Engineers and materials scientists

Birol Dindoruk

Birol Dindoruk is a petroleum and reservoir engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for contributions to enhanced oil recovery and CO2 sequestration.

Bishnu S. Atal

Bishnu S. Atal, born 1933 in Kanpur, India, is an Indian-born speech researcher who spent most of his career at Bell Labs and created the CELP speech coding method.

Bjørk Hammer

Bjørk Hammer (born 1968) is a Danish computational surface scientist and professor at Aarhus University known for his density functional theory studies of metal surfaces and gold catalysis.

Björn Högberg, born 1975, is a Swedish DNA nanotechnology and synthetic biology researcher, professor at Karolinska Institutet, known for DNA origami methods and the 2019 Göran Gustafsson Prize in Chemistry.

Björn Ottersten

Björn Ottersten is a Swedish electrical engineer in signal processing and wireless communications, known for inventing SDMA and a professor at KTH Stockholm since 1991.

Bjorn Vaagensmith

Bjorn Vaagensmith is a power systems researcher at Idaho National Laboratory who won the 2025 PECASE for perovskite solar cell research and now leads a DOE project on seismic resilience of power transformers.

Blake S. Wilson

Blake S. Wilson is an engineer who invented the continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) speech-coding strategy in 1989, making the cochlear implant clinically effective and earning the 2013 Lasker Award.

Blanca Elena Jimenez Cisneros

Blanca Elena Jiménez Cisneros is a Mexican environmental engineer and UNAM researcher specializing in wastewater treatment and safe water reuse, serving as Ambassador of Mexico to France since 2021.

Sep 20, 2026

Bo B. Iversen

Bo B. Iversen, also known as Bo Brummerstedt Iversen, is a Danish materials chemist and Professor and Chair of Inorganic Chemistry at Aarhus University, known for thermoelectric materials research.

Boaz Pokroy

Boaz Pokroy is an Israeli materials scientist and full professor at the Technion who studies biomineralization and is known for Science papers on vaterite and biological prestressing.

Bonnie J. Dunbar

Bonnie J. Dunbar is an American engineer and retired NASA astronaut who flew five Space Shuttle missions between 1985 and 1998, logging over 1,000 hours in space.

Boris Bresler

Boris Bresler (1918–2000) was an American structural and civil engineer, a UC Berkeley professor for 30 years, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.

Sep 20, 2026

Boris I. Yakobson

Boris I. Yakobson is a materials scientist holding the Karl F. Hasselmann Chair at Rice University since 1999, known for carbon nanotube mechanics and 2D materials theory, including borophene.

Borys Paton

Borys Yevhenovych Paton (Борис Патон) was a Soviet and Ukrainian welding scientist who led Kyiv's Electric Welding Institute for nearly 67 years and died at age 101.

Bozhi Tian

Bozhi Tian is a University of Chicago chemist who designs soft, porous silicon semiconductors that sense and stimulate living cells and tissue without genetic modification.

Brad Mooney

Brad Mooney, born John Bradford Mooney Jr., was a US Navy rear admiral and ocean engineer who commanded the bathyscaph Trieste II and served as Chief of Naval Research.

Bradford Parkinson

Bradford Parkinson, born 1935, is an American systems engineer and retired Air Force colonel who served as chief architect and first program director of GPS.

Bradley F. Chmelka

Bradley F. Chmelka, also published as B. F. Chmelka, is a chemical engineer and professor at UC Santa Barbara since 1992, known for solid-state NMR studies of mesoporous silica and zeolite catalysts.

Sep 20, 2026

Bradley J. Nelson

Bradley J. Nelson, also known as Bradley Nelson, is a roboticist and Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zürich, working on medical microrobots since 2002.

Brady R. Cox

Brady R. Cox is an American geotechnical earthquake engineer, professor at Utah State University, and founding director of the Utah Earthquake Engineering Center who received the 2012 PECASE award.

Bram Nauta

Bram Nauta (born 1964) is a Dutch electrical engineer at the University of Twente, known for the Nauta circuit and the 2023 NWO Stevin Prize.

Brian A. Korgel

Brian A. Korgel is an American chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin known for solution-grown silicon nanowires and nanocrystal-ink solar cells, who co-founded Innovalight.

Brian A. Lail

Brian A. Lail is an American electrical engineer who researches infrared and optical antennas, and is a professor and department head at Florida Institute of Technology.

Brian Anderson (chemical engineer)

Brian J. Anderson is an American chemical engineer at West Virginia University who studies natural gas hydrates and CO2 sequestration, winning the 2012 PECASE award.

Brian Bojko

Brian Bojko is an American aerospace engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory specializing in computational modeling of solid fuel combustion, who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Brian C. H. Steele

Brian C. H. Steele (Brian Charles Hilton Steele) was a British solid-state ionics researcher at Imperial College London who pioneered lithium battery electrodes and died in 2003.

Brian Cantwell

Brian Cantwell is an aerospace engineer, Edward C. Wells Professor Emeritus at Stanford, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for fast-burning hybrid rocket fuels.

Brian D.O. Anderson

Brian D.O. Anderson, full name Brian David Outram Anderson, is an Australian control theorist at the Australian National University, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Brian J. Kirby

Brian J. Kirby is an American mechanical engineer at Cornell University whose research spans microfluidics and nanoscale electrokinetics, including capturing circulating tumor cells from blood; he received a 2006 PECASE award.