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Jeremy S. Luterbacher

Jeremy S. Luterbacher (born 1984) is a Swiss chemical engineer who joined EPFL in 2014 and is known for lignin-first biorefining, nonenzymatic sugar production, and co-founding two startups.

Jeremy T. Busby

Jeremy T. Busby is an American nuclear materials scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, leading its Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate since 2023 and researching radiation effects on reactor materials.

Jerome B. Cohen

Jerome B. Cohen (1932–1999) was an American materials scientist and crystallographer at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993, known for x-ray diffraction studies of residual stresses.

Jerome Clarke Hunsaker

Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (1886–1984) was an American aeronautical engineer and Navy officer who designed the NC-4 flying boat that made the first Atlantic crossing and the airship Shenandoah.

Jerome Fox Lederer

Jerome Fox Lederer (1902–2004) was an American aviation-safety pioneer called the "Father of Aviation Safety," who founded the Flight Safety Foundation and led NASA's manned space flight safety office.

Jerome Gavis

Jerome Gavis (1928–2011) was an American chemical engineer who spent his career at Johns Hopkins and was known for research on the Chesapeake Bay and the mercury and arsenic cycles in natural waters.

Jerome H. Milgram

Jerome H. Milgram, known as Jerry Milgram, was an American naval architect and ocean engineer who taught at MIT for over fifty years and held 12 oil-spill cleanup patents.

Jerome J. Cuomo

Jerome J. Cuomo, known as Jerry Cuomo, is an American materials scientist who spent 30 years at IBM and won the 1995 National Medal of Technology for amorphous magnetic materials.

Jerome J. Tiemann

Jerome J. Tiemann was an American physicist at General Electric who co-invented the surface-charge transistor, independently invented as the CCD, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

Jerome L. Sackman

Jerome L. Sackman (1929–2016) was an American engineer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992, known for his work on viscoelastic material identification.

Jerome P. Lynch

Jerome P. Lynch is an American structural engineer, Vinik Dean of Engineering at Duke University, who pioneered wireless sensor networks for monitoring bridges and civil infrastructure.

Jerome S. Spevack

Jerome S. Spevack was an American chemical engineer who invented the dual-temperature heavy water process in 1943, held 34 US patents, and sued the government over its use.

Jerome Swartz

Jerome Swartz, known as Jerry Swartz, was an American electrical engineer who co-founded Symbol Technologies, patented the handheld laser bar-code scanner, and founded the Swartz Foundation for neuroscience.

Jerome Wiesner

Jerome Wiesner was an American electrical engineer, science advisor to President John F. Kennedy, and the thirteenth president of MIT, serving from 1971 to 1980.

Jery Russell Stedinger

Jery Russell Stedinger is a water resources engineer at Cornell University, now emeritus, known for statistical flood frequency analysis methods used by the U.S. Geological Survey since 1985.

Jesse Jenkins

Jesse D. Jenkins is a macro-scale energy systems engineer and associate professor with tenure at Princeton University who led the Net-Zero America study and leads the REPEAT Project.

Jesse Russell

Jesse Eugene Russell is an American electrical engineer who led the Bell Labs team that introduced digital cellular technology in the United States in 1988, earning election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.

Jesse V. Jokerst

Jesse V. Jokerst is an American biomedical engineer and analytical chemist who leads the Jokerst Bioimaging Lab at UC San Diego, working on photoacoustic imaging and nanomedicine.

Jessika E. Trancik

Jessika E. Trancik is an MIT professor at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society who studies energy technology costs and performance to inform climate policy and clean-energy investment.

Jeung Ku Kang

Jeung Ku Kang (강정구) is a South Korean materials scientist and Chair Professor at KAIST in Daejeon who works on nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion, including batteries and hydrogen storage.

Ji-Cheng Zhao

Ji-Cheng Zhao is an American materials scientist and metallurgist, Dean of Engineering at the University of Connecticut, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Ji‐Guang Zhang

Ji-Guang Zhang, also published as Jason Zhang, is a battery scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory known for localized high-concentration electrolytes and as the first DOE Lab Innovator of the Year.

Ji‐Seon Kim

Ji-Seon Kim is a solid state physicist who studies organic semiconductor devices such as solar cells and LEDs, moving from Imperial College London to Oxford as Professor of Electronic Materials in 2025.

Jia G. Lu

Jia G. Lu is an applied physicist and nanoscientist who was an assistant professor at UC Irvine, receiving a 2002 PECASE for her work on spin electronics.

Jian‐Feng Nie

Jian-Feng Nie is an Australian materials scientist, a professor at Monash University since 1995, known for atomic-scale electron microscopy of magnesium alloys and stronger biodegradable zinc implants.

Jiangyu Li

Jiangyu Li (李江宇) is a Chinese materials scientist known for work on ferroelectric materials, a professor at the University of Washington from 2006 to 2019 and now chair professor and department head at SUSTech in Shenzhen.

Jianhua Guo

Jianhua Guo (郭建华) is an environmental biotechnologist and professor at the University of Queensland whose work established wastewater treatment plants as hotspots of antibiotic resistance genes and showed non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals spread resistance.

Jianping Fu

Jianping Fu is a Chinese-American bioengineer at the University of Michigan known for microfluidic stem-cell models, including the first full model of the early human central nervous system.

Jianyong Ouyang

Jianyong Ouyang is a professor of materials science and engineering at the National University of Singapore, known for the 2004 polymer memory paper and record-setting thermoelectric materials.

Jianzhong Wu

Jianzhong Wu is a professor of chemical engineering at UC Riverside who works on classical density functional theory, applied to energy storage and electrocatalysis, and is a fellow of APS, AIChE, and AIMBE.