Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear was an American inventor who discovered vulcanization of rubber, accidentally in 1839, patenting the process in 1844 and dying in debt in 1860.
Charles Gorrie Wynne
Charles Gorrie Wynne (1911–1999) was a British optical engineer whose damped least squares method underlies lens-design software, and who designed field correctors for large telescopes including Palomar.
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett, born 1943, is an American physicist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research who devised the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol and quantum teleportation, winning the 2025 Turing Award.
Charles H. Thornton
Charles H. Thornton (1940–2023) was an American structural engineer who co-founded and led Thornton Tomasetti, designed the Petronas Twin Towers, led structural failure investigations, and founded the ACE Mentor Program.
Charles Hoskinson
Charles Hoskinson is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Ethereum, was asked to leave in 2014, and founded the Cardano blockchain through his company Input Output Global.
Charles Husband
Sir (Henry) Charles Husband (1908–1983) was a British consulting civil engineer based in Sheffield who designed the 250-foot steerable Jodrell Bank radio telescope, completed in 1957.
Charles J. Kuehmann
Charles J. Kuehmann is an American materials scientist who co-founded the alloy-design company QuesTek Innovations and led materials engineering at both SpaceX and Tesla Motors.
Charles J. McMahon Jr.
Charles J. McMahon Jr. was an American metallurgist at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for work on steel embrittlement.
Charles J. Pankow
Charles J. Pankow (1923–2004) was an American civil engineer who founded Charles Pankow Builders and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
Charles Joseph Minard
Charles Joseph Minard was a French civil engineer who became a pioneer of statistical graphics, best known for his 1869 flow map of Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign.
Charles Joughin
Charles Joughin was the British chief baker aboard the Titanic, surviving the 1912 sinking after hours in freezing water and often described as the last survivor to leave the ship.
Charles Kaman
Charles Kaman (1919–2011) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded the Kaman Aircraft Company in 1945, pioneered intermeshing rotors and the first turbine-powered helicopter, and created the Ovation guitar.
Charles L. Cooney
Charles L. Cooney is an American chemical and biochemical engineer at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for contributions to biochemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Charles L. Seitz
Charles L. Seitz, known as Chuck Seitz, is an American computer scientist who built the Cosmic Cube, the first multicomputer, at Caltech and co-founded the interconnect company Myricom in 1994.
Charles Lee Isbell, Jr.
Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. is an American computer scientist in interactive AI who served as dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing and became Chancellor of the University of Illinois in 2025.
Charles Liang (梁见后)
Charles Liang Chien-Hou (梁见后) is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer who founded server maker Supermicro in San Jose in 1993, building it from motherboards into AI and data-center systems.
Charles Lightoller
Charles Herbert Lightoller (1874–1952) was a British merchant mariner, second officer of RMS Titanic, the most senior officer to survive her 1912 sinking, and a Dunkirk rescuer.
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator who made the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927, flying the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris.
Charles M. Lieber
Charles M. Lieber is an American chemist and nanoscientist who pioneered semiconductor nanowire synthesis at Harvard, where he chaired the chemistry department, and was convicted in 2021 of false statements about his China ties.
Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest is an American mechanical engineer who was the 15th president of MIT from 1990 to 2004, launching OpenCourseWare, and led the National Academy of Engineering.
Charles Macintosh
Charles Macintosh (1766 to 1843) was a Scottish industrial chemist from Glasgow who patented waterproof fabric cemented with rubber in 1823, the material behind the mackintosh raincoat.
Charles Massonnet
Charles Massonnet (1914–1996) was a Belgian engineer and professor of strength of materials at the University of Liège, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Charles Noelke
Charles Noelke is a retired American chemical engineer who led DuPont's development of the HFC-134a refrigerant process and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Charles Oatley
Sir Charles William Oatley (1904–1996) was a British electrical engineer at Cambridge whose students built the first SEMs, leading to the 1965 Stereoscan, the first commercial scanning electron microscope.
Charles P. Blankenship Jr.
Charles P. "Chip" Blankenship Jr. is an American materials scientist and executive, chairman and CEO of Woodward, Inc. since 2022 and a 2016 member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Charles P. Thacker
Charles P. Thacker was an American computer scientist who led the hardware design of the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, and co-invented Ethernet.
Charles Pankow Builders
Charles Pankow Builders was an American construction firm founded by civil engineer Charles Pankow in California in 1963, known for pioneering design-build delivery and precast concrete commercial construction.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born Karl Steinmetz, was a German-born American electrical engineer who discovered the law of hysteresis and developed the phasor method for alternating-current circuits at General Electric.
Charles R. Cutler
Charles R. Cutler (1936–2020) was an American chemical engineer who originated Dynamic Matrix Control, the industrial algorithm from which model predictive control, a widely used multivariable approach, grew.
Charles R. Kurkjian
Charles R. Kurkjian (died 2023) was an American glass scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories known for measuring the strength and fatigue of silica optical fibers.