Physical and mathematical scientists

John V. Wehausen

John V. Wehausen (1913–2005) was an American applied mathematician and marine hydrodynamicist, professor at UC Berkeley, known for water-wave theory, ship hydrodynamics, and the influential 1960 survey Surface Waves.

John Verhoogen

John Verhoogen (1912–1993) was a Belgian-born American geophysicist at UC Berkeley whose 1961 heat balance of the Earth's core identified inner-core solidification as a possible energy source for the geodynamo.

John Vidale

John Vidale is an American seismologist, the Dean's Professor of Earth Sciences at USC and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

John von Neumann

John von Neumann, born János Neumann (1903–1957), was a Hungarian-born American mathematician at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study who founded game theory and the stored-program computer.

John W. Lyons

John W. Lyons was an American physical chemist known for fire-retardant chemistry who led NIST from 1990 to 1993 and was the first permanent director of the Army Research Laboratory.

John W. Miles

John W. Miles (1920–2008) was an American applied mathematician and fluid mechanician at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, best known for his 1957 theory of how wind generates ocean surface waves.

John W. Valley

John W. Valley is an American isotope geochemist and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose zircon oxygen isotope work showed oceans existed over 4 billion years ago.

John Wahr

John Wahr was an American geophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder who used GRACE satellite gravity data to make the first estimates of polar ice-sheet loss.

John Warner (scientist)

John Christian Warner was an American chemist who coordinated Manhattan Project plutonium research and served as president of Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1965.

John Wentworth Clawson

John Wentworth Clawson (1881–1964) was a Canadian-born geometer who taught at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1952 and is known for the Clawson point in triangle geometry.

John Wesley Judd

John Wesley Judd (1840–1916) was a British geologist and petrographer who established the volcanic origin of the Hebridean lava plateaus and taught at the Royal School of Mines.

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and explorer who led the 1869 Colorado River expedition through the Grand Canyon and directed the U.S. Geological Survey.

John Wesley Young

John Wesley Young (1879–1932) was an American mathematician who, with Oswald Veblen, wrote the first independent axioms and treatise on projective geometry and led American secondary-school mathematics reform.

John West Wells

John West Wells (1907–1994) was an American paleontologist and authority on fossil and modern corals, a Cornell professor known for using coral growth lines to show Earth's rotation is slowing.

John Wheatley

John Wheatley (1927–1986) was an American experimental physicist in low-temperature physics who built the first practical dilution refrigerator and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

John William Draper

John William Draper was an English-born American chemist, physician, and photographer who spent his career at New York University and took the first photograph of the Moon.

John William Goodby

John William Goodby is a British chemist known for synthesizing and classifying liquid crystals, elected a Royal Society Fellow in 2011 and awarded the Royal Medal in 2016.

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John William Strutt, known as Lord Rayleigh, was a British physicist who won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering argon and wrote The Theory of Sound.

John William Theodore Youngs

John William Theodore Youngs, known as J. W. T. Youngs, was an American mathematician who co-solved the Heawood map-coloring conjecture with Gerhard Ringel in 1968.

John Williams Calkin

John Williams Calkin (1909–1964) was an American mathematician whose 1941 paper on ideals of bounded operators founded operator ideal theory and introduced the quotient algebra called the Calkin algebra.

John Wishart (statistician)

John Wishart (1898–1956) was a Scottish agricultural statistician who derived the Wishart distribution in 1928, worked at Rothamsted and Cambridge, and wrote three books on field experimentation.

John Woodhouse (seismologist)

John H. Woodhouse is a seismologist and Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences at Oxford, known for mapping the Earth's interior in three dimensions, discovering inner-core anisotropy, and the Centroid Moment Tensor technique.

John Woodland Hastings

John Woodland Hastings, known as Woody Hastings, was an American biochemist at Harvard who pioneered bioluminescence research and discovered bacterial autoinduction, later called quorum sensing.

John Wrench

John Wrench was an American mathematician and numerical analyst for the U.S. Navy, known for computing π to 100,265 decimal places with Daniel Shanks in 1961.

John Zarnecki

John Zarnecki, born 1949, is a British planetary scientist who led the Huygens probe's Surface Science Package, which landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.

John Zeleny

John Zeleny (1872–1951) was an American physicist at Minnesota and then Yale, president of the American Physical Society in 1940, known for ion mobilities in gases and pioneering electrospray experiments.

Jon Folkman

Jon Hal Folkman (1938–1969) was an American mathematician who earned his Ph.D. at Princeton under John Milnor and worked at RAND; his Folkman numbers and finite-sums theorem are named for him.

Jon M. Miller

Jon M. Miller (Jon Matthew Miller) is an American high-energy astrophysicist at the University of Michigan who studies black holes and neutron stars through X-ray spectroscopy.

Jon Magne Leinaas

Jon Magne Leinaas, born 1946 in Oslo, is a Norwegian theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Oslo whose 1977 work with Jan Myrheim first described anyons.