Engineers and materials scientists

Julia R. Weertman

Julia R. Weertman, born Julia Ann Randall (1926–2018), was an American materials scientist and professor at Northwestern University known for research on high-temperature alloys and pioneering studies of nanocrystalline metals.

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Julian J. Bussgang

Julian J. Bussgang (Julian Jakob Bussgang, 1925–2023) was a Polish-born American engineer, entrepreneur, and translator known for the Bussgang theorem, for founding Signatron, and for translating Polish-Jewish memoirs.

Julian Szekely

Julian Szekely (1934–1995) was a Hungarian-born American materials scientist who taught at MIT from 1975 and pioneered mathematical modeling of steelmaking, welding, and plasma processing.

Julie B. Zimmerman

Julie B. Zimmerman, also known as Julie Beth Zimmerman, is an American environmental engineer at Yale known for the Twelve Principles of Green Engineering and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Julio M. Ottino

Julio M. Ottino is an Argentina-born chemical engineer at Northwestern University whose work established the scientific basis of mixing in laminar flows through chaotic advection.

Julius Adams Stratton

Julius Adams Stratton was an American electrical engineer and mathematical physicist who served as MIT's eleventh president, from 1959 to 1966, and chaired the Ford Foundation.

Julius Beau Lucks

Julius Beau Lucks, also known as Julius B. Lucks, is an American synthetic biologist and RNA engineer who is a professor at Northwestern University and co-founded Stemloop.

Julius J. Harwood

Julius J. Harwood (died 2014) was an American metallurgist who directed Ford's Materials Sciences Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Juming Tang

Juming Tang is a Chinese-American food process engineer who developed FDA-approved microwave sterilization for packaged foods at Washington State University and became University of Washington engineering chair in 2024.

Jun Hong Noh

Jun Hong Noh (노준홍) is a South Korean materials scientist at Korea University who works on perovskite solar cells, after years as a senior researcher at KRICT.

Jun Jiao

Jun Jiao is a materials scientist and professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Portland State University, winner of the 2004 PECASE award through the National Science Foundation.

Jun Liu

Jun Liu is a materials scientist and Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory known for lithium-metal battery research, and director of the DOE's Battery500 Consortium.

Jun Lou

Jun Lou is a materials scientist and Karl F. Hasselmann Professor at Rice University, known for studying how nanomaterials deform and break and for editing Materials Today.

Jun Lü (engineer)

Jun Lü (陆俊) is a Chinese battery materials researcher and Qiushi Chair Professor at Zhejiang University since 2022, known for work on lithium–oxygen and lithium–sulfur batteries and cathode characterization.

Jun Takeya

Jun Takeya, also published as Junichi Takeya, is a Japanese experimental physicist and professor at The University of Tokyo known for research on organic semiconductor electronics.

Jun Yeob Lee

Jun Yeob Lee (이준엽) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University known for research on organic light-emitting materials and blue OLEDs.

Jun-ichi Nishizawa

Jun-ichi Nishizawa (西澤潤一) was a Japanese semiconductor engineer, nicknamed "Mr. Semiconductor," whose inventions include the PIN diode, the static induction transistor, and optical fiber communication components.

Jung‐Ho Lee

Jung-Ho Lee (이정호) is a South Korean materials scientist and chemical engineer, a Hanyang University professor since 2003 and CEO of Flexolyte, known for all-solid-state zinc–air batteries and oxygen electrocatalysis.

Junhong Chen

Junhong Chen is a mechanical engineer working on nanomaterials for sensors and water treatment, Crown Family Professor at the University of Chicago and Lead Water Strategist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Junji Kido

Junji Kido (城戸淳二) is a Japanese engineer and materials scientist at Yamagata University known as the inventor of the white OLED, first made in 1993.

Junmin Xue

Junmin Xue is a materials scientist at the National University of Singapore known for a 2022 Nature paper on light-triggered oxygen evolution in water splitting.

Junqiao Wu

Junqiao Wu is a materials scientist who chairs materials science and engineering at UC Berkeley, known for work on vanadium dioxide and a temperature-adaptive radiative roof coating published in Science in 2021.

Junuthula N. Reddy

Junuthula N. Reddy, known as J. N. Reddy, is a mechanical engineer at Texas A&M University whose plate and shell theories carry his name; he joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Jürg Keller

Jürg Keller (Jurg Keller) is a Swiss-trained Australian environmental biotechnologist who founded and directed the Advanced Water Management Centre at the University of Queensland, working on biological nutrient removal and microbial fuel cells.

Jürgen Janek

Jürgen Janek (born 1964) is a German physical chemist who has held the physical chemistry chair at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 1999 and studies solid-state batteries.

Jürgen Rödel

Jürgen Rödel is a German materials scientist who headed nonmetallic-inorganic materials at TU Darmstadt from 1994 until retiring in 2024, known for dislocation engineering of ferroelectrics and lead-free piezoceramics.

Jurjen Battjes

Jurjen Battjes (born 1939) is a Dutch coastal engineer and fluid mechanician, Professor Emeritus at Delft University of Technology, known for the surf-similarity parameter and the Battjes–Janssen wave-breaking model.

Justin E. Kerwin

Justin E. Kerwin (Justin Elliot Kerwin, known as Jake) was an American naval architect and MIT professor who pioneered computational methods for marine propeller design.

Justin Hanes

Justin Hanes is an American chemical engineer who directs the Johns Hopkins Center for Nanomedicine, known for mucus-penetrating particles that improve drug and gene delivery.