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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 G. Rivard
Jerome G. Rivard is an American automotive-electronics engineer who led electronics work at Ford and Bendix and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.
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. Friedman
Jerome H. Friedman (J. H. Friedman) is an American statistician at Stanford known for creating gradient boosting, MARS, and CART, and for The Elements of Statistical Learning.
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.
Jerónimos Monastery
The Jerónimos Monastery, formally the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Belém, is a former Hieronymite monastery in Belém, Lisbon, built from 1501 under King Manuel I.
Jerrie Cobb
Jerrie Cobb, born Geraldyn M. Cobb, was an American aviator who in 1960 became the first woman to pass NASA's Mercury astronaut physiological tests, though she never flew in space.
Jerrier A. Haddad
Jerrier A. Haddad (1922–2017) was an American computer engineer who spent his career at IBM and headed the engineering team that developed the IBM 701, the company's first large-scale electronic computer.
Jerry McAfee
Jerry McAfee (1916–1995) was an American chemical engineer who rose through Gulf Oil to become its chairman and CEO, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1967.
Jerry Saltzer
Jerry Saltzer, born Jerome Howard Saltzer in 1939, is an American computer scientist who spent his career at MIT, known for Multics security, the Saltzer–Schroeder principles, and the end-to-end argument.
Jerrycan
A jerrycan is a flat-sided 20-liter fuel or water container developed in Germany in the 1930s, named from "Jerries", Allied slang for German soldiers whose cans were captured and reused.
JerryRigEverything
JerryRigEverything is a YouTube channel launched in 2012 by Utah creator Zack Nelson, whose smartphone scratch, burn, and bend tests have become a standard in launch coverage.
Jersey Airport
Jersey Airport is the airport serving the Channel Island of Jersey, located in St Peter about 4 nautical miles northwest of St Helier and opened in 1937.
Jersey Arrow
The Jersey Arrow is a family of electric multiple unit railcars for New Jersey's electrified commuter rail lines, comprising the Arrow I, II, and III series, introduced in 1968.
Jersey barrier
The Jersey barrier, also called a Jersey wall or K-rail, is a rigid concrete traffic barrier developed by New Jersey in the 1950s to separate traffic lanes.
Jerun Gas Field
The Jerun gas field is a natural gas field in Block SK408, about 160 km off Sarawak, Malaysia, which achieved first gas production in July 2024.
Jervis B. Webb Company
Jervis B. Webb Company was an American material handling manufacturer founded in Detroit in 1919, best known for its forged rivetless chain conveyor, power and free conveyor, and AGVs.
Jervois Global
Jervois Global is an Australian cobalt and nickel mining and refining company headquartered in Victoria, with a refinery in Finland, a cobalt mine in Idaho, and a refinery in São Paulo, Brazil.
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 L. Brown
Jesse L. Brown, also known as Jesse Leroy Brown, was a US Navy aviator, the first African American naval aviator, killed in the Korean War in 1950.
Jesse pipeline explosion
The Jesse pipeline explosion was a fire and blast at a burst NNPC pipeline near Jesse, Delta State, Nigeria, on 17 October 1998, killing more than 1,000 people.
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.