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Markita Patricia Landry

Markita Patricia Landry, also known as Markita del Carpio Landry, is a scientist and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley who develops near-infrared nanosensors for imaging brain chemistry.

Markus J. Buehler

Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and mechanical engineer at MIT who pioneered materiomics, the computational study of protein materials like silk and collagen.

Marnix Wagemaker

Marnix Wagemaker is a materials scientist and professor at Delft University of Technology who heads its electrochemical energy storage section, researching lithium and sodium batteries.

Mars G Fontana

Mars Guy Fontana (1910–1988) was an American corrosion engineer, professor, and chairman of metallurgical engineering at Ohio State University, author of the textbook Corrosion Engineering (1967), called the father of modern corrosion science.

Marsha Anderson Bomar

Marsha Anderson Bomar is an American transportation engineer who founded Street Smarts, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, and serves as ASCE president.

Marshall B. Standing

Marshall B. Standing, also known as Marshall Burton Standing, was an American petroleum reservoir engineer at Standard Oil of California, now Chevron, known for the Standing correlations.

Marshall Jones (mechanical engineer)

Marshall Jones (born 1941) is an American mechanical engineer at General Electric known for industrial laser materials processing and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Marta C. Hatzell

Marta C. Hatzell is an American electrochemical engineer and Woodruff Professor at Georgia Tech whose research on bipolar membrane electrolysis applies to carbon capture, ammonia production, and desalination.

Martin Cooper (engineer)

Martin Cooper, born in 1928, is an American engineer who led Motorola's team in making the first public handheld cellular phone call, in New York in 1973.

Martin E. Glicksman

Martin E. Glicksman is an American materials scientist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, known for solidification theory and Space Shuttle crystal growth experiments.

Martin Fürchtegott Grübler

Martin Fürchtegott Grübler (1851–1935) was a German professor of engineering mechanics and a principal founder of Getriebelehre, the German theory of mechanisms, remembered for Grübler's mobility criterion.

Martin Fussenegger

Martin Fussenegger is a Swiss synthetic biologist, professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at ETH Zurich's Basel department, known for synthetic gene circuits and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Martin Gerard Plys

Martin Gerard Plys is a nuclear engineer at Fauske and Associates in Illinois, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for modeling severe reactor accidents.

Martin Goland

Martin Goland was an American aerospace engineer and applied-mechanics researcher known for flutter analysis and for serving as president of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

Martin Green (photovoltaics researcher)

Martin A. Green is an Australian photovoltaics researcher at UNSW Sydney who invented the PERC solar cell in 1983 and won the 2022 Millennium Technology Prize.

Martin Jekel

Martin Jekel is a German environmental engineer who headed TU Berlin's water quality control department from 1988 to 2018, researching arsenic removal, micropollutant elimination, and phosphorus removal.

Martin Lang (engineer)

Martin Lang is a civil and environmental engineer specializing in water resources, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for sustainable water resources and education.

Martin M. Mikulas, Jr.

Martin M. Mikulas Jr. is an American aerospace structural engineer who worked on the Saturn V and Viking parachute during 30 years at NASA Langley.

Martin Stolterfoht

Martin Stolterfoht is a physicist researching perovskite and organic solar cells, an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2023 after leading a group at Potsdam.

Martin Summerfield

Martin Summerfield (1916–1996) was an American physicist and rocket propulsion researcher who co-founded the Aerojet Engineering Corporation in 1942 and later built Princeton University's combustion and solid-propellant propulsion laboratory.

Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli, born in Switzerland in 1957, is an electrical engineer known for wavelet theory and sampling research, and was president of EPFL from 2017 to 2024.

Marvin Camras

Marvin Camras (1916–1995) was an American electrical engineer at the Illinois Institute of Technology whose inventions made magnetic recording practical, earning him more than 500 patents and the 1990 National Medal of Technology.

Marvin E. Jensen

Marvin E. Jensen (1926–2022) was an American irrigation and water resources engineer whose USDA computer methods for scheduling irrigation are still used across the United States.

Marvin M. Johnson

Marvin M. Johnson (1928–2017) was an American chemical engineer at Phillips Petroleum who invented metal passivating agents for catalytic cracking, winning the 1985 National Medal of Technology.

Marwan A. Simaan

Marwan A. Simaan is an American control engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000, known for dynamic game theory, signal processing, and control of implanted heart pumps.

Mary Baker (mechanical engineer)

Mary Baker (died 2021) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded ATA Engineering of San Diego and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Mary C. Boyce

Mary C. Boyce is an American mechanical engineer known for the Arruda–Boyce rubber elasticity model and for serving as provost of Columbia University from 2021 to 2023.

Mary Parker (materials research engineer)

Mary E. Parker is an American materials research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, known for marine corrosion research and a 2025 PECASE award.

Masakazu Aono

Masakazu Aono (青野 正和) is a Japanese nanoscale scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science, known for the atomic switch, a nanoscale device controlled by single metal atoms, and for nanoarchitectonics.

Masanobu Shinozuka

Masanobu Shinozuka (1930–2018) was a Japanese-born American civil engineer who pioneered stochastic mechanics, structural reliability, and Monte Carlo simulation in earthquake engineering, teaching at Columbia, Princeton, USC, and UC Irvine.