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James L. Hedrick
James L. Hedrick is an American polymer chemist and Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM's Almaden Research Center, known for pioneering metal-free organic catalysts for ring-opening polymerization.
James L. Kinsey
James L. Kinsey (1934–2014) was an American physical chemist who co-invented stimulated emission pumping with Robert W. Field, taught at MIT, and served as dean at Rice University.
James L. Skinner
James L. Skinner is an American theoretical chemist known for his theory of vibrational spectroscopy and line shapes in liquids, especially water, and in solids.
James Lighthill
James Lighthill (1924–1998) was a British applied mathematician who founded aeroacoustics, the study of sound generated by fluid flow, and held the Lucasian chair at Cambridge.
James Lupton Hedrick
James Lupton Hedrick is a polymer chemist at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Stanford visiting scholar, known for metal-free organocatalytic polymerization, biodegradable antimicrobial polymers, and recyclable thermosets.
James Lynn Hoard
James Lynn Hoard (1905–1993) was an American chemist and X-ray crystallographer, a Cornell professor and National Academy of Sciences member known for boron and metalloporphyrin structures.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen (1939–2022) was an American theoretical physicist at the University of Washington who co-authored the 1973 four laws of black hole mechanics with Stephen Hawking.
James M. Harrison
James M. Harrison (1915–1990) was a Canadian geologist who directed the Geological Survey of Canada and was the first President of the International Union of Geological Sciences.
James M. Mayer
James M. Mayer is an American inorganic chemist, the Charlotte Fitch Roberts Professor at Yale University, known for proton-coupled electron transfer research and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
James M. Moran
James M. Moran is an American radio astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian who works on very-long-baseline interferometry, cosmic masers, and supermassive black holes.
James M. Robins
James M. Robins, known as Jamie Robins, is an American physician, epidemiologist, and biostatistician at Harvard who founded modern causal inference and created the g-methods.
James M. Stone
James M. Stone is a computational astrophysicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, known for the ZEUS and Athena astrophysical simulation codes.
James M.D. Day
James M.D. Day (James Martin Dines Day) is an isotope geochemist and planetary scientist, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who directs its Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory.
James Maynard (mathematician)
James Maynard (born 1987) is a British analytic number theorist, Professor of Number Theory at Oxford, known for proving small and large gaps between primes and winning the 2022 Fields Medal.
James McKernan
James McKernan, born in London in 1964, is a British algebraic geometer at UC San Diego known for proving the existence of flips in all dimensions.
James Melville Gilliss
James Melville Gilliss (1811–1865) was an American naval officer and astronomer who planned the first United States Naval Observatory and founded the observatory that became the Chilean National Observatory.
James Mercer (mathematician)
James Mercer (1883–1932) was an English mathematician at Cambridge, bracketed Senior Wrangler in 1907, whose 1909 memoir introduced positive definite kernels and proved Mercer's theorem, now central to kernel methods in machine learning.
James N. Pitts
James N. Pitts was an American atmospheric chemist who established the photochemistry of urban smog, co-founded UC Riverside's air pollution research center, and shaped California's clean-air rules.
James P. Collman
James P. Collman, born 1932, is an American bioinorganic chemist, emeritus professor at Stanford University, known for picket fence porphyrins that mimic hemoglobin's oxygen-binding site.
James P. Eisenstein
James P. Eisenstein, known as Jim Eisenstein, is an experimental condensed-matter physicist and emeritus professor at Caltech, known for the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state and bilayer exciton condensation.
James P. Ferris
James P. Ferris (1932–2016) was an American chemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who worked on prebiotic chemistry, known for montmorillonite clay-catalyzed RNA oligomer synthesis and planetary photochemistry.
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett, born 1940 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a marine geologist and paleoceanographer at UC Santa Barbara known as a founding figure of paleoceanography.
James P. Morken
James P. Morken is an American synthetic organic chemist, professor at Boston College since 2006, known for enantioselective diboration and stereospecific cross-coupling of boronic esters.
James P. Sethna
James P. Sethna is a condensed-matter and statistical physicist, Professor of Physics at Cornell University since 1995, known for crackling noise, hysteresis in disordered systems, and the sloppy models framework.
James Peebles (cosmologist)
James Peebles is a Canadian-born American cosmologist at Princeton who won half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
James Perrin Smith
James Perrin Smith (1864–1931) was an American geologist and paleontologist, professor at Stanford from 1892 to 1930, best known for studying western Mesozoic formations and ammonites.
James Power Gordon
James Power Gordon (1928–2013) was an American physicist who built the first maser as a doctoral student at Columbia University, then worked on optical communication at Bell Labs.
James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (1818–1889) was an English physicist who established that heat is a form of energy, measured the mechanical equivalent of heat, and formulated Joule's law.
James R. Arnold
James R. Arnold (1923–2012) was an American nuclear chemist and cosmochemist who helped develop radiocarbon dating, discovered beryllium-10, and founded UC San Diego's chemistry department.
James R. Asay
James R. Asay is an American shock physicist who spent 32 years at Sandia National Laboratories and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.