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John S. Mayo
John S. Mayo is an American electrical engineer and retired president of AT&T Bell Laboratories known for leading the US telephone network's conversion from analog to digital technology.
John S. McNown
John S. McNown (1916–1998) was an American hydraulic engineer, dean of engineering at the University of Kansas, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
John S. Newman
John S. Newman is an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley whose Doyle-Fuller-Newman model is the benchmark physics-based description of lithium-ion battery behavior.
John Samuel Forrest
John Samuel Forrest (1907–1992) was a British electrical power engineer who helped develop the National Grid at 132, 275, and 400 kV and directed the Central Electricity Research Laboratory until 1973.
John Stone Stone
John Stone Stone (1869–1943) was an American electrical engineer whose tuned wireless patents the Supreme Court held in 1943 to have anticipated Marconi's four-circuit radio patent.
John T. Christian
John T. Christian (1936–2022) was an American geotechnical engineer who brought computer methods and probabilistic reliability analysis into soil mechanics and earthquake engineering, co-writing the first general-purpose slope stability program.
John V. Breakwell
John V. Breakwell (1917–1991) was an American control theorist and Stanford professor of astronautics remembered as a key founder of astrodynamics, the science of spacecraft trajectories.
John van Nuys Granger
John van Nuys Granger (1918–1997) was an American antenna and telecommunications expert who founded Granger Associates in 1956, led Stanford Research Institute's Airborne Systems Laboratory, and served as IEEE president in 1970.
John Vincent Lawless Hogan
John Vincent Lawless Hogan (1890–1960) was an American radio engineer who helped found the Institute of Radio Engineers and founded the station that became WQXR.
John W. Cahn
John W. Cahn was an American materials scientist and metallurgist at NIST whose namesake Cahn–Hilliard equation describes phase separation, and who co-discovered quasicrystals, winning the 1998 National Medal of Science.
John W. Hutchinson
John W. Hutchinson (J. W. Hutchinson) is an American solid mechanics researcher, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for nonlinear fracture mechanics, the HRR fields, and strain gradient plasticity.
John W. Landis
John W. Landis (1917–2013) was an American nuclear engineer who directed early civilian nuclear power projects, led Gulf General Atomic, and served as president of the American Nuclear Society in 1971.
John W. Morris
John W. Morris is a materials scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on strong steels, lead-free solders, and gum metal titanium alloys.
John W. Townsend Jr.
John W. Townsend Jr., known as Jack Townsend, was an American physicist who helped create the first weather satellites and directed NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
John Wang (materials scientist)
John Wang is a materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Advanced Ceramics Laboratory and studies functional and energy materials.
John Wistar Simpson
John Wistar Simpson (1914–2007) was an American electrical and nuclear engineer who led the Westinghouse teams behind the USS Nautilus reactor and the Shippingport nuclear power station.
John Yeager
John Yeager (John David Yeager) is an American materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies the mechanical properties of plastic-bonded explosives and received a 2017 PECASE award.
John Yin
John Yin is a Chinese American chemical engineer and computational virologist known for quantitative models of virus growth, spread, and evolution; he received a 1996 PECASE.
John Zaborszky
John Zaborszky (1914–2008) was a Hungarian-born American control theorist and power systems researcher who founded and chaired the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis.
John-Paul Clarke
John-Paul Clarke is an aerospace engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for the continuous descent arrival procedure, used at 50 major airports.
Jon P. Longtin
Jon P. Longtin is an American mechanical engineer and professor at Stony Brook University whose research centers on thermal sciences, laser-liquid interactions, and laser-based temperature measurement.
Jonas Eliasson
Jonas Eliasson is a Swedish transport researcher and Director of Transport Access at the Swedish National Transport Administration, best known for designing the Stockholm congestion tax.
Jonathan Cagan
Jonathan Cagan is an American mechanical engineer and design theorist at Carnegie Mellon University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for design automation and medical technologies.
Jonathan D. Bray
Jonathan D. Bray is an American geotechnical earthquake engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley, known for liquefaction, seismic slope, and surface fault rupture procedures.
Jonathan F. Lovell
Jonathan F. Lovell is a biomedical engineer at the University at Buffalo known for porphysomes, reported in 2011, and the CoPoP liposome vaccine platform for malaria.
Jonathan G. Lundgren
Jonathan G. Lundgren is an American agroecologist and entomologist who won the Presidential Early Career Award in 2010 while a USDA research entomologist in Brookings, South Dakota.
Jonathan M. Rothberg
Jonathan M. Rothberg, born 1963, is an American scientist and serial entrepreneur known for bringing next-generation DNA sequencing to market through 454 Life Sciences and Ion Torrent.
Jonathan N. Coleman
Jonathan N. Coleman is an Irish physicist at Trinity College Dublin who developed liquid-phase exfoliation, a widely used method for producing graphene and other 2D nanosheets from layered crystals.
Jonathan Rossiter
Jonathan Rossiter is a Professor of Robotics and head of the Soft Robotics group at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, known for artificial muscles, the Right Trousers, and pollution-eating robots.
Jonathan S Marvin
Jonathan S Marvin is a protein engineer and Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus in Virginia, known for GCaMP5 calcium indicators and SnFR sensors for glutamate, GABA, and ATP.