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Jonathan Sauder

Jonathan Sauder is a mechanical and aerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, known for RainCube, the first radar in a CubeSat, and a proposed wind-powered Venus rover.

Jonathan Zenneck

Jonathan Zenneck (1871–1959) was a German physicist who helped establish the first wireless telegraphy link to Heligoland in 1900 and wrote the standard early radio textbook.

Jongyoon Han

Jongyoon Han (한종윤) is a Korean-born bioengineer and electrical engineer at MIT, professor in both EECS and Biological Engineering, working on lab-on-a-chip devices for diagnostics and desalination.

Jooho Moon

Jooho Moon (문주호, also Joo Ho Moon) is a South Korean materials scientist and Underwood Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, known for antimony chalcogenide solar water-splitting devices exceeding 10 percent efficiency.

Joon Hak Oh

Joon Hak Oh (오준학) is a South Korean professor of chemical and biological engineering at Seoul National University who works on organic and chiral optoelectronic devices.

Joong Hee Lee

Joong Hee Lee (J.H. Lee) is a South Korean materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at Jeonbuk National University in Jeonju, working on renewable-energy materials and electrocatalysts.

Jordan Green

Jordan J. Green is a biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, where he holds the Herschel L. Seder Professorship and works on biodegradable nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery.

Jordan J. Baruch

Jordan J. Baruch was an American electrical engineer and acoustics specialist, a founding partner of Bolt Beranek and Newman and Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1981.

Jordan Jay Baruch

Jordan Jay Baruch (1923–2011) was an American electrical engineer and acoustics specialist, a founding partner of Bolt Beranek and Newman and Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1981.

Jörg F. Löffler

Jörg F. Löffler is a materials scientist and professor at ETH Zurich who heads the Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology and pioneered biodegradable magnesium implant alloys.

Jörg Imberger

Jörg Imberger is an Australian environmental engineer who founded the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia and won the 1996 Stockholm Water Prize.

Jörg Neugebauer

Jörg Neugebauer (born 1963 in Berlin) is a German computational materials physicist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Düsseldorf, known for ab initio thermodynamics.

Jorj O. Osterberg

Jorj O. Osterberg (1915–2008) was an American geotechnical engineer and Northwestern University professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975, known for the piston soil sampler and the Osterberg Cell.

José M. F. Moura

José M. F. Moura is a Portuguese-American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University known for statistical signal processing, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

José Miguel Aguilera Radic

José Miguel Aguilera Radic is a Chilean food engineer at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, known for establishing food microstructure as a foundation of food processing.

José N. Reyes Jr.

José N. Reyes Jr. is a nuclear engineer who co-founded NuScale Power and co-designed its passively cooled small modular reactor, after teaching at Oregon State University.

Josef Kozeny

Josef Kozeny (1889–1967) was an Austrian hydraulic engineer and physicist whose 1927 permeability formula, modified by Carman, became the widely used Kozeny–Carman equation for flow through porous media.

Josef Singer

Josef Singer (יוסף זינגר; 1923–2009) was an Israeli aeronautical engineer known for research on the buckling of thin-walled structures and president of the Technion from 1982 to 1986.

Joseph A. Pask

Joseph A. Pask (1913–2003) was an American ceramic engineer and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley who built its ceramic engineering program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

Joseph A. Yura

Joseph A. Yura is an American structural engineer and University of Texas at Austin professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for his work on bracing and stability.

Joseph Adam Pask

Joseph Adam Pask (1913–2003) was an American ceramic engineer and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley who built its ceramic engineering program and was known for work on glass-metal bonding, sintering, and mullite ceramics.

Joseph B. Powell

Joseph B. Powell is an American chemical engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, who leads the University of Houston Energy Transition Institute.

Joseph C. Logue

Joseph C. Logue was an American electronics engineer at IBM who directed transistor circuit development from 1952 to 1959, enabling machines like the IBM 1401.

Joseph E. Burke

Joseph Eldrid Burke (1914–2000) was an American metallurgist who helped build the first plutonium-processing facility at Los Alamos and later led the General Electric ceramics group that developed Lucalox.

Joseph E. Greene

Joseph E. Greene (1944–2022) was an American materials scientist and University of Illinois professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for work on epitaxial thin films.

Joseph E. Jakes

Joseph E. Jakes is an American research materials engineer at the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, who won a 2012 Presidential Early Career Award.

Joseph Eldrid Burke

Joseph Eldrid Burke (1914–2000) was an American metallurgist who helped build the first plutonium-processing facility at Los Alamos and led the General Electric ceramics group that developed Lucalox alumina for sodium lamps.

Joseph Emmett Shepherd

Joseph Emmett Shepherd is a Caltech professor emeritus of aeronautics and mechanical engineering who studies detonation waves and explosion hazards, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Joseph Feinstein

Joseph Feinstein (born 1925) is an American electrical engineer and physicist known for pioneering work on traveling wave tubes and magnetrons, and a 1965 standard text.

Joseph Francis Shea

Joseph Francis Shea (1926–1999) was an American aerospace engineer and NASA manager who directed the studies fixing lunar orbit rendezvous for Apollo and ran the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office.