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John Adams (British accelerator physicist)
John Bertram Adams (1920–1984) was a British accelerator physicist who directed the construction of CERN's Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron and twice served as the laboratory's Director-General.
John Aitken (meteorologist)
John Aitken (died 1919) was a Scottish meteorologist and former marine engineer who showed in 1880 that fogs and clouds form on airborne dust particles, and built the first dust counter.
John Alexander Simpson
John Alexander Simpson (1916–2000) was an American physicist at the University of Chicago who built the particle detectors that made the first cosmic-ray measurements at Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
John Alfred Valentine Butler
John Alfred Valentine Butler (1899–1977) was a British physical chemist whose 1924 kinetic theory of electrode potentials underlies the Butler–Volmer equation; he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
John Anthony Osborn
John Anthony Osborn was a chemist who, as a doctoral student of Geoffrey Wilkinson at Imperial College London, was first author of the 1966 paper announcing Wilkinson's catalyst.
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler was an American theoretical physicist at Princeton University who popularized the term "black hole" and co-authored the 1939 paper explaining nuclear fission with Niels Bohr.
John Arnold (chemist)
John Arnold is a synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, whose laboratory was known for actinide chemistry with thorium and uranium.
John Arthur Jacobs
John Arthur Jacobs (1916–2003) was a British geophysicist who studied the Earth's core and geomagnetic field, and won the Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal in 2002.
John August Anderson
John August Anderson (1876–1959) was an American astrophysicist and spectroscopist known for ruling diffraction gratings, solar spectroscopy at Mount Wilson, and the Palomar telescope's optics.
John B. Bell
John B. Bell is an American applied mathematician at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for numerical methods for partial differential equations and adaptive mesh refinement, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn, also known as John Fenn, was an American chemist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing electrospray ionization, which made proteins measurable by mass spectrometry.
John Bally
John Bally is an astrophysicist and Professor Emeritus of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, known for research on star formation, protostellar outflows, and stellar feedback.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist, the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, for the transistor in 1956 and superconductivity theory in 1972.
John Bower
John F. Bower is an organic chemist working on metal-catalyzed asymmetric catalysis, known for aza-Heck reactions and stereodefined amino acid synthesis, and Regius Professor of Chemistry at Liverpool since 2020.
John C. Branner
John C. Branner, full name John Casper Branner, was an American geologist of Arkansas and Brazil who became Stanford University's first professor of geology and second president.
John C. Crowell
John C. Crowell (1917–2015) was an American geologist and National Academy of Sciences member who worked out the displacement history of the San Andreas fault system.
John C. Harsanyi
John C. Harsanyi (János Harsányi) was a Hungarian-American economist at UC Berkeley who shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with John Nash and Reinhard Selten.
John C. Howell
John C. Howell, also known as John Charles Howell, is an American quantum optician and physics professor at Chapman University known for entangled-photon EPR experiments.
John C. Mather
John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist at NASA Goddard who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for measuring the cosmic microwave background from the COBE satellite.
John C. Polanyi
John C. Polanyi, also known as John Polanyi, is a Canadian chemist at the University of Toronto who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for infrared chemiluminescence.
John C. Sheehan
John C. Sheehan (1915–1992) was an American organic chemist at MIT who in 1957 achieved the first total synthesis of a natural penicillin, penicillin V.
John C. Slater
John Clarke Slater (1900–1976) was an American theoretical physicist who led MIT's physics department for two decades and created the Slater determinant, Slater-type orbitals, and the Xα method.
John C. Tully
John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist and Professor Emeritus at Yale University who created surface hopping, the standard method for simulating chemical reactions with electronic transitions.
John Campbell Brown
John Campbell Brown (1947–2019) was a British solar physicist who held Glasgow's Regius Professorship of Astronomy and served as the 10th Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
John Cardy
John Cardy is a British theoretical physicist, long at Oxford, known for the Cardy formula, boundary conformal field theory, and the a-theorem, and a 2024 Breakthrough Prize laureate.
John Carlstrom
John Carlstrom (born 1957) is an American experimental astrophysicist at the University of Chicago who leads the South Pole Telescope, measuring the cosmic microwave background.
John Carter of Mars
John Carter of Mars is the hero of Edgar Rice Burroughs's science fiction series, beginning with A Princess of Mars in 1912 and spanning eleven books.
John Chalker
John T. Chalker is a condensed matter theoretical physicist at the University of Oxford, known for the 1988 Chalker–Coddington network model describing the integer quantum Hall plateau transition.
John Chapman Frye
John Chapman Frye (1912–1982) was an American geologist, state geologist of Kansas and chief of the Illinois State Geological Survey from 1954 to 1974, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
John Chappell
John Michael Arthur Chappell (1940–2018) was a New Zealand-born Australian geoscientist at the Australian National University, called the father of Quaternary research in Australia for his sea-level work.