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Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell is an American biomaterials scientist and immunoengineer known for inverse vaccines that use the liver's tolerance pathway to halt autoimmune reactions in laboratory models.

Jeffrey C. Grossman

Jeffrey C. Grossman is an American materials scientist and MIT professor since 2009 whose research uses computer simulation to design energy materials, including solar thermal fuels.

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink is an American chemist and materials scientist, Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering at Rice University, known for multidomain peptide hydrogels for tissue repair.

Jeffrey Energy Center

Jeffrey Energy Center is a coal-fired power station with three units in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, near St. Marys. Its units entered service in 1978, 1980, and 1983.

Jeffrey J. Siirola

Jeffrey J. Siirola is an American chemical engineer known for process synthesis and computer-aided process design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Jeffrey Karp

Jeffrey Karp, also known as Jeffrey M. Karp, is a Canadian-born American bioengineer known for a gecko-inspired surgical tape and for turning his lab's inventions into medtech companies.

Jeffrey L. Blackburn

Jeffrey L. Blackburn, known as Jeff Blackburn, is an American materials scientist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado, known for single-walled carbon nanotube research.

Jeffrey P. Buzen

Jeffrey P. Buzen is a computer scientist whose 1971 Harvard thesis produced Buzen's algorithm and the central server model, and who co-founded BGS Systems in 1975.

Jeffrey R. Capadona

Jeffrey R. Capadona is an American biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland VA, known for biomaterials research on neural implants and drug delivery.

Jeffrey Skiles

Jeffrey Skiles, known as Jeff Skiles, is an American retired airline pilot who was First Officer on US Airways Flight 1549, ditched in the Hudson River in 2009.

Jeffrey Ullman

Jeffrey David Ullman is an American computer scientist at Stanford University, co-winner of the 2020 Turing Award and author of influential textbooks on compilers and databases.

Jeffrey W. Kysar

Jeffrey W. Kysar is an American mechanical engineer at Columbia University who has chaired its mechanical engineering department since 2014 and won a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jeffrey Wadsworth

Jeffrey Wadsworth is an English-born American metallurgist known for research on superplasticity, high-temperature materials, and Damascus steels, who directed Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2003.

Jeju Aewol LNG Terminal

The Jeju Aewol LNG Terminal is a liquefied natural gas receiving and regasification terminal at Aewol Port in Jeju City, South Korea, operated by Korea Gas Corporation since 2019.

Jeju Air Flight 2216

Jeju Air Flight 2216 was a passenger flight from Bangkok to Muan, South Korea, that crashed on landing on December 29, 2024, killing 179 of the 181 people aboard.

Jejuri (जेजुरी)

Jejuri is a temple town about 50 kilometers from Pune, Maharashtra, India, the principal center of worship of the Hindu deity Khandoba, famed for its turmeric-throwing Bhandara festival.

Jekyll (software)

Jekyll is an open-source static site generator written in Ruby, created by GitHub cofounder Tom Preston-Werner in 2008 and best known as the engine behind GitHub Pages.

Jellinbah Coal Mine

Jellinbah Coal Mine, also known as Jellinbah East, is an open cut metallurgical coal mine in the Bowen Basin of central Queensland, operating since 1989.

Jellycat

Jellycat is a British soft toy brand founded in London in 1999 by the Gatacre brothers, known for plush animals and anthropomorphized objects with smiling faces.

Jellyfish search optimizer

The jellyfish search optimizer, also written JSO, is a swarm-based metaheuristic mimicking jellyfish ocean-current and swarm motion, introduced by Chou and Truong in 2020 and needing almost no parameter tuning.

Jen, Ruby Jo, Isabella Gas Field

The Jen, Ruby Jo, Isabella Gas Field is a coal seam gas group in Queensland's Surat Basin, operated by QGC as part of the QCLNG project.

Jenbacher

Jenbacher is an Austrian engine manufacturer based in Jenbach, Tyrol, known for diesel locomotives built from 1949 to 1999 and today as INNIO's Jenbacher gas engine brand.

Jenkins (software)

Jenkins is an open source automation server, written in Java, that automates building, testing, and deploying software; it began as Hudson in 2004 and was renamed in 2011.

Jenkins model (contact mechanics)

The Jenkins model, also called the Jenkins element, is a contact mechanics idealization of a frictional interface as a spring in series with a Coulomb friction slider.

Jennifer A. Golbeck

Jennifer A. Golbeck is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Maryland, known for foundational work on computing trust in web-based social networks and public commentary on privacy and AI.

Jennifer A. Lewis

Jennifer A. Lewis, also known as Jennifer Lewis, is an American materials scientist and bioengineer at Harvard known for 3D printing of functional and biological materials.

Jennifer Carter

Jennifer Carter is an American materials scientist and associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who received the 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Jennifer Elisseeff

Jennifer H. Elisseeff is an American biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who directs its Translational Tissue Engineering Center and is known for injectable biomaterial scaffolds and regenerative immunology.

Jennifer G. Becker

Jennifer G. Becker is an American environmental engineer and microbiologist known for bioremediation of chlorinated solvents in groundwater, honored with a 2002 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jennifer Healey

Jennifer Healey is a computer scientist who pioneered wearable sensing and emotion recognition from physiology at MIT, then spent about fourteen years at Intel before joining Adobe Research.