R. L. Allen, also known as John Robert Lawrence Allen, was a British geologist who helped found quantitative, process-based sedimentology and spent his career at the University of Reading.
John R. Rice
John R. Rice (1934–2024) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at Purdue University who made mathematical software a recognized discipline and was the founding editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.
John R. Wakeley
John R. Wakeley is an American theoretical population geneticist, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, known for coalescent theory and its standard textbook.
John R. Winckler
John R. (Jack) Winckler was an American experimental physicist at the University of Minnesota who discovered auroral X rays and made the first confirmed visual documentation of sprites.
John Raymond Willis
John Raymond Willis, born in 1940, is a British applied mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Solid Mechanics at Cambridge, known for variational methods in heterogeneous materials.
John Reager
John (J.T.) Reager is an American remote-sensing hydrologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads its Water and Ecosystems Group and won a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award.
John Reppy
John Reppy is an American experimental low-temperature physicist and longtime Cornell University professor, a National Academy of Sciences member known for experiments on persistent currents and superfluidity in helium films.
John Reynolds (cosmochemist)
John Reynolds was an American cosmochemist and geophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, remembered as the father of extinct radioactivities for his 1960 discovery of xenon-129 in meteorites.
John Robert Ringrose
John Robert Ringrose, born 1932 in London, is an English mathematician who initiated the theory of nest algebras, co-wrote a four-volume operator algebras textbook with Kadison, and held Newcastle's Pure Mathematics chair from 1964 to 1993.
John Rodgers (geologist)
John Rodgers (1914–2004) was an American geologist at Yale who became the leading authority on the Appalachian mountain belt, winning the Penrose Medal in 1981.
John Rodgers (scientist)
John Rodgers (1812–1882) was a US Navy rear admiral who commanded the North Pacific Exploring Expedition of 1853–1856 and was a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences.
John Rogers Musselman
John Rogers Musselman (1890–1968) was a mathematician known for Musselman's theorem of 1939, on three coaxal circles of a triangle, and for about 40 papers in geometry.
John Ross (physical chemist)
John Ross (1926–2017) was an Austrian-born American physical chemist and Stanford professor known for chemical reaction dynamics and far-from-equilibrium systems, receiving the National Medal of Science.