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Josep Puigmarti

Josep Puigmartí-Luis is a Spanish chemist and ICREA Research Professor who leads the ChemInFlow group at the University of Barcelona, working on flow chemistry and microfluidics.

Joseph A. Berry

Joseph A. Berry is an American plant physiologist and earth scientist, Senior Staff Scientist Emeritus at the Carnegie Institution, known for work on photosynthesis and gas exchange.

Joseph A. Burns

Joseph A. Burns (1941–2025) was an American planetary scientist and celestial mechanician at Cornell University, known for work on radiation forces, planetary rings, and the Cassini imaging team.

Joseph A. Shaw

Joseph A. Shaw is an American optical remote sensing scientist who won the 1998 PECASE award and directs the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University.

Joseph A. Stroscio

Joseph A. Stroscio, also published as J. A. Stroscio, is an American physicist and NIST Fellow in Maryland known for scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene and 2D quantum materials.

Joseph Abraham Zilber

Joseph Abraham Zilber (1923–2009) was an American mathematician trained at Harvard who worked in algebraic topology and category theory, known for the Eilenberg–Zilber theorem and Zilber's Theorem.

Joseph B. Schlenoff

Joseph B. Schlenoff is an American materials chemist at Florida State University in Tallahassee, known for polyelectrolyte multilayers and saloplastics, materials processed with salt water instead of heat.

Joseph Barrell

Joseph Barrell (1869–1919) was an American geologist and engineer who joined Yale in 1903, known for work on isostasy, sedimentation, geologic time, and the origin of the Earth.

Joseph Bernstein

Joseph Bernstein, born 1945 in Moscow, is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University known for inventing algebraic D-modules and the Beilinson–Bernstein localization theorem.

Joseph C. Salamone

Joseph C. Salamone (1939–2019) was an American polymer chemist and entrepreneur elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 for advances in contact lenses and wound healing therapies.

Joseph Chatt

Joseph Chatt (1914–1994) was a British inorganic chemist who co-created the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model of metal–olefin bonding and opened the chemistry of metal–dinitrogen complexes, founding molecular nitrogen fixation research.

Joseph Checkelsky

Joseph G. Checkelsky is an experimental condensed matter physicist who joined MIT in 2014 and is known for work on magnetism in topological insulators and massive Dirac fermions in the kagome metal Fe3Sn2.

Joseph E. Subotnik

Joseph E. Subotnik is an American theoretical chemist, the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, known for work on nonadiabatic dynamics and electron transfer.

Joseph Edward Mayer

Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983) was an American physical chemist known for the virial theory of condensing gases, Mayer graphs, and the 1940 textbook Statistical Mechanics.

Joseph Francisco

Joseph S. Francisco is an American theoretical and atmospheric chemist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for discovering that single water molecules catalyze gas-phase radical reactions.

Joseph G. Richardson

Joseph G. Richardson (1923–2007) was an American petroleum reservoir engineer whose waterflooding research at Humble Oil and Exxon earned election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (Joseph Hooton Taylor) is an American radio astronomer who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the first binary pulsar.

Joseph Haines Moore

Joseph Haines Moore (1878–1949) was an American astronomer at Lick Observatory who discovered 64 spectroscopic binaries and compiled the standard 1932 catalog of radial velocities.

Joseph Henry

Joseph Henry (1797–1878) was an American physicist, professor at Princeton, and first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, credited with discovering self-inductance; the unit of inductance, the henry, is named for him.

Joseph Henry Gilbert

Joseph Henry Gilbert (1817–1901) was an English chemist who joined John Bennet Lawes at Rothamsted in 1843, co-founding the world's first agricultural experiment station and proving the value of nitrogenous fertilizers.

Joseph Hoover Mackin

Joseph Hoover Mackin (1905–1968) was an American geomorphologist known for the graded river concept in his 1948 paper, a mainstay of fluvial geomorphology; he was a National Academy of Sciences member.

Joseph Hupp

Joseph T. Hupp is an American chemist known for work on metal–organic frameworks, chemical sensing, and solar energy conversion, and Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University since 2000.

Joseph Incandela

Joseph Incandela is an American experimental particle physicist at UC Santa Barbara who, as CMS spokesperson at CERN, announced the Higgs boson discovery on July 4, 2012.

Joseph J. Katz

Joseph J. Katz (1912–2008) was an American chemist at Argonne National Laboratory who worked on the Manhattan Project and pioneered the chemistry of photosynthesis and chlorophyll.

Joseph J. Kohn

Joseph J. Kohn (1932–2023) was a Czech-born American mathematician and Princeton professor who solved the ∂̄-Neumann problem in 1962 and co-created the Kohn–Nirenberg pseudodifferential calculus.

Joseph J. Pignatello

Joseph J. Pignatello is an American environmental chemist who led a 38-year research program at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, studying contaminant sorption and water oxidation.

Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg

Joseph Jean Baptiste Neuberg (1840–1926) was a Luxembourg-born Belgian mathematician, professor at the University of Liège, known for the Neuberg cubic and circles in triangle geometry.

Joseph Kampé de Fériet

Joseph Kampé de Fériet (1893–1982) was a French mathematician and fluid mechanician, professor at Lille and first director of its fluid mechanics institute, known for the Kampé de Fériet function.

Joseph Kaplan

Joseph Kaplan (1902–1991) was an American physicist at UCLA who studied the light of the upper atmosphere, helped create aeronomy, and chaired the US committee for the International Geophysical Year.

Joseph Keller

Joseph Bishop Keller (1923–2016) was an American applied mathematician, professor at NYU and Stanford, best known for the Geometrical Theory of Diffraction and the Einstein–Brillouin–Keller quantization rules.