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John Rowell (scientist)
John Rowell is a British-born condensed matter physicist who, with Philip Anderson at Bell Labs, made the first observation of the Josephson effect in 1963.
John S. Steinhart
John S. Steinhart was an American geophysicist who worked at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is known for the Steinhart–Hart thermistor equation.
John S. Tse
John S. Tse is a Canadian computational materials scientist and Tier I Canada Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, known for high-pressure studies of ice and dense hydrogen.
John S. Waugh
John S. Waugh (1929–2014) was an American physical chemist at MIT known as the founder of high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy, honored with the Wolf Prize in 1983.
John Schellman
John Anthony Schellman (1924–2014) was an American biophysical chemist and University of Oregon professor, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, who established the thermodynamic study of protein folding.
John Selfridge
John Selfridge (1927–2010) was an American computational number theorist who pioneered computers in number theory, proved the Erdős–Selfridge theorem, and conjectured that 78,557 is the smallest Sierpiński number.
John Shipley Rowlinson
John Shipley Rowlinson (1926–2018) was a British physical chemist who held the Dr Lee's Professorship at Oxford, wrote Liquids and Liquid Mixtures, and was knighted in 2000.
John Slonczewski
John Slonczewski (1929–2019) was an American theoretical physicist who spent his career at IBM's Yorktown Heights lab, predicted spin-transfer torque in 1996, and shared the 2013 Buckley Prize.
John Smol
John P. Smol is a Canadian paleolimnologist and Distinguished University Professor at Queen's University who founded the PEARL laboratory, documented acid rain damage to lakes, and tracked Arctic climate warming.
John Southon
John R. Southon is an Earth scientist who directs the W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility at UC Irvine, where his laboratory measures about 500 radiocarbon samples per month.
John Stanley Plaskett
John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941) was a Canadian astronomer who rose from machinist to found the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, and measured the Milky Way's size, mass, and rotation.
John Stewart Bell
John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) was a Northern Irish theoretical physicist at CERN whose 1964 theorem made the Einstein–Bohr debate over quantum mechanics experimentally testable; the 2022 Nobel Prize honored the experimentalists who tested it.
John Strong Newberry
John Strong Newberry (1822–1892) was an American geologist and paleontologist, the first trained geologist to visit the Grand Canyon and leader of the second Ohio Geological Survey.
John Stuart Anderson
John Stuart Anderson (1908–1990) was a British and Australian inorganic chemist who held posts at Imperial College, Harwell, Melbourne, and Oxford, known for non-stoichiometry and crystallographic shear planes.
John Suppe
John Suppe, born 1942 in Los Angeles, is an American structural geologist known for fault-bend folding, critical-taper wedge mechanics, and a tectonic chronology of Venus; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
John Sutherland (chemist)
John D. Sutherland (born 1962) is a chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge who studies the chemical origins of life, including prebiotic ribonucleotide synthesis.
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews, born in 1937 in England, is a glacial geologist and paleoclimatologist at the University of Colorado Boulder who received the 2016 Penrose Medal.
John T. Groves
John T. Groves is a bioorganic and bioinorganic chemist who has held the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair at Princeton since 1985, known for the oxygen rebound mechanism and C-H fluorination.
John T. Yates
John T. Yates (1935–2015) was an American surface chemist who developed ESDIAD, a technique for imaging chemical bond directions on crystal surfaces, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
John Tate (mathematician)
John Tate (1925–2019) was an American number theorist who taught at Harvard and the University of Texas, created the Tate curve and Tate conjecture, and won the 2010 Abel Prize.
John Teufel
John D. Teufel is an American experimental physicist at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, known for cooling a micromechanical membrane to its quantum ground state and demonstrating macroscopic entanglement.
John Tileston Edsall
John Tileston Edsall (1902–2002) was an American protein scientist at Harvard who proved amino acids exist as zwitterions and co-authored the textbook Biophysical Chemistry with Jeffries Wyman.
John Tilton Hack
John Tilton Hack (1913–1991) was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who proposed dynamic equilibrium in landscape evolution, the idea that slopes and streams are mutually adjusted.
John Toland
John Francis Toland is a Northern Irish mathematician in nonlinear analysis who proved Stokes' conjecture on waves of greatest height in 1978 and led the Isaac Newton Institute.
John Torrence Tate, Sr.
John Torrence Tate, Sr. (1889–1950) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Minnesota, known for electron-impact experiments and mass spectroscopy, who edited Physical Review from 1926 to 1950.
John Trowbridge (physicist)
John Trowbridge (1843–1923) was an American physicist at Harvard University who worked on electrical discharges and early X-ray research and founded the Jefferson Physical Laboratory.
John Tukey
John Tukey (1915–2000) was an American statistician at Princeton and Bell Labs known for the fast Fourier transform, exploratory data analysis, and coining "bit" and "software".
John Tuzo Wilson
John Tuzo Wilson (1908–1993) was a Canadian geophysicist at the University of Toronto who won worldwide acclaim for contributions to the theory of plate tectonics.
John Ulric Nef (organic chemist)
John Ulric Nef (1862–1915) was a Swiss-born American organic chemist, professor at the University of Chicago from 1892, and pioneer of theoretical organic chemistry in the United States.
John V. Badding
John V. Badding was an American chemist and materials scientist, a professor at Pennsylvania State University from 1991, known for carbon nanothreads and microstructured optical fibers as high-pressure reactors.