Engineers and materials scientists

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান)

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান, 1929–1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer known as the father of tubular design, who engineered Chicago's Sears Tower and John Hancock Center.

Federico Rosei

Federico Rosei is an Italian and Canadian nanomaterials scientist, formerly at INRS in Quebec, who has held the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Trieste since 2023.

Felix F. Wu

Felix F. Wu, also known as Felix Fulih Wu, is an electrical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for power system stability methods.

Felix Lang

Felix Lang is a German physicist who leads the ROSI group at the University of Potsdam; his perovskite tandem solar cells flew on the maiden Ariane 6 launch in 2024.

Félix Lucas

Félix Lucas, full name Félix Benjamin Lucas, was a French civil engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées corps, 1836 to 1914, known for the Gauss–Lucas theorem.

Felix Pollaczek

Félix Pollaczek (1892–1981) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, a pioneer of queueing and teletraffic theory best known for the Pollaczek–Khinchine formula, derived in 1930.

Félix Trombe

Félix Trombe (1906–1985) was a French engineer-chemist and CNRS research director who built the world's first solar furnace at Mont-Louis in 1949 and invented the Trombe wall.

Feng Ding

Feng Ding (丁峰) is a Chinese materials scientist who models how graphene and other 2D materials form and grow, formerly distinguished professor at UNIST in South Korea.

Feng Gao

Feng Gao is a materials scientist who has been a full professor at Linköping University since 2020, known for fullerene-free organic solar cells and perovskite solar cell stability and recycling.

Feng Lin

Feng Lin (林峰) is a chemist who studies rechargeable batteries and electrocatalysts, known for using synchrotron X-ray techniques to watch battery materials degrade while they operate.

Fengnian Xia

Fengnian Xia is a Yale University professor of electrical engineering known for his 2014 rediscovery of black phosphorus as a two-dimensional semiconductor and a PECASE award.

Fengqi You

Fengqi You is a process and energy systems engineer who has been the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor at Cornell University since 2016.

Fengshan Frank Chen

Fengshan Frank Chen, known professionally as F. Frank Chen, is a Taiwanese-born American manufacturing systems engineer honored by President Clinton with the first PECASE in 1996.

Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926–2006) was a German-born American mechanical engineer at Columbia University, considered the father of modern kinematics in America; his 1954 dissertation introduced the Freudenstein equation.

Ferdinand Wittenbauer

Ferdinand Wittenbauer (1857–1922) was an Austrian engineer and professor of technical mechanics at Graz Technical University who founded graphic dynamics and wrote the first German-language mechanics problem collection.

Fergal Joseph O'Brien

Fergal J. O'Brien (born 1976) is an Irish bioengineer, Professor of Bioengineering & Regenerative Medicine at RCSI, known for collagen-based scaffolds that repair bone and cartilage.

Fernando A. Escobedo

Fernando A. Escobedo, also published as Fernando Escobedo, is a chemical engineering professor at Cornell University known for molecular simulation methods and entropy-driven self-assembly of polymers and nanoparticles.

Fernando Patolsky

Fernando Patolsky (פרננדו פטולסקי) is an Israeli chemist and nanobiotechnologist, a Full Professor in the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University known for label-free nanowire sensors.

Fernando Samaniego

Fernando Samaniego is a Mexican petroleum engineer and UNAM professor known for mathematical models of flow to hydraulically fractured wells and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005.

Fiorenzo G. Omenetto

Fiorenzo G. Omenetto is a materials scientist and bioengineer, the Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering at Tufts University, who pioneered silk as a material platform for photonics and nanotechnology.

Florian Banhart

Florian Banhart is a German-born physicist and professor at the University of Strasbourg who studies electron irradiation of nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon onions.

Florian Hollfelder

Florian Hollfelder is a biochemist who is Professor in Chemical and Synthetic Biology at the University of Cambridge, where his group uses droplet microfluidics for directed evolution of enzymes.

Floyd Dunn

Floyd Dunn (1924–2015) was an American electrical engineer and biophysicist at the University of Illinois who quantified how living tissue absorbs ultrasound, work that became the basis for worldwide diagnostic ultrasound safety standards.

Floyd L. Culler

Floyd L. Culler Jr. (1923–2004) was an American chemical engineer and nuclear scientist who served as deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and president of EPRI.

Fokko M. Mulder

Fokko M. Mulder is a professor at Delft University of Technology working on energy storage materials, best known for inventing the battolyser, an integrated battery-electrolyser.

Frances E. Lockwood

Frances E. Lockwood is an American chemical engineer and lubricant scientist who retired as Valvoline's chief technology officer and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Frances M. Ross

Frances M. Ross is an American-based materials scientist, the TDK Professor at MIT since 2018, known for in situ electron microscopy of crystal growth and nanowires.

Francesco Bonaccorso

Francesco Bonaccorso is an Italian physicist and materials scientist known for liquid-phase exfoliation of graphene, and co-founder and Scientific Director of BeDimensional SpA in Genoa.

Francesco Bullo

Francesco Bullo is a control theorist and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for research on network systems, robotic coordination, and synchronization in power grids.