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John Briscoe (environmental engineer)
John Briscoe (1948–2014) was a South African-born environmental engineer and World Bank water specialist who led its 2003 Water Resources Sector Strategy and won the 2014 Stockholm Water Prize.
John Brooks Slaughter
John Brooks Slaughter (1934–2023) was an American electrical engineer who became the first African American director of the National Science Foundation, serving from 1980 to 1982.
John C. Calhoun (scientist)
John C. Calhoun was an American petroleum engineer who spent most of his career at Texas A&M University and wrote the influential 1976 textbook Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering.
John C. Crittenden
John C. Crittenden is an environmental engineer who led Georgia Tech's Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems from 2009 to 2022 and won the 2015 Clarke Prize.
John C. Doyle
John C. Doyle is a control theorist at Caltech, emeritus since 2025, known for the 1989 state-space H-infinity solution and for applying robustness theory to biology and large networks.
John C. Geyer
John C. Geyer was an American sanitary and environmental engineer at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored the profession's first modern textbook, Water Supply and Waste-Water Disposal.
John Chae
John Chae is a physician-scientist in physical medicine and rehabilitation who leads academic affairs at MetroHealth in Cleveland and studies electrical stimulation for post-stroke limb function and pain.
John Charles Vassberg
John Charles Vassberg is an American aerodynamicist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, who led Boeing aerodynamics for decades and now designs JetZero's blended wing body Z4.
John Chipman (metallurgist)
John Chipman (1897–1983) was an American metallurgist and physical chemist who brought thermodynamics into industrial steelmaking, led MIT's Department of Metallurgy, and headed the Manhattan Project's metallurgy section in Chicago.
John Christopher Mauro
John Christopher Mauro is an American glass scientist at Penn State who co-invented Gorilla Glass at Corning and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, known as "the father of DSL" for the discrete multitone research that became the 1993 US standard.
John D. Anderson
John D. Anderson is an American aerospace engineer at the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian, known for hypersonic gas dynamics and textbooks like Introduction to Flight.
John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus (1910–2004) was an American radio astronomer and electrical engineer at Ohio State University who invented the helical antenna and built the Big Ear radio telescope.
John D. Mackenzie
John D. Mackenzie was a materials scientist at UCLA who trained in London, pioneered glass and ceramics processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John D. O'Brien
John D. O'Brien was an American electrical engineer and USC professor known for photonic-crystal nanocavity lasers and the 1998 PECASE award; he died in 2017.
John David Rhodes
John David Rhodes, born in 1943, is a British microwave engineer, emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, and founder of Filtronic plc, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.
John Doyle (control theorist)
John Comstock Doyle is a Caltech control theorist, emeritus as of 2025, known for the structured singular value, H-infinity control, and highly optimized tolerance theory of robust-yet-fragile complex systems.
John E. Allison
John E. Allison is an American metallurgist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and a pioneer of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering.
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers is an electrical engineer who spent 38 years at UC Santa Barbara pioneering silicon photonics, cofounding six companies, and winning the 2024 IEEE Nishizawa Prize.
John E. Breen
John E. Breen, known as Jack Breen, was an American civil engineer and structural concrete researcher who taught at the University of Texas at Austin for over 50 years.
John E. Dolan
John E. Dolan (1923–2018) was an American engineer who led generation and transmission engineering at American Electric Power and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
John Eugene Kunzler
John Eugene Kunzler was an American metallurgist and materials scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, known for the 1961 discovery that niobium-tin remains superconducting in very high magnetic fields.
John F. Ahearne
John F. Ahearne (1934–2019) was an American physicist who chaired the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and became a leading figure in nuclear safety policy.
John F. Elliott
John Frank Elliott (1920–1991) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor of metallurgy known for the thermochemistry of steelmaking and the two-volume Thermochemistry for Steelmaking.
John F. McCarthy Jr.
John F. McCarthy Jr. (1925–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer known for Apollo spacecraft work at North American Rockwell and for directing NASA's Lewis Research Center.
John F. Reid
John F. Reid is an American agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for agricultural automation.
John Finley Yardley
John Finley Yardley (1925–2001) was an American aeronautical engineer who managed the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft for McDonnell Aircraft and led NASA's space shuttle development.
John Frank Davidson
John Frank Davidson (1926–2019) was a British chemical engineer at Cambridge, the founding father of fluidization, who co-wrote the classic textbook Fluidised Particles in 1963.
John G. Barnard
John Gross Barnard (1815–1882) was a US Army Corps of Engineers officer who built the defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and studied the gyroscope.
John G. Linvill
John G. Linvill (1919–2011) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University known for transistor circuit theory and for inventing the Optacon, an electronic reading device for blind readers.