Physical and mathematical scientists

Jon Sobus

Jon Sobus is an environmental health scientist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency who studies cumulative chemical exposures and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Jonas C. Peters

Jonas C. Peters is an inorganic chemist and Bren Professor of Chemistry at Caltech, where he directs the Resnick Sustainability Institute and is known for iron catalysts that convert nitrogen gas to ammonia.

Jonas Kubilius

Jonas Kubilius (1921–2011) was a Lithuanian mathematician who founded probabilistic number theory, created the Kubilius model, and led Vilnius University as rector for over three decades.

Jonathan A. Foley

Jonathan A. Foley is an American earth-systems scientist whose research linked climate, land use, and the global food system, and who leads the climate-solutions organization Project Drawdown.

Jonathan Abbatt

Jonathan P. D. Abbatt is a Canadian atmospheric chemist and professor at the University of Toronto who led the NETCARE Arctic research network and received the Chemical Institute of Canada Medal in 2020.

Jonathan Bamber

Jonathan L. Bamber is an Earth observation scientist and professor at the University of Bristol who uses satellite data to study the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets and sea-level rise.

Jonathan Barrett

Jonathan Barrett (born 1976) is a British quantum information scientist at the University of Oxford, known for the PBR theorem on the reality of the quantum state.

Jonathan Belof

Jonathan Lewis Belof is a physicist and physical chemist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who studies phase transitions and equations of state at extreme pressures.

Jonathan Borwein

Jonathan Michael Borwein (1951–2016) was a mathematician known as "Dr Pi" who, with his brother Peter, devised fast algorithms used in record computations of π.

Jonathan Christopher Mattingly

Jonathan Christopher Mattingly is a Duke University mathematician known for work on stochastic systems and for statistical analysis of gerrymandering that led North Carolina to redraw its maps.

Jonathan Clayden

Jonathan Clayden (born 1968) is a British organic chemist, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bristol since 2015, known for atropisomerism, organolithium chemistry, and dynamic foldamers.

Jonathan E. Menard

Jonathan E. Menard is a fusion plasma physicist who serves as Deputy Director for Research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and led the STAR spherical tokamak power-plant design.

Jonathan F. Stebbins

Jonathan F. Stebbins, also published as J. F. Stebbins, is an American geochemist and emeritus professor at Stanford University known for NMR studies of silicate minerals and glasses.

Jonathan Fan

Jonathan Fan is an American electrical engineer and Associate Professor at Stanford University, known for inverse-designed nanophotonics and metasurfaces and winner of the 2014 PECASE award.

Jonathan Fortney

Jonathan J. Fortney is an American planetary scientist who models planetary atmospheres and interiors, professor and department chair at UC Santa Cruz and director of its Other Worlds Laboratory.

Jonathan G. C. Veinot

Jonathan G. C. Veinot is a Canadian materials chemist and professor at the University of Alberta known for silicon and germanium nanocrystal synthesis, surface chemistry, and luminescence.

Jonathan Grimm

Jonathan Grimm is an American chemist and Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who applies synthetic organic chemistry to biological imaging, including improved fluorophores and dopamine sensors.

Jonathan Homer Lane

Jonathan Homer Lane (1819–1880) was an American astrophysicist and patent examiner who first treated the Sun mathematically as a gaseous body in his 1870 paper.

Jonathan J. Finley

Jonathan J. Finley, also known as J. J. Finley, is an English physicist who has held the Chair of Semiconductor Quantum Nanosystems at the Technical University of Munich since 2013.

Jonathan L. Payne

Jonathan L. Payne is an American paleobiologist and Dorrell William Kirby Professor at Stanford University, known for quantitative studies of mass extinctions and extinction selectivity in the fossil record.

Jonathan Long

Jonathan Z. Long is a biochemist and Associate Professor of Pathology at Stanford University, where since 2018 his lab has discovered Lac-Phe, an exercise-induced metabolite that suppresses appetite.

Jonathan Lubin

Jonathan Lubin (born 1936) is an American mathematician, long at Brown University, known for the Lubin–Tate formal group, which gives explicit abelian extensions of p-adic fields.

Jonathan Lunine

Jonathan Lunine is an American planetary scientist and Chief Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 2024, known for research on Titan and the outer Solar System.

Jonathan M. Gregory

Jonathan M. Gregory is a climate scientist at the University of Reading who studies climate sensitivity and sea-level change and served as an IPCC lead author.

Jonathan P. Williams

Jonathan P. Williams is an astronomer and professor at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, known for submillimeter surveys of planet-forming disks around nearby young stars.

Jonathan Paul Heritage

Jonathan Paul Heritage is an American optical engineer at UC Davis, co-inventor of the wavelength selective switch and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Jonathan R. Nitschke

Jonathan R. Nitschke, born 1973 in Syracuse, New York, is a professor of supramolecular chemistry at Cambridge known for subcomponent self-assembly, which builds metal–organic cages that bind and release guest molecules.

Jonathan Rivnay

Jonathan Rivnay is a bioelectronics researcher and Jerome B. Cohen Professor at Northwestern University, known for organic electrochemical transistors, mixed ionic–electronic conductors, and implantable "living pharmacy" devices.

Jonathan S. Baum

Jonathan S. Baum is an organic chemist whose 1976 paper with Heinz Viehe showed an iminium ion undergoing a Diels–Alder reaction, a precursor to organocatalysis.