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Julian Hochberg

Julian Hochberg (1923–2022) was an American experimental psychologist who argued that visual perception is a constructive, cognitive process, and was a longtime professor of psychology at Columbia University.

Julian Jaynes

Julian Jaynes (1920–1997), Princeton psychologist, author of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), arguing consciousness emerged recently after a hallucinatory bicameral mentality; controversial and influential in Westworld.

Julian Steward

Julian Steward (1902–1972) was an American anthropologist who coined cultural ecology and developed multilinear evolution, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1954.

Julian Wolpert

Julian Wolpert (1932–2025) was an American geographer at Princeton University who pioneered behavioral location theory and became the first geographer elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Julio Rotemberg

Julio J. Rotemberg (1953–2017) was an Argentine-born economist at Harvard Business School whose 1982 papers founded Rotemberg pricing, and whose 1997 work with Michael Woodford underlies the DSGE models central banks use.

June P Tangney

June P. Tangney, also known as June Price Tangney, is an American clinical psychologist at George Mason University best known for distinguishing shame from guilt and developing the TOSCA measures.

Jushan Bai

Jushan Bai is a Chinese-born econometrician and professor of economics at Columbia University, known for the Bai–Perron theory of multiple structural breaks and for large-dimensional factor models.

Karel Engliš

Karel Engliš (1880–1961) was a Czech economist and politician who served several times as Finance Minister of Czechoslovakia and founded the teleological school of economics.

Karen Bakker

Karen Bakker (1971–2023) was a Canadian geographer at the University of British Columbia known for her work on water privatization and the human right to water.

Karen Cook (sociologist)

Karen Cook, born Karen Schweers Cook, is an American sociologist at Stanford University whose experiments established the study of power, equity, and trust in social exchange networks.

Karen Matthews

Karen Matthews is an American psychosocial epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on stress physiology and menopause in cardiovascular risk in women.

Karen O'Brien

Karen O'Brien, born 1963, is an American human geographer and professor emerita at the University of Oslo known for research on the social dimensions of climate change.

Karl Deutsch

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912–1992) was a social and political scientist born in Prague who taught at MIT, Yale, and Harvard and studied nationalism, international relations, and peace research.

Karl Lashley

Karl Lashley (1890–1958) was an American psychologist and founder of neuropsychology who searched for the engram, the brain's physical trace of memory, through lesion experiments on rats and monkeys.

Karl Popper

Karl Popper, born Karl Raimund Popper in Vienna in 1902, was a philosopher of science known for falsifiability and for The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945).

Kate Mulvaney

Kate Mulvaney is an American social scientist at the EPA who studies coastal ecosystems and water quality, and the first EPA social scientist to win the 2025 PECASE award.

Kate Nelson

Katherine (Kate) S. Nelson is an American human-environment geographer who studies how agricultural landscape diversity affects crop yields, an associate professor at the University of Missouri since 2024.

Kate Williams (historian)

Kate Williams (historian): British historian, author, and broadcaster, CNN's royal historian, Director of Life Writing at Royal Holloway; wrote Becoming Queen, England's Mistress, Young Elizabeth, Rival Queens, and novels; distinct from other Kate Williamses.

Katherine Baicker

Katherine Baicker is an American health economist who serves as the 15th Provost of the University of Chicago and is known for the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a randomized evaluation of Medicaid.

Katherine Swartz

Katherine Swartz is an American health economist and emerita professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, known for research on health insurance coverage.

Kathleen Mullan Harris

Kathleen Mullan Harris is an American sociologist and demographer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, best known as longtime director of the Add Health study.

Kathleen Segerson

Kathleen Segerson is an American environmental economist at the University of Connecticut, known for her work on environmental policy incentives and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

Kazi Sohag

Kazi Sohag (Кази Сохаг) is an energy and environmental economist who joined St. Petersburg State University's Graduate School of Management in 2025 and topped the RePEc ranking of economists in Russia in November 2025.

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1872–1905) was a Polish Marxist sociologist, philosopher, and publicist who served as chief theorist of the Polish Socialist Party and formulated the law of revolutionary retrospection.

Keely A. Muscatell

Keely A. Muscatell is a social neuroscientist and psychoneuroimmunologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies how socioeconomic and racial inequities affect health.

Kehinde Andrews

Kehinde Andrews is a British academic, activist, and author who became the UK's first professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University in 2017, where he built Europe's first Black Studies degree.

Keith Head

Keith Head is a Canadian economist at the University of British Columbia, known for research on the gravity model of trade and foreign direct investment.

Kenneth Arrow

Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921–2017), American economist and 1972 Nobel laureate with John Hicks; proved the impossibility theorem in Social Choice and Individual Values, co-proved general equilibrium existence with Debreu, and founded health economics.

Kenneth D. West

Kenneth D. West, born in 1953, is an American econometrician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for the Newey-West estimator and for work on forecast evaluation and asset prices.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Kenneth E. Boulding (Kenneth Ewart Boulding, 1910–1993) was an English-born economist and social scientist who worked in economics, general systems theory, and peace research, teaching at Michigan and Colorado Boulder.