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Nomex honeycomb
Nomex honeycomb is a lightweight structural core made from DuPont's Nomex aramid paper dipped in phenolic resin, formed into hexagonal cells for aircraft sandwich panels.
Norman A. Abrahamson
Norman A. Abrahamson is an American engineering seismologist and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley known for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and the Next Generation Attenuation ground motion models.
Norman A. Gjostein
Norman A. Gjostein (1931–2006) was an American metallurgical engineer at Ford Motor Company, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for surface science research.
Norman Brooks (environmental engineer)
Norman Herrick Brooks, born in 1928, is an American environmental engineer and hydraulics researcher at Caltech known for pollutant transport studies and wastewater outfall design.
Norman N. Li
Norman N. Li (黎念之) is a Chinese-American chemical engineer who invented liquid membrane technology at Exxon, held about 44 US patents, and received the Perkin Medal in 2000.
Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine is an American aerospace executive who led Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin and chaired major U.S. space program reviews in 1990 and 2009.
Norman R. Morrow
Norman R. Morrow is a petroleum engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Wyoming, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for research on wettability and oil recovery.
Norman R. Scott
Norman R. Scott, or Norman Roy Scott, is an American agricultural and biological engineer, a Cornell professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Norman Ralph Augustine
Norman Ralph Augustine (born 1935) is an American aerospace engineer and executive who led Martin Marietta and then Lockheed Martin, the nation's largest defense contractor.
Nripan Mathews
Nripan Mathews is a Singapore-based materials scientist and associate professor at Nanyang Technological University known for perovskite solar cells, memristive neuromorphic devices, and solar-panel silicon recycling.
Octave Levenspiel
Octave Levenspiel is a chemical engineer and Oregon State University professor known as the founder of chemical reaction engineering and author of its standard 1962 textbook.
Odd Magnus Faltinsen
Odd Magnus Faltinsen, born 1944 in Stavanger, Norway, is a Norwegian marine hydrodynamicist and Professor Emeritus at NTNU, known for wave loads, slamming, and sloshing theories.
Odest C. Jenkins
Odest C. Jenkins, also known as Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, is an American computer scientist in robot learning and human-robot interaction, a professor at the University of Michigan since 2015.
Olaf A. Hougen
Olaf A. Hougen (1893–1986) was an American chemical engineer and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose Langmuir–Hinshelwood–Hougen–Watson method remains standard for deriving catalytic rate expressions.
Oleg D. Sherby
Oleg D. Sherby (1925–2015) was an American materials scientist at Stanford University whose work linked high-temperature creep to self-diffusion, opened the study of superplasticity, and created ultrahigh carbon steels.
Oleg Gang
Oleg Gang is a soft matter and nanomaterials researcher known for DNA-guided assembly of nanoparticles into designed 3D crystals, leading a Brookhaven group and teaching at Columbia since 2016.
Oleg Losev
Oleg Vladimirovich Losev (1903–1942) was a self-taught Russian radio engineer who made the first detailed study of electroluminescence in crystal diodes and invented the crystadyne amplifier.
Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Olgierd (Olek) Cecil Zienkiewicz was a British civil engineer, a leading developer of the finite element method, and professor at Swansea University from 1961 to 1988.
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley (1887–1959) was an American telecommunications engineer who joined Bell System research in 1914 and served as president of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1940 to 1950.
Oliver G. Schmidt
Oliver G. Schmidt, born 1971 in Kiel, is a German physicist and nanotechnologist working on functional nanostructures, micromotors, and microrobotics, and winner of the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
Oliver Gutfleisch
Oliver Gutfleisch is a German materials scientist, professor of Functional Materials at TU Darmstadt since 2012, known for magnetic cooling research, permanent magnets, and the recycling of rare earths.
Olivier Delaire
Olivier Delaire is a materials scientist and associate professor at Duke University, formerly of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, known for neutron-scattering studies of phonons in energy materials.
Olle Inganäs
Olle Inganäs is a Swedish physicist and professor emeritus of biomolecular and organic electronics at Linköping University, known for research on conjugated polymers, organic solar cells, and biopolymer energy storage.
Omar F. Mohammed
Omar F. Mohammed is a physical chemist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia who leads ultrafast electron imaging research on solar cells and X-ray scintillators.
Omid Farokhzad
Omid Farokhzad is a physician-scientist in nanomedicine who developed targeted nanoparticles for cancer drug delivery, founded the Center for Nanomedicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and leads Seer, Inc.
Ongun Alsaç
Ongun Alsaç is a power systems engineer known as co-creator of the fast decoupled load flow and security-constrained optimal power flow, methods used commercially by electricity system operators worldwide.
Onome Scott-Emuakpor
Onome Scott-Emuakpor is an American aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base known for an energy-based fatigue-life prediction method for turbine engine materials and a 2013 PECASE award.
Orlando J. Rojas
Orlando J. Rojas is a materials scientist working on nanocellulose and bio-based materials, Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of British Columbia and winner of the Anselme Payen Award.
Orlin D. Velev
Orlin D. Velev is a chemical engineer and colloid scientist, the Culberson Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University since 2001, known for directed colloidal assembly and droplet microfluidics.
Orville Wright
Orville Wright (1871–1948) was an American aviation pioneer who, with his older brother Wilbur, made the first controlled, powered, sustained flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903.