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Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington (1906–1997) was an American electrical engineer and circuit theorist at Bell Laboratories from 1929 to 1971, known for the Darlington transistor pair and insertion-loss filter synthesis.
Sidney J. Green
Sidney J. Green is an American rock-mechanics engineer who founded the Salt Lake City firm TerraTek and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Sidney Leibovich
Sidney Leibovich, born in 1939, is an American fluid dynamicist and Cornell professor emeritus, known for his theory of Langmuir circulations and vortex breakdown, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993.
Sidney Metzger
Sidney Metzger (1917–2011) was an American communications engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, who worked on secure wartime radio, early satellites, and INTELSAT at COMSAT.
Sidney Yip
Sidney Yip, born 1936 in Beijing, is a Chinese-born materials scientist and MIT professor emeritus known for establishing molecular simulation as a core method in materials science.
Siegfried Hecker
Siegfried S. Hecker is an American metallurgist known for plutonium science who served as the fifth director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997.
Sigurd A. Sjoberg
Sigurd A. Sjoberg was an American aeronautical engineer who led NASA's flight operations through Apollo, helped return Apollo 13 safely, and was deputy director of the Johnson Space Center from 1972 to 1979.
Sihong Wang
Sihong Wang is a materials scientist and associate professor at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory who develops stretchable polymer semiconductors for wearable and implantable bioelectronics.
Simon J. L. Billinge
Simon J. L. Billinge is an American materials scientist known for developing the atomic pair distribution function method; he became Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara in 2026.
Simon Middelhoek
Simon Middelhoek is a Dutch electrical engineer who studied thin magnetic films at IBM Zurich and, from 1969, led silicon sensor research as professor of electronic instrumentation at TU Delft.
Simon P. Ringer
Simon P. Ringer is an Australian materials scientist and microscopist known for atom probe tomography and physical metallurgy, and a University of Sydney professor since 2001 who became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) in December 2022.
Simon Ramo
Simon Ramo (1913–2016) was an American engineer and physicist, chief scientist of the US ICBM program from 1954 to 1958 and co-founder of Ramo-Wooldridge, the predecessor of TRW.
Sina Najmaei
Sina Najmaei is a materials scientist and Research Scientist at the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory who studies defects and grain boundaries in two-dimensional semiconductors, especially monolayer MoS2.
Sinan Keten
Sinan Keten is a Turkish-born mechanical engineer at Northwestern University, the Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor, who studies polymeric and biomolecular materials and received a 2014 PECASE award.
Sir John Adams
Sir John Adams, born John Bertram Adams (24 May 1920 – 3 March 1984), was a British accelerator engineer who, despite having no university degree, directed construction of CERN's Proton Synchrotron and Super Proton Synchrotron.
Siva S. Banda
Siva S. Banda is an Indian-American aerospace engineer who spent decades in flight control research for military aircraft at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
Slavoljub Penkala
Slavoljub Penkala (1871–1922) was a Croatian chemical engineer and inventor of Polish descent who patented the mechanical pencil and solid-ink fountain pen and built the first Croatian airplane.
Slepian–Wolf coding
Slepian–Wolf coding losslessly compresses correlated data sources with separate encoders and a joint decoder, from a 1973 theorem by David Slepian and Jack Keil Wolf.
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides (S. T. Pantelides) is a theoretical physicist and computational materials scientist at Vanderbilt University, known for first-principles studies of defects in semiconductors and oxides.
Solomon W. Golomb
Solomon W. Golomb (1932–2016) was an American mathematician and electrical engineer at the University of Southern California who founded shift-register sequence theory and created Golomb coding, Golomb rulers, and polyominoes.
Soo Young Park
Soo Young Park (박수영) is a South Korean materials scientist, a Seoul National University professor from 1995, known for switching fluorescence on and off in solids.
Soojin Park
Soojin Park (박수진) is a South Korean battery materials chemist and Mueunjae Chair Professor at POSTECH, known for silicon anodes and solid-state batteries.
Sophia Haussener
Sophia Haussener is a mechanical engineer and associate professor at EPFL who heads the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering and works on solar fuels.
Soroosh Sorooshian
Soroosh Sorooshian is a hydrometeorologist, Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine and founding director of its Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, known for the PERSIANN satellite rainfall system and the SCE-UA calibration algorithm.
Sotiris E. Pratsinis
Sotiris E. Pratsinis (Σωτήρης Ε. Πρατσίνης), born 1955 in Chania, Crete, is a Greek chemical engineer who pioneered flame spray pyrolysis and founded ETH Zurich's Particle Technology Laboratory.
Spencer H. Bush
Spencer H. Bush (1920–2005) was an American nuclear metallurgist at the Hanford Site who shaped ASME Section XI reactor inspection rules and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1970.
Srikanth Singamaneni
Srikanth Singamaneni is a materials scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who leads the Soft Nanomaterials Laboratory and developed ultrabright plasmonic-fluor fluorescent labels for diagnostics.
Srinivasa 'Hal' Iyengar
Srinivasa Iyengar, known professionally as Hal Iyengar, was an Indian American structural engineer who spent 32 years at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, engineering the John Hancock Center, Sears Tower, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Stanislaus S. Wong
Stanislaus S. Wong is a materials chemist, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, known for carbon nanotube chemistry and nanostructure synthesis.
Stanley Atcitty
Stanley Atcitty is an American electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who works on grid energy storage and received the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama in 2012.