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John G. Speer
John G. Speer is an American steel metallurgist, professor at the Colorado School of Mines, who invented quenching and partitioning steel processing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
John G. Trump
John G. Trump (John George Trump, 1907–1985) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who developed megavolt X-ray generators for cancer therapy and evaluated Tesla's papers in 1943.
John G. Truxal
John G. Truxal (1924–2007) was an American control theorist and systems engineer who led electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic and served as Dean of Engineering at Stony Brook.
John G. Ziegler
John G. Ziegler (c. 1909–1997) was an American engineer who, with mathematician Nathaniel B. Nichols, created the Ziegler–Nichols method, the first systematic procedure for tuning PID controllers.
John Grant Aunins
John Grant Aunins is an American biochemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, known for vaccine process development at Merck and microbiome therapeutics at Seres.
John H. Chesters
John H. Chesters, full name John Hugh Chesters, was a British metallurgist whose research on heat-resistant furnace linings improved steelmaking furnaces; he was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 1969.
John H. Dessauer
John H. Dessauer (1905–1993) was a German-born American chemical engineer who, as research director of Haloid and later Xerox, brought Chester Carlson's xerography into the office.
John H. Gibbons
John H. Gibbons was an American nuclear physicist who directed the congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 to 1993 and served as President Clinton's science adviser.
John H. Koon
John H. Koon is an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for designing systems to treat complex industrial wastewaters.
John H. Linehan
John H. Linehan is an American biomedical engineer, a Northwestern University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for pulmonary mechanics research and medical device regulation.
John H. McElroy
John H. McElroy (1936–2007) was an American electrical engineer who led NASA Goddard's CO2 laser communications research, directed NOAA's satellite programs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
John H. Perepezko
John H. Perepezko is an American physical metallurgist and IBM Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for solidification processing innovations.
John H. Schmertmann
John H. Schmertmann, born 1928, is an American geotechnical engineer and University of Florida professor emeritus, best known for the Schmertmann settlement method for footings on sand.
John H. Sununu
John H. Sununu is an American Republican politician and mechanical engineer who served as governor of New Hampshire and as White House chief of staff under George H. W. Bush.
John Happel
John Happel was a chemical engineer at Columbia University known for Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, written with Howard Brenner, and for isotope tracing methods in catalysis.
John Hays Hammond Jr.
John Hays Hammond Jr. (1888–1965) was an American inventor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, called the Father of Radio Control; he held 437 US patents and developed jam-resistant radio control of ships.
John Herbert Hollomon, Jr.
J. Herbert Hollomon (1919–1985) was an American metallurgist who led materials research at General Electric, became the first Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, and served as president of the University of Oklahoma.
John Houbolt
John Houbolt (1919–2014) was an American aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center who championed lunar orbit rendezvous, the mission mode adopted for the Apollo Moon landings in 1962.
John Howard Dellinger
John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) was an American telecommunication engineer who led the National Bureau of Standards radio laboratory and discovered the sudden ionospheric disturbance, the Dellinger effect.
John J. Cassidy
John J. ("Jack") Cassidy (1930–2022) was an American hydraulic engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994, known for dams and hydroelectric projects worldwide.
John J. Dorning
John J. Dorning is an American nuclear engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
John J. Gilman
John J. Gilman (1925–2009) was an American materials scientist nicknamed "Mr. Dislocations" for his work on the mechanical properties of solids, especially dislocations in crystals and ceramics.
John J. McKetta
John J. McKetta (1915–2019) was an American chemical engineer, dean emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, and energy adviser to five U.S. presidents.
John J. Vithayathil
John Joseph Vithayathil (1937–2011) was an Indian-American electric power engineer who invented the thyristor-controlled series capacitor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
John Joseph Carty
John Joseph Carty (1861–1932) was an American electrical engineer who rose from telephone operator to Vice President of AT&T, led the first transcontinental telephone line in 1915, and chaired Bell Telephone Laboratories.
John Joseph Koszewnik
John Joseph Koszewnik is an American mechanical and powertrain engineer, retired chief technical officer of Achates Power, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for engine design.
John L. Anderson
John L. Anderson is an American chemical engineer known for research on colloidal hydrodynamics and membrane transport, and president of the National Academy of Engineering from 2019 to 2025.
John L. Bogdanoff
John L. Bogdanoff (1916–2003) was an American mechanical engineer at Purdue University who pioneered stochastic processes in engineering analysis and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
John L. Cleasby
John L. (Jack) Cleasby was an American environmental engineer at Iowa State University, a leading authority on granular filtration of drinking water, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley (1930–2015) was an American fluid dynamicist, Willis H. Carrier Professor at Cornell University, who pioneered proper orthogonal decomposition of turbulent flows and coauthored A First Course in Turbulence.