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Jack Kiefer (statistician)
Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981) was an American mathematical statistician who spent 28 years at Cornell, then joined Berkeley, and introduced the Kiefer–Wolfowitz algorithm and optimal design theory.
Jack Kilby
Jack Kilby (Jack St. Clair Kilby) was an American engineer at Texas Instruments who built the first integrated circuit in 1958 and shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Jack L. Koenig
Jack L. Koenig (1933–2021) was an American polymer spectroscopist and founding faculty member of Case Western Reserve University's macromolecular science department, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham
Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (1928 to 2014) was a British inorganic chemist who helped pioneer modern inorganic chemistry and was Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge from 1970 to 1995.
Jack M. Mochel
Jack M. Mochel is a low-temperature physicist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign known for third-sound experiments on thin superfluid helium films.
Jack Oliver (seismologist)
Jack Oliver, born John Ertle Oliver (1923–2011), was an American seismologist at Columbia and Cornell whose earthquake evidence helped establish plate tectonics, and who pioneered deep seismic imaging of the continents.
Jack R. Jokipii
Jack R. (Randy) Jokipii (1939–2022) was an American space plasma and cosmic-ray physicist, Regents Professor at the University of Arizona, known for quasi-linear theory and the 22-year cosmic-ray cycle.
Jack Sandweiss
Jack Sandweiss (1930–2020) was an American experimental particle and nuclear physicist at Yale University from 1957, a National Academy of Sciences member, and editor of Physical Review Letters for 25 years.
Jack Simons
Jack Simons (Jack Peter Simons, born 1945) is a theoretical chemist at the University of Utah known for his work on negative molecular ions and electron affinities.
Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger, born Hans Jakob Steinberger, was a German-born American physicist at CERN who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the muon neutrino.
Jack van Lint
Jack van Lint (1932–2004) was an Indonesian-born Dutch mathematician, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for proving which perfect codes exist, the van Lint–MacWilliams conjecture, and influential textbooks.
Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak is a chemical biologist at the University of Chicago who studies the origin of life and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for telomere research.
Jack Wisdom
Jack Wisdom is an American planetary scientist, professor at MIT since 1984, known for proving Pluto's motion is chaotic and for the 2022 Chrysalis hypothesis.
Jackie Guerrido
Jackie Guerrido, born in 1972, is a Puerto Rican television weather presenter and radio host best known as the weather anchor of Univision's Primer Impacto.
Jackiw–Rossi zero mode
The Jackiw–Rossi zero mode is a zero-energy state trapped at the core of a vortex in a 2D Dirac fermion's mass, predicted by Jackiw and Rossi in 1981.
Jackknife resampling
Jackknife resampling, or the jackknife method, is a statistical resampling technique that estimates the bias and variance of an estimator by systematically recomputing it on leave-one-out subsamples.
Jacklyn Gates
Jacklyn M. Gates is an American nuclear chemist who leads the Heavy Element Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, studying the heaviest chemical elements.
Jackscrew
A jackscrew, or screw jack, is a mechanical device that converts screw rotation into linear motion to raise loads, used from industrial lifting to aircraft trim.
Jacob B. Khurgin
Jacob B. Khurgin, also published as J. B. Khurgin, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University, known for work on optics, plasmonics, and nonlinear optical materials.
Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015) was a Mexican-born Israeli theoretical physicist who proposed in his 1972 Princeton thesis that black holes carry entropy proportional to their event-horizon area, founding black hole thermodynamics.
Jacob Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli, also known as Jacques Bernoulli, was a Swiss mathematician from Basel who founded mathematical probability, proving the law of large numbers in Ars Conjectandi.
Jacob Bigeleisen
Jacob Bigeleisen (1919–2010) was an American chemist who founded the field of isotope chemistry, known for the Bigeleisen–Mayer theory and his 1947 paper on isotopic exchange reactions.
Jacob Bjerknes
Jacob Bjerknes (1897–1975) was a Norwegian American meteorologist who discovered the structure of extratropical cyclones at age twenty and later made the first link between El Niño and the Southern Oscillation.
Jacob Böeseken
Jacob Böeseken (1868–1949) was a Dutch chemist who held the chair of organic chemistry at Delft from 1907 to 1938 and determined the structure of the six-membered carbon ring.
Jacob Clay
Jacob Clay (1882–1955) was a Dutch experimental physicist and philosopher who discovered the cosmic-ray latitude effect on voyages between Indonesia and the Netherlands in 1927–1928.
Jacob G. Wacker
Jacob G. Wacker is a theoretical particle physicist who taught at SLAC and Stanford, known for SIMP dark matter and simplified models for LHC new-particle searches.
Jacob Klein (physicist)
Jacob Klein, born 1949 in Tel Aviv, is a soft matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute known for discovering hydration lubrication and showing water stays fluid in subnanometer films.
Jacob L. Roberts
Jacob L. Roberts is an American atomic physicist and professor at Colorado State University known for the first stable rubidium-85 Bose-Einstein condensates and a 2006 PECASE award.
Jacob Levitzki
Jacob Levitzki (1904–1956) was an Israeli mathematician, born in Ukraine, who founded algebra research in Israel, proved central nilpotence theorems in ring theory, and won the first Israel Prize for Exact Sciences in 1954.
Jacob Lurie
Jacob Lurie is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study known for derived algebraic geometry, infinity-category theory, and his proof of the cobordism hypothesis.