Engineers and materials scientists

Gus Archie

Gus Archie (1907–1978) was an electrical and mining engineer at Shell Oil who derived the equations, known as the Archie Formula, that underlie modern well-log interpretation.

Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Gustaaf Van Tendeloo is a Belgian materials scientist who led the EMAT electron microscopy group at the University of Antwerp, pushing microscopy into quantitative crystallography.

Gustaf de Laval

Gustaf de Laval, born Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval, was a Swedish engineer and inventor who created the centrifugal cream separator and a 30,000-rpm steam turbine.

Gustau Catalán is a Spanish materials scientist and ICREA Research Professor at the ICN2 near Barcelona, where he leads the Oxide Nanophysics Group and studies flexoelectricity and oxide ferroics at the nanoscale.

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (1868–1932) was a French army engineer-general who built France's military wireless system, made the Eiffel Tower a famous radio station, and mass-produced the vacuum tube in World War I.

Gustavo Rivas-Mijares

Gustavo Rivas-Mijares (1922–2014) was a Venezuelan civil engineer specializing in water supply, sewerage, and wastewater treatment, who taught at the Central University of Venezuela and led IVIC.

Guyford Stever

Guyford Stever was an American physicist and aeronautical engineer who led Carnegie-Mellon University, directed the National Science Foundation, and advised Presidents Nixon and Ford on science.

Gyu‐Chul Yi

Gyu-Chul Yi (이규철) is a South Korean physicist and professor at Seoul National University known for zinc oxide nanorod growth and flexible LEDs grown on graphene.

H. J. Round

H. J. Round (Henry Joseph Round) was a British radio engineer at Marconi who in 1907 first reported electroluminescence, the effect behind the LED, and held 117 patents.

H. Jerry Qi

H. Jerry Qi (Hang Qi) is a Woodruff Professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, known for 4D printing, shape-memory polymers, and 3D printing of soft active materials.

H. Kent Bowen

H. Kent Bowen, born Harvey Kent Bowen, was an American ceramics scientist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 who taught at MIT and Harvard Business School.

H. Polat Gülkan

H. Polat Gülkan, full name Hakkı Polat Gülkan, is a Turkish earthquake engineer, professor at Başkent University elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

H. Van Swygenhoven

Helena Van Swygenhoven, born 1955, is a Belgian materials scientist who studies how nanocrystalline metals deform, leading a research group at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.

Sep 20, 2026

H. Vincent Poor

H. Vincent Poor, born Harold Vincent Poor, is an American electrical engineer and Princeton professor known for work in signal processing, information theory, and wireless networks.

H.‐S. Philip Wong

H.-S. Philip Wong is a Stanford electrical engineering professor who works on nanoscale semiconductor devices, solid-state memory, and carbon nanotube electronics, after 16 years at IBM.

Haimei Zheng

Haimei Zheng is a materials scientist and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for developing liquid-cell TEM to study batteries, catalysis, and materials synthesis.

Haining Tian

Haining Tian is a Chinese-born physical chemist and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, researching organic materials and devices for solar energy conversion, including dye-sensitized solar cells.

Han Wang (semiconductor physicist)

Han Wang is a semiconductor device physicist working on 2D materials for electronics, a USC professor from 2014 to 2023, now a full professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Sep 20, 2026

Hanadi Sleiman

Hanadi F. Sleiman is a Canadian chemist at McGill University known for the first DNA cages and nanotubes that release drug cargo on biological stimuli.

Hanna Breunig

Hanna M. Breunig is a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory whose technoeconomic and life-cycle analyses evaluate hydrogen storage, bioenergy, and carbon removal; she became HyMARC co-director in 2022.

Hannah Dailey

Hannah Dailey is an American mechanical engineer at Lehigh University who builds patient-specific computer models of broken bones from CT scans and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Hannskarl Bandel

Hannskarl Bandel (1925–1993) was a German-American structural engineer known for long-span and tensile structures, including the Gateway Arch with Eero Saarinen and Chicago's Marina City.

Hannu Häkkinen

Hannu Häkkinen, born in 1962, is a Finnish computational nanoscientist and professor at the University of Jyväskylä, known for the superatom theory of ligand-protected gold clusters.

Hanqing Jiang

Hanqing Jiang (姜汉卿) is a Chinese-born mechanical engineer, Chair Professor at Westlake University since 2021 after fifteen years at Arizona State University, known for work on lithium dendrites and origami metamaterials.

Hans Albert Einstein

Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973) was a Swiss-born American hydraulic engineer, son of physicist Albert Einstein, whose 1950 bed-load function became a standard method for predicting sediment transport in rivers.

Hans Bleich

Hans Bleich (1909–1985) was an Austrian-born civil engineer and applied mechanician who first applied shakedown theory in 1932 and spent his career as professor of civil engineering at Columbia University.

Hans Görges

Hans (Johannes) Görges (1859–1946) was a German electrical engineer who led the three-phase system at Siemens & Halske and held the first electrical engineering chair at TH Dresden.

Hans K. Fauske

Hans Kare Fauske (1935–2021) was a Norwegian-born American chemical engineer who founded Fauske & Associates in 1980 and was an authority on fast breeder reactor safety.

Hans List

Hans List (1896–1996) was an Austrian engineer who built his career on the internal combustion engine, founding the Graz firm that became AVL and editing a 14-volume engine reference series.