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Moriba Jah

Moriba Jah is an American aerospace engineer and astrodynamicist, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for ASTRIAGraph, a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship, and co-founding Privateer.

Morris Chang (张忠谋)

Morris Chang (張忠謀, born 1931, Ningbo) founded TSMC in 1987 as an ITRI–Philips joint venture, pioneering the pure-play foundry model after a 25-year Texas Instruments career; retired as chairman June 5, 2018.

Morris Cohen (metallurgist)

Morris Cohen (1911–2005) was an American metallurgist at MIT who worked out the mechanisms by which steel is strengthened and helped establish materials science as a distinct field.

Morris E. Fine

Morris E. Fine (1918–2015) was an American physical metallurgist who co-founded what is described as the first university materials science department at Northwestern and developed NUCu copper-strengthened steels used in Illinois bridges.

Morris Muskat

Morris Muskat (1906–1998) was an American petroleum engineer and physicist who established the mathematical theory of fluid flow through porous media and, with it, the field of petroleum reservoir engineering.

Morrough P. O'Brien

Morrough P. O'Brien, also known as Morrough Parker O'Brien, was an American engineer and dean of engineering at UC Berkeley, regarded as the founder of modern coastal engineering.

Morrough Parker O'Brien

Morrough Parker O'Brien (1902–1988) was an American engineer, professor, and dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of modern coastal engineering.

Morteza Mahmoudi

Morteza Mahmoudi, also published as M. Mahmoudi, is a nanomedicine researcher and Associate Professor at Michigan State University, formerly at Harvard, known for protein corona research and co-founding the Academic Parity Movement.

Mrdjan Jankovic

Mrdjan Jankovic is an American control systems engineer who spent 27 years at Ford developing powertrain and driver-assistance controls, and is a National Academy of Engineering member.

Muhammad Sahimi

Muhammad Sahimi is a chemical engineer who has taught at the University of Southern California since 1984, known for work on percolation theory and transport in porous media.

Mujid S. Kazimi

Mujid S. Kazimi (1947–2015) was a Palestinian-American nuclear engineer and MIT professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for contributions to reactor safety and the nuclear fuel cycle.

Murray B. Sachs

Murray B. Sachs (1940–2018) was an American auditory physiologist and biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who showed how the auditory nerve encodes speech and led its biomedical engineering department from 1991 to 2007.

Murray Gershenzon

Murray Gershenzon, known as M. Gershenzon, was a Bell Telephone Laboratories researcher at Murray Hill, New Jersey, who led its 1960s work on efficient gallium phosphide LEDs.

Murray Rosenblatt

Murray Rosenblatt (1926–2019) was an American statistician, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, known for introducing the strong mixing condition in time series analysis and kernel density estimation.

Murty P. Bhavaraju

Murty P. Bhavaraju is an Indian-American electric power reliability engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering for probabilistic reliability evaluation tools for large power systems.

Murty V. V. S. Yalla

Murty V. V. S. Yalla is an electrical engineer who designs digital protection devices for power grids and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.

Murugesu Sivapalan

Murugesu Sivapalan, born 1953, is a Sri Lankan-born hydrologist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for founding Predictions in Ungauged Basins and co-framing socio-hydrology.

Mustafa Khammash

Mustafa Khammash is a Jordanian-born control engineer and synthetic biologist who is Professor of Control Theory and Systems Biology at ETH Zurich in Basel, pioneering cybergenetics.

Mylavarapu Ramamoorty

Mylavarapu Ramamoorty is an Indian electrical engineer in power systems and power electronics, elected a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Myoung Hoon Song

Myoung Hoon Song (송명훈) is a materials scientist who has been a professor at UNIST in South Korea since 2009, known for perovskite LEDs, solar cells, and lasing research.

Myron Tribus

Myron Tribus (1921–2016) was an American engineer known for aircraft ice-protection systems, thermodynamics, and coining the term thermoeconomics in 1962; he led MIT's Center for Advanced Engineering Study and Dartmouth's Thayer School.

N. Jeremy Kasdin

N. Jeremy Kasdin is a Princeton aerospace engineer, emeritus Eugene Higgins Professor, known for shaped-pupil coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging and as Adjutant Scientist on NASA's Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument.

N.A. Fleck

N.A. Fleck, also known as Norman A. Fleck, is a British mechanical engineer, Professor of Mechanics of Materials at Cambridge, known for strain gradient plasticity theory.

Nadine Aubry

Nadine Aubry is a French-born American mechanical engineer at Tufts University who works in fluid dynamics, turbulence, and microfluidics, and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Nae‐Eung Lee

Nae-Eung Lee is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, known for flexible and stretchable sensors and for leading bio-inspired artificial tactile receptors published in Nature Materials in 2025.

Nam-Gyu Park

Nam-Gyu Park (박남규) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University who reported the first long-term stable solid-state perovskite solar cell in 2012.

Nam‐Soon Choi

Nam-Soon Choi (최남순) is a South Korean battery researcher and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for electrolyte additives for lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries, after research at Samsung SDI and UNIST.

Nancy Allbritton

Nancy Allbritton is an American bioengineer and physician, dean of engineering at the University of Washington since 2019 and a pioneer of single-cell analysis and gut-on-a-chip technology.

Nancy Deloye Fitzroy

Nancy Deloye Fitzroy (1927–2024) was an American chemical engineer at General Electric and in 1986 became the first woman to head a major US engineering society as ASME president.

Naoya Shibata

Naoya Shibata (柴田 直哉) is a Japanese materials scientist and University of Tokyo professor who developed atomic-resolution differential phase-contrast imaging and a magnetic-field-free electron microscope.