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Jellium model
The jellium model, also called the uniform electron gas, replaces the ions of a metal with a uniform positive background charge, making it a fundamental model of condensed-matter physics.
Jellyfish galaxy
A jellyfish galaxy is a satellite galaxy, usually a spiral falling into a cluster, whose gas is stripped by ram pressure into a one-sided tail that resembles jellyfish tentacles.
JEM-EUSO
JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on the Japanese Experiment Module, was a proposed space telescope to observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from the ISS; JAXA withdrew in 2013.
JENDL
JENDL (Japanese Evaluated Nuclear Data Library) is a library of recommended nuclear data produced by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency with the Japanese Nuclear Data Committee, first released in 1977.
Jenifer Haselgrove
Jenifer Haselgrove, born Jenifer Wheildon Brown in 1930, is a British physicist whose Haselgrove equations became a standard tool for computing how radio waves travel through the ionosphere.
Jennifer A. Field
Jennifer A. Field, also known as Jennifer Field, is an environmental analytical chemist and professor at Oregon State University known for her work on PFAS in fire-fighting foams and groundwater.
Jennifer A. Prescher
Jennifer A. Prescher is an American chemical biologist at UC Irvine known for engineered luciferase–luciferin pairs and bioorthogonal probes for imaging cells in living organisms.
Jennifer Dionne
Jennifer Dionne is an American physicist and Stanford professor of materials science known for negative-index metamaterials, quantum plasmonics, and nanoscale chemical imaging, and winner of the 2019 Waterman Award.
Jennifer E. Hoffman
Jennifer E. Hoffman, also published as Jenny Hoffman, is a physicist and Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University who builds low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopes to image quantum materials.
Jennifer M. Schomaker
Jennifer M. Schomaker is an American synthetic organic chemist who is the Edward and Nancy Fody Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for tunable silver-catalyzed C–H amination.
Jennifer S. Brodbelt
Jennifer S. Brodbelt is an American analytical chemist at the University of Texas at Austin known for developing ultraviolet photodissociation (UVPD) to determine the structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and lipids.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
Jennifer Tour Chayes is an applied mathematician and computer scientist known for co-founding graph limits, who led three Microsoft Research labs before joining UC Berkeley in 2020.
Jenny Suckale
Jenny Suckale, also known as Jennifer Suckale, is an American geophysicist and Associate Professor at Stanford University who builds mathematical models of volcanic eruptions, ice-sheet instability, and coastal flooding.
Jens Biegert
Jens Biegert is a German physicist working in attoscience and ultrafast optics at ICFO in Barcelona, where he has been a tenured professor and ICREA Research Professor since 2007.
Jens C. Skou
Jens C. Skou, also known as Jens Christian Skou, was a Danish physiologist who discovered the sodium–potassium pump and won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Jens Eisert
Jens Eisert, born 1970, is a German and Swedish theoretical physicist who works on quantum information and many-body theory, and has been a full professor at the Freie Universität Berlin since 2011.
Jens Gundlach
Jens Gundlach, also known as Jens H. Gundlach, is an experimental physicist at the University of Washington who leads the Eöt-Wash gravity group and shared the 2021 Breakthrough Prize.
Jens Nørskov
Jens Nørskov, also known as Jens K. Nørskov, is a Danish theoretical physicist and professor at the Technical University of Denmark known for computational catalyst design.
Jens Olsen's World Clock
Jens Olsen's World Clock (Danish: Jens Olsens Verdensur) is a large astronomical clock in Copenhagen City Hall, designed by clockmaker Jens Olsen and started by King Frederik IX in 1955.
Jens-Uwe Sommer
Jens-Uwe Sommer is a German polymer physicist who directs the Theory of Polymers institute at Leibniz IPF Dresden and holds a chair at TU Dresden.
JENSA
JENSA, short for Jet Experiments in Nuclear Structure and Astrophysics, is a supersonic gas jet target for nuclear reaction studies with rare isotope beams, now at Michigan State University.
Jensen–Shannon divergence
The Jensen–Shannon divergence is a symmetric, bounded measure of dissimilarity between two probability distributions, formalized by J. Lin in 1991 and widely used in statistics and machine learning.
Jensen's inequality
Jensen's inequality is a theorem of probability theory stating that a convex function of an expectation is at most the expectation of the convex function.
Jeong Woo Han
Jeong Woo Han (한정우) is a South Korean computational catalysis researcher, professor of materials science and engineering at Seoul National University since 2023, known for perovskite exsolution.
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park (박정영) is a South Korean surface chemist and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for detecting hot electrons released during catalytic reactions on metal surfaces.
Jeppe C. Dyre
Jeppe C. Dyre, born 1956, is a Danish physicist and professor at Roskilde University known for work on the glass transition, viscous liquids, and isomorph theory.
Jeppe Vang Lauritsen
Jeppe Vang Lauritsen (Jeppe V. Lauritsen, born 1975) is a Danish chemist and professor at Aarhus University's iNANO center, known for atom-resolved imaging of catalyst surfaces under working conditions.
Jer T. Yu
Jer T. Yu (Jer-tsang Yu) is a Hong Kong astronomer who, as Peebles' first graduate student at Princeton, co-authored the 1970 paper computing primeval density perturbations.
Jerald Ericksen
Jerald Ericksen (1924–2021) was an American mathematician and University of Minnesota professor, a central figure in the postwar revival of continuum mechanics who formulated the Ericksen–Leslie theory of liquid crystals.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Jeremiah P. Ostriker (1937–2025) was an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton and Cambridge whose 1973 simulations showed galaxies are unstable without massive dark matter halos, helping launch dark matter cosmology.