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Masanori Hamada

Masanori Hamada is a Japanese civil engineer and professor emeritus at Waseda University, known for research on soil liquefaction and lifeline earthquake engineering, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Masaru Ibuka (井深 大)

Masaru Ibuka (井深 大) was a Japanese electronics engineer who co-founded Sony with Akio Morita in 1946, developing Japan's first tape recorder and transistor radio.

Masayoshi Nakashima

Masayoshi Nakashima is a Japanese structural and earthquake engineer, first director of the E-Defense shaking table, who was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Massimo Silvio Morbidelli

Massimo Silvio Morbidelli is an Italian chemical engineer, professor emeritus at ETH Zurich, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2026 for continuous biopharmaceutical processes.

Massoud T. Simnad

Massoud T. Simnad (1921-2002) was an Iranian-born American engineer and materials scientist who spent 25 years at General Atomics on nuclear fuels, reactors, and fusion materials, later teaching at UC San Diego.

Mats Hillert

Mats Hillert (1924–2022) was a Swedish metallurgist and professor of metallography at KTH in Stockholm who laid the foundation of computational thermodynamics and the Thermo-Calc software.

Matt Law

Matt Law is a materials chemist and professor at the University of California, Irvine, known for nanowire dye-sensitized solar cells and research on iron pyrite and BiVO4 photoanodes for solar water splitting.

Matteo Pasquali

Matteo Pasquali is a chemical engineer at Rice University, a professor and founding director of the Carbon Hub, known for developing scalable wet-spinning of carbon nanotube fibers.

Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger

Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger is an American mechanical engineer and combustion chemist who is Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education and a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Matthew Becker

Matthew Becker, also known as Matthew L. Becker, is an American polymer chemist and biomaterials researcher who is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Duke University.

Matthew Brake

Matthew Brake is an American mechanical engineer who studies jointed structures and coined tribomechadynamics; he won the 2012 PECASE at Sandia and is now a professor at the University of Delaware.

Matthew J. Harrington

Matthew J. Harrington is a Canadian-based materials scientist and Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry at McGill University, known for Science papers on metal-mediated mussel materials.

Matthew J. Zaluzec

Matthew J. Zaluzec is an American materials engineer who spent 27 years at Ford developing aluminum vehicle technology and is now a professor at the University of Florida.

Matthew Lakin

Matthew Lakin is a computer scientist at the University of New Mexico who builds molecular circuits from synthetic DNA and received a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Matthew McDowell

Matthew McDowell is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer at Georgia Tech who uses real-time imaging to reveal how battery materials degrade, and who received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.

Matthias Wuttig

Matthias Wuttig, born 1960 in Mettmann, Germany, is a physicist and professor at RWTH Aachen known for phase-change materials that store data in rewriteable discs and memory.

Matthieu Piel

Matthieu Piel (born 1973) is a French CNRS research director at Institut Curie in Paris who studies cell division, migration, and volume regulation using microfluidic devices; elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2025.

Mau-Chung Frank Chang (张懋中)

Mau-Chung Frank Chang (张懋中) is a Taiwanese-born electrical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for commercializing the HBT.

Maurice C. Fuerstenau

Maurice C. Fuerstenau (1933–2012) was an American mineral processing researcher known for froth flotation chemistry and hydrometallurgy, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Maurice M. Sevik

Maurice M. Sevik (1923–2011) was a Turkish-born American engineer who led the Navy's acoustic silencing of combatant ships and nuclear submarines, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Maurice Magnien

Maurice Magnien (1920–2001) was a French electrical engineer, Inspecteur général at EDF and head of the CGE's Marcoussis laboratory, who co-founded the Association pour l'histoire de l'électricité.

Maurice Roy

Maurice Roy (1899–1985) was a French mechanician, a pioneer of jet propulsion, director general of ONERA from 1949 to 1962, and president of the French Academy of Sciences in 1966.

Mauricio Futran

Mauricio Futran is a chemical engineer who led pharmaceutical process development at Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Janssen, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Mauricio Terrones

Mauricio Terrones is a Mexican physicist at Penn State known for research on carbon nanotubes and 2D materials, and head of its physics department since 2023.

Max Knoll

Max Knoll (1897–1969) was a German electrical engineer who co-invented the electron microscope with his student Ernst Ruska in Berlin in 1931 and later proposed the scanning principle behind the scanning electron microscope.

Max L. Williams, Jr

Max L. Williams, Jr. (1922–2013) was an American mechanical and aerospace engineer, a pioneer of fracture mechanics who founded the International Journal of Fracture in 1963.

Max S. Peters

Max S. Peters (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer and educator who served as dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1962 to 1978.

Max William Carbon

Max William Carbon was an American nuclear engineer who founded the University of Wisconsin–Madison's nuclear engineering department and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Maxime Faget

Maxime Faget (1921–2004) was an American aerospace engineer who designed the Mercury capsule, America's first crewed spacecraft, and shaped every NASA vehicle from Mercury through the Shuttle.

Maximilian Fichtner

Maximilian Fichtner (born 1961 in Heidelberg) is a German chemist, professor at the University of Ulm, and managing director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, known for rechargeable magnesium–sulfur batteries.