Engineers and materials scientists

Joseph Frederick Engelberger

Joseph Frederick Engelberger (1925–2015) was an American engineer and entrepreneur known as the father of robotics; his Unimate robot entered a General Motors plant in 1961.

Joseph G. Jacangelo

Joseph G. Jacangelo is an American environmental engineer, vice president and director of research at Stantec and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins, working on water and wastewater treatment.

Joseph Gerber

H. Joseph Gerber (1924–1996) was an Austrian-born American inventor who founded Gerber Scientific, invented the Gerber Variable Scale, and won the 1994 National Medal of Technology.

Joseph Gilbert Totten

Joseph Gilbert Totten (1788–1864) was an American Army engineer, Chief of Engineers for over 20 years, and a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Joseph Hendrie

Joseph Hendrie was an American nuclear engineer who co-invented Brookhaven's High Flux Beam Reactor and chaired the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

Joseph Henry Keenan (1900–1977) was an American mechanical engineer and thermodynamicist, a professor and department head at MIT known for his 1941 textbook Thermodynamics and the steam tables used by the power industry.

Joseph J. Jacobs

Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004) was an American chemical engineer who founded Jacobs Engineering Group in Pasadena, California, in 1947, growing it into a global engineering and construction firm.

Joseph Jefferson Beaman Jr.

Joseph Jefferson Beaman Jr., known as Joseph J. Beaman, is an American mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin who co-invented selective laser sintering, an early form of 3D printing.

Joseph Kestin

Joseph Kestin (1913–1993) was a Polish-born thermodynamicist and Brown University professor known for precision measurement of steam and fluid properties, his two-volume A Course in Thermodynamics, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.

Joseph M. Luther

Joseph M. Luther, known as Joey Luther, is an American photovoltaics researcher at the National Laboratory of the Rockies known for the first colloidal perovskite nanocrystal solar cell.

Joseph M. Pettit

Joseph M. Pettit was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering at Stanford from 1958 to 1972, and president of Georgia Tech from 1972 until his death in 1986.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph Massolle

Joseph Massolle (1889–1957) was a German audio engineer and inventor who, with Hans Vogt and Josef Engl, developed the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, holding 87 of the group's more than 150 patents.

Joseph Miller (aerospace engineer)

Joseph Miller was an American aerospace engineer at TRW who led development of the Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Oct 10, 2026

Joseph Neng Shun Kwong

Joseph Neng Shun Kwong (1916–1998) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who co-created the Redlich–Kwong equation of state with Otto Redlich at Shell in 1949.

Joseph Penzien

Joseph Penzien (1924–2011) was an American structural engineer at UC Berkeley who pioneered probabilistic methods in earthquake engineering, founded its Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and co-wrote Dynamics of Structures.

Joseph Slepian

Joseph Slepian, born 1891 in Boston, was an American electrical engineer and mathematician at Westinghouse who invented the autovalve lightning arrester, Deion circuit breaker, and ignitron.

Joseph V. Charyk

Joseph V. Charyk (1920–2016) was a Canadian-born engineer, first director of the US National Reconnaissance Office and founding president of COMSAT, credited with founding the geosynchronous satellite industry.

Joshua Robinson

Joshua A. Robinson is an American materials scientist and professor at Pennsylvania State University known for confinement heteroepitaxy, which grows atomically thin metals and nitrides beyond graphene.

JP GIROUD

Jean-Pierre (JP) Giroud is a French geotechnical engineer who coined "geotextile" and "geomembrane" in 1977, co-founded Geosyntec Consultants in 1983, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.

Ju Li

Ju Li (李巨) is a materials scientist and engineer who has been a professor at MIT since 2011, known for battery cathode design, nuclear materials, and AI-driven materials discovery.

Oct 22, 2026

Juan Bautista Antonelli

Juan Bautista Antonelli, or Battista Antonelli, was an Italian military engineer who, from 1585 to 1608, planned Spain's Caribbean defenses at Havana, Cartagena de Indias, and Santo Domingo.

Juan Bisquert

Juan Bisquert is a Spanish physicist known for impedance spectroscopy and perovskite solar cells, who since 2024 works on neuromorphic materials at the ITQ in Valencia.

Juan C. Lasheras

Juan Carlos Lasheras (1951–2021) was a Spanish-born mechanical and aerospace engineer at UC San Diego, known for atomization and turbulent mixing studies and an FDA-approved blood-cooling catheter.

Juan Carlos De la Llera

Juan Carlos De la Llera Martín is a Chilean earthquake engineer, co-founder of the vibration-control firm Sirve, dean of engineering at PUC, and rector of the university since 2025.

Juan G. Santiago

Juan G. Santiago is a mechanical engineer and the Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor at Stanford University, known for microfluidics, electrokinetics, and electric field-driven CRISPR diagnostics.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is a materials scientist and associate professor at Georgia Tech known for perovskite solar cell research; he received a Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Judith Driscoll

Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll is a materials scientist, Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, known for nanoscale engineering of functional oxide thin films for energy applications.

Judson C. French

Judson C. French (1922–2021) was an American physicist and electronics metrologist who spent 51 years at NBS and NIST, founding the federal semiconductor measurement program in 1955.

Julia J. Brown

Julia ("Julie") J. Brown is an electrical engineer who serves as Chief Technical Officer of Universal Display Corporation, leading development of phosphorescent OLED display materials.