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Leonard F. Fuller
Leonard F. Fuller (1890–1987) was an American electrical engineer who, as chief engineer of the Federal Telegraph Company, developed high-power Poulsen arc transmitters used by the United States Navy for long-distance radio telegraphy.
Leonard J. Koch
Leonard J. Koch (1920–2015) was an American nuclear engineer who served on EBR-I, the first reactor to generate electricity, and managed its successor EBR-II at Argonne.
Leonard Pinchuk
Leonard Pinchuk is a biomedical engineer and inventor at the University of Miami, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 and known for the polymer SIBS and the TAXUS drug-eluting stent.
Leopold Mannes
Leopold Mannes (Leopold Damrosch Mannes, 1899–1964) was an American pianist and composer who co-invented Kodachrome, the first practical color transparency film, with Leopold Godowsky Jr.
Leroy H. Smith Jr.
Leroy Harrington Smith Jr., known professionally as Roy Smith, was an American mechanical engineer and pioneer of modern turbomachinery aerodynamics who spent his career at General Electric in Evendale, Ohio.
Leslie A. Geddes
Leslie A. Geddes (1921–2009) was a Scottish-born American biomedical engineer and physiologist at Purdue University whose defibrillation and electrode research earned the 2006 National Medal of Technology.
Leslie A. Momoda
Leslie A. Momoda is an American materials scientist and Executive Vice President of HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in February 2025.
Leslie E. Robertson
Leslie E. Robertson (1928–2021) was an American structural engineer best known as lead engineer of the World Trade Center twin towers, completed in 1972 and 1973.
Leslie L. Shoemaker
Leslie L. Shoemaker is an American water resources engineer and Tetra Tech executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for watershed management technology.
Lester A. Hoel
Lester A. Hoel (1935–2022) was an American transportation engineer, a University of Virginia professor and National Academy of Engineering member who co-authored Traffic and Highway Engineering.
Lester F. Eastman
Lester F. Eastman (1928–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Cornell University who built the first US university research program on compound-semiconductor microwave devices such as gallium arsenide.
Lester Hogan
C. Lester Hogan (1920–2008) was an American physicist and semiconductor executive who invented the microwave gyrator at Bell Labs, taught at Harvard, and led Motorola Semiconductor and Fairchild.
Lester Lees
Lester Lees (1920–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer and longtime Caltech professor whose work on supersonic aerodynamics, heat transfer, and high-altitude gas dynamics proved relevant to atmospheric re-entry.
Lester M. Field
Lester M. Field was an American electrical engineer who created modern traveling-wave tube structures, taught at Stanford and Caltech, and directed microwave research at Hughes Research Laboratories.
Levente Vitos
Levente Vitos is a computational materials physicist, professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, who created the EMTO-CPA method making first-principles simulation of random alloys, steels, and high-entropy alloys practical.
Levi Theodore Thompson
Levi Theodore Thompson is an American chemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 and dean of the University of South Florida College of Engineering.
Lewis B. Stillwell
Lewis B. Stillwell (1863–1941) was an American electrical engineer who designed the Niagara Falls AC generating plant and directed the electrification of New York's elevated railways and first subway.
Lewis Berkley Davis Jr.
Lewis Berkley Davis Jr. is an American mechanical engineer whose combustion innovations led to low-nitrogen-oxides gas turbines for electric power generation; he holds over 100 patents.
Lewis M. Branscomb
Lewis McAdory Branscomb (1926–2023) was an American physicist who directed the National Bureau of Standards, served as IBM's vice president and chief scientist, and taught at Harvard.
Leyuan Ma
Leyuan Ma is an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, known for biomaterial-based vaccines that re-stimulate CAR-T cells in lymph nodes.
Li Aizhen
Li Aizhen (李爱珍, born 1936) is a Chinese semiconductor materials scientist at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology who established molecular beam epitaxy in China.
Li‐Dong Zhao
Li-Dong Zhao (赵立东) is a Chinese materials scientist and dean at Beihang University known for record-setting thermoelectric performance in tin selenide single crystals since 2014.
Liang Zhang
Liang Zhang is a Chinese materials scientist who studies battery electrodes with in-situ synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy and has been a professor at Soochow University since 2019.
Liang-Shih Fan
Liang-Shih Fan is a chemical engineer at The Ohio State University known for fluidization and chemical looping clean-energy processes, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Liangbing Hu
Liangbing Hu, born 1982, is a Chinese-born materials scientist and endowed professor of electrical engineering at Yale, known for Superwood, ultrafast high-temperature sintering, and co-founding InventWood.
Liangfang Zhang
Liangfang Zhang (张良方) is a Chinese-American nanoengineer and professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for inventing cell membrane-coated nanoparticles, a biomimetic drug delivery platform.
Lianzhou Wang
Lianzhou Wang (王连洲, born 1971) is a Chinese-born Australian materials scientist who set a 2020 quantum dot solar cell efficiency record and chairs energy materials research at Hong Kong PolyU.
Lili Deligianni
Hariklia "Lili" Deligianni is a Greek-born American chemical engineer who spent three decades at IBM Research and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Lin Cai
Lin Cai is a Canadian researcher in wireless communications and networking, President's Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria since 2005.
Lin Gu
Lin Gu (谷林) is a Chinese materials scientist known for atomic-scale electron microscopy of ferroelectric oxides and battery cathodes, and a professor at Tsinghua University since 2022.