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Francesco Ricci (Italian chemist)

Francesco Ricci is an Italian chemist and full professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, known for DNA-based electrochemical biosensors and for defining dissipative DNA nanotechnology.

Francesco Stellacci

Francesco Stellacci (born 1973) is an Italian materials scientist and nanotechnologist, full professor at EPFL since 2010, known for work on striped nanoparticle surfaces and nanoparticle cell entry.

Françis Garnier

Françis Garnier, also known as Francis Garnier, is a French materials scientist at CNRS who built the first all-organic transistor in 1990 and the first printed all-polymer transistor in 1994.

Francis H. Clauser

Francis H. Clauser (1913–2013) was an American aeronautical engineer and fluid dynamicist at Caltech, one of the founders of the modern science of turbulent boundary layers.

Francis L. LaQue

Francis L. LaQue (1904–1988) was a Canadian-born corrosion scientist who spent 42 years at International Nickel and created renowned seawater corrosion test sites at Kure Beach, North Carolina.

Francis VerSnyder

Francis Louis VerSnyder was an American high-temperature metallurgist who invented the single-crystal turbine blades used in jet engines, receiving the National Medal of Technology in 1986.

Francis W. Boulger

Francis W. Boulger was an American metallurgist who led the Ferrous Metallurgy Division at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, and wrote widely used reports on metal deformation processing.

Frank Allgöwer

Frank Allgöwer is a German control theorist, professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart.

Frank Caruso (nanotechnologist)

Frank Caruso (Francesco Caruso, born 1968 in Italy) is an Australian chemical engineer and nanotechnologist at the University of Melbourne known for engineering polymer capsules and nanoparticles for drug delivery.

Frank D. Robinson

Frank D. Robinson (Franklin Davis Robinson, 1930–2022) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Robinson Helicopter Company in 1973 and designed the R22, R44, and R66 light helicopters.

Frank E. Pickering

Frank E. Pickering (1931–2009) was an American mechanical engineer who spent his 39-year career at General Electric's aircraft engine business, becoming a GE vice president and chief engineer.

Frank E. Richart Jr.

Frank E. Richart Jr., known as Bill Richart, was an American civil engineer who helped define soil dynamics and was a University of Michigan professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.

Frank E. Talke

Frank E. Talke is a mechanical engineer at UC San Diego known for pioneering hard-disk-drive tribology and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Frank F. Aplan

Frank F. Aplan (1923–2020) was an American mineral processing engineer and world authority on flotation, a Distinguished Professor at Penn State elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Frank J. Schuh

Frank Joseph Schuh (1935–2020) was an American petroleum drilling engineer who pioneered horizontal drilling, held 29 patents, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Frank J. Sprague

Frank J. Sprague (Frank Julian Sprague) was an American electrical engineer, called the father of electric traction, who built the first large electric street railway in Richmond, Virginia.

Frank Kenneth Crundwell

Frank Kenneth Crundwell is a South African hydrometallurgist, founder of the consultancy CM Solutions and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Frank L. Lewis

Frank L. Lewis is an American control and systems engineer who holds an endowed chair at the University of Texas at Arlington and applies reinforcement learning to optimal control.

Frank L. Parker

Frank L. Parker was an American environmental engineer who specialized in radioactive waste disposal at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the IAEA, and Vanderbilt University, joining the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Frank P. Incropera

Frank P. Incropera (born 1939) is an American mechanical engineer and heat transfer researcher, longtime Purdue professor and co-author of Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Frank Robinson (aeronautical engineer)

Frank Robinson, also known as Frank D. Robinson, was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Robinson Helicopter Company in 1973 and designed the affordable R22 helicopter.

Frank S. Barnes

Frank S. Barnes is an American electrical engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Frank Stan Settles

Frank Stan Settles, known as F. Stan Settles, is an American industrial engineer who spent about 30 years at AlliedSignal Aerospace and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Frank W. DelRio

Frank W. DelRio is an American mechanical engineer who studies nanomechanics and mechanobiology, won the 2011 PECASE at NIST, and joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020.

Franklin F. Offner

Franklin F. Offner (1911–1999) was an American biophysicist and inventor who founded Offner Electronics in 1938, built the world-standard Type R Dynograph EEG machine, and taught biophysics at Northwestern University.

Franklin F. Snyder

Franklin Farison Snyder (1910-2008) was an American hydrologic engineer who created the synthetic unit hydrograph in 1938 and supervised Rhine River flood forecasts for Allied crossings in 1944-45.

Franklin K. Moore

Franklin K. Moore, also known as Franklin Kingston Moore, was a mechanical engineer and Cornell professor known for fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, and heat transfer research.

Franklin M. Orr Jr.

Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr Jr. is an American petroleum engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, and the first Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the Department of Energy.

Franklin S. Cooper

Franklin Seaney Cooper (1908–1999) was an American speech scientist who built the Pattern Playback, the first practical speech synthesizer, and led Haskins Laboratories for decades.

Franky So

Franky So is an electrical engineer and Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University who spent fourteen years in industrial OLED research at Motorola and OSRAM.