Physical world and mathematics

James Furman Kemp

James Furman Kemp (1859–1926) was an American geologist and Columbia University professor known for applying petrography to economic geology and the origin of ore deposits.

James G. Anderson

James G. Anderson is an American atmospheric chemist at Harvard whose measurements of chlorine radicals from CFCs helped establish their link to Antarctic ozone depletion.

James G. Fujimoto

James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor at MIT and co-inventor of optical coherence tomography, the laser-based eye imaging method used in tens of millions of procedures yearly.

James G. Moore

James G. Moore is an American research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey known for studies of Hawaiian submarine landslides and the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

James Gilluly (1896–1980) was an American field geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey whose 1949 paper argued that mountain building is continuous, not periodic, and that the geologic record grows more incomplete with age.

James Glimm

James Glimm (born 1934) is an American mathematician and computational physicist at Stony Brook University, known for constructive quantum field theory and front-tracking fluid dynamics.

James H. Bramble

James H. Bramble (1930–2021) was an American numerical analyst who helped build the mathematical theory of finite element and multigrid methods, ending his career as a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University.

James H. Wilkinson

James H. Wilkinson, also known as James Hardy Wilkinson, was an English numerical analyst who developed backward error analysis, guided eigenvalue algorithm development, and won the 1970 Turing Award.

James Hall (American geologist)

James Hall (1811–1898) was an American geologist and paleontologist, New York State Paleontologist and first director of its state museum, whose Paleontology of New York founded American invertebrate paleontology.

James Hartle

James Hartle (1939–2023) was an American gravitational physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, best known for the no-boundary wave function of the universe.

James Henry Coffin

James Henry Coffin (1806–1873) was an American mathematician and meteorologist, professor at Lafayette College from 1846, known for the first large-scale statistical studies of the winds, published by the Smithsonian as Winds of the Globe.

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James Hone

James Hone is an experimental condensed-matter physicist and Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, known for pioneering work on graphene and 2D materials.

James Hough

Sir James (Jim) Hough, born in 1945, is a British experimental physicist at Glasgow who led development of the mirror suspensions that made LIGO's 2015 gravitational-wave detection possible.

James Hutton

James Hutton was a Scottish natural philosopher and farmer whose 1788 Theory of the Earth established modern geology, arguing the Earth is far older than commonly accepted.

James Ibers

James Ibers (1930–2021) was an American inorganic chemist and crystallographer who spent more than 55 years at Northwestern University, edited Inorganic Chemistry, and determined the crystal structure of buckminsterfullerene.

James Irvine (chemist)

James Colquhoun Irvine (1877–1952) was a Scottish organic chemist who developed the methylation method for determining sugar structures and served at the University of St Andrews.

James J. Bock

James J. (Jamie) Bock is an American experimental cosmologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, known for Boomerang, Planck, Spider, CIBER, and the SPHEREx mission.

James J. McCarthy

James J. McCarthy (1944–2019) was an American biological oceanographer and Alexander Agassiz Professor at Harvard, known for plankton and nitrogen cycling research and co-chairing the IPCC's 2001 impacts assessment.

James J. Morgan

James J. Morgan (1932–2020) was an American environmental engineer and aquatic chemist at Caltech who coauthored Aquatic Chemistry, the field's standard reference, and won the 1999 Stockholm Water Prize.

James J. Stoker

James J. Stoker was an American applied mathematician and engineer who directed the Courant Institute at New York University from 1958 to 1966 and studied water waves.

James J. Watkins

James J. Watkins is an American materials chemist and polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for supercritical-fluid processing and block-copolymer self-assembly as nanoscale templates.

James J. Wynne

James J. Wynne is an American physicist at IBM Research, born in Brooklyn, New York, best known as co-discoverer of excimer laser surgery, which underlies LASIK and PRK refractive procedures.

James Jackson (earth scientist)

James Jackson is a British earth scientist and Emeritus Professor of Active Tectonics at the University of Cambridge, known for combining earthquake seismology, geomorphology, and space geodesy to study continental deformation.

James Jeans

Sir James Jeans was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer known for the Rayleigh-Jeans law and the Jeans instability, and for popular books like The Mysterious Universe.

James Joseph Sylvester

James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) was a British mathematician who, with Arthur Cayley, cofounded invariant theory, worked on matrix theory and number theory, and coined algebraic terms including "matrix."

James K. Gimzewski

James K. Gimzewski is a physical chemist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA who pioneered use of the scanning tunneling microscope to manipulate single molecules and discovered single-molecule rotors.

James K. McCusker

James K. McCusker, born in 1965, is a physical-inorganic chemist at Michigan State University whose work on excited-state dynamics of first-row transition metal complexes underpins solar fuels and photoredox catalysis.

James Kendall (chemist)

James Pickering Kendall was a British physical chemist, professor at the University of Edinburgh from 1928 to 1959, known for work on heats of vaporization.

James Kenneth Mitchell

James Kenneth Mitchell (1930–2023) was an American geotechnical engineer who led NASA's Apollo lunar soil mechanics studies, taught at UC Berkeley and Virginia Tech, and wrote Fundamentals of Soil Behavior.