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Juan Bisquert

Juan Bisquert is a Spanish physicist known for impedance spectroscopy and perovskite solar cells, who since 2024 works on neuromorphic materials at the ITQ in Valencia.

Juan C. Lasheras

Juan Carlos Lasheras (1951–2021) was a Spanish-born mechanical and aerospace engineer at UC San Diego, known for atomization and turbulent mixing studies and an FDA-approved blood-cooling catheter.

Juan Carlos De la Llera

Juan Carlos De la Llera Martín is a Chilean earthquake engineer, co-founder of the vibration-control firm Sirve, dean of engineering at PUC, and rector of the university since 2025.

Juan de la Cierva

Juan de la Cierva y Codorníu (1895–1936) was a Spanish civil engineer and pilot who invented the autogiro, first flown near Madrid in 1923; his hinged rotor made helicopters possible.

Juan G. Santiago

Juan G. Santiago is a mechanical engineer and the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor at Stanford University, known for microfluidics, electrokinetics, and electric field-driven CRISPR diagnostics.

Juan Santamaría International Airport

Juan Santamaría International Airport, also known as SJO Airport, is Costa Rica's principal international airport, serving San José from Alajuela province since it opened in 1958.

Juan Sebastián de Elcano

The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is the Spanish Navy's four-masted training ship, in service since 1928 and named for the navigator who first circumnavigated the globe.

Juan Sebastián Elcano

Juan Sebastián Elcano, also spelled Elkano or del Cano, was a Basque navigator who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, bringing the Victoria back to Spain in September 1522.

Juan Trippe

Juan Trippe, also known as Juan Terry Trippe, was an American aviation entrepreneur who founded Pan American Airways in 1927 and led it for 41 years, pioneering transoceanic flight.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is a materials scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for perovskite solar cell research; he received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Juanda International Airport

Juanda International Airport (Bandar Udara Internasional Juanda) is the main airport serving Surabaya and East Java, Indonesia, located in Sidoarjo Regency; it handled 13.5 million passengers in 2025.

Jubail (SWCC) power station

Jubail (SWCC) power station is a 1,570 MW gas-fired power station in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, owned by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation and operating since 1980.

Jubarte Field

Jubarte Field is a giant deepwater oil field in the Campos Basin off Espírito Santo, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 2001 and producing heavy oil since 2002.

Jubilee Field

Jubilee Field is a deepwater oil and gas field about 60 km offshore western Ghana, discovered in 2007 and the country's first major commercial oil discovery, producing since 2010.

Jubilee line

The Jubilee line is a London Underground line running from Stanmore to Stratford, opened in 1979, renamed for the Silver Jubilee, and extended to the Docklands in 1999.

Judea Pearl (יהודה פרל)

Judea Pearl (יהודה פרל), born in Israel in 1936, is a UCLA computer scientist who invented Bayesian networks, built the modern framework of causal inference, and won the 2011 Turing Award.

Judith Driscoll

Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll is a materials scientist, Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, known for nanoscale engineering of functional oxide thin films for energy applications.

Judith Faulkner

Judith "Judy" Faulkner (born 1943) is an American billionaire software developer who founded Epic Systems in 1979, whose electronic health record software is used in most United States hospitals.

Judith L. Estrin

Judith L. Estrin, known as Judy Estrin, is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and author who co-founded eight technology companies since 1981 and served as chief technology officer of Cisco Systems.

Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen (1933–2016) was an American aerospace engineer who was a sub-project manager on the Apollo Lunar Module's Abort Guidance System, credited with helping Apollo 13 return safely.

Judith Resnik

Judith Resnik, also known as Judy Resnik, was an American engineer and NASA astronaut, the second American woman in space, killed in the 1986 Challenger accident.

Judson C. French

Judson C. French (1922–2021) was an American physicist and electronics metrologist who spent 51 years at NBS and NIST, founding the federal semiconductor measurement program in 1955.

Judy Oil and Gas Field

Judy is an oil and gas field in block 30/7a of the UK central North Sea, about 240 km from Aberdeen, discovered in 1980 and producing since the mid-1990s.

Juice jacking

Juice jacking is a cyber attack in which a compromised public USB charging station, port, or cable transfers malware to, or steals personal information from, a device being charged.

Juicer

A juicer is a kitchen appliance that extracts juice from fruits and vegetables, separating it from pulp and seeds; main electric types are centrifugal and masticating.

Jukebox

A jukebox is a coin-operated machine, typically in a bar or diner, that plays a song a customer selects; the first appeared in San Francisco in 1889.

Jukebox (AI model)

Jukebox is a neural network that OpenAI announced in April 2020, which generates complete songs with vocals as raw audio, conditioned on artist, genre, and lyrics.

JUKI

JUKI, formerly Tokyo Juki Industrial Co., Ltd., is a Japanese manufacturer of industrial and household sewing machines, founded in 1938 and headquartered in Tama City, Tokyo.

Jukung

The jukung is a small traditional Indonesian boat, usually a dugout canoe with double outriggers, used for fishing; in Kalimantan it is a river canoe, notably among the Banjar people.

Jules (Google coding agent)

Jules is an asynchronous AI coding agent from Google that clones a GitHub repository to a cloud VM and returns changes as a pull request.