Engineers and materials scientists

Gerhard Neumann

Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) was a German-American aviation engineer and General Electric executive who invented the variable stator compressor behind the J79 turbojet and led GE's aircraft engine business from 1961 to 1978.

Gert Cauwenberghs

Gert Cauwenberghs is a Belgian-trained engineer and Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego who pioneered energy-efficient neuromorphic chips emulating the brain and co-founded the EEG company Cognionics.

Gert Ehrlich

Gert Ehrlich (1926–2012) was an Austrian-born American surface scientist at General Electric and the University of Illinois who first measured how individual metal atoms move across crystal surfaces, and the namesake of the Ehrlich–Schwoebel barrier.

Gerwin H. Gelinck

Gerwin H. Gelinck is a Dutch scientist at TNO and the Holst Centre who works on flexible and organic electronics, including displays and image sensors on plastic foil.

Ghim Wei Ho

Ghim Wei Ho, published as G. W. Ho, is a Singapore-based materials scientist at the National University of Singapore known for solar-driven water purification and self-assembling inorganic membranes.

Giada Gerboni

Giada Gerboni is an Italian biomedical engineer and roboticist known for soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery and her 2018 TED talk on flexible, soft robots.

Gianaurelio Cuniberti

Gianaurelio (Giovanni) Cuniberti, born 1970 in Genoa, is an Italian physicist and materials scientist who has led the Chair of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden since 2007.

Giancarlo Vallauri

Giancarlo Vallauri (1882–1957) was an Italian engineer and naval officer, the leading Italian telecommunications specialist after Marconi, who gave the first analytical theory of the triode.

Gianni Astarita

Gianni Astarita (Giovanni Astarita) was an Italian chemical engineer at the University of Naples and Delaware, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Gibum Kwon

Gibum Kwon is an American mechanical engineer and associate professor at the University of Kansas who works on surface science and liquid-liquid separations, and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Gilbert Froment

Gilbert Froment, born 1930, is a Belgian chemical reaction engineer known for modeling catalytic reactors in petroleum refining and petrochemicals, and a Texas A&M research professor.

Gilbert Roberts

Sir Gilbert Roberts (1899–1978) was a British civil engineer who led the superstructure design of the Forth Road, Severn, and Humber suspension bridges, patenting the Severn's aerofoil box deck.

Gintaras V. Reklaitis

Gintaras V. ("Rex") Reklaitis is an American chemical engineer at Purdue University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 for batch process design and scheduling tools.

Giorgio Brianti

Giorgio Brianti (1930–2023) was an Italian accelerator engineer who, as CERN Technical Director from 1981 to 1989, led the design of the Large Hadron Collider.

Giovanni Astarita

Giovanni Astarita, known as Gianni Astarita, was an Italian chemical engineer and professor at Naples Federico II and the University of Delaware who worked on rheology and mass transfer.

Giovanni Traverso

Giovanni Traverso is a physician-scientist, MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Brigham and Women's gastroenterologist known for ingestible devices that deliver drugs through the gastrointestinal tract.

Giulia Grancini

Giulia Grancini is an Italian chemist working on hybrid perovskite solar cells; she has been full professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Pavia since 2025.

Giulio Maier

Giulio Maier is an Italian structural engineer and professor emeritus at the Politecnico di Milano, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Giuseppe Caire

Giuseppe Caire is an Italian information theorist and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at TU Berlin, known for bit-interleaved coded modulation and multiuser MIMO, winner of the 2021 Leibniz Prize.

Giuseppe Gabrielli

Giuseppe Gabrielli (1903–1987) was an Italian aeronautical engineer who led aircraft design at Fiat Aviazione from 1931, designing 142 aircraft including the Fiat G.91, winner of NATO's light strike fighter competition.

Glaucio H. Paulino

Glaucio H. Paulino is a structural and computational engineer and Princeton professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for contributions to topology optimization and origami engineering.

Glen T. Daigger

Glen T. Daigger is an environmental engineer specializing in biological wastewater treatment who spent 35 years at CH2M HILL and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Glenn Frederick Knoll

Glenn Frederick Knoll (1935–2014) was an American nuclear engineer and University of Michigan professor, known for the standard textbook Radiation Detection and Measurement and pioneering room-temperature semiconductor radiation detectors.

Glenn W. Stagg

Glenn W. Stagg (1923–2009) was an American electrical engineer at American Electric Power who led the first successful large-scale load flow computer program, completed in 1957.

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is a Serbian-American biomedical engineer at Columbia University who engineers human heart, lung, bone, and vascular tissue and co-founded four biotech companies, including EpiBone.

Gordon G. Wallace

Gordon G. Wallace, born in Belfast in 1958, is an Australian chemist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Wollongong known for electromaterials research and 3D bioprinting.

Gordon Kidd Teal

Gordon Kidd Teal (1907–2003) was an American physical chemist who grew the first single-crystal germanium and silicon for transistors, co-invented the grown-junction transistor at Bell Labs, and built the first commercial silicon transistor at Texas Instruments.

Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore (Gordon Earle Moore, 1929–2023) was an American chemist and business executive who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, led Intel as CEO, and formulated Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that chip components would double regularly.

Gordon S. Brown

Gordon S. Brown (1907–1996) was an Australian-born American electrical engineer who spent his career at MIT, founding the Servomechanisms Laboratory and co-writing the seminal feedback-control textbook.