Engineers and materials scientists

Tytus Maksymilian Huber

Tytus Maksymilian Huber (1872–1950) was a Polish mechanical engineer whose 1904 distortion-energy yield criterion became the Huber–Mises–Hencky theory, and who built the theory of orthotropic plates.

Tze-Chiang Chen

Tze-Chiang Chen (陳自強) is a Taiwanese-American semiconductor technologist and IBM Fellow at the Watson Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Ulick Richardson Evans (1889–1980) was a British metallurgist at Cambridge who put the electrochemical theory of metallic corrosion on a quantitative footing and wrote the field's first textbook in 1924.

Ulrich Finsterwalder

Ulrich Finsterwalder (1897–1988) was a German structural engineer who spent his career at Dyckerhoff & Widmann in Munich and pioneered the Dywidag prestressing system and free cantilever bridge erection.

Ulrich Keyser

Ulrich F. Keyser is a physicist and Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Cambridge, known for combining DNA nanotechnology with solid-state nanopore sensing for disease detection.

Ulrich W. Paetzold

Ulrich W. Paetzold is a German physicist and professor of next generation photovoltaics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, known for reporting the first all-perovskite tandem solar module in 2022.

Ulrich Wiesner

Ulrich Wiesner is a German-born materials chemist at Cornell University known for C'Dots, fluorescent silica nanoparticles used in the first FDA-approved clinical trial of an inorganic material as a drug.

Umberto P. Colombo

Umberto P. Colombo (1927–2006) was an Italian physical chemist and energy specialist who led CNEN, ENI, and ENEA and served as research minister in 1993–94.

Ungyu Paik

Ungyu Paik (백운규) is a South Korean materials scientist at Hanyang University known for battery anode research, who served as Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy from 2017 to 2018.

Unyong Jeong

Unyong Jeong (정운룡) is a South Korean materials scientist, a professor at POSTECH since 2016, known for stretchable electronics, printed liquid-metal electrodes, and electronic skin for robots.

Upadrasta Ramamurty

Upadrasta Ramamurty is an Indian materials scientist and mechanical engineer, President's Chair Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, who won the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for work on amorphous alloys.

Upmanu Lall

Upmanu Lall is an American water resources engineer and hydrologist known for nonparametric statistical methods in hydrology and work on global water and food security.

Uri Banin

Uri Banin (אורי בנין) is an Israeli chemist and materials scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem known for research on quantum dots and for founding QLight Nanotech, acquired by Merck in 2015.

Urs von Gunten

Urs von Gunten, born 1959 in Baden, Switzerland, is a Swiss environmental chemist known for oxidation and disinfection research in drinking water treatment at Eawag and EPFL.

Utkan Demirci

Utkan Demirci is a biomedical engineer and tenured professor of radiology at Stanford University, where he leads the BAMM laboratory; his FDA-approved microfluidic sperm sorting devices are used in over 1,000 IVF clinics.

Utkur Mirsaidov

Utkur Mirsaidov is an associate professor of physics at the National University of Singapore who uses liquid-phase electron microscopy to image nanoparticles, wetting, and fabrication in real time.

Uwe Richard Kortshagen

Uwe Richard Kortshagen is a German-born mechanical engineer and physicist at the University of Minnesota who pioneered nonthermal plasma synthesis of quantum dots and semiconductor nanocrystals.

Uwe T. Bornscheuer

Uwe T. Bornscheuer is a German biochemist, professor at the University of Greifswald since 1999, known for enzyme engineering and enzymatic recycling of plastics such as PET.

Uziel Gal

Uziel Gal, born Gotthard Glass in Weimar, Germany, in 1923, was an Israeli army officer and firearms designer who created the Uzi submachine gun, one of the most widely produced weapons of its type.

Vaclav Vitek

Vaclav Vitek is a Czech-born computational materials scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the gamma-surface concept in crystal defect modeling.

Vahid Tarokh

Vahid Tarokh is a Duke University electrical engineering professor who helped invent space-time codes, used in most modern cellular phones, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Valdemar Poulsen

Valdemar Poulsen (1869–1942) was a Danish engineer who invented the telegraphone, the first magnetic sound recorder, in 1898 and the Poulsen arc radio transmitter in 1902.

Valentin Glushko (Валентин Петрович Глушко)

Valentin Glushko (Валентин Глушко) was a Soviet engineer who founded OKB-456, creator of the R-7's engines, and led the Soviet crewed space program from 1974.

Valeria Nicolosi

Valeria Nicolosi is an Italian materials scientist who holds the Chair of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy at Trinity College Dublin and is known for developing liquid-phase exfoliation.

Valery I. Levitas

Valery I. Levitas, born in Kiev in 1956, is a Ukrainian-born materials scientist and mechanical engineer at Iowa State University known for strain-induced phase transformations under high pressure.

Vance D. Coffman

Vance D. Coffman, born in 1944 in Iowa, is an American aerospace engineer who led Lockheed Martin as chairman and CEO from 1997 to 2004, winning the F-35 contract.

Vanessa Wood

Vanessa Wood is an American electrical engineer and full professor at ETH Zurich who studies transport in lithium-ion batteries and nanostructured devices, leading its Laboratory for Nanoelectronics.

Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American electrical engineer who developed the Differential Analyzer, the first modern analog computer, and directed US scientific research during World War II.

Venkat Viswanathan

Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, known as Venkat Viswanathan, is a mechanical engineer working on battery design and battery-powered flight, an associate professor at the University of Michigan since 2023.