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Alison Dunn
Alison Dunn is a mechanical engineer at the University of Florida who studies soft-material friction and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Allan F. Henry
Allan F. Henry (1925–2001) was an American nuclear engineer who led reactor theory work at Bettis on submarine reactors, taught at MIT, and wrote the textbook Nuclear-Reactor Analysis.
Allan S. Hoffman
Allan S. Hoffman (1932–2023) was an American chemical engineer and bioengineer at the University of Washington, widely called the father of biomaterials for pioneering stimuli-responsive polymers and hydrogels in drug delivery.
Allen E. Puckett
Allen E. Puckett (1919–2014) was an American aeronautical engineer whose doctoral work laid the theoretical basis for the delta wing, and who later led Hughes Aircraft as chairman and CEO.
Allen M. Peterson
Allen M. Peterson (1922–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University whose radar and ionospheric research helped start radar astronomy, radar oceanography, and over-the-horizon missile-warning radar.
Alon Gorodetsky
Alon Gorodetsky is an American chemical engineer and associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, whose research group turns cephalopod biology into adaptive camouflage and thermoregulatory materials.
Alton C. Dickieson
Alton C. Dickieson (1905–2000) was an American telecommunications engineer who spent his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, leading the Telstar project and the Bell System's digital network from 1955.
Amable Liñán Martinez
Amable Liñán Martinez (1934–2025) was a Spanish aeronautical engineer and combustion theorist, a professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid known for research on flame structure and diffusion-flame ignition and extinction.
Amanda Ashworth
Amanda Ashworth is an American research soil scientist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Amar Bose
Amar Gopal Bose (1929–2013) was an American electrical engineer and longtime MIT professor who founded Bose Corporation in 1964, building it on psychoacoustic research into speakers and headphones.
Ambrose Swasey
Ambrose Swasey (1846–1937) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland and designed the mountings of the world's two largest refracting telescopes.
Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato is an Italian hydrologist who holds a professorship at Princeton University and is known for probabilistic soil moisture modeling and helping establish ecohydrology.
Amin Salehi‐Khojin
Amin Salehi-Khojin is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist known for lithium-air batteries and CO2 conversion, chair of mechanical engineering at Southern Methodist University since 2024.
Amirhossein Arzani
Amirhossein (Amir) Arzani is a mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at the University of Utah known for blood-flow modeling, scientific machine learning, and a 2025 PECASE award.
Amos E. Joel, Jr.
Amos E. Joel, Jr. (1918–2008) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who shaped telephone switching for four decades and held the 1972 patent for cellular call handoff.
Amos Winter
Amos Winter is a mechanical engineer at MIT, the Germeshausen Professor, and principal inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair for developing countries, commercialized through GRIT.
Amy E. Herr
Amy E. Herr is an American bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, known for microfluidic single-cell Western blotting, which measures proteins in individual cells rather than bulk populations.
Amy Pruden
Amy Pruden is an environmental engineer and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech whose 2006 work established antibiotic resistance genes as emerging contaminants in water systems.
Ana Claudia Arias
Ana Claudia Arias (Ana C. Arias) is a Brazilian physicist and electrical engineer, Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor and Chair of EECS at UC Berkeley, known for printed flexible electronics.
Ana Jaklenec
Ana Jaklenec is a bioengineer and Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Koch Institute, known for single-injection self-boosting vaccines, microneedle vaccine printers, and heat-stable micronutrient carriers.
Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Anantha Chandrakasan is an Indian-born American electrical engineer at MIT known for low-power CMOS design and energy harvesting, who became MIT's provost in 2025 after serving as dean of engineering.
Ananthram Swami
Ananthram Swami is a signal processing researcher and IEEE Life Fellow who serves as the Army's Senior Research Scientist for network science at the Army Research Laboratory.
Anatol Roshko
Anatol Roshko (1923–2017) was a Canadian-born fluid dynamicist and Theodore von Kármán Professor at Caltech, known for discovering large coherent structures in turbulent shear flows.
Anders Hagfeldt
Anders Hagfeldt is a Swedish physical chemist and Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University since 2021, formerly a professor at EPFL, whose laboratories set certified efficiency records for dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells.
András Kis
András Kis, born 1975 in Zagreb, is a Hungarian physicist and electrical engineer who leads the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures at EPFL in Switzerland.
André Baranne
André Baranne was a French optical designer at the Observatoire de Marseille who designed the ELODIE spectrograph used to discover the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.
André Bardow
André Bardow is a German energy and process systems engineer who has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2020, researching CO2 as a carbon source for plastics and fuels.
Andre D. Taylor
André D. Taylor is a chemical and biomolecular engineer, professor at NYU Tandon since 2018 after Yale, working on fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells, and a PECASE recipient.
André E. Nel
André E. Nel is a South African-born physician-scientist who leads the Division of Nanomedicine at UCLA and helped establish nanotoxicology through influential reviews in Science and Nature Materials.
André Giraud
André Giraud (1925–1997) was a French engineer and senior official who led the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique and served as minister of industry and later minister of defense.