Engineers and materials scientists

James West (acoustician)

James West is an American acoustics scientist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler at Bell Labs in 1962, the basis of most microphones today.

James William Westwater

James William Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois who pioneered the study of boiling heat transfer through microscopic, high-speed films.

Jamie Paik

Jamie Paik is a roboticist, professor, and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL, known for origami-inspired robogamis and spin-offs in surgery, haptics, and space.

Sep 20, 2026

Jamie Warner

Jamie H. Warner is a nanomaterials scientist who studies graphene and 2D crystals by atomic-resolution electron microscopy, a professor at UT Austin after 13 years at Oxford.

Jan A. Veltrop

Jan A. Veltrop (1922–2007) was a Dutch-American engineer who developed design technology for thin, double-curved concrete arch dams and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Jan D. Achenbach (1935–2020) was a Dutch-born American mechanician at Northwestern University, regarded as the founder of quantitative nondestructive evaluation and author of the 1973 textbook Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids.

Jan Schroers

Jan Schroers is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer who is the Robert Higgin Professor at Yale University, known for developing thermoplastic forming of bulk metallic glasses.

Jan Seidel

Jan Seidel is a physicist and materials scientist, professor at UNSW Sydney since 2012, known for his 2009 discovery that ferroelectric domain walls conduct electricity.

Jan van Schilfgaarde

Jan van Schilfgaarde (1929–2008) was a Dutch-born American agricultural engineer and soil physicist whose transient drainage theory reshaped subsurface drainage design; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Jana Zaumseil

Jana Zaumseil (born 1977) is a German applied physical chemist, Professor of Applied Physical Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2014, known for organic electronics, carbon nanotube optoelectronics, and light-emitting transistors.

Jane McKee Smith

Jane McKee Smith is an American coastal engineer who co-developed the STWAVE wave model and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Sep 20, 2026

Jang-wook Choi

Jang-wook Choi (최장욱) is a South Korean battery and materials chemist, professor at Seoul National University, known for elastic and supramolecular binders that stabilize high-capacity battery electrodes.

Jang‐Joo Kim

Jang-Joo Kim (김장주) is a South Korean materials scientist who studies OLED efficiency, a Seoul National University professor from 2003 to 2020 and now emeritus professor.

Jang‐Sik Lee

Jang-Sik Lee (이장식) is a South Korean materials scientist and Mueunjae Chair Professor at POSTECH since 2019, known for charge-trap flash memory and ferroelectric synaptic devices for neuromorphic computing.

Jang‐Ung Park

Jang-Ung Park (박장웅) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Yonsei University since 2018, known for smart contact lenses, stretchable transparent electrodes, and liquid-metal retinal implants.

Jangwon Seo

Jangwon Seo (서장원) is a South Korean materials scientist at KAIST known for perovskite solar cell research, including a certified 25.2% efficiency cell in Nature in 2021.

Jaroslav Kožešník

Jaroslav Kožešník (1907–1985) was a Czech engineer and applied mathematician who led the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1970 and founded its cybernetics institute, ÚTIA.

Sep 20, 2026

Jason Chin

Jason W. Chin is a synthetic biologist known for reprogramming and expanding the genetic code of living organisms; he led the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge before moving to Oxford in 2025.

Jason Graetz

Jason Graetz is an American materials scientist and former head of the Energy Storage Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for hydrogen storage and lithium battery research.

Jason Wertheim

Jason Wertheim is an American transplant surgeon and biomedical engineer who builds replacement kidney and liver tissue in the laboratory and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Javier Bustinduy

Javier Bustinduy (Javier Bustinduy Fernández; Madrid, 1949 – March 2016) was a Spanish civil engineer who created the operating model of Renfe's Cercanías commuter networks and devised the "Solución Bustinduy" interchange used in the Málaga metro.

Javier Garcia-Frias

Javier Garcia-Frias is an information theorist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, a 2001 NSF CAREER and PECASE award recipient.

Jaw-Kai Wang

Jaw-Kai Wang is an American bioengineering and aquaculture engineer, a longtime University of Hawaiʻi professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, known for designing commercial aquaculture systems.

Jay Giri

Jay Giri is an American power-systems engineer who co-founded the control-center software company ESCA in 1978 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Jay R. Lund

Jay R. Lund is an American civil engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for water systems analysis.

Jay Wright Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016) was an American engineer and management scientist at MIT who led the Whirlwind computer project, invented magnetic core memory, and founded system dynamics.

Jean H. Felker

Jean H. Felker (1919–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who led development of TRADIC, the first fully transistorized computer in the United States.

Jean Wilim Tom

Jean Wilim Tom is an American chemical engineer in pharmaceutical process development who contributed to 12 marketed drugs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Jean-Pierre Kruth

Jean-Pierre Kruth, born in Knokke in 1952, is a Flemish engineer and emeritus KU Leuven professor who pioneered metal additive manufacturing and won the 2015 Bower Award.