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Jakob Kibsgaard
Jakob Kibsgaard is a Danish electrocatalysis researcher, Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark since 2022, known for molybdenum sulfide and transition-metal phosphide catalysts for hydrogen evolution.
Jakob Magolan
Jakob Magolan is a medicinal chemist and professor at McMaster University who leads research in synthetic methodology and antibiotic drug discovery, including AI-guided discovery of the antibiotic enterololin.
Jakob Nielsen (Danish mathematician)
Jakob Nielsen (1890–1959) was a Danish mathematician who helped found combinatorial group theory and surface topology, and introduced Nielsen fixed point theory and Nielsen transformations.
Jakob Sederholm
Jakob Johannes Sederholm (1863–1934) was a Finnish geologist who directed the Geological Commission of Finland and, through his 1907 monograph Om granit och gnejs, founded the study of migmatites.
James A. Miller (scientist)
James A. Miller (1915–2000) was an American biochemist who, with his wife and collaborator Elizabeth C. Miller, established the electrophilic-metabolite theory of chemical carcinogenesis at the University of Wisconsin.
James A. Screen
James A. Screen is a climate scientist and professor at the University of Exeter known for attributing Arctic warming to diminishing sea ice and for the PAMIP project.
James A. Sethian
James A. Sethian, born 1954, is an American applied mathematician at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for the level-set method and fast marching methods.
James A. Van Allen
James A. Van Allen (1914–2006) was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa who discovered Earth's radiation belts via Explorer 1 in 1958.
James A. Yorke
James A. Yorke, born 1941, is an American mathematician at the University of Maryland who coined the term "chaos" and helped found chaos theory in 1975.
James Alexander Green
James Alexander Green, known as Sandy, was a British mathematician who introduced the equivalence relations on semigroups known as Green's relations and became a leading figure in the representation theory of finite groups.
James Arthur (scientist)
James Grieg Arthur, born 1944 in Hamilton, Ontario, is a Canadian mathematician at the University of Toronto known for the Arthur–Selberg trace formula and the endoscopic classification of automorphic representations.
James B. Elsner
James B. Elsner is an American atmospheric scientist and statistician, Professor Emeritus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, known for applying nonlinear dynamics and extreme-value statistics to hurricanes and tornadoes.
James B. Macelwane
James B. Macelwane (1883–1956) was an American seismologist and Jesuit priest who established the first geophysics department in the western hemisphere at Saint Louis University in 1925.
James B. Pollack
James B. Pollack (1938–1994) was an American astrophysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center, a leading authority on planetary atmospheres who worked on missions from Mariner 9 to Cassini.
James B. Sumner
James B. Sumner, also known as James Batcheller Sumner, was an American biochemist at Cornell University who in 1926 crystallized urease, the first enzyme ever crystallized.
James Baldwin Carrell
James Baldwin Carrell is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia whose research centers on algebraic transformation groups, algebraic geometry, and Lie theory.
James Beacham
James Beacham is a particle physicist on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, affiliated with Duke University, and a science communicator with a widely viewed TED talk.
James Berger (statistician)
James Berger is an American statistician known for pioneering work in Bayesian analysis, decision theory, and uncertainty quantification, a National Academy of Sciences member and Duke professor.
James Binney
James Binney is a British theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Oxford known for work on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and for the standard textbooks Galactic Dynamics and Galactic Astronomy.
James Bjorken
James "BJ" Bjorken (1934–2024) was an American theoretical physicist at SLAC and Fermilab known for Bjorken scaling, his 1968 proposal that made quarks inside the proton visible in electron scattering.
James Brown Fisk
James Brown Fisk (1910–1981) was an American physicist who helped develop the microwave magnetron for wartime radar and served as president of Bell Laboratories from 1959 to 1973.
James Bryant Conant
James Bryant Conant was an American organic chemist and president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953 who organized US scientific research during World War II.
James Burke (science historian)
James Burke is a British science historian and broadcaster best known for the 1978 BBC series Connections, which traces how inventions link in unpredictable chains.
James Burleigh Thompson
James Burleigh Thompson (1921–2011) was an American metamorphic petrologist and mineralogist at Harvard University who applied chemical thermodynamics to rocks and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967.
James C. Bergquist
James C. Bergquist is an American physicist and NIST Fellow in Boulder, Colorado, a pioneer of single-ion optical atomic clocks elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009.
James C. G. Walker
James C. G. Walker (1939–2022) was a South African-born scientist, professor at the University of Michigan, best known for research on the origin and evolution of Earth's atmosphere.
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams is a geophysical fluid dynamicist, the Louis B. Slichter Professor of Earth Sciences at UCLA, known for coherent vortices in turbulence and the isopycnal mixing scheme used in climate models.
James C. Stevens
James C. Stevens is an American industrial chemist who joined Dow in 1979, discovered the Insite constrained-geometry catalysts behind polymer families like ENGAGE and INFUSE, and won the 2006 Perkin Medal.
James C. Wyant
James C. Wyant (1943–2023) was an American optical scientist who pioneered phase-shifting interferometry, founded WYKO and 4D Technology, and led the University of Arizona's optics college.
James C. Zachos
James C. Zachos is an American paleoceanographer and geochemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, known for the global deep-sea isotope record and the PETM.