kamet
- n a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
katsina
- n a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people
j
- n a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second
- n the 10th letter of the Roman alphabet
j. b. s. haldane
- n Scottish geneticist (son of John Haldane) who contributed to the development of population genetics; a popularizer of science and a Marxist (1892-1964)
j. c. maxwell
- n Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879)
j. craig ventner
- n United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
j. e. johnston
- n Confederate general in the American Civil War; led the Confederate troops in the West (1807-1891)
j. edgar hoover
- n United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972)