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Jun S. Liu

Jun S. Liu (刘军) is a statistician known for foundational work on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and statistical genomics, and a professor at Tsinghua and Harvard.

Jun Ye

Jun Ye (叶军) is a physicist at JILA and NIST known for record-setting strontium optical lattice clocks and frequency-comb spectroscopy, honored with the 2022 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

Jun-Ichi Igusa

Jun-Ichi Igusa (井口潤一) was a Japanese-American mathematician at Johns Hopkins University who founded the theory of local zeta functions and Siegel modular forms of genus two.

Jun-ichi Yoshida

Jun-ichi Yoshida (吉田潤一; 1952–2019) was a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at Kyoto University known for the cation pool method, electroorganic synthesis, and flash chemistry in flow microreactors.

Jun-iti Nagata

Jun-iti Nagata (1925–2007) was a Japanese mathematician born in Osaka, known for the Nagata–Smirnov metrization theorem, counterexamples that settled Hilbert's fourteenth problem negatively, and Nagata's compactification theorem in algebraic geometry.

Juna Kollmeier

Juna Kollmeier is an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Observatories who directs the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V and studies supermassive black holes and the intergalactic medium.

June Huh

June Huh (허준이, born 1983) is a Korean-American mathematician at Princeton University who won the 2022 Fields Medal for bringing Hodge theory to combinatorics and proving long-standing conjectures about matroids.

Jung‐Fu Lin

Jung-Fu Lin, known as Afu, is a Taiwanese-American geophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin who studies the mineral physics of the Earth's deep interior.

Jungwon Park

Jungwon Park is a South Korean materials chemist and professor at Seoul National University known for 3D atomic imaging of individual nanocrystals in liquid and platinum cluster catalysts.

Junichiro Kono

Junichiro Kono is a physicist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, known for optical studies of condensed matter, carbon nanotube photonics, terahertz science, and cavity quantum electrodynamics.

Junsuk Rho

Junsuk Rho (노준석) is a South Korean nanophotonics researcher and endowed chair professor at POSTECH, working on metasurfaces, structural color, metalens-based AR displays, and LiDAR since 2014.

Jürg Fröhlich

Jürg Fröhlich, born 1946 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is a Swiss mathematical physicist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, known for his 1981 proof of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition and work on Anderson localization.

Jürgen Caro

Jürgen Caro, born 1951, is a German physical chemist, professor at Leibniz University Hannover, known for transport-optimized zeolite, MOF, and COF membranes and membrane reactors.

Jürgen Cox

Jürgen Cox is a computational proteomics scientist known for developing MaxQuant, one of the most frequently used proteomics data analysis platforms, and its companion statistics program Perseus.

Jürgen Ehlers

Jürgen Ehlers (1929–2008) was a German theoretical physicist known for work on exact solutions of the Einstein field equations and the Newtonian limit of general relativity.

Jürgen Gauss

Jürgen Gauß, born 1960 in Konstanz, is a German theoretical chemist and professor at Mainz University, known for correlated NMR chemical-shift calculations and the CFOUR program.

Jürgen Gröll

Jürgen Gröll, also spelled Juergen Groll, is a German polymer chemist who holds the chair of Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Würzburg.

Jürgen Moser

Jürgen Moser (1928–1999) was a mathematician born in Königsberg, East Prussia, who worked in dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, and partial differential equations, and is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theory of stability in Hamiltonian systems.

Jürgen P. Rabe

Jürgen P. Rabe is a German experimental physicist, professor of the physics of macromolecules at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 1994 and founding director of IRIS Adlershof.

Jürgen Rühe

Jürgen Rühe (born 1961 in Enniger, Germany) is a German polymer chemist who holds the interfaces chair at the University of Freiburg and won the 2002 DECHEMA Prize.

Juri Poutanen

Juri Poutanen is a Finnish astronomer, professor and director of Tuorla Observatory at the University of Turku, working on accreting black holes and X-ray polarimetry.

Juri Rappsilber

Juri Rappsilber is a biochemist known for cross-linking mass spectrometry, Einstein Professor of Bioanalytics at TU Berlin since 2011 and a group leader at the University of Edinburgh.

Juri Toomre

Juri Toomre is an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a JILA fellow since 1974, known for research on the Sun's interior through convection, dynamos, and helioseismology.

Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma

Jurjen Ferdinand Koksma (1904–1964) was a Dutch mathematician who wrote the standard 1936 monograph on Diophantine approximation and proved a 1935 equidistribution theorem central to uniform distribution theory.

Jurriaan Huskens

Jurriaan Huskens, born 1968, is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor of molecular nanofabrication at the University of Twente, known for the molecular printboard and the 2007 KNCV Gold Medal.

Justin C. Kasper

Justin C. Kasper is an experimental space plasma physicist who led the SWEAP instrument on NASA's Parker Solar Probe and won a 2010 PECASE award.

Justin D. Holmes

Justin D. Holmes is an Irish materials chemist, Professor of Nanochemistry at University College Cork, known for solution-grown silicon nanowires and for nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications.

Justin Du Bois

Justin Du Bois is an American organic chemist and Henry Dreyfus Professor at Stanford University, known for C–H functionalization methods and the synthesis of toxins such as batrachotoxin and saxitoxin.

Justin J. Hagerty

Justin J. Hagerty is an American geoscientist specializing in lunar geochemistry and remote sensing who directed the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, from 2018 to 2024.

Justin Sheffield

Justin Sheffield is a British-based hydrologist, Professor and Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, known for global drought monitoring and analysis.