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Thomas Bein
Thomas Bein is a German materials chemist who held the Chair of Physical Chemistry and Nanoscience at LMU Munich from 1999, known for molecular sieves and perovskite solar cells.
Thomas Bradford Drew
Thomas Bradford Drew (1902–1985) was an American chemical engineer at Columbia University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 and known for the Colburn–Drew equations for condensing binary vapor.
Thomas Christian Kavanagh
Thomas Christian Kavanagh (1912–1978) was an American civil engineer who led the structural design of the Arecibo radio telescope and was a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a materials scientist who became Professor of Emerging Optoelectronics at the University of Manchester in 2024, working on thin-film transistors, perovskite solar cells, and printed sensors.
Thomas D. Larson
Thomas D. Larson (1928–2006) was an American civil engineer who co-founded Penn State's transportation institute, served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, and led the Federal Highway Administration from 1989 to 1993.
Thomas D. O'Rourke
Thomas D. O'Rourke is an American geotechnical engineer at Cornell University known for lifeline earthquake engineering, studying how pipelines and buried infrastructure survive earthquakes and ground deformation.
Thomas E. Graedel
Thomas E. Graedel is an American industrial ecologist at Yale University who co-wrote the field's first textbook and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison, known as the Wizard of Menlo Park, was an American inventor whose phonograph and first practical light bulb brought him fame, holding 1,093 US patents.
Thomas Egleston
Thomas Egleston (1832–1900) was an American mining engineer and metallurgist who founded Columbia University's School of Mines in 1864 and led American mining education for three decades.
Thomas Eugene Everhart
Thomas Eugene Everhart is an American electrical engineer known for scanning electron microscopy research and for leading Cornell, Illinois, and Caltech, which he headed from 1987 to 1997.
Thomas F Kuech
Thomas F Kuech is an American chemical and materials engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for compound semiconductor film growth by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy.
Thomas F. Edgar
Thomas F. Edgar is an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Thomas Frauenheim
Thomas Frauenheim is a German computational materials scientist who originated the density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) method and the DFTB+ software, and founded the Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science.
Thomas H. Pigford
Thomas H. Pigford was an American nuclear engineer and founding chair of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, coauthor of the seminal textbook Nuclear Chemical Engineering.
Thomas Haug
Thomas Bryn Haug (1927–2023) was a Norwegian-born Swedish electrical engineer who chaired the committees behind the NMT and GSM mobile standards, winning the 2013 Draper Prize.
Thomas J. Hanratty
Thomas J. Hanratty (1926–2016) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studied wall turbulence and gas-liquid flows and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Thomas J. Hayes III
Thomas J. Hayes III (1914–2004) was an American civil engineer and Army major general who directed ICBM base construction and led Army support of NASA's launch facilities.
Thomas J. Murrin
Thomas J. Murrin was an American engineer who retired in 1987 as president of Westinghouse's Energy and Advanced Technology Group and co-founded Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
Thomas J. Overbye
Thomas J. Overbye is an American electrical engineer, professor at Texas A&M University, and original developer of the PowerWorld Simulator, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Thomas J. Richardson
Thomas J. Richardson is an information theorist and Qualcomm VP of Engineering in New Jersey who, with Rüdiger Urbanke, developed iterative decoding of LDPC codes approaching the Shannon limit.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath, born 1935 in Pune, India, is an Indian-born American electrical engineer and emeritus Stanford professor known for work in signal processing and information theory.
Thomas Kenny (mechanical engineer)
Thomas Kenny is a Stanford mechanical engineer working on MEMS, microscopic silicon resonators and sensors; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood (1903–1976) was an American chemical engineer at MIT, a world authority on mass transfer; the dimensionless Sherwood number used in mass-transfer design is named for him.
Thomas Kirchartz
Thomas Kirchartz, born 1982 in Karlsruhe, is a German electrical engineer and photovoltaics researcher who directs the Institute of Photovoltaics at Forschungszentrum Jülich and is known for luminescence-based solar cell characterization.
Thomas Leonard Martin
Thomas Leonard Martin is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech known for research in electronic textiles and wearable computing, and a 2005 PECASE recipient.
Thomas Lincoln Casey, Sr.
Thomas Lincoln Casey, Sr. (1831–1896) was an American army engineer and West Point graduate who completed the Washington Monument and rose to Brigadier General as Chief of Engineers.
Thomas Louis Marzetta
Thomas Louis Marzetta is an American electrical engineer, director of NYU WIRELESS, best known as the originator of massive MIMO, for which he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr.
Thomas Lyle Martin, Jr. (1921–2009) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered microwave distance-education networks and was the fourth president of Illinois Institute of Technology from 1974 to 1987.
Thomas M. Cover
Thomas M. Cover (1938–2012) was an American information theorist and Stanford professor known for his 1972 broadcast channels paper, universal portfolio theory, and the textbook Elements of Information Theory.
Thomas M. Jahns
Thomas M. Jahns is an American electrical engineer and Grainger Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.