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Michael Stadler

Michael Stadler is an Austrian energy-systems scientist who received the 2013 PECASE award as lead developer of the microgrid tool DER-CAM at Berkeley Lab, then co-founded Xendee in San Diego.

Michael Strano

Michael S. Strano is an American chemical engineer and Carbon P. Dubbs Professor at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for nanotechnology.

Michael Thackeray

Michael M. Thackeray, born 1949 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a battery materials chemist who invented the manganese spinel and NMC lithium-ion cathodes at CSIR and Argonne National Laboratory.

Michael Tonks

Michael Tonks is a computational materials scientist who created the MARMOT mesoscale tool for modeling nuclear reactor fuels and received the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Michaël Unser

Michaël Unser is a Swiss signal-processing and biomedical-imaging researcher, Full Professor at EPFL since 2000 after twelve years at the NIH, and recipient of the 2025 Norbert Wiener Award.

Michael V. Arbige

Michael V. Arbige is an industrial biotechnology scientist who led enzyme research at Genencor and then DuPont Industrial Biosciences, credited with helping create more than 300 commercial products.

Michael Vivian Sefton

Michael Vivian Sefton is a Canadian biomedical engineer and University Professor at the University of Toronto, known as a founder of cell-polymer tissue engineering and cell microencapsulation.

Michael Wagner (mechanical engineer)

Michael J. Wagner is an American mechanical engineer who won a PECASE award at NREL for concentrating solar power modeling and is now a professor at UW–Madison.

Michael Yachnis

Michael Yachnis (1922–2012) was a Greek-born American civil engineer, chief engineer of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

Michael Z. Lin

Michael Z. Lin is a Stanford professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering who engineers molecular tools for reading and controlling biology, including the ASAP voltage indicators and the RASER cancer-signaling system.

Michel Hug

Michel Hug (1930–2019) was a French hydraulic engineer and professor who led the planning, engineering, and construction of France's nuclear power program at Électricité de France from 1972 to 1982.

Michel T. Halbouty

Michel T. Halbouty (1909–2004) was an American geologist and petroleum engineer, an independent wildcatter credited with discovering more than fifty oil and gas fields while drilling in at least twenty-six states.

Michel Virlogeux

Michel Virlogeux Consultant SARL is the consulting practice of French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, who left public service in 1995 and designed the Pont de Normandie and Millau Viaduct.

Michel W. Barsoum

Michel W. Barsoum, also known as M. W. Barsoum, is a materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at Drexel University known for MAX phases and for discovering MXenes in 2011.

Michele Jamiolkowski

Michele Jamiolkowski (1932–2023) was a Polish-born Italian geotechnical engineer who founded the Politecnico di Torino's geotechnical school and led the effort to stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Miguel A Modestino

Miguel A. Modestino is a chemical engineer who is the Donald F. Othmer Associate Professor at New York University, known for electrifying chemical manufacturing, especially the electrosynthesis of adiponitrile, a precursor to Nylon.

Miguel Velez-Reyes

Miguel Vélez-Reyes is an electrical engineer and chair of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, known for hyperspectral image processing and space domain awareness.

Mihran S. Agbabian

Mihran S. Agbabian was an Armenian American civil engineer specializing in earthquake engineering who chaired civil engineering at USC and served as founding president of the American University of Armenia.

Mikhail Shapiro

Mikhail Shapiro is a biochemical engineer at Caltech, an HHMI Investigator known for developing the first acoustic reporter genes, which make cells visible to ultrasound.

Milad Abolhasani

Milad Abolhasani is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at North Carolina State University, known for building self-driving fluidic laboratories that combine robotics, flow chemistry, and artificial intelligence to discover materials.

Milan M. Jovanovic

Milan M. Jovanović (1952–2018) was a power-electronics engineer, trained at Virginia Tech, who led R&D at Delta Electronics; his converter techniques reached hundreds of millions of power supplies.

Milan Stojanovic

Milan Stojanovic, also known as Milan N. Stojanović, is a Serbian-born organic chemist at Columbia University working in DNA nanotechnology and computing, known for MAYA and molecular spiders.

Milica Radisic

Milica Radisic is a chemical engineer and professor at the University of Toronto known for the Biowire and AngioChip platforms that grow functional human heart tissue from stem cells.

Milo C. Bell

Milo C. Bell (1905–1998) was an American fisheries and hydraulic engineer who designed the Hell's Gate fishways on the Fraser River and fish-passage facilities at Columbia River dams.

Milo S. Ketchum

Milo S. Ketchum (Milo Smith Ketchum Jr., 1910–1999) was an American structural engineer known for thin-shell concrete roofs and space frames, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.

Milton C. Edlund

Milton C. Edlund (Milton Carl Edlund) was an American nuclear engineer who invented spectral shift reactor control and built the nuclear engineering program at Virginia Tech.

Milton Carl Edlund

Milton Carl Edlund (1924–1993) was an American nuclear engineer who co-wrote the first authoritative book on nuclear reactor theory and led Virginia Tech's nuclear engineering program.

Milton E. Harr

Milton E. Harr (1925–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and longtime Purdue University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for pioneering probabilistic soil mechanics.

Milton E. Wadsworth

Milton E. Wadsworth (1922–2013) was an American extractive metallurgist at the University of Utah, known for hydrometallurgy and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.

Milton Edward Harr

Milton Edward Harr (1925–2024) was an American geotechnical engineer and emeritus Purdue professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for pioneering probabilistic soil mechanics.