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Hudson Matlock

Hudson Matlock (Lee Hudson Matlock Jr., 1919–2015) was an American civil engineer and professor at UT Austin whose p-y design method, adopted by API, underlies offshore pile design worldwide.

Hugh Herr

Hugh Herr is an American bioengineer and double amputee who leads bionic leg prosthesis research at MIT, having lost both legs to frostbite while climbing in 1982.

Hugh Latimer Dryden

Hugh Latimer Dryden (1898–1965) was an American physicist and aerodynamicist who directed the NACA from 1947 and served as NASA's first deputy administrator until his death in 1965.

Hugh Rudnick

Hugh Rudnick is a Chilean electrical engineer and emeritus professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for work on electricity market deregulation and regulation across Latin America.

Hugh S. Knowles

Hugh S. Knowles (1904–1988) was an American acoustical engineer who founded Knowles Electronics in 1946, held over 50 patents, and pioneered the miniaturization of hearing-aid microphones and receivers.

Hugh W. Hillhouse

Hugh W. Hillhouse is an American chemical engineer and Rehnberg Chair Professor at the University of Washington, known for molecular-ink perovskite and CZTS solar cell research.

Hui Ying Yang

Hui Ying Yang is a materials scientist who became a professor at the National University of Singapore in 2025, known for sodium-ion and desalination batteries.

Humboldt W. Leverenz

Humboldt W. Leverenz was an American materials scientist at RCA who developed the phosphors used in fluorescent lamps and early television cathode-ray tube screens, and received the Franklin Institute's Brown Medal in 1954.

Huolin L. Xin

Huolin L. Xin is an electron microscopist and battery materials researcher who joined UC Irvine in 2018 after Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for zero-strain, zero-cobalt lithium-ion cathodes.

Husam N. Alshareef

Husam N. Alshareef is a Saudi-based materials scientist and electrical engineer, a distinguished professor and dean at KAUST who works on electrolyte chemistry for lithium-metal and sodium batteries.

Hyeon Suk Shin

Hyeon Suk Shin (신현석) is a South Korean materials chemist known for ultralow-dielectric amorphous boron nitride and single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride, and director of the IBS Center for 2D Quantum Heterostructures since 2024.

Hyesung Park

Hyesung Park (박혜성) is a South Korean energy materials researcher known for graphene transparent electrodes and perovskite solar cells, a professor at Korea University since 2023.

Hyla Napadensky

Hyla Napadensky was an engineer at IIT Research Institute who studied the sensitivity of explosives and solid rocket propellants to detonation under low-velocity impact, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Hyongsok Tom Soh

Hyongsok Tom Soh, known professionally as H. Tom Soh, is an electrical engineer and bioengineer, a Stanford professor since 2015 known for continuous in-vivo biosensors and directed evolution of aptamers.

Hyun Suk Jung

Hyun Suk Jung is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, known for research on perovskite solar cells, flexible photovoltaics, and titanium dioxide nanomaterials.

Hyun-Kon Song

Hyun-Kon Song (송현곤) is a South Korean electrochemist and associate professor at UNIST since 2008, known for batteries, supercapacitors, and a photo-rechargeable battery that charges from indoor light.

Hyunhyub Ko

Hyunhyub Ko (고현협) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at UNIST, known for electronic skins, flexible ferroelectric sensors, and 2010 Nature work on ultrathin semiconductor transistors.

Hyunjoon Kong

Hyunjoon Kong, known as Joon Kong, is a South Korean-born biomaterials researcher who is Robert W. Schafer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Iain Boyd

Iain Boyd is an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder who works on hypersonic flight and space propulsion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Iain Finnie

Iain Finnie (1928–2009) was a professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for work on erosion and brittle fracture.

Iain Staffell

Iain Staffell is an energy systems researcher and Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London, known for research on storage costs, heating decarbonisation, and Britain's electricity system.

Ian D. Sharp

Ian D. Sharp is a materials scientist and semiconductor physicist who held the Chair for Experimental Semiconductor Physics at the Technical University of Munich from 2017 to 2024.

Ian Gauld Clark

Ian Gauld Clark is a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech specializing in planetary entry, descent, and landing, and led the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator project.

Ian Marius Peters

Ian Marius Peters, also published as Marius Peters, is a physicist who researches photovoltaics, heading Sustainable Photovoltaics at Forschungszentrum Jülich and a professorship at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Ian R. Petersen

Ian R. Petersen (born 1956) is an Australian control engineer known for robust control theory and quantum control, a professor at the Australian National University since 2017.

Ian Ross (electrical engineer)

Ian Munro Ross (1927–2013) was a British-born electrical engineer who built an early field-effect transistor and led Bell Labs as president from 1979 to 1991.

Ian S. Metcalfe

Ian S. Metcalfe is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University, known for a humidity-driven molten-carbonate membrane that concentrates CO2 from air, reported in Nature Energy in 2024.

Ib Chorkendorff

Ib Chorkendorff is a Danish physicist and chemist, professor of heterogeneous catalysis at the Technical University of Denmark since 1999, known for electrochemical ammonia synthesis.

Ichiro Takeuchi

Ichiro Takeuchi is a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, where he chairs Materials Science and Engineering and pioneered combinatorial materials synthesis and elastocaloric solid-state cooling.

Ignacio E. Grossmann

Ignacio E. Grossmann is a chemical engineer, the R. R. Dean University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, known for mixed-integer optimization of chemical processes and energy systems.