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Chang Liu

Chang C. Liu is an American synthetic biologist at UC Irvine known for OrthoRep, a system that mutates genes a million times faster than normal.

Chang-Lin Tien

Chang-Lin Tien (田長霖) was a Chinese-American mechanical engineer known for heat transfer research and as chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1990 to 1997.

Changfeng Chen

Changfeng Chen is a condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, known for explaining strain stiffening in nanotwinned cubic boron nitride.

Changhyun Pang

Changhyun Pang is a South Korean chemical engineer, professor at Sungkyunkwan University since 2014, known for an octopus-inspired adhesive patch published in Nature in 2017.

Chao-Hsin Lin

Chao-Hsin Lin is a Boeing Technical Fellow and mechanical engineer known for research on aircraft cabin air quality, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Chao‐Yang Wang

Chao-Yang Wang is a battery scientist who led lithium-ion fast-charging research at Penn State and became vice president of UL Research Institutes' Electrochemical Safety Research Institute in 2026.

Chaoji Chen

Chaoji Chen (陈朝吉) is a Chinese materials scientist and full professor at Wuhan University since 2021, known for densified super wood published in Nature in 2018.

Charles A. Desoer

Charles A. Desoer (1926–2010) was a Belgian-born American electrical engineer and control theorist at UC Berkeley, known for the fractional representation approach to feedback design and influential textbooks.

Charles A. Gersbach

Charles A. Gersbach is a bioengineer at Duke University known for CRISPR-based epigenome editing and genome-editing therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and co-founder of Tune Therapeutics.

Charles A. Taylor Jr.

Charles A. Taylor Jr. is an American bioengineer at the University of Texas at Austin who co-founded HeartFlow, whose FFRct analysis diagnoses coronary artery disease from CT scans.

Charles Algernon Parsons

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (1854–1931) was a British engineer who invented the multi-stage steam turbine in 1884 and built the Turbinia, the first turbine-driven ship, in 1894.

Charles C. Johnson, Jr.

Charles C. Johnson, Jr. (1921–2004) was an American environmental health scientist who retired from the U.S. Public Health Service as a rear admiral and assistant surgeon general.

Charles C. Tobias

Charles C. Tobias (1920–1996) was a Hungarian-born professor of chemical engineering at UC Berkeley, called the principal architect of modern electrochemical engineering and cited in the 2019 Nobel Prize background.

Charles Carmin Noble

Charles Carmin Noble (1916–2003) was an American civil engineer and Army major general who directed ICBM base construction and commanded Army engineers in South Vietnam.

Charles Concordia

Charles Concordia (1908–2003) was an American electrical power systems engineer who spent 47 years at General Electric in Schenectady and pioneered the study of how voltage regulators affect synchronous machine stability.

Charles Crussard

Charles Crussard (1916–2008) was a French physical metallurgist who worked on plasticity, creep, and recrystallization at the École des Mines, IRSID, and Pechiney, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Charles D. Greskovich

Charles David Greskovich (1942–2007) was an American ceramic materials scientist at General Electric who co-invented the first efficient ceramic scintillator used in GE CT scanners.

Charles D. Scott

Charles D. Scott (1929–2022) was an American chemical engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who worked on separations, nuclear fuel processing, and bioprocessing, winning the 1980 E.O. Lawrence Award.

Charles E. Murry

Charles E. Murry (born 1959) is an American physician-scientist in pathology, bioengineering, and cardiology, known for repairing heart muscle after heart attacks using human pluripotent stem cells.

Charles F. Kettering

Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) was an American engineer and inventor who headed General Motors research from 1920 to 1947, holding 185 patents including the electric starter.

Charles F. Tiffany

Charles Ferguson Tiffany (1929–2014) was an American aircraft structural integrity engineer at Boeing who created the Tiffany test, adopted by NASA and the Air Force.

Charles Francis Brush

Charles Francis Brush (1849–1929) was a Cleveland inventor and electrical engineer who made arc lighting practical, built America's first central electric station, and founded Brush Electric.

Charles Ginsburg

Charles Ginsburg was an American electrical engineer who led the Ampex team that built the first practical videotape recorder, demonstrated in 1956, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.

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. 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 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 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 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.