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Jérémie Szeftel

Jérémie Szeftel is a French mathematician and CNRS Research Director at Sorbonne Université who works on nonlinear partial differential equations, known for proving the stability of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes.

Jeremy Bassis

Jeremy Bassis is an American glaciologist and professor at the University of Michigan who studies iceberg calving and ice shelf stability, received a 2016 Presidential Early Career Award, and challenged worst-case Antarctic sea-level projections.

Jeremy Baumberg

Jeremy J. Baumberg is a British physicist, Harold Aspden Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for squeezing light into metallic nanostructures smaller than a cubic nanometer.

Jeremy K. M. Sanders

Jeremy K. M. Sanders is a British supramolecular chemist and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge, known for dynamic combinatorial chemistry, catenanes, and the organic trefoil knot.

Jeremy Levy

Jeremy Levy is a condensed matter physicist, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for writing conductive circuits at an oxide interface with an atomic force microscope.

Jeremy M. Hutson

Jeremy M. Hutson, born in 1957, is a British theoretical molecular physicist and Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor at Durham University and a leading researcher on ultracold molecules.

Jeremy M. Smith

Jeremy M. Smith is an inorganic chemist raised in Benoni, South Africa, and Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington since 2013, known for iron nitrido chemistry.

Jeremy Mould

Jeremy Mould, born 1949 in Bristol, is an Australian astronomer who co-led the Hubble Key Project, which measured the Hubble constant to 10 percent accuracy, earning the 2009 Gruber Cosmology Prize.

Jeremy Nicholson

Jeremy K. Nicholson is a British biochemist who founded NMR-based metabonomics and metabolic phenotyping, and leads the Australian National Phenome Centre at Murdoch University in Perth.

Jeremy O'Brien

Jeremy L. O'Brien is a quantum optics and quantum information scientist, co-founder and executive chairman of PsiQuantum, known for the 2003 all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate and integrated quantum photonics.

Jeremy Wade

Jeremy Wade, full name Jeremy John Wade, is a British biologist, angler, and television presenter who hosted Animal Planet's River Monsters for nine seasons, investigating large freshwater fish worldwide.

Jerk (physics)

Jerk, also called jolt in British English, is the rate of change of acceleration, measured in meters per second cubed (m/s³), and matters for passenger comfort and machine design.

Jeroen A. van Bokhoven

Jeroen A. van Bokhoven is a Dutch chemist in heterogeneous catalysis who holds the catalysis chair at ETH Zurich and heads a Paul Scherrer Institute laboratory.

Jeroen van den Brink

Jeroen van den Brink is a Dutch condensed-matter physicist who directs the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics at IFW Dresden and is a professor at TU Dresden.

Jerome Berson

Jerome Berson (1924–2017) was an American physical organic chemist at Yale University who studied reactive intermediates, especially diradicals and non-Kekulé molecules, and later wrote on chemistry's history.

Jérôme Faist

Jérôme Faist is a Swiss physicist, born in Geneva, who co-invented the quantum cascade laser at Bell Laboratories and has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2007.

Jerome I. Friedman

Jerome I. Friedman, born in Chicago in 1930, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for evidence that protons contain quarks.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Jerome Isaac Friedman, also known as Jerome I. Friedman, is an American experimental physicist at MIT who shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct evidence of quarks.

Jerome Karle

Jerome Karle (1918–2013) was an American crystallographer at the US Naval Research Laboratory who shared the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing direct methods for determining crystal structures.

Jerome Namias

Jerome Namias (1910–1997) was an American meteorologist who pioneered long-range weather forecasting at the U.S. Weather Bureau and later founded climate research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Jerome Percus

Jerome Percus, also known as Jerome Kenneth Percus, was an American physicist and mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the Percus–Yevick equation of liquid-state theory.

Jérôme Waser

Jérôme Waser, born 1977 in Sierre, is a Swiss organic chemist and full professor at EPFL, known for hypervalent-iodine EBX alkynylation reagents and redox gold catalysis.

Jerrold Meinwald

Jerrold Meinwald (1927–2018) was an American organic chemist at Cornell University who co-established chemical ecology, the study of the chemicals organisms use to defend themselves and communicate.

Jerrold R. Zacharias

Jerrold R. Zacharias (1905–1986) was an American nuclear physicist at MIT who developed the first commercial atomic clocks and founded the PSSC science education reform.

Jerry Gollub

Jerry Gollub (1944–2019) was an American physicist at Haverford College who performed the first experiments demonstrating the transition from order to chaos in fluid systems.

Jerry L. Atwood

Jerry L. Atwood (born 1942) is an American supramolecular chemist and Curators' Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, known as a founder of host-guest chemistry and for his work on calixarenes.

Jerry Nelson (scientist)

Jerry Nelson (1944–2017) was an American astronomer who was chief designer of the 10-meter Keck telescopes, pioneered segmented-mirror technology, and later led the Thirty Meter Telescope.

Jerry Woodall

Jerry Woodall is an American electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, known for the gallium arsenide heterojunctions behind high-efficiency LEDs and the 2001 National Medal of Technology.

Jery R. Stedinger

Jery R. Stedinger is an American hydrologist and Cornell professor since 1977, known for flood frequency analysis and the 1981 textbook Water Resource Systems Planning and Analysis.

Jerzy Ciosłowski

Jerzy Ciosłowski is a Polish theoretical chemist, professor of physics at the University of Szczecin since 2004, known for endohedral fullerenes and density-matrix functional theory.