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Michael F. Doherty

Michael F. Doherty is an American chemical engineer at UC Santa Barbara known for distillation design and crystal shape prediction, and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Michael F. Rubner

Michael F. Rubner is a materials scientist and TDK Professor Emeritus at MIT known for layer-by-layer assembly of water-based polymer coatings, including anti-fogging and anti-reflection films.

Michael Field (metal cutting engineer)

Michael Field (born 1914) is an American engineer in metal cutting research who co-founded Metcut Research Associates in Cincinnati and coined "surface integrity" with John Kahles in 1964.

Michael G. Debije

Michael G. Debije is an American materials scientist and associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, known for research on luminescent solar concentrators for urban settings.

Michael Hatzakis

Michael Hatzakis (1927/28–February 3, 2023) was a Greek-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow who pioneered electron-beam lithography, introduced PMMA resist, and later directed the Institute of Microelectronics in Athens.

Michael J. Aziz

Michael J. Aziz, born 1956, is an American materials scientist and Harvard professor since 1986, co-inventor of the aqueous organic redox flow battery and co-founder of Quino Energy.

Michael J. Escuti

Michael J. Escuti is an American electrical engineer and professor at North Carolina State University, known for liquid-crystal polarization gratings used in beam steering, displays, and polarimetric imaging.

Michael J. Fasolka

Michael J. Fasolka is an American materials scientist at NIST known for combinatorial gradient methods and nanoscale polymer metrology, a 2004 PECASE recipient, and Associate Director of its Material Measurement Laboratory.

Michael J. Fetkovich

Michael J. Fetkovich (1933–2020) was an American petroleum engineer who spent his career at Phillips Petroleum in Oklahoma and created the decline-curve type-curve method bearing his name.

Michael J. McGuire

Michael J. McGuire is an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for improving the safety and taste of drinking water.

Michael J. Mitchell

Michael J. Mitchell is an American bioengineer and Hibbert Professor at the University of Pennsylvania who designs lipid nanoparticles carrying mRNA and gene-editing machinery to organs beyond the liver.

Michael Jerome Yaszemski

Michael Jerome Yaszemski is an American orthopedic spine surgeon and biomedical engineer at the Mayo Clinic who directs its Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory and is a retired Air Force brigadier general.

Michael Jewett

Michael C. Jewett is an American synthetic biologist and Stanford bioengineering professor known for cell-free synthetic biology, after leading Northwestern's Center for Synthetic Biology from 2015 to 2022.

Michael L. Corradini

Michael L. Corradini is an American nuclear engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for reactor safety research.

Michael L. Looper

Michael L. Looper is an American animal scientist who won the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award and heads the animal science department at the University of Arkansas.

Michael L. Shuler

Michael L. Shuler is an American biochemical engineer at Cornell University, best known for creating the first chemically accurate mathematical model of a living cell and pioneering body-on-a-chip drug testing.

Michael Laird King

Michael Laird King is an American chemical engineer and professor of practice at the University of Virginia known for vaccine manufacturing, after 32 years at Merck & Co.

Michael Lawrence Haider

Michael Lawrence Haider (1904–1986) was an American petroleum engineer who served as chairman and chief executive officer of Standard Oil (New Jersey) from 1965 to 1969.

Michael Lee Boninger

Michael Lee Boninger is a physician-engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, a National Academy of Medicine member known for brain-computer interfaces restoring movement and touch.

Michael Loewenberg

Michael Loewenberg is a chemical engineer and Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University who studies complex fluids, including emulsions, foams, suspensions, and microfluidics.

Michael M. Carroll

Michael M. Carroll (1936–2016) was an Irish-born mechanician who taught at UC Berkeley, served as dean of engineering at Rice University, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

Michael McAlpine

Michael C. McAlpine is the Kuhrmeyer Family Chair Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, known for 3D-printed bionic devices including a bionic ear and bionic eyes.

Michael Moseler

Michael Moseler is a German physicist and materials scientist who heads the Tribology Business Unit at Fraunhofer IWM and is a full professor at the University of Freiburg.

Michael N. Fardis

Michael N. Fardis is a Greek structural and earthquake engineer, Emeritus Professor at the University of Patras, who chaired the committee that drafted Eurocode 8.

Michael Naguib

Michael Naguib is an Egyptian-born materials scientist known for discovering MXenes, a family of two-dimensional carbides and nitrides, as a PhD student at Drexel University.

Michael R. Krames

Michael R. Krames is an American electrical engineer in LED semiconductors who led LED work at Hewlett Packard, Philips Lumileds, and Soraa before founding Arkesso LLC in 2015.

Michael R. Ladisch

Michael R. Ladisch is an American chemical engineer at Purdue University, known for bioseparations and biomass conversion research and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Michael R. Sfat

Michael R. Sfat, born Mircea Radu Sfat (1921–2012), was a Romanian-born American biochemical engineer who led Bio-Technical Resources in Wisconsin and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Michael S. Arnold

Michael S. Arnold is an American materials scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for research on carbon nanotubes, graphene nanoribbons, and a Presidential Early Career Award.

Michael Saliba

Michael Saliba (born 1983) is a German physicist and director of the Institute for Photovoltaics at the University of Stuttgart, known for triple-cation perovskite solar cells.