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Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, born 1950 in Kolding, Denmark, is a Danish astrophysicist at Aarhus University known for pioneering helioseismology, the study of the Sun's interior through its oscillations.

Jørgen Pedersen Gram

Jørgen Pedersen Gram (1850–1916) was a Danish mathematician and actuary who worked in the Danish insurance industry and is known for the Gram matrix, the Gram–Schmidt process, and Gram points.

Joris Sprakel

Joris Sprakel (born 1980 in Oss, Netherlands) is a Dutch physical chemist and mechanobiologist, a personal professor at Wageningen University who studies how plants sense mechanical signals.

Joris van der Hoeven

Joris van der Hoeven is a CNRS research director in computer science at École polytechnique, known for transseries and the 2019 O(n log n) integer multiplication proof with David Harvey.

Jos Lelieveld

Jos Lelieveld, born 1955, is a Dutch atmospheric scientist who led the Atmospheric Chemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz from 2000 to 2025.

José Barluenga

José Barluenga (1940–2016) was a Spanish organic chemist and professor at the Universidad de Oviedo, known for introducing N-tosylhydrazones in cross-coupling reactions and for Barluenga's reagent.

José Enrique Moyal

José Enrique Moyal (1910–1998) was an Australian mathematical physicist, born in Jerusalem, who founded the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, source of the Moyal product and bracket.

José G. Santiesteban

José G. Santiesteban is a Mexican-born American catalysis scientist who spent over 30 years at Mobil and ExxonMobil and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

José Goldemberg

José Goldemberg, born in 1928 in Santo Ângelo, is a Brazilian experimental nuclear physicist who served as Brazil's Minister of Education and championed sugarcane ethanol.

Jose H. Blanchet Mancilla

Jose H. Blanchet Mancilla is a probability theorist and Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, known for provably efficient rare-event simulation algorithms.

José Ignacio Pascual

José Ignacio Pascual, known as Nacho Pascual, is a Spanish condensed-matter physicist who has been an Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastián since 2012.

José L. Alonso

José L. Alonso, full name José Luis Alonso Hernández, is a Spanish chemist and full professor at Valladolid who pioneered laser-ablation microwave spectroscopy of amino acids.

José L. Mascareñas

José L. Mascareñas is a Spanish organic and chemical-biology chemist, full professor at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, known for introducing transition-metal-catalyzed reactions inside living cells.

José Luis Sérsic

José Luis Sérsic (1933–1993) was an Argentine astronomer at the Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba, a pioneer of Southern Hemisphere extragalactic astronomy known for the Sérsic profile.

José M. Goicoechea

José M. Goicoechea is an inorganic chemist working on reactive main-group compounds, professor at Indiana University since 2023 after sixteen years at the University of Oxford.

José María Maza Sancho

José María Maza Sancho, born in Valparaíso in 1948, is a Chilean astronomer and 1999 National Prize winner whose Calán-Tololo supernova calibration underpinned the discovery of the accelerating universe.

José Nelson Onuchic

José Nelson Onuchic is a Brazilian-born biological physicist at Rice University, known for introducing protein folding funnels and co-directing the NSF Center for Theoretical Biological Physics.

José Ramón Galán‐Mascarós

José Ramón Galán-Mascarós is a Spanish chemist and ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, known for magnetic enhancement of electrocatalytic water oxidation.

José Wagner Furtado Valle

José Wagner Furtado Valle is a Brazilian-born theoretical particle physicist at CSIC's IFIC in Valencia, best known for the 1982 Schechter–Valle theorem linking neutrinoless double beta decay to neutrino Majorana mass.

Josef Breu

Josef Breu is a German materials chemist and professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bayreuth, known for synthetic layered silicates and polymer nanocomposites.

Josef Ferdinand Arens

Josef Ferdinand Arens (1914–2001) was a Dutch organic chemist who co-authored the first synthesis of vitamin A with David van Dorp and held chairs at Bandung, Groningen, and Utrecht.

Josef Fried

Josef Fried (1914–2001) was an American organic chemist at Squibb and the University of Chicago, elected to the National Academy of Sciences, whose fluorosteroids and prostaglandin syntheses produced the first superpotent anti-inflammatory drugs.

Josef Klarer

Josef Klarer (1898–1953) was a German chemist at IG Farben in Elberfeld who synthesized the azo dye Prontosil in 1932, opening the sulfonamide era of antibacterial chemotherapy.

Josef Maria Eder

Josef Maria Eder (1855–1944) was an Austrian chemist and photochemist credited with the gelatin dry plate, orthochromatic sensitization, and the Eder-Hecht sensitometer, and who founded Europe's first photography school in Vienna.

Josef Mattauch

Josef Mattauch (1895–1976) was an Austrian physicist who designed the Mattauch–Herzog double-focusing mass spectrograph, formulated the isobar rule, and led the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.

Josef Meixner

Josef Meixner (1908–1994) was a German theoretical physicist, professor at Aachen from 1942 to 1974, who independently founded nonequilibrium thermodynamics in 1941 and gave his name to Meixner polynomials.

Josef Michl

Josef Michl (1939–2024) was a Czech physical organic chemist, professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for photochemistry, molecular rotors, and editing Chemical Reviews for 30 years.

Josef Paldus

Josef Paldus (1935–2023) was a Czech-born theoretical chemist who emigrated to Canada and became a distinguished professor at the University of Waterloo, known for foundational work on coupled-cluster theory and unitary group methods.

Josef Stoer

Josef Stoer, born in 1934, is a German mathematician who held the applied mathematics chair at the University of Würzburg and coauthored the standard textbook Introduction to Numerical Analysis.

Josep Cornella

Josep Cornellà, born in 1985, is a Spanish organometallic chemist who directs catalysis research at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung and is known for bismuth catalysts and air-stable nickel precatalysts.