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Man Mohan Sondhi

Man Mohan Sondhi, published as M. Mohan Sondhi, is a signal-processing researcher who spent 39 years at Bell Laboratories and developed the adaptive echo canceller for telephone networks.

Man-Chung Tang

Man-Chung Tang (邓文中, Deng Wenzhong), born in 1938 in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, is a structural engineer who has designed more than 100 major bridges and chairs T.Y. Lin International.

Manfred Morari

Manfred Morari, born 1951 in Graz, Austria, is a control theorist known for model predictive control and hybrid systems, with a career at Caltech, ETH Zurich, and Penn.

Manfred R. Schroeder

Manfred R. Schroeder (1926–2009) was a German physicist and acoustician at Bell Labs and the University of Göttingen who invented linear predictive coding, the basis of digital cell phones, and Schroeder diffusers.

Manfred Rühle

Manfred Rühle is a German materials scientist and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, known for high-resolution electron microscopy of internal interfaces.

Manish Chhowalla

Manish Chhowalla is a materials scientist known for work on atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides; he has been Goldsmiths' Professor of Materials Science at Cambridge since 2018.

Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar is an environmental engineer and associate professor at UT Austin known for artificial water channels and biomimetic membranes, including a 2019 Nature Nanotechnology study of fast, selective water permeation.

Manson Benedict

Manson Benedict was an American nuclear engineer who led the gaseous diffusion process for uranium separation at Oak Ridge's K-25 plant and became MIT's first professor of nuclear engineering.

Manu Prakash

Manu Prakash is a bioengineer at Stanford University whose frugal-science inventions include the Foldscope, a paper microscope costing under a dollar, and the 20-cent paperfuge centrifuge; he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016.

Manuel Elices

Manuel Elices, full name Manuel Elices Calafat, is a Spanish materials scientist and emeritus professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, known for pioneering fracture mechanics in Spain.

Manuel Rocha

Manuel Rocha (1913–1981) was a Portuguese engineer who helped found rock mechanics, directed Portugal's LNEC laboratory from 1954 to 1974, and led the International Society for Rock Mechanics.

Mao Yisheng

Mao Yisheng (茅以升) was a Chinese bridge engineer and educator who designed and built the Qiantang River Bridge at Hangzhou, China's first modern steel road-and-rail bridge.

Marc A. Meyers

Marc A. Meyers, also known as Marc André Meyers, is an American materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego known for research on the dynamic behavior of materials.

Marc Baldo

Marc Baldo is an American electrical engineer at MIT known for phosphorescent OLEDs and singlet exciton fission solar cells, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Marc J. Pelegrin

Marc J. Pélegrin (1923–2024) was a French automatic-control engineer who directed the SUPAERO aerospace school and ONERA's Toulouse research center, co-authored a standard control theory textbook, and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Marc Raibert

Marc Raibert is an American roboticist known for legged robots that balance dynamically. He founded Boston Dynamics in 1992 as an MIT spin-off and now leads the RAI Institute.

Marc Z Miskin

Marc Z Miskin is a nanorobotics researcher and assistant professor of electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, leading a group building microscopic walking robots since 2019.

Marc‐Georg Willinger

Marc-Georg Willinger, also published as Marc Willinger, is an electron microscopist who studies catalysts by in situ and operando electron microscopy, and a full professor at TUM since 2022.

Marcel Barrère

Marcel Barrère was a French aerospace engineer and combustion scientist who spent his career at ONERA, directed its research from 1979 to 1985, and wrote the major handbook Rocket Propulsion.

Marcel Schreier

Marcel Schreier is a Swiss electrocatalysis researcher who is the Richard H. Soit Assistant Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Marcelo Horacio García

Marcelo Horacio García is an Argentine-American hydraulic engineer who directs the Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory at the University of Illinois and studies sediment transport and river morphodynamics.

Marcian Hoff

Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, Jr. is an American electrical engineer who, as Intel's twelfth employee, proposed the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, in 1969.

Marco Hutter

Marco Hutter is a Swiss roboticist, professor of robotic systems at ETH Zurich, and director of its Center for Robotics, known for learning-based legged locomotion and co-founding ANYbotics.

Marco Pavone

Marco Pavone is an Italian-born robotics researcher and Stanford associate professor of aeronautics who directs the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and leads autonomous vehicle research at NVIDIA.

Marcus Halik

Marcus Halik, born 1971, is a materials science professor at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg since 2005, known for low-voltage organic transistors and for magnetic nanoparticles that remove PFAS from water.

Marek W. Urban

Marek W. Urban (born 1953) is a Polish-American polymer and materials scientist who holds an endowed chair at Clemson University and is known for self-healing polymers that repair damage without added chemicals.

Margot S. Damaser

Margot S. Damaser is an American biomedical engineer who studies pelvic floor disorders, including stress urinary incontinence, and received the 2000 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Margrit von Braun

Margrit von Braun is an American environmental engineer who spent three decades on the University of Idaho faculty and co-founded TerraGraphics, a hazardous waste remediation firm, in 1984.

Maria C. Lehman

Maria C. Lehman is an American civil engineer who led transportation programs in New York State and served as president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2023.

Maria Forsyth

Maria Forsyth is an Australian electrochemist and Deakin Distinguished Professor known for work on ionic liquids, plastic crystals, and electrolytes for lithium and sodium batteries.