Medical Practitioner Famous Names Starting with Letter J

A German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the fi

A German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers[1]. His discovery of sodium sulfate in 1625 led to the compound being named after him ("Glauber's salt").Glauber carried out studies on the chemistry of wine production and had commercial success by licensing improvements. He was also an apothecary, supplying medicines, and known for providing free medical treatment of the poor. However, he is known for his contributions to inorganic chemistry and the fact that he was able to live from the proceeds of chemical production based upon his discoveries, and was thus an industrial chemist. His improvements to chemical processes and equipment (notably furnaces and distillation[4]) make him an early chemical engineer.[1]

Was a Dutch physicist.Bosscha came from a family long known for their academic achievements. His gre

Was a Dutch physicist.Bosscha came from a family long known for their academic achievements. His great-grandfather and grandfather were classical scholars. His father, Johannes Bosscha Sr. (1797-1874) was a professor of history and literature and also was minister of church-state relationships in two governments (1853-1861). From 1844-1848 Johannes Jr attended a Latin school in Amsterdam after which he enrolled at Leiden University . In 1854 he obtained his doctoral degree with a thesis on galvanometry. After a brief sojourn in Berlin he returned to the physics department in Leiden.

Was a German physicist.Fischer studied under Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University

Was a German physicist.Fischer studied under Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. His thesis was on the theory of diffraction, and he was awarded his doctorate in 1922.

Was a Danish physicist and educator.He finished his secondary education at Herlufsholm School in 188

Was a Danish physicist and educator.He finished his secondary education at Herlufsholm School in 1880, and took the polytechnical examination in chemistry in 1885. He was an assistant at the Carlsberg Laboratory from 1885 to 1886, and from 1886 to 1891 he taught at the Metropolitan School and the Royal Danish Naval Academy. On 1 April 1891 he became manager of the school for deaf-mute people in Nyborg. School textbooks written by Forchhammer include Mekanisk Fysik (1888) and Astronomi (1889) together with Julius Petersen.[1] He took the dr.philos. degree in 1903 with the thesis Om nødvendigheden af sikre meddelelsesmidler i døvstummeundervisningen. From 1909 to 1926 he headed the Royal Institute for the deaf-mute in Fredericia. He died in 1938.[3]

Was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at the University of Utrecht.

Was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer at the van 't Hoff Laboratory at the University of Utrecht. He is famous for devising a method of establishing the absolute configuration of molecules.The concept of tetrahedrally bound carbon in organic compounds stems back to the work by van 't Hoff and Le Bel in 1874. At this time, it was impossible to assign the absolute configuration of a molecule by means other than referring to the projection formula established by Fischer, who had used glyceraldehyde as the prototype and assigned randomly its absolute configuration.

Was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W. G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden unde

Was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W. G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.

Was a Danish physical chemist.He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in

Was a Danish physical chemist.He received a degree in chemical engineering in 1899 and his Ph. D. in 1908 from the University of Copenhagen. He was immediately appointed professor of inorganic and physical chemistry at Copenhagen.In 1906 he published his first of many papers on electron affinity. In 1923 he introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions, simultaneously with the English chemist Thomas Martin Lowry. The same year, the electronic theory was proposed by Gilbert N. Lewis, but both theories are commonly used.

Was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to pre

Was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to predict the wavelengths of photons (of light and other electromagnetic radiation) emitted by changes in the energy level of an electron in an atom.The physical constant known as the Rydberg constant is named after him, as is the Rydberg unit. Excited atoms with very high values of the principal quantum number, represented by n in the Rydberg formula, are called Rydberg atoms, and a crater on the moon is also named Rydberg in his honour. Rydberg's faith that spectral studies could assist in a theoretical understanding of the atom and its chemical properties was justified in 1913 by the work of Niels Bohr (see hydrogen spectrum).

Was a prominent 20th century German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely invo

Was a prominent 20th century German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the Nazi regime.Stark worked in various positions at the Physics Institute of his alma mater until 1900, when he became an unsalaried lecturer at the University of Göttingen. An extraordinary professor at Hanover by 1906, in 1908 he became professor at the RWTH Aachen University. He worked and researched at physics departments of several universities, including the University of Greifswald, until 1922. In 1919, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields" (the latter is known as the Stark effect)

Was a Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrip

Was a Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist, disciple and follower of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches. His most influential work is De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis (On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons, 1563).

Was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first i

Was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.

English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.

English physician, naturalist and miscellaneous writer.

Was the father of the founder of Boots the Chemists. Jesse Boot turned the company into a retailer k

Was the father of the founder of Boots the Chemists. Jesse Boot turned the company into a retailer known throughout the world..

Was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. C

Was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Caius is a Latinized version of Kees or Keys and is thus pronounced /ki?z/.He was a physician in London in 1547, and was admitted as a fellow of the College

Was a noted American physicist and theoretical chemist.Slater studied at the University of Rochester

Was a noted American physicist and theoretical chemist.Slater studied at the University of Rochester, earning his B.S. in 1920. He went on to receive his Ph. D. in physics from Harvard University in 1923, then went on to study at Cambridge University and again at Harvard. In 1924, he collaborated with Niels Bohr and Hendrik Kramers on the BKS (Bohr, Kramers, Slater) theory which served as the impetus for Werner Heisenberg's full quantum theory. He served from 1930 to 1966 as a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being recruited by MIT President Karl T. Compton to be head of the department as the latter attempted to re-make MIT as a full-fledged research university.

Was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the

Was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness (sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honour).In 1794, shortly after his arrival in Manchester, Dalton was elected a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, the "Lit & Phil", and a few weeks later he communicated his first paper on "Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours", in which he postulated that shortage in colour perception was caused by discolouration of the liquid medium of the eyeball. In fact, a shortage of colour perception in some people had not even been formally described or officially noticed until Dalton wrote about his own

Known by the pen name H. B., was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer.He w

Known by the pen name H. B., was a political cartoonist, caricaturist, painter and lithographer.He was the eldest son of a Dublin silk mercer, and came from a Catholic family which in the 17th century had been granted extensive estates, possibly in County

Was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College (now the University

Was an English physicist. He was a professor of physics at Mason Science College (now the University of Birmingham) from 1880 until his death.He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow and is used in the Poynting theorem, a statement about energy conservation for electric and magnetic fields. This work was first published in 1884. He performed a measurement of Newton's gravitational constant by innovative means during 1893. In 1903 he was the first to realise that the Sun's radiation can draw in small particles towards it. It was later coined the Poynting-Robertson effect.

An American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, Leo

An American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, Leonard Susskind, and Edward Witten, he is regarded as one of the fathers of string theory.Schwarz was an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1966 to 1972. He then moved to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he is currently the Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in 1989, as well as the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics of the American Physical Society in 2002. He was a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1987.

Was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it

Was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was neglected by the scientific community at the time.Herapath's scientific interests started with an attempt to provide a mechanistic explanation for gravity. Motivated by his search for a mechanical explanation of gravitation, he started to consider how a system of colliding particles could give rise to action at a distance. In considering the effect of the high temperatures near the Sun on his gravific particles he was led to a relationship between temperature and particle velocity.

Was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE t

Was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. He also worked in many areas of electromagnetism and electrostatics, and in 1890 was appointed professor of electrical engineering at King's College London, where he was also director of the Siemens Laboratory.[1]

Was an American radiation physicist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was on the staff of the National

Was an American radiation physicist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was on the staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (formerly National Bureau of Standards) from 1950 until 1988, when he retired.[1] He remained a contractor to NIST until his death in 2007.[2] He was a founder and past president of the International Radiation Physics Society.[3] He was author or co-author of over one hundred publications including the "Radiation Physics" article in the 2002 Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology. He was past editor of Applied Radiation and Isotopes and consulting editor of Radiation Physics and Chemistry.

Was an American mathematician and physicist, especially active in the field of astronomy. He was dir

Was an American mathematician and physicist, especially active in the field of astronomy. He was director of the Ritter Astrophysical Research Center of the University of Toledo, Ohio. A number of patents, many with respect to heat convection, are on his name.several awards were named after him, including the John J. Turin Memorial Service Award and the John J. Turin Award for Outstanding Career Accomplishments in Physics, both awarded to him posthumously by the University of Toledo.

A Scottish physician, physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

A Scottish physician, physiologist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Was a Scottish physicist, a neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gases.At age nineteen, Waters

Was a Scottish physicist, a neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gases.At age nineteen, Waterston published a paper proposing a mechanical explanation of gravitation, accounting for action at a distance in terms of colliding particles and discussing interactions between linear and rotational motion that would play a part in his later kinetic theory.Waterston moved to London at age twenty-one, where he worked as a railroad surveyor, becoming an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and publishing a paper on a graphical method for planning earthworks. The travel and disruption associated with his surveying work left Waterston little time to pursue his studies so he joined the hydrography department of the Admiralty under Francis Beaufort. It was Beaufort who, in 1839, supported Waterston for the post of naval instructor for cadets of the East India Company in Bombay. The posting worked well for Waterston who was able to pursue his reading and research at the library of Grant College.