Physical world and mathematics

Jia Lanpo

Jia Lanpo (贾兰坡, 1908–2001) was a Chinese paleoanthropologist and Quaternary geologist who directed the Peking Man excavations at Zhoukoudian, helping unearth 45 Homo erectus fossils there.

Jiadong Zhou

Jiadong Zhou (周家东) is a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist, and a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, known for synthesizing atomically thin 2D metal chalcogenides.

Jiali Gao, born 1962, is a Chinese American theoretical and computational chemist who holds the L. I. Smith Professorship at the University of Minnesota and pioneered QM/MM methods for enzyme catalysis.

Jian-Sheng Wang

Jian-Sheng Wang, born 1960 in China, is a Singaporean computational physicist at the National University of Singapore known for co-developing the Swendsen–Wang cluster algorithm and pioneering replica Monte Carlo methods.

Jianghong Rao

Jianghong Rao is a Chinese-American chemical biologist and Professor of Radiology at Stanford University, known for molecular imaging probes and copper-depleting nanoparticles against triple-negative breast cancer.

Jianglong Zhang

Jianglong Zhang is an atmospheric scientist at the University of North Dakota known for satellite aerosol remote sensing and forecasting, and a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award recipient.

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Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large liquid scintillator neutrino detector 700 meters underground in Jiangmen, China, built to determine the neutrino mass ordering.

Jianguo Mei

Jianguo Mei is an organic and materials chemist at Purdue University who designs organic semiconductors for printed electronics and became head of Purdue's chemistry department in 2024.

Jianli Chen

Jianli Chen is a space geodesist and hydrologist who applies satellite gravimetry to measure Earth's water and ice changes. He is a 2005 PECASE recipient.

Jianping Xie

Jianping Xie (谢建平) is a Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore who works on atomically precise metal nanoclusters for biomedical and catalytic applications.

Jianrong Steve Zhou

Jianrong Steve Zhou (周建荣, born 1975) is a Chinese organic chemist at Peking University Shenzhen who works on nickel- and cobalt-catalyzed asymmetric reductive cross-coupling, after a decade at Nanyang Technological University.

Jianshu Cao

Jianshu Cao (曹建树) is a Chinese-American theoretical chemist and Professor of Chemistry at MIT, known for the centroid molecular dynamics method, the 2020 review Quantum biology revisited, and work on condensed-phase quantum dynamics.

Jianwei Miao

Jianwei (John) Miao is a UCLA physicist who pioneered coherent diffraction imaging in 1999 and atomic electron tomography in 2012, lensless methods that determine structure from diffraction patterns and algorithms.

Jianwen Jiang

Jianwen Jiang is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the National University of Singapore who uses molecular simulation to study metal-organic frameworks and polymer membranes.

Jiaxing Huang

Jiaxing Huang is a materials chemist known for crumpled graphene balls and graphene oxide surfactants, who joined Westlake University in 2021 after fourteen years at Northwestern University.

Jiayin Yuan

Jiayin Yuan is a materials chemist and Professor of Materials Chemistry at Stockholm University since 2019, working on poly(ionic liquid)s and porous carbons for carbon capture.

Jie Shan

Jie Shan is an experimental condensed matter physicist, Walter S. Carpenter Professor at Cornell University, known for work on two-dimensional materials and moiré quantum matter, and a Max Planck Institute director since 2024.

Jie Shen

Jie Shen (沈捷, born 1959) is a Chinese numerical analyst known for spectral-Galerkin methods for partial differential equations and the scalar auxiliary variable approach for gradient flows.

Jie Wu

Jie Wu is a professor of chemistry at the National University of Singapore who develops light-driven methods converting feedstocks into medicinal molecules and founded the NUS spin-off PhloSyn.

Jie Zheng

Jie Zheng is a materials chemist and Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas, known for showing that the kidney filters gold nanoclusters atom by atom.

Jieping Zhu

Jieping Zhu (朱杰平) is a Chinese-born organic chemist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland since 2010, known for total synthesis of natural products and multicomponent reactions.

Jiffy (time)

A jiffy, plural jiffies, is an informal word for a very short period of time, adopted as the name of small units in physics, electronics, and computing with different durations.

Jill Tarter

Jill Tarter is an American astronomer who spent her career searching for signals from extraterrestrial technology, leading NASA's SETI program, Project Phoenix, and the Allen Telescope Array.

Jillian Banfield

Jillian F. Banfield is a geomicrobiologist and professor at UC Berkeley who pioneered reconstructing whole genomes from natural microbial communities, reshaping the Tree of Life.

Jim Al-Khalili

Jim Al-Khalili, born Jameel Sadik Al-Khalili in Baghdad in 1962, is a British theoretical physicist and broadcaster, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey.

Jim Cantore

Jim Cantore is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, which he joined in 1986, known for field coverage of hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards including Hurricane Katrina.

Jim Peebles

Jim Peebles, born Phillip James Edwin Peebles in 1935, is a Canadian-born American cosmologist at Princeton who won half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Jim Pitman

Jim Pitman, born 1949 in Tasmania, is a probability theorist and Berkeley professor emeritus known for the Pitman transform, the Pitman–Yor process, and random partitions.

Jim Simons (mathematician)

Jim Simons, also known as James Harris Simons, was an American mathematician known for Chern–Simons theory who founded Renaissance Technologies and, with his wife Marilyn, the Simons Foundation.