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Jovan Karamata

Jovan Karamata (Јован Карамата; 1902–1967) was a Serbian mathematician, one of the greatest of 20th-century Serbia, who founded the theory of regularly varying functions and proved Littlewood's Tauberian theorem concisely.

Jovica D. Badjić

Jovica D. Badjić (sometimes written Badjic) is a supramolecular chemist, a professor at The Ohio State University since 2004, known for the 2004 molecular elevator.

Joy Wolfram

Joy Wolfram is a Finnish nanoscientist who leads extracellular vesicle research as Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, co-authoring the MISEV field guidelines and studying EV drug delivery.

Joyce E. Penner

Joyce E. Penner, also known as J. E. Penner, is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Michigan known for research on aerosol radiative forcing, nuclear winter, and aviation climate effects.

Józef Lubański

Józef Kazimierz Lubański (1914–1946) was a Polish theoretical physicist known for the Pauli–Lubański vector, still used in field-equation analyses; he died unexpectedly in Delft, aged thirty-two.

Józef Marcinkiewicz

Józef Marcinkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who published 55 papers on analysis and probability before being killed as a reserve officer in the 1940 Katyń massacre.

Jr-Hau He

Jr-Hau He is a Hong Kong-based optoelectronics researcher known for photon management in solar cells and photodetectors, a professor at City University of Hong Kong.

Juan C. Carretero

Juan C. Carretero, also known as Juan Carlos Carretero, is a Spanish organic chemist and full professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, born in Madrid in 1960.

Juan Carlos Campuzano

Juan Carlos Campuzano is an American condensed matter physicist, born in Paraguay, who pioneered ARPES studies of cuprate high-temperature superconductors and won the 2011 Buckley Prize.

Juan Casado

Juan Casado (born 1971) is a Spanish physical-organic chemist, full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universidad de Málaga, known for spectroscopic studies of organic diradicals and π-conjugated molecules.

Juan Colmenero

Juan Colmenero de León, born 1951 in Madrid, is a Spanish condensed-matter physicist, professor at the University of the Basque Country and first Spaniard to win the Walter Hälg Prize.

Juan Estrada

Juan Estrada is an Argentine-born particle and astroparticle physicist at Fermilab who invented CCD-based dark matter detectors and won a 2009 Presidential Early Career Award.

Juan Ignacio Cirac

Juan Ignacio Cirac is a Spanish theoretical physicist who directs the Theory Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and pioneered trapped-ion quantum computing.

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin

Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturáin, born in 1965 in Manresa, Spain, is a Spanish theoretical physicist who, with Peter Zoller, first proposed building quantum computers with trapped ions.

Juan J. de Pablo

Juan J. de Pablo is an American chemical engineer who models polymers and liquid crystals, and became Executive Dean of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering in 2024.

Juan José Gómez Cadenas

Juan José Gómez Cadenas is a Spanish experimental particle physicist at the Donostia International Physics Center, founder of the NEXT experiment seeking neutrinoless double beta decay.

Juan Maldacena

Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine-born theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, best known for proposing the AdS/CFT correspondence in 1997.

Juan Mr Parrondo

Juan M. R. Parrondo is a Spanish physicist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, known for Parrondo's paradox, where two losing games alternate into a winning one.

Juan Pablo Vielma Centeno

Juan Pablo Vielma Centeno is an operations researcher known for mixed-integer optimization and the JuMP modeling language, who taught at MIT Sloan before joining Google Research.

Judith A. Schwan

Judith A. Schwan (1925–1996) was an American photographic scientist who spent her 37-year career at Eastman Kodak, leading development of Kodachrome II and Kodacolor II.

Judith Curry

Judith Curry is an American atmospheric scientist known for research on hurricanes and sea ice, and for her public critique of how the IPCC handles uncertainty.

Judith Gamora Cohen

Judith Gamora Cohen, born 1946, is an American astronomer at Caltech who studies the Milky Way's outer halo and dwarf spheroidal galaxies and helped build Keck Observatory's first spectroscopic instruments.

Judith Lean

Judith Lean is an American solar physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory whose models of solar irradiance variability quantify the Sun's role in climate change.

Juerg Leuthold

Juerg Leuthold is a Swiss physicist, Full Professor at ETH Zurich since 2013, who heads the Institute of Electromagnetic Fields and is known for plasmonic modulators and switches with record bandwidths.

Jule A. Rabo

Jule A. Rabo (Rabó Gyula) was a Hungarian-born chemist and chemical engineer who discovered acidic zeolite Y catalysts, the basis of motor-fuel production, and held 49 US patents.

Jule Gregory Charney

Jule Gregory Charney (1917–1981) was an American meteorologist who founded modern dynamical meteorology, explained cyclone development through baroclinic instability theory, and led the first computer weather forecast in 1950.

Jules Joubert

Jules François Joubert (1834–1910) was a French physicist and microbiologist who, as Louis Pasteur's co-worker, co-authored the 1877 paper Charbon et septicémie, the first report of antibiosis.

Jules Meyer

Jules Meyer was a chemist at the ETH laboratory in Zürich who co-authored, with Hermann Staudinger, the 1919 papers reporting the reaction now called the Staudinger reaction.

Jules Richard (mathematician)

Jules Antoine Richard (1862–1956) was a French mathematician who taught in provincial lycées and is known for Richard's paradox, his 1905 contradiction about real numbers definable in finitely many words.

Julia Laskin

Julia Laskin is an American chemist, the William F. and Patty J. Miller Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Purdue University, known for ambient ionization and imaging mass spectrometry.