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Kelong Fan

Kelong Fan (范克龙) is a Chinese nanobiology professor at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, known for nanozymes and the 2012 magnetoferritin tumor-targeting nanoparticles.

Kelsey Hatzell

Kelsey B. Hatzell is an American materials scientist and associate professor at Princeton University, there since 2021, known for using synchrotron X-ray techniques to watch solid-state battery interfaces operate in real time.

Kenichi Soga

Kenichi Soga is a geotechnical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and director of its Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Kenji Hata

Kenji Hata (畠賢治) is a Japanese materials scientist at Japan's AIST in Tsukuba, known for super growth, a water-assisted chemical vapor deposition method for carbon nanotubes reported in 2004.

Kenneth A. Gall

Kenneth A. Gall is an American mechanical engineer and materials scientist, a Duke University professor known for shape memory materials research and for founding medical device companies including MedShape and Restor3d.

Kenneth A. Roe

Kenneth A. Roe was board chairman of Burns and Roe Enterprises, a New Jersey architect-engineer firm for power plants, and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Kenneth A. Smith

Kenneth Alan Smith (born 1936) is an American chemical engineer, the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at MIT and its vice president for research from 1981 to 1991.

Kenneth B. Bischoff

Kenneth B. Bischoff (1936–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Delaware who co-founded physiological pharmacokinetics and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Kenneth C. Slatton

Kenneth Clinton "Clint" Slatton (1970–2009) was an American engineer at the University of Florida who worked on lidar and radar remote sensing and won a PECASE award.

Kenneth Charles Hall

Kenneth Charles Hall is an American aerospace engineer at Duke University known for the harmonic balance method and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Kenneth Eugene Martin

Kenneth Eugene Martin is an American electric power engineer at Electric Power Group in Pasadena, California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Kenneth F. Reinschmidt

Kenneth F. Reinschmidt (1938–2018) was an American civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991, who worked at MIT, Stone & Webster, and Texas A&M University.

Kenneth H. Keller

Kenneth H. Keller is an American chemical engineer known for biomedical transport research and for serving as president of the University of Minnesota from 1985 to 1988.

Kenneth L. Johnson

Kenneth L. Johnson, also known as Kenneth Langstreth Johnson, was a Cambridge mechanical engineer in contact mechanics, author of Contact Mechanics (1985) and co-creator of JKR theory.

Kenneth L. Reifsnider

Kenneth L. Reifsnider is an American mechanical engineer and materials scientist known for composite durability research and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

Kenneth L. Shepard

Kenneth L. Shepard is an American electrical engineer, the Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University since 1997, known for CMOS bioelectronics, single-molecule biosensing, and brain–computer interfaces.

Kenneth McKay

Kenneth Gardiner McKay (1917–2010) was a Canadian-born physicist and Bell Labs executive known for his research on avalanche breakdown in silicon and germanium, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

Kenneth N. Han

Kenneth N. Han is a hydrometallurgist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology who won the 2002 AIME Robert H. Richards Award.

Kenneth Nichols

Kenneth David Nichols was a US Army major general and civil engineer who, as Manhattan Project district engineer under General Leslie Groves, built the plants producing the first atomic bombs.

Kenneth Ray Swartzel

Kenneth Ray Swartzel is an American food and bioprocess engineer, a distinguished professor emeritus at North Carolina State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Kensall D. Wise

Kensall D. Wise is an American electrical engineer at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of integrated solid-state sensors and the neural microprobes known as the Michigan probes.

Kent F. Hansen

Kent F. Hansen is an American nuclear engineer, professor of nuclear engineering at MIT, known for reactor kinetics methods and a system dynamics model of the Hanford waste cleanup.

Keon Jae Lee

Keon Jae Lee (이건재) is a South Korean materials scientist and Endowed Chair Professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for flexible, self-powered electronics and battery-free deep brain stimulation.

Kevin A. Wise

Kevin A. Wise is an American aerospace control engineer who spent his career at McDonnell Douglas and Boeing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Kevin Braeckmans

Kevin Braeckmans is a Belgian drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher, full professor at Ghent University, known for photoporation, a light-based technique that delivers drugs and nucleic acids into cells.

Kevin G. Bowcutt

Kevin G. Bowcutt is an American aerospace engineer and Boeing's Chief Scientist of Hypersonics, best known for pioneering the viscous-optimized hypersonic waverider and designing the X-51A scramjet demonstrator.

Kevin Huang

Kevin Huang, also published as Keqin Huang, is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of South Carolina who researches solid oxide fuel cells.

Kevin L. Tomsovic

Kevin L. Tomsovic is an American electrical engineer specializing in power systems computation and grid resilience, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Kevin M. Ryan

Kevin M. Ryan is a chemical nanotechnology researcher and Vice President Research at the University of Limerick, known for silicon nanowire battery anodes and semiconductor nanocrystals.

Kevin R. Anderson

Kevin R. Anderson is an American metallurgical engineer who developed the Mercalloy family of recycled-aluminum diecasting alloys at Mercury Marine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.