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Nicholas Turner (chemist)
Nicholas J. Turner (born 1960) is a British chemist at the University of Manchester known for engineering enzymes, above all imine reductases, as biocatalysts for making chiral amines.
Nick Donofrio
Nick Donofrio is an American electrical engineer who spent 44 years at IBM, retiring in 2008 as Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology, and now chairs Quantexa.
Nick Holonyak
Nick Holonyak Jr. (1928–2022) was an American electronics engineer who demonstrated the first practical visible LED at General Electric in 1962, and later taught for fifty years at the University of Illinois.
Nick Newman (naval architect)
Nick Newman, born 1935, is an American naval architect and marine hydrodynamicist, MIT professor emeritus known for the textbook Marine Hydrodynamics and the wave-load code WAMIT.
Nick Parziale
Nick Parziale, or Nicholaus Parziale, is an American experimental fluid dynamicist and professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, known for krypton tagging velocimetry in supersonic and hypersonic flows.
Nickolas J. Themelis
Nickolas J. Themelis, born 1933, is an American chemical metallurgist, Columbia University professor, and National Academy of Engineering member known for the Noranda copper smelting process and waste-to-energy research.
Nicola Gasparini
Nicola Gasparini is an Associate Professor in Electronic Materials at Imperial College London who leads the Gaspa Group and won the 2024 RSC Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize.
Nicolas Voelcker
Nicolas H. Voelcker is a bionanotechnologist who works on porous silicon nanostructures for biosensors and drug delivery, and is Scientific Director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication.
Niels Hansen (materials scientist)
Niels Erik Ottesen Hansen (1933–2021) was a Danish materials scientist at Risø National Laboratory known for work on strengthening polycrystalline metals and dislocation mechanisms of plastic flow.
Nigel Peter Brandon
Nigel Peter Brandon is a British electrochemical engineer, Professor and Dean of Engineering at Imperial College London, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022 for solid oxide fuel cells.
Nikhil Koratkar
Nikhil Koratkar is an Indian-born American materials scientist and mechanical engineer who holds a chaired professorship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for nanomaterials research and lithium battery work.
Nikolaos A. Peppas
Nikolaos A. Peppas is a Greek-American chemical and biomedical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, known for hydrogels, controlled drug delivery, and the Peppas equation.
Nikolaus A. Adams
Nikolaus A. Adams (born 1963) is a German mechanical engineer and computational fluid dynamicist, professor and chair of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics at the Technical University of Munich since 2004.
Nikolay Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский) (scientist)
Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский, 1847–1921) was a Russian mathematician and engineer called the father of Russian aviation; his 1906 lift theorem underlies wing theory.
Nina Balke
Nina Balke is a materials scientist working on nanoscale electrochemistry with atomic force microscopy; after eleven years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, she joined NC State in 2021.
Ning Gu
Ning Gu (顾宁, Gu Ning, born 1964) is a Chinese biomedical nanomaterials scientist and Nanjing University professor, elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021, known for nanozymes.
Ning Li
Ning Li (李宁) is a materials scientist who works on organic photovoltaics, perovskite, and tandem solar cells, leading a research group at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou.
Nini Pryds
Nini Pryds is a Danish materials scientist who heads the Functional Oxide Materials section at the Technical University of Denmark, studying oxide interfaces and elastocaloric heat pumps.
Nir Tessler
Nir Tessler is a professor of electrical engineering at the Technion in Israel who works on organic semiconductor devices and halide perovskite solar cells, including a 1996 Nature polymer lasing paper.
Niren Murthy
Niren Murthy is an American bioengineer and professor of bioengineering at UC Berkeley known for biodegradable polymers and lipid nanoparticles that deliver drugs and gene-editing machinery into cells.
Nissim Calderon
Nissim Calderon (1933–2020) was an American polymer scientist and Goodyear research executive who discovered the olefin metathesis reaction in 1964 and was named the 2020 Charles Goodyear Medalist.
Nitash Balsara
Nitash P. Balsara is a chemical engineer who has been a professor at UC Berkeley since 2000 and studies block copolymer electrolytes for rechargeable lithium batteries; he co-founded the battery companies Seeo and Blue Current.
Nitin P. Padture
Nitin P. Padture is an American materials scientist and engineer, Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University, known for perovskite solar cells and gas-turbine ceramic coatings.
Noa Lincoln
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln is an American agroecologist and associate professor of Indigenous Crops and Cropping Systems at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, studying traditional Hawaiian agriculture.
Noah J. Cowan
Noah J. Cowan is an American mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University who studies locomotion control in animals and robots, founding the LIMBS Laboratory and winning a 2010 PECASE award.
Noboru Kikuchi
Noboru Kikuchi is a Japanese mechanical engineer, University of Michigan professor emeritus and former president of Toyota Central R&D Labs, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Nobukazu Teranishi
Nobukazu Teranishi (寺西 信一) is a Japanese engineer who invented the pinned photodiode at NEC in 1980, used in almost all image sensors, earning the 2017 Queen Elizabeth Prize.
Noel C. Giebink
Noel C. Giebink, known as Chris Giebink, is an American electrical engineer who works on photovoltaics and organic optoelectronics; since 2023 he has been a professor at the University of Michigan.
Noel Thomas Clemens
Noel Thomas Clemens is an aerospace engineer at UT Austin elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for laser-based measurements of high-speed flows.
Noh Yong-young
Noh Yong-young (노용영, also written Yong-Young Noh) is a South Korean semiconductor researcher and Namgo Chair Professor at POSTECH since 2019, known for p-type oxide and perovskite thin-film transistors.