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James R. Chelikowsky
James R. Chelikowsky is a computational materials scientist who held the Moncrief Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and introduced the finite-difference pseudopotential method in 1994.
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant is a photochemist and Professor of Photochemistry and Sustainable Energy at Oxford, after professorial appointments at Imperial College London and Swansea University.
James R. Holton
James R. Holton (1938–2004) was an American dynamic meteorologist and University of Washington professor who explained the quasi-biennial oscillation with Richard Lindzen and wrote the standard graduate textbook.
James R. Katzer
James R. Katzer (1941–2012) was an American chemical engineer in catalysis, a University of Delaware professor and Mobil research executive elected to the NAE in 1998.
James R. O’Neil
James R. O'Neil is an American stable isotope geochemist and University of Michigan professor emeritus known for calibrating oxygen isotope geothermometers and for work on paleoclimate and the Adirondack anorthosite.
James R. Powell
James R. Powell was an American nuclear physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who co-invented superconducting maglev with Gordon Danby, earning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal.
James R. Rice
James R. Rice, born 1940 in Maryland, is an American engineer and geophysicist, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for the J-integral and studies of how earthquake ruptures begin and spread.
James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater (1917–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at Columbia University who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the structure of atomic nuclei.
James Ross MacDonald
James Ross MacDonald, born 1923 in Savannah, Georgia, is an American physicist who shaped impedance spectroscopy, led research at Texas Instruments, and won the IEEE Edison Medal.
James S. Dunlop
James S. Dunlop, also published as J. S. Dunlop, is a Scottish observational cosmologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies the first galaxies using the largest telescopes.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical condensed-matter physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for work on nonequilibrium phenomena, including dendritic crystal growth, fracture, and earthquake dynamics.
James Serrin
James Serrin (1926–2012) was an American applied mathematician at the University of Minnesota whose work shaped quasilinear elliptic regularity theory, Navier–Stokes uniqueness theory, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
James T. Hynes
James T. Hynes is an American theoretical chemist at the University of Colorado Boulder known for reaction rates and mechanisms in solution, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
James Thomson (nuclear physicist)
James Thomson is a nuclear physicist and policy analyst who was the fourth president and CEO of the RAND Corporation from 1989 to 2011, the longest tenure in its history.
James Tour
James M. Tour is an American synthetic organic chemist and nanotechnologist at Rice University, known for flash graphene and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
James W. Elkins
James W. Elkins is an atmospheric scientist at NOAA in Boulder, Colorado, known for measurements of ozone-depleting gases and the 2018 Nature paper on rising CFC-11 emissions.
James W. Head
James W. Head is an American planetary geologist at Brown University who worked on Apollo landing-site selection and missions to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
James W. Hurrell
James W. Hurrell is an American climate scientist at Colorado State University and former director of NCAR, known for the North Atlantic Oscillation index bearing his name.
James W. Jorgenson
James W. Jorgenson, born in 1952, is an American analytical chemist who invented capillary zone electrophoresis, a method whose use in DNA sequencing enabled the Human Genome Project.
James W. Kirchner
James W. Kirchner is a hydrologist and earth scientist who taught at Berkeley and ETH Zurich and led Nature studies of groundwater decline, streamflow loss to aquifers, and catchment hydrology.
James W. York
James W. York, also known as James Wesley York Jr., was an American mathematical physicist who reformulated Einstein's constraint equations and shared the 2003 Heineman Prize.
James Waddell Alexander II
James Waddell Alexander II (1888–1971) was an American topologist at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study, best known for the Alexander polynomial in knot theory.
James Wadsley
James Wadsley is a computational astrophysicist and professor at McMaster University, lead author of the GASOLINE simulation code used to study planet, star, and galaxy formation.
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848–1928) was an English mathematician and astronomer at Trinity College, Cambridge, who published nearly 400 papers and edited two mathematical journals for over half a century.
James Wilfred Cook
James Wilfred Cook (1900–1975) was a British organic chemist who prepared the first pure compound shown to cause cancer, isolated coal tar's carcinogen, and became Regius Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow.
Jamming (physics)
In physics, jamming, or the jamming transition, is the change of a disordered collection of particles from a flowing, fluid-like state to a rigid, solid-like state that resists shear stress.
jamovi
jamovi is a free and open statistical spreadsheet built on the R statistical language, providing point-and-click data editing and analysis as an intuitive alternative to commercial packages such as SPSS.
Jan Ambjørn
Jan Ambjørn is a Danish theoretical physicist, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, best known as co-creator of Causal Dynamical Triangulations, a lattice formulation of quantum gravity.
Jan Arnoldus Schouten
Jan Arnoldus Schouten (1883–1971) was a Dutch mathematician who systematized tensor analysis in Ricci-Calculus, independently discovered the Levi-Civita connection, and named the Schouten tensor and Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket.
Jan Christoph Minx
Jan Christoph Minx, also published as Jan C. Minx, is a German climate scientist who heads the Evidence for Climate Solutions group at the Potsdam Institute since 2025.