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Lucien A. Schmit Jr.

Lucien A. Schmit Jr. (1928–2018) was an American aerospace engineer regarded as the father of structural optimization for his 1960 paper combining finite element analysis with nonlinear programming.

Lucien C. Malavard

Lucien Malavard (1910–1990) was a French aeronautical engineer known for flow visualization and analog computation, who founded the CNRS laboratory LIMSI and joined the US National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Ludwig F. Lischer

Ludwig F. Lischer was an American electric power engineer who spent his career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, rising to vice president in charge of system planning.

Ludwig J. Gauckler

Ludwig J. Gauckler is a Swiss-based materials scientist in ceramics, professor emeritus of Nonmetallic Inorganic Materials at ETH Zurich, where he held the chair from 1988.

Ludwig Prandtl

Ludwig Prandtl was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, called the father of aerodynamics, who founded modern fluid mechanics with his 1904 boundary layer theory.

Luigi Crocco

Luigi Crocco (1909–1986) was an Italian aerospace engineer, son of rocketry pioneer Gaetano Arturo Crocco, who taught at Rome and Princeton and whose combustion-instability research helped make the Saturn V's F-1 engine flyable.

Luis E. Hueso

Luis E. Hueso is a Spanish physicist working on spintronics and nanoscale devices; he has led the Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian since 2008.

Luis Enrique Garcia

Luis Enrique García Reyes is a Colombian structural and earthquake engineer, honorary professor at Universidad de los Andes and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Luis M. Liz‐Marzán

Luis M. Liz-Marzán is a Spanish chemist and Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC biomaGUNE in San Sebastián, known as a pioneer in nanoplasmonics and the colloidal synthesis of plasmonic metal nanoparticles.

Luke P. Lee

Luke P. Lee, also known as Luke Lee, is a bioengineer working in bionanophotonics and optofluidics, known for PRET nanospectroscopy and the 2010 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering.

Lulu Qian

Lulu Qian (钱璐璐) is a bioengineer and Professor of Bioengineering at Caltech since 2019, known for inventing DNA-based artificial neural networks that classify molecular patterns.

Lymon C. Reese

Lymon C. Reese was an American geotechnical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin whose p-y curve method and FHWA manuals became standard in deep-foundation design.

Lyndsey McMillon-Brown

Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown is a research electrical engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center who leads development of perovskite solar cells made in space and received a 2025 PECASE award.

Lynn Conway

Lynn Ann Conway (1938–2024) was an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who, with Carver Mead, created the VLSI design methodology that transformed microchip design from the late 1970s.

Lynn S. Beedle

Lynn S. Beedle (1917–2003) was an American structural engineer at Lehigh University whose plastic-design research reshaped steel building practice and who founded the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

M. Eugene Merchant

M. Eugene Merchant (1913–2006) was an American machining scientist who developed a mathematical model of metal cutting, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.

M. George Craford

M. George Craford, born 1938, is an American electrical engineer who led development of the first yellow LED and high-brightness red, orange, and amber LEDs.

M. Granger Morgan

M. Granger Morgan, also known as Millett Granger Morgan, is an American engineer and risk analyst at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.

M. J. Buerger

Martin Julian Buerger (1903–1986) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer at MIT who invented the X-ray precession camera and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.

M. Robert Aaron

M. Robert Aaron was a Bell Labs engineer who applied computer-aided design to the first repeatered transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1, and shared the 1978 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

M. Rosa Palacín

M. Rosa Palacín (María Rosa Palacín Peiró, born 1968 in Barcelona) is a Spanish solid-state chemist and Research Professor at ICMAB-CSIC working on lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and calcium battery materials.

M. Taher A Saif

M. Taher A Saif is a mechanical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for studying mechanics at small scales.

Mac Van Valkenburg

Mac Van Valkenburg was an American electrical engineer and University of Illinois professor whose textbooks on circuit theory shaped how the subject was taught worldwide.

Magdalena Titirici

Magdalena Titirici, full name Maria-Magdalena Titirici, is a Romanian-born materials chemist who holds the Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London since 2019.

Magnus Berggren

Magnus Berggren is a Swedish professor of organic electronics at Linköping University and director of its Laboratory of Organic Electronics, known for organic bioelectronics, electronic plants, and cofounding nine companies.

Makhsud I. Saidaminov

Makhsud I. Saidaminov is a materials scientist and Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria, known for fast growth of perovskite single crystals and more stable perovskite solar cells.

Makoto Kikuchi

Makoto Kikuchi (菊池誠), 1925 to 2012, was a Japanese semiconductor physicist who developed point-contact transistors at Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory and led Sony's silicon CCD development.

Maksym Kovalenko

Maksym V. Kovalenko (Максим Коваленко), born 1982 in Ukraine, is a Swiss materials scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich known for synthesizing colloidal nanocrystals used in displays, sensors, and batteries.

Malcolm R. Currie

Malcolm R. Currie (1927–2021) was an American engineering physicist who directed Defense Department research and engineering from 1973 to 1977, consolidating the programs that became GPS, and later chaired Hughes Aircraft.

Malcolm Ross O'Neill

Malcolm Ross O'Neill is a retired US Army lieutenant general and physicist who led missile-defense programs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.