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John E. Ware Jr.
John E. Ware Jr. is an American health outcomes scientist who created the SF-36 Health Survey and is Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a National Academy of Medicine member.
John Edensor Littlewood
John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977) was an English mathematician and Cambridge professor who worked on series, inequalities, and the zeta function, forming a famed partnership with G. H. Hardy.
John Edward Campbell
John Edward Campbell (1862–1924) was an Irish-born mathematician at Hertford College, Oxford, who began the Campbell–Baker–Hausdorff formula and introduced Lie's theory to Britain through his 1903 treatise.
John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr (1857–1933) was a British geologist whose graptolite-based fieldwork in the Lake District and Wales shaped Ordovician and Silurian stratigraphy; he was Woodwardian Professor at Cambridge.
John Edwin Luecke
John Edwin Luecke is a mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin known for the cyclic surgery theorem and the Gordon–Luecke theorem in knot theory.
John Ellis (theoretical physicist)
John Ellis (Jonathan Richard Ellis, born 1946) is a British theoretical particle physicist who pioneered Higgs and supersymmetry phenomenology, led CERN's Theory Division, and joined King's College London in 2010.
John Evershed
John Evershed (1864–1956) was an English astronomer who discovered the Evershed effect, the radial outflow of gases from sunspot centers, in 1909 while directing the Kodaikanal Observatory in India.
John F. Allen
John F. Allen, also known as John Frank Allen, was a Canadian physicist who discovered superfluidity in liquid helium-4 in 1937 and the fountain effect weeks later.
John F. Berry
John F. Berry is an American inorganic chemist and Lester R. McNall Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for work on metal–metal multiple bonds and high-valent iron.
John F. Brady
John F. Brady, born 1954, is an American fluid mechanician and rheologist, the Chevron Professor at Caltech known for Stokesian dynamics and the swim pressure of active matter.
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is an American organic and organometallic chemist at UC Berkeley, best known for the Buchwald–Hartwig amination, a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction he reported in 1995.
John F. Hawley
John F. Hawley (1958–2021) was an American astrophysicist at the University of Virginia who, with Steven Balbus, identified the magnetorotational instability that lets gas spiral inward through accretion disks.
John F. Mitchell
John F. Mitchell is an American condensed matter physicist and chemist, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow whose synthesis-driven research spans quantum magnets, iridates, and topological materials.
John F. Mustard
John F. Mustard, known as Jack Mustard, is a planetary scientist and professor at Brown University, deputy principal investigator of the CRISM Mars spectrometer and a 2011 AAAS Fellow.
John F. Nash Jr.
John F. Nash Jr. was an American mathematician at Princeton University known for the Nash equilibrium in game theory and the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
John F. Stanton
John F. Stanton (1961–2025) was an American quantum chemist, William R. Kenan Professor at the University of Florida, known for coupled-cluster theory and the CFOUR quantum chemistry package.
John Fillmore Hayford
John Fillmore Hayford (1868–1925) was an American civil engineer and geodesist who established isostasy as a working tool of geodesy and computed the Hayford spheroid, adopted internationally in 1924.
John Finney
John L. Finney is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at University College London whose research centers on water, ices, liquids, and random packing, begun as J. D. Bernal's assistant at Birkbeck College in 1965.
John Flett (Scottish geologist)
John Smith Flett (1869–1947) was a Scottish physician-turned-geologist who directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1920 to 1935 and studied the Old Red Sandstone of Orkney.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) was an American mathematician who proved the Nash equilibrium, made major contributions to geometry, and won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
John Frederick Dewey
John Frederick Dewey, born 1937 in London, is a British and American structural geologist known for applying plate tectonics to mountain belts, above all the Caledonian and Appalachian systems.
John Fredrick MacGregor
John Fredrick MacGregor is a Canadian chemical engineer and Professor Emeritus at McMaster University, known for pioneering multivariate statistical methods for monitoring and controlling industrial processes.
John Friedlander
John Friedlander (born 1941) is a Canadian analytic number theorist at the University of Toronto, known for proving infinitely many primes of the form a² + b⁴.
John Fries Frazer
John Fries Frazer, known as John F. Frazer, was an American chemist and University of Pennsylvania professor, a charter member of the National Academy of Sciences.
John G. Sclater
John G. Sclater (1940–2024) was a Scottish-born American marine geophysicist whose work on seafloor heat flow and subsidence gave plate tectonics a quantitative foundation; he died in San Diego at 84.
John G. Thompson
John G. Thompson is an American mathematician known for the odd-order theorem and the classification of finite simple groups, who won the Fields Medal and the Abel Prize.
John Gamble Kirkwood
John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959) was an American theoretical chemist who helped found the statistical mechanics of liquids, known for Kirkwood–Buff solution theory and the BBGKY hierarchy.
John Garnett (mathematician)
John Garnett (John Brady Garnett) is an American mathematician at UCLA known for harmonic analysis, a 1970 analytic capacity counterexample, and the Steele Prize-winning Bounded Analytic Functions.
John Gatenby Bolton
John Gatenby Bolton (1922–1993) was a radio astronomer who made the first identifications of radio sources with optical objects, and was the first Director of the Parkes Telescope in Australia.
John George Sclater
John George Sclater (1940–2024) was a Scottish-born American marine geophysicist, educated at Cambridge and a professor at MIT, Texas, and Scripps, whose heat-flow studies gave plate tectonics a quantitative foundation.