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Julia olefination

The Julia olefination, also called the Julia–Lythgoe olefination, is a reaction that converts an aldehyde or ketone and an aryl sulfone into an alkene, reported in 1973.

Julia Robinson

Julia Robinson, also known as Julia Bowman Robinson, was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley known for the negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, the MRDP theorem.

Julia set

The Julia set, or Julia fractal, is the boundary of complex points whose orbits stay bounded under iteration of a function, a fractal studied by Fatou and Julia around 1918.

Julia Shelton

Julia "Jessie" Shelton is an American theoretical high-energy particle physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for research on dark matter, top quarks, and the Higgs boson.

Julia Yeomans

Julia Yeomans is a British theoretical physicist who led Oxford's Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and is known for work on active matter, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

Julian A. Dowdeswell

Julian A. Dowdeswell, born 1957, is a British glaciologist, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at Cambridge, and former Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, known for work on ice-sheet retreat.

Julian Burschka

Julian Burschka is a German chemist who, as a doctoral researcher in Michael Grätzel's lab at EPFL, first authored the 2013 Nature paper on sequential perovskite deposition.

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC, with a leap day every fourth year, giving an average year of 365.25 days.

Julian Cole

Julian Cole (1925–1999) was an American applied mathematician at Caltech, UCLA, and Rensselaer known for singular perturbation methods and the Murman–Cole transonic calculation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

Julian D. Gale

Julian D. Gale is an Australian-based theoretical and computational chemist and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, best known for creating the GULP simulation code.

Julian day

The Julian day, also called the Julian date, is a continuous count of days and fractions since noon on January 1, 4713 BC, used in astronomy.

Julian H. Krolik

Julian H. Krolik, also published as J. H. Krolik, is an American theoretical astrophysicist and professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for his 1999 textbook Active Galactic Nuclei.

Julian P. T. Higgins

Julian P. T. Higgins is a statistician, Professor of Evidence Synthesis at the University of Bristol, known for the I² statistic, the ROBINS-I tool, and co-editing the Cochrane Handbook.

Julian Schwinger

Julian Schwinger, also known as Julian Seymour Schwinger, was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum electrodynamics, predicting the electron's anomalous magnetic moment in 1948.

Julian Sochocki

Julian Sochocki, also romanised Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotskii, was a Polish-born mathematician who spent his career in Saint Petersburg, proved the Sokhotski–Plemelj formulas in 1873, and belonged to Chebyshev's school.

Julian year (astronomy)

The Julian year is a unit of time used in astronomy, defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86,400 SI seconds each; the light-year is defined using it.

Juliana v. United States

Juliana v. United States, also known as YouthvGov, was a federal constitutional climate lawsuit filed in Oregon in 2015 by 21 young plaintiffs; it ended in 2025 when the Supreme Court declined review.

Juliane Hollender

Juliane Hollender is a German environmental chemist who has headed the Department of Environmental Chemistry at Eawag since 2005 and is known for work on organic micropollutants in water.

Julie Forman-Kay

Julie D. Forman-Kay is a Canadian biophysicist who studies intrinsically disordered proteins and phase separation by NMR, as a Senior Scientist at SickKids in Toronto.

Julie Theriot

Julie A. Theriot is an American cell biologist and biophysicist known for showing how Listeria commandeers host actin to move, a MacArthur Fellow now at the University of Washington.

Julio Ángel Fernández

Julio Ángel Fernández is a Uruguayan astronomer at the Universidad de la República whose 1980 papers predicted the Kuiper belt and giant-planet migration, earning the 2018 Kuiper Prize.

Julio M. Fernández

Julio M. Fernández is a biophysicist, professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University since 2002, known for force-clamp spectroscopy of single proteins and work on titin folding in muscle.

Julio Navarro (Argentine-Canadian astrophysicist)

Julio F. Navarro, born 1962 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, is an Argentine-Canadian cosmologist at the University of Victoria, co-author of the influential Navarro–Frenk–White profile describing dark matter halos.

Julius Bredt

Julius Bredt, born 1855 in Berlin, was a German organic chemist who held the chair at TH Aachen from 1897 to 1923 and formulated Bredt's rule.

Julius Elster

Julius Elster (1854–1920) was a German physicist and gymnasium teacher in Wolfenbüttel who, with his lifelong collaborator Hans Geitel, laid experimental groundwork for atmospheric electricity, radioactivity, and photoelectricity.

Julius Erasmus Hilgard

Julius Erasmus Hilgard was a German-born American geodesist who led the United States Coast Survey from 1881 to 1885 and was an original member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Julius Petersen (Danish mathematician)

Julius Petersen (1839–1910) was a Danish mathematician and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for the Petersen graph and his foundational 1891 paper in graph theory.

Julius Rebek

Julius Rebek, Jr. is a Hungarian-born American organic chemist and emeritus professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for self-assembled molecular capsules that form in solution around guest molecules.

Julius Stieglitz

Julius Stieglitz (1867–1937) was an American organic chemist at the University of Chicago who applied physical chemistry to organic chemistry and described the Stieglitz rearrangement.

Julius von Hann

Julius Ferdinand von Hann (1839–1921) was an Austrian meteorologist, director of the Vienna Zentralanstalt, whose 1866 foehn theory and climatology handbooks made him a founder of scientific climatology.