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Osama Nayfeh
Osama M. Nayfeh, also published as Sam Nayfeh, is an American electrical engineer and Senior Engineer/Scientist at NIWC Pacific in San Diego, who received a 2014 PECASE award.
Osamu Mishima
Osamu Mishima (三島 修) is a Japanese materials scientist, born in Hiroshima in 1951, whose high-pressure ice experiments at NIMS established polyamorphism and the two amorphous forms of water.
Osborne Reynolds
Osborne Reynolds was an Anglo-Irish engineer and physicist who held the Chair of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester, from 1868 to 1905 and established the Reynolds number.
Oscar D. Dubon Jr.
Oscar D. Dubon Jr. is an American materials scientist, professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who won the 2004 Presidential Early Career Award for semiconductor research.
Osman M. Bakr
Osman M. Bakr is a Saudi materials scientist and professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, known for perovskite single crystals for solar cells and radiation detection.
Osvaldo A. Bascur
Osvaldo A. Bascur is a Chilean-born mineral-processing engineer who created the Dynafloat and Dynamill simulation models and, at OSIsoft, a sensor-to-enterprise blueprint for mining operations.
Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.
Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard, Jr. (1916–2004) was an American radio physicist and electrical engineer at Stanford University, known for over-the-horizon radar, meteor-burst communication, and ionospheric sounding.
Othmane Benafan
Othmane Benafan is a Moroccan-born American materials research engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center who has led shape memory alloy development since 2011, including flight-tested folding wings and rock-splitting tools.
Otto H. Schade
Otto H. Schade (1903–1981) was a German-born American television engineer and imaging scientist who spent his career at RCA, known for developing the modulation transfer function concept.
Otto Redlich
Otto Redlich, born in Vienna in 1896, was an Austrian-born American chemist who published the 1949 Redlich–Kwong equation of state and the Redlich–Kister expansion while at Shell and UC Berkeley.
Otto Schmitt
Otto Schmitt (1913–1998) was an American biophysicist and electrical engineer at the University of Minnesota, inventor of the Schmitt trigger circuit and coiner of "biomimetics."
Ovijit Chaudhuri
Ovijit Chaudhuri is a Stanford professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering known for showing that extracellular matrix viscoelasticity, not just stiffness, regulates stem cell spreading and differentiation.
P. Hunter Peckham
P. Hunter Peckham is a biomedical engineer at Case Western Reserve University and National Academy of Engineering member, a pioneer of functional electrical stimulation neuroprostheses for tetraplegia.
P. Pradip
P. Pradip, born 1956, is an Indian mineral-processing and particle-technology scientist, Chief Scientist at Tata's TRDDC in Pune and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering.
P.V. Kokotović
P.V. Kokotović, also written Petar V. Kokotovic, born in Belgrade in 1934, is a control theorist and Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara, creator of backstepping.
Palle R. Rao
Palle R. Rao, also known as Palle Rama Rao, is an Indian metallurgist who won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1979 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
Paloma Beamer
Paloma Beamer is an exposure scientist and environmental engineer at the University of Arizona, a 2025 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Pamela J. VandeVord
Pamela J. VandeVord is an American biomedical engineer who studies blast-induced neurotrauma and hemostatic nanotechnology, receiving a Presidential Early Career Award in 2009 at Wayne State University.
Panganamala Ramana Kumar
Panganamala Ramana Kumar is a control and communication-networks engineer, Regents Professor at Texas A&M University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007, whose scheduling policy has run an IBM wafer fab since 2005.
Paolo Addesso
Paolo Addesso is an Italian electronic engineer and associate professor at the University of Salerno who works in statistical signal processing, with applications to remote sensing and gravitational-wave detection.
Paolo Decuzzi
Paolo Decuzzi is an Italian bioengineer who designs drug-carrying nanoparticles and directs the Laboratory of Nanotechnology for Precision Medicine at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.
Partha P. Mukherjee
Partha P. Mukherjee is a mechanical engineer and electrochemical energy researcher, professor at Purdue University since 2017, known for modeling batteries and fuel cells and named an ASME Fellow in 2025.
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin is a Stanford mechanical engineering professor who pioneered direct numerical and large-eddy simulation of turbulence and founded the Center for Turbulence Research in 1987.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger, also known as Patrick Paul Gelsinger, is an American technology executive and electrical engineer who was CEO of Intel from 2021 to 2024, previously leading VMware.
Patrice Simon
Patrice Simon is a French materials scientist and electrochemist, professor at Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, known for his work on nanoporous carbons for supercapacitors.
Patrick Hsu
Patrick Hsu, also known as Patrick D. Hsu, is an American bioengineer, Arc Institute co-founder, and Stanford professor known for bridge RNAs, the first programmable RNA-guided DNA recombinases.
Paul A. Beck
Paul A. Beck (1908–1997) was a Hungarian-born American physical metallurgist and professor of metallurgy at the University of Illinois, known for research on recrystallization textures and transition-metal alloy phases.
Paul A. Libby
Paul A. Libby (1921–2021) was an American aerospace engineer and founding faculty member at UC San Diego, known for the Bray–Moss–Libby model of premixed turbulent flames.
Paul B. Weisz
Paul B. Weisz (1919–2012) was a Czechoslovakia-born American engineer at Mobil whose zeolite catalyst work founded shape-selective catalysis, earning National Academy of Engineering election in 1977.
Paul Bevilaqua
Paul Bevilaqua is an American aeronautical engineer, formerly of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, who invented the shaft-driven lift fan that lets the F-35B fly supersonic and land vertically, earning the 2001 Collier Trophy.