Engineers and materials scientists

Frans Spaepen

Frans Spaepen is a materials scientist, the John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.

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František Křižík

František Křižík (1847–1941) was a Czech electrotechnical engineer and industrialist called the Czech Edison, who lit the 1891 Prague Jubilee Exhibition and electrified the Tábor–Bechyně railway.

Franz F. Pischinger

Franz F. Pischinger, an Austrian-German mechanical engineer, directed thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen until 1997, founded FEV, and pioneered key patents for modern emissions technology.

Fred H. Poettmann

Fred H. Poettmann was an American chemical and petroleum engineer known for the Poettmann-Carpenter gas-lift correlation, 30 years at Marathon Oil, and a Colorado School of Mines professorship.

Fred N. Finn

Fred N. Finn (1923–2023) was an American pavement engineer who led the AASHO Road Test work, the Asphalt Institute design procedure, and SHRP's $50 million asphalt research program.

Frederic W. Albaugh (1913–1999) was an American chemist-engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led plutonium reprocessing and reactor research at Hanford, helping establish Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Frederic Holloway

Frederic Holloway (1914–1990) was an American chemical engineer and Exxon executive who worked on fluid catalytic cracking and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.

Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.

Frederick Anthony Kish Jr., known as Fred Kish, is an American electrical engineer at North Carolina State University who developed high-efficiency LEDs and commercial photonic integrated circuits.

Frederick C. Lindvall

Frederick C. Lindvall (1903–1989) was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who chaired Caltech's engineering division for over 20 years and modernized American engineering education.

Frederick Dryer

Frederick L. Dryer is an American combustion engineer, emeritus professor at Princeton and research professor at the University of South Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Frederick F. Lange

Frederick F. Lange (1939–2010) was an American ceramic scientist and engineer at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to ceramic processing.

Frederick F. Ling

Frederick F. Ling, also known as Frederick Fongsun Ling, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and tribologist who wrote Surface Mechanics and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Frederick G. Pohland

Frederick G. Pohland, also known as Frederick George Pohland, was an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for advancing anaerobic treatment.

Frederick H. Dill

Frederick H. "Rick" Dill is an American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for founding the scientific modeling of photolithography, the Dill Parameters, and video RAM.

Frederick H. Todd

Frederick H. Todd (1903–1992) was a British naval architect who led hydrodynamics labs in Britain and America and created the Series 60 ship hull experiments, still a standard data set.

Frederick J. Doyle

Frederick J. Doyle (1920–2013) was an American photogrammetry and remote-sensing scientist who led Apollo lunar mapping photography, won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and served the U.S. Geological Survey as senior advisor for cartography.

Frederick J. Hooven

Frederick J. Hooven (1905–1985) was an American engineer and inventor who held dozens of patents, including the first radio compass and first electronic phototypesetter, and taught at Dartmouth.

Frederick J. Moody

Frederick J. Moody is an American nuclear engineer at General Electric in San Jose, known for his analysis of two-phase blowdown and fluid transients in nuclear plants.

Frederick S. Billig

Frederick S. Billig was an American aerospace engineer at Johns Hopkins APL who pioneered scramjet propulsion and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.

Frederick T. Andrews

Frederick T. Andrews (1926–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who helped develop the T1 digital carrier and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Frederick Terman

Frederick Emmons Terman (1900–1982) was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering and provost at Stanford, who advised Hewlett-Packard's founders and is credited with building Silicon Valley.

Frederick W. Lanchester

Frederick W. Lanchester, also known as Frederick William Lanchester, was an English engineer who built the first British automobile in 1895 and pioneered the circulation theory of lift.

Frederik Sangster

Frederik Sangster (Frederik Leonard Johan Sangster) is a Dutch Philips researcher in Eindhoven credited with patenting the bucket brigade device, an analog shift register, with Kees Teer.

Fredric Raichlen

Fredric Raichlen, known as Fred Raichlen, was an American coastal engineer and Caltech professor known for laboratory and numerical studies of tsunamis and harbor resonance.

Frieder Seible

Frieder Seible (born 1952) is a structural engineer known for seismic retrofit of bridges and blast-resistant design, and Dean Emeritus of UC San Diego's engineering school.

Friedrich C. Simmel

Friedrich C. Simmel is a professor of physics at the Technical University of Munich working in DNA nanotechnology, known for a nanoscale robotic arm controlled by electric fields.

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1845–1904) was a German engineer at Siemens & Halske who invented the drum armature in 1872 and the Hefner lamp, Germany's light standard.

Fritz Ingerslev

Fritz Ingerslev (1912–1994) was a Danish civil engineer and acoustics expert, known as Denmark's 'noise-professor', who led the Acoustics Laboratory and chaired international noise control bodies.

Fritz Rothe

Fritz Rothe was a German industrial chemist who joined Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro in 1897 and in 1898 developed the calcium carbide route to calcium cyanamide fertilizer.