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Minah Lee

Minah Lee (이민아) is a South Korean electrochemist and associate professor at POSTECH, known for organic sodium-ion battery electrodes and low-energy regeneration of spent lithium-ion cathodes.

Ming Zheng

Ming Zheng, also known as Ming Sen Zheng, is a research chemist at NIST whose DNA-based method made single-chirality carbon nanotubes available for electronics and sensing.

Ming Zhou

Ming Zhou is an engineer known as a founder of structural topology optimization and co-author of the SIMP method, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025.

Ming‐Yong Han

Ming-Yong Han (韩明勇) is a nanomaterials and quantum-dot researcher who is a professor at Tianjin University, formerly at A*STAR in Singapore, known for quantum-dot-tagged microbeads.

Minghao Yu

Minghao Yu is a Chinese-born materials electrochemist at TU Dresden who researches supercapacitors, aqueous batteries, and multivalent metal batteries, leading a group there since 2019.

Mingwei Chen

Mingwei Chen (陳明偉) is a materials scientist who has been a professor at Johns Hopkins University since 2017, known for work on metallic glasses and nanoporous materials.

Mingyuan Gao

Mingyuan Gao (高明远) is a Chinese nanomaterials chemist who develops nanoparticle probes for molecular imaging and cancer theranostics; he is Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine at Soochow University.

Minoru S. Araki

Minoru S. Araki, known professionally as Sam Araki, was a Japanese American aerospace engineer who spent 39 years at Lockheed and led the Corona reconnaissance satellite program.

Miqin Zhang

Miqin Zhang is a materials scientist at the University of Washington who develops iron oxide and graphene quantum dot nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and therapy.

Miranda Yap

Miranda Gek Sim Yap (1948–2015) was a Singapore biochemical engineer who pioneered mammalian cell culture, founded A*STAR's Bioprocessing Technology Institute, and was the first foreign female associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.

Miroslav Krstić

Miroslav Krstić is a control theorist and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego whose extremum-seeking methods enabled EUV chip lithography and jet landings on Gerald Ford-class carriers.

Mitchell Spearrin

Mitchell Spearrin is an American mechanical engineer and professor at UCLA who develops laser-based sensors for chemically reacting flows, earning a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Mladen Kezunovic

Mladen Kezunovic is an electrical engineer at Texas A&M University known for protective relaying and automated power system fault analysis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Moe Z. Win

Moe Z. Win is an American electrical engineer, the Robert R. Taylor Professor at MIT, known for ultra-wideband radio research and the paper "Fundamental Limits of Wideband Localization."

Mohamed M. Atalla

Mohamed M. Atalla, known as John Atalla (1924–2009), was an Egyptian-American engineer at Bell Labs who, with Dawon Kahng, demonstrated the first MOSFET in 1959–1960.

Mohammad Asadi

Mohammad Asadi is an associate professor of chemical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology known for lithium-air batteries, including a 2023 solid-state cell rechargeable for 1,000 cycles.

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, also published as Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, is an Indian-born materials chemist at EPFL in Switzerland known for dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells.

Moises Carreon

Moises Carreon is a chemical engineer at the Colorado School of Mines who researches zeolite and metal-organic framework membranes for gas separations and received the 2012 PECASE award.

Molly Shoichet

Molly S. Shoichet is a Canadian biomaterials scientist at the University of Toronto known for injectable hydrogels delivering drugs and stem cells to the injured spinal cord and retina.

Molly Stevens

Molly Stevens is a bioengineer working at the interface of materials and living tissue, John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at Oxford since 2023 after leading research at Imperial College London from 2004.

Monica C. Regalbuto

Monica C. Regalbuto is a Mexican-born American chemical engineer who works on the nuclear fuel cycle, serving as Vice-President of Science and Technology at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories.

Mónica Lira‐Cantú

Mónica Lira-Cantú, also published as Monica Lira-Cantu, is a Spanish materials scientist who leads the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy group at ICN2 near Barcelona and coordinated the European StableNextSol network on perovskite solar cell stability.

Monica Reza

Monica Reza, known professionally as Monica Jacinto, is an American aerospace materials scientist who co-invented Mondaloy burn-resistant superalloys and led a materials group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Monroe Spaght

Monroe Spaght was an American research chemist who led Shell Oil Company as president and CEO from 1961 to 1965 and as chairman until 1970.

Moon‐Ho Jo

Moon-Ho Jo (조문호) is a South Korean materials scientist, Mueunjae Chair Professor at POSTECH since 2018, who directs an IBS center on atomically thin semiconductors and scaled MoS2 transistors.

Moonsub Shim

Moonsub Shim is an American materials chemist, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2002, known for n-type colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals and nanorod LEDs.

Morgan B. Abney

Morgan B. Abney is an American chemical engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center who works on oxygen recovery for spaceflight and received a 2011 PECASE award.

Morgan Chuan-Yuan Sze

Morgan Chuan-Yuan Sze (1916–2015) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who worked on petroleum refining and synthetic fuels and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Morgan Sparks

Morgan Sparks (1916–2008) was an American physical chemist who fabricated the first junction transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1951 and directed Sandia National Laboratories from 1972 to 1981.

Morgan Trassin

Morgan Trassin, born 1982, is a materials scientist and professor at ETH Zurich who studies ferroelectric oxide thin films and leads the NEAT team there.