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Larry F. Thompson
Larry F. Thompson is an American chemical engineer who spent 26 years at Bell Labs developing lithographic resists for semiconductor manufacturing and is a National Academy of Engineering member.
Larry L. Hench
Larry L. Hench (1938–2015) was an American ceramic engineer and materials scientist who invented Bioglass in 1969, the first man-made material shown to bond to living tissue.
Larry V. McIntire
Larry V. McIntire (1943–2026) was an American bioengineer who founded Rice's bioengineering department, chaired Georgia Tech/Emory's joint program, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Lars James Blackmore
Lars James Blackmore is an aerospace engineer at SpaceX who leads Starship's entry, descent, and landing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
Lars Samuelson (Swedish physicist)
Lars Samuelson (born 1948) is a Swedish physicist and professor emeritus at Lund University, known for III-V nanowire epitaxy, founding NanoLund in 1988, and four nanotech start-ups.
Laurence D. Marks
Laurence D. Marks, born 1954, is a British-born materials scientist known for electron microscopy of nanoparticles and the Marks decahedron, a nanoparticle shape named after him.
Laurence Edward Scriven
Laurence Edward Scriven, known as Skip Scriven (1931–2007), was an American chemical engineer and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota whose work on coating processes shaped modern coating science.
Laurence Retman Young
Laurence Retman Young (1935–2021) was an American aerospace engineer and bioastronautics expert at MIT who studied the vestibular system, space motion sickness, and flight simulation.
Lawrence C. F. Horle
Lawrence C. F. Horle (1892–1950) was an American electrical engineer who led radio standardization, served as IRE president in 1940, and received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1948.
Lawrence E. Swabb Jr.
Lawrence E. Swabb Jr. is a chemical engineer who worked at Exxon Research and Engineering on coal gasification and liquefaction, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Lawrence L. Kazmerski
Lawrence L. Kazmerski is an electrical engineer who became the first photovoltaics staff member at SERI, NREL's predecessor, in 1977 and led its solar cell measurement work.
Lawrence Rabiner
Lawrence Rabiner, born 1943 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer who developed the chirp z-transform and hidden Markov modeling of speech at Bell Labs.
Lawrence Stamper Darken
Lawrence Stamper Darken (1909–1978) was an American metallurgist who directed U.S. Steel's Edgar C. Bain Laboratory and formulated the Darken equations for diffusion in binary metallic systems.
Le Yu
Le Yu (于乐) is a Chinese materials chemist and professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, known for designing hollow nanostructured electrode materials for batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalysis.
Lee A. Kilgore
Lee A. Kilgore (1905–2000) was an American electrical engineer at Westinghouse who designed large rotating electric machinery and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
Lee Davenport
Lee Davenport was an American physicist who led the SCR-584 anti-aircraft radar at MIT's Radiation Laboratory in World War II, built Harvard's cyclotron, and retired as GTE's chief scientist.
Lee Iacocca
Lee Iacocca, born Lido Anthony Iacocca, was an American automobile executive who led the Ford Mustang's development, served as Ford's president, and rescued Chrysler in the early 1980s.
Lee Raymond
Lee Raymond was an American chemical engineer who served as chairman and CEO of Exxon from 1993 and of ExxonMobil from the 1999 merger until retiring in 2005.
Lee S. Gaumer
Lee Strohl Gaumer (1926–2010) was an American chemical engineer at Air Products whose cryogenic liquefaction technology supplied liquid hydrogen for NASA's Apollo spacecraft and space shuttles.
LeGrand Van Uitert
LeGrand Van Uitert (1922, Salt Lake City – 1999) was an American chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories whose crystal-growth work created the Nd:YAG solid-state laser, earning the 1993 R. W. Wood Prize.
Lei Jiang (江雷)
Lei Jiang (江雷) is a Chinese physical chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who founded superwettability, designing bioinspired materials that control how liquids wet, spread, and move.
Lei Wei
Lei Wei (魏磊) is a Singapore-based engineer, professor at Nanyang Technological University, who makes hair-thin semiconductor fibers and weaves them into fabrics that sense, compute, and display.
Leland Clark
Leland Clark (1918–2005) was an American biochemist and bioengineer who invented the Clark oxygen electrode, built an early heart–lung machine, and created the first biosensor in 1962.
Leland J. Walker
Leland Jasper Walker (1923–2014) was an American geotechnical engineer who founded Northern Testing Laboratories in Montana, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984, and served as ASCE president.
Lennart Ljung (electrical engineer)
Lennart Ljung, born 1946 in Malmö, Sweden, is a Swedish electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Linköping University, known for the modern theory of system identification.
Leo R. Beard
Leo Roy Beard (1917–2009) was an American civil engineer and hydrologist who coined the term hydrologic engineering, founded the Corps' Hydrologic Engineering Center, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Leo Young (electrical engineer)
Leo Young (1926–2006) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who led microwave filter research at Stanford Research Institute, directed research at the Pentagon, and co-authored the 1964 filter handbook.
Léon Charles Thévenin
Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who published Thévenin's theorem in 1883, letting a linear circuit be replaced by a voltage source and resistance.
Leon K. Kirchmayer
Leon K. Kirchmayer (1924–1995) was an American electrical engineer at General Electric, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 for power-system control and planning.
Leonard Cutler
Leonard Cutler (1928–2006) was an American physicist who cofounded HP Labs and led development of the HP 5060A and 5071A cesium atomic clocks, whose 5071A remains the largest contributor of cesium clocks to Coordinated Universal Time.