Engineers and materials scientists

Lin‐Wang Wang

Lin-Wang Wang (Wang, Lin-Wang) is a computational materials scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who invented methods simulating systems with hundreds of thousands of atoms.

Lincoln F. Elkins

Lincoln F. Elkins (died 2001) was an American petroleum engineer and enhanced oil recovery pioneer who spent 36 years with Sohio Petroleum and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Lincoln J. Lauhon, also known as Lincoln Lauhon, is a materials scientist and professor at Northwestern University known for nanowire heterostructures, atom probe tomography of dopants, and two-dimensional materials.

Linda Nazar

Linda Faye Nazar is a Canadian electrochemist and materials chemist at the University of Waterloo known for lithium–sulfur batteries; she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020.

Linda P.B. Katehi

Linda P.B. Katehi, born in Greece in 1954, is an electrical engineer whose microwave antenna research led to her 2006 election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Linda S. Schadler Feist

Linda S. Schadler Feist is an American materials scientist at the University of Vermont, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for polymer nanocomposites research.

Lingchong You

Lingchong You is a Chinese-born American synthetic biologist at Duke University, best known for a 2004 Nature paper programming bacterial population density through cell–cell communication and regulated killing.

Lioz Etgar

Lioz Etgar is an Israeli professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who leads the Excitonic Solar Cells laboratory and is known for hole-conductor-free perovskite solar cells.

Lisa Brannon-Peppas

Lisa Brannon-Peppas is an American biomedical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, known for biomaterials swelling theory and targeted nanoparticle cancer drug delivery.

Litao Sun

Litao Sun (孙立涛) is a Chinese materials scientist and professor, and vice president since 2021, at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for in-situ electron microscopy.

Liumin Suo

Liumin Suo (索鎏敏) is a Chinese battery and electrolyte scientist at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, known for the water-in-salt electrolyte.

Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu, born in Romania in 1930, was an Israeli aeronautical engineer and Virginia Tech professor who died in 2007 shielding his students during the campus shooting.

Liwei Lin

Liwei Lin (林立伟) is a mechanical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and co-director of BSAC, known for MEMS research and insect-scale soft robots, including a cockroach-like robot that survived being stepped on.

Liyuan Han

Liyuan Han (韩礼元) is a Chinese photovoltaics researcher and chair professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University whose groups have set certified world-record efficiencies for perovskite solar cells and modules.

Lloyd A. Duscha

Lloyd A. Duscha was an American civil engineer and dam safety authority who retired in 1990 as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' highest-ranking civilian.

Lloyd E. Elkins Sr.

Lloyd E. Elkins Sr. (1912–2004) was an American petroleum engineer who led the research group that invented hydraulic fracturing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

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Lloyd Espenschied

Lloyd Espenschied (1889–1986) was an American electrical engineer at AT&T and Bell Labs who co-invented the coaxial cable, receiving the 1931 patent with Herman A. Affel.

Lloyd R. Welch

Lloyd R. Welch (1927–2023) was an American information theorist and electrical engineer who co-invented the Baum–Welch and Berlekamp–Welch algorithms and received the 2003 Shannon Award as a longtime USC professor.

LO, Yuen Tze

Yuen Tze Lo (罗远祉) was a Chinese-born electrical engineer at the University of Illinois known for antenna theory, the method of moments, and microstrip antenna design.

Long-Qing Chen

Long-Qing Chen is a materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University known for developing the phase-field method, a computational approach for predicting the microstructure and properties of engineering materials.

Longya Xu

Longya Xu is an electrical engineer in power electronics and electric machines who spent over 30 years at Ohio State before joining FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2023.

Lonny L. Thompson

Lonny L. Thompson is an American mechanical engineer and computational mechanician who spent thirty years at Clemson University, working on structural acoustics and winning a 1997 PECASE award.

Lori L. Graham

Lori L. Graham, also known as Lori Graham-Brady, is an American civil engineer at Johns Hopkins University who studies uncertainty in the strength of materials and structures.

Lorne G. Everett

Lorne G. Everett is a hydrologist and subsurface-contamination engineer, chancellor of Lakehead University from 2000 to 2009, known for EPA-endorsed groundwater monitoring and cleanup methods.

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Louis Charles Breguet

Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) was a French aircraft designer, builder, and pilot who founded his aviation company in 1911 and created the Breguet 14, one of the most widely produced aircraft of the First World War.

Louis Durlofsky

Louis Durlofsky is an engineer at Stanford University who studies subsurface flow, known for reservoir modeling and optimization techniques that earned him National Academy of Engineering election in 2022.

Louis F. Coffin

Louis F. Coffin, Jr. was an American mechanical engineer at General Electric in Schenectady whose work on metal fatigue produced the Coffin–Manson equation for low-cycle fatigue life.

Louis Landweber

Louis Landweber (1912–1998) was an American hydrodynamicist and naval architect who built the University of Iowa's ship hydrodynamics program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

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Louis-Jean Résal

Louis-Jean Résal (1854–1919) was a French bridge engineer of the corps des Ponts et Chaussées who designed the pont Mirabeau and pont Alexandre III in Paris.