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Jan Czochralski
Jan Czochralski (1885–1953) was a Polish chemist and metallurgist who invented the crystal-pulling method in 1916, now used to grow roughly 95% of silicon for semiconductors.
Jan E. Mooij
Jan E. Mooij, known as Hans Mooij, is a Dutch experimental physicist and professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology, a pioneer of superconducting flux qubits.
Jan Esper
Jan Esper is a professor of climate geography at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and a dendroclimatologist known for tree-ring temperature reconstructions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Jan Feijén
Jan Feijén, also published as J. Feijen, is a Dutch polymer chemist who was professor of Polymer Chemistry and Biomaterials at the University of Twente from 1979.
Jan Genzer
Jan Genzer is a polymer physicist known for mechanically assembled monolayers and surface-grafted molecular density gradients, and a distinguished professor at North Carolina State University.
Jan H. van Esch
Jan H. van Esch (Johannes Henricus van Esch) is a Dutch supramolecular chemist and professor at TU Delft, known for chemically fueled transient assembly of active materials.
Jan Hendrik de Boer
Jan Hendrik de Boer (1899–1971) was a Dutch physical chemist at Philips who co-invented the iodide process for pure ductile metals and advanced adsorption science.
Jan Hendrik Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900–1992) was a Dutch astronomer who established the Milky Way's rotation, measured the galactic disk's mass density, and proposed the Oort cloud.
Jan J. Weigand
Jan J. Weigand is an inorganic molecular chemist who has held the Chair of Inorganic Molecular Chemistry at TU Dresden since 2013, working on cationic phosphorus chemistry.
Jan Ketelaar
Jan Arnold Albert Ketelaar (1908–2001) was a Dutch physical chemist at Amsterdam, known for the bond-type triangle, the textbook De chemische binding, and molten-salt fuel cells.
Jan M. Rost
Jan M. Rost (Jan-Michael Rost, born 1961) is a German theoretical physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden.
Jan Mycielski
Jan Mycielski (1932–2025) was a Polish mathematician who worked in graph theory, set theory, and logic, known for the Mycielskian and the axiom of determinacy, and taught at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Jan Myrheim
Jan Myrheim is a Norwegian theoretical physicist, professor at NTNU in Trondheim, who with Jon Magne Leinaas predicted in 1977 the fractional statistics behind anyons.
Jan Peter Toennies
Jan Peter Toennies, born 1930 in Philadelphia, is a physical chemist who pioneered crossed molecular beams and helium nanodroplet isolation spectroscopy, directing a Max Planck Institute in Göttingen from 1969 to 1998.
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert is a Swedish-trained hydrologist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for the HBV-light runoff model and bias correction of climate model output.
Jan Śleszyński
Jan Śleszyński (1854–1931) was a Polish mathematician and logician who proved the Śleszyński–Pringsheim theorem and gave the first rigorous proof of a restricted central limit theorem.
Jan Smit (Dutch geologist)
Jan Smit (born 1948, The Hague) is a Dutch geologist and stratigrapher, professor emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, known for his work on the Chicxulub impact and dinosaur extinction.
Jan Tauc
Jan Tauc (1922–2010) was a Czech-born American semiconductor physicist who worked in Prague and was a professor at Brown University from 1970 to 1992, known for the Tauc plot.
Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek
Jan Theodor Gerard Overbeek (1911–2007) was a Dutch physical chemist and professor at Utrecht University, the O in DLVO theory, the standard account of why colloidal suspensions stay dispersed or coagulate.
Jan van Deemter
Jan Jozef van Deemter (1918–2004) was a Dutch physicist and Shell researcher known for the van Deemter equation, from his 1956 paper on band broadening in chromatography.
Jan van Hest
Jan van Hest is a Dutch bio-organic chemist at Eindhoven University of Technology, known as the first to produce polymersomes and a pioneer of artificial cells.
Ján Veizer
Ján Veizer, also published as Jan Veizer, is an isotope geochemist and paleontologist at the University of Ottawa who built the Phanerozoic seawater isotope record from fossil shells.
Jan Verlet
Jan R. R. Verlet is a physical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University known for spectroscopy of molecular anions and the hydrated electron at the water/air interface.
Jan Zaanen
Jan Zaanen (1957–2024) was a Dutch condensed matter theorist, professor at Leiden University, known for predicting stripe order in copper-oxide superconductors and for Planckian dissipation.
Jan‐E. Bäckvall
Jan-E. Bäckvall (Jan-Erling Bäckvall), born 1947, is a Swedish organic chemist and professor at Stockholm University known for chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution, palladium-catalyzed allene carbocyclizations, and biomimetic oxidation.
Jana Roithová
Jana Roithová, born 1974, is a Czech chemist who has been Professor of Spectroscopy and Catalysis at Radboud University since 2018 and leads a group at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin.
Jane Luu
Jane Luu, born 1963 in South Vietnam, is an astronomer who with David Jewitt discovered 1992 QB1 in 1992, the first Kuiper Belt object, earning the 2012 Kavli and Shaw Prizes.
Janelia Fluor
Janelia Fluor dyes are bright, photostable, cell-permeable rhodamine dyes developed at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, used chiefly for live-cell and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy.
Janelia Research Campus
Janelia Research Campus is the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's first independent research institute, opened in 2006 in Ashburn, Virginia, where internally funded small groups study neurobiology, imaging, and fly connectomes.
Janice Dean
Janice Dean is a Canadian-born television meteorologist who joined Fox News in 2004 as its first official weather forecaster, later becoming senior meteorologist on Fox & Friends.