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Joachim Sauer

Joachim Sauer, born 1949, is a German quantum chemist at Humboldt University known for applying quantum chemical methods to heterogeneous catalysis, especially zeolites, and for his marriage to Angela Merkel.

Joachim Spatz

Joachim P. Spatz is a German materials scientist and biophysicist who directs the Department of Cellular Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.

Joachim Stadel

Joachim Stadel is a Swiss-based computational astrophysicist and professor at the University of Zurich, known for cosmological N-body simulations of dark-matter structure and parallel codes such as pkdgrav.

Joan Birman

Joan Birman (born 1927) is an American mathematician at Barnard College, Columbia University, known for her work on braid groups, mapping class groups, and knot theory.

Joanna Briggs Institute

The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is an international research organization for evidence-based healthcare at the University of Adelaide, founded by Alan Pearson in 1996 and named after the first Matron of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Joanna Dorothy Haigh

Joanna Dorothy Haigh, also known as Joanna D. Haigh, is a British atmospheric physicist at Imperial College London known for her work on the Sun's influence on Earth's climate.

Joanna Kiryluk

Joanna Kiryluk is an experimental particle astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University, a member of the IceCube collaboration and a recipient of the 2017 PECASE award.

Joanne Simpson

Joanne Simpson was an American tropical meteorologist, the first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology, who co-proposed the hot tower hypothesis and led NASA's TRMM satellite mission.

JoAnne Stubbe

JoAnne Stubbe is an American chemist and biochemist, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at MIT, known for establishing how radical intermediates drive enzyme catalysis in ribonucleotide reductases.

Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger

Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger, known as Quin Luttinger, was an American condensed-matter physicist at Columbia University known for Luttinger's theorem, Luttinger liquids, and the Kohn–Luttinger mechanism.

Job Boekhoven

Job Boekhoven is a Dutch chemist and professor at the Technical University of Munich, known for chemically fueled self-assembly and the 2015 Science paper on transient assembly.

Job shop scheduling

Job shop scheduling is the combinatorial problem of scheduling job operations on machines, each job following a fixed route, to minimize the makespan; it is strongly NP-hard.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born 1943 in Belfast, is a British astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967, though the 1974 Nobel Prize went to her supervisor.

Jocelyn Field Thorpe

Jocelyn Field Thorpe (1872–1940) was an English organic chemist, professor at Imperial College London from 1914, who discovered the Thorpe reaction and, with Christopher Ingold, the Thorpe–Ingold effect.

Jochem Marotzke

Jochem Marotzke, born 1959, is a German physical oceanographer and climate modeler who directs the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology's Department of Climate Variability in Hamburg.

Jochen Autschbach

Jochen Autschbach is a theoretical and computational chemist who is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, known for density functional theory calculations of NMR parameters and chiroptical properties of heavy-element compounds.

Jochen Blumberger

Jochen Blumberger is a chemical physicist and Professor of Chemical Physics at University College London, known for molecular simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors and electron transfer in proteins.

Jochen Feldmann

Jochen Feldmann (born 1961 in Olpe, Germany) is a German physicist, professor at LMU Munich since 1995, known for nanocrystal photophysics, quantum-dot LEDs, and the nano-ear sensor.

Jochen J. Brocks

Jochen J. Brocks, also published as Jochen Brocks, is a German-trained Australian geobiologist and professor at the Australian National University who studies molecular fossils in Precambrian rocks.

Jochen Mannhart

Jochen Mannhart (born 1960) is a German condensed matter physicist who works on oxide interfaces and high-temperature superconductivity, and directs a department at the Max Planck Institute of Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

Jodrell Bank Observatory

Jodrell Bank Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory in Cheshire, England, founded in 1945 and home to the Lovell Telescope, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Joe Farman

Joe Farman was a British geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey who, with Brian Gardiner and Jon Shanklin, reported the Antarctic ozone hole in 1985, leading to the Montreal Protocol.

Joe Harris (mathematician)

Joe Harris, full name Joseph Daniel Harris, is an American algebraic geometer and Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, known for the Brill-Noether theorem and influential textbooks.

Joe Vinen

Joe Vinen (William Frank Vinen, 1930–2022) was a British low-temperature physicist who gave the first direct demonstration that superfluid circulation is quantized and created the field of quantum turbulence.

Joel D. Blum

Joel D. Blum is an American geochemist at the University of Michigan known for mercury isotope geochemistry and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

Joel David Hamkins

Joel David Hamkins is an American mathematician and philosopher working in logic and set theory, known for the set-theoretic multiverse view and infinite time Turing machines.

Joel Henry Hildebrand

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881–1983) was an American physical chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for regular solution theory, the Hildebrand solubility parameter, and teaching about 40,000 students.

Joel L. Lebowitz

Joel L. Lebowitz is an American statistical mechanician, born in 1930 in Czechoslovakia, who has been George William Hill Professor at Rutgers University since 1977, winning the Boltzmann Medal.

Joel Levine

Joel S. Levine (born 1942) is an American planetary and atmospheric scientist who spent 41 years at NASA Langley, conceived the ARES Mars airplane, and chaired the panel that chose MAVEN.

Joel M. Bowman

Joel M. Bowman is an American theoretical chemist and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus at Emory University, known for reaction dynamics, permutationally invariant potential energy surfaces, and the roaming atom mechanism.