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Paul C. Jennings
Paul C. Jennings is an American earthquake engineer, Caltech professor emeritus, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977, Caltech's provost twice, and a recipient of ASCE's Newmark Medal.
Paul C. Paris
Paul C. Paris (1930–2017) was an American engineer who formulated the Paris law, the power-law equation used to predict fatigue crack growth in aircraft and vehicles.
Paul Daniel Dapkus
Paul Daniel Dapkus is an American electrical engineer and USC professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for making MOCVD the dominant process for laser diodes and LEDs.
Paul de Casteljau
Paul de Faget de Casteljau (1930–2022) was a French mathematician who, working at Citroën from 1958, discovered the de Casteljau algorithm used to evaluate Bézier curves.
Paul Dyer Merica
Paul Dyer Merica (1889–1957) was an American physical metallurgist who explained why aluminum alloys harden spontaneously after heat treatment, and who rose from refinery metallurgist to president of International Nickel.
Paul E. Dimotakis
Paul E. Dimotakis is an experimental fluid dynamicist at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for work on turbulence, mixing, and jet propulsion.
Paul E. Gray
Paul E. Gray (1932–2017) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at MIT, serving as its fourteenth president from 1980 to 1990 and later chairing the MIT Corporation.
Paul E. Krajewski
Paul E. Krajewski is an American materials scientist at General Motors who developed lightweight automotive materials and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Paul E. Queneau
Paul E. Queneau was an American extractive metallurgist who pioneered oxygen smelting to cut pollution, helped invent the QSL lead process, and spent 35 years at International Nickel.
Paul E. Rubbert
Paul E. Rubbert is a retired Boeing aerospace engineer and pioneer of computational fluid dynamics, who led Boeing's Aerodynamics Research Unit and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Paul E. Waggoner
Paul E. Waggoner was an American plant pathologist and climatologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, known for EPIDEM, the first computer simulation of plant diseases.
Paul Edward Waggoner
Paul Edward Waggoner (1923–2022) was an American plant pathologist and climatologist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, known for EPIDEM, the first computer simulation of plant diseases.
Paul F. Chenea
Paul F. Chenea (1918–1996) was an American mechanical engineer and Purdue University vice president who led General Motors research from 1969 to 1982, specializing in continuum mechanics.
Paul G. Gaffney II
Paul G. Gaffney II is a retired US Navy vice admiral and oceanographer who led the Naval Research Laboratory and served as president of Monmouth University.
Paul G. Kaminski
Paul G. Kaminski is an American defense technologist and retired Air Force colonel, born in 1942, known for leading stealth aircraft development and reforming Pentagon weapons acquisition.
Paul G. Shewmon
Paul G. Shewmon (born 1930) is an American metallurgist and National Academy of Engineering member known for diffusion in solids and the textbook Diffusion in Solids.
Paul H. Siegel
Paul H. Siegel, born 1953, is an American information theorist and Distinguished Professor at UCSD, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for coding techniques for digital recording.
Paul Heremans
Paul Heremans (Paul L. Heremans) is an electrical engineer who became corporate chief technology officer at imec in Leuven in 2025 and is a full professor at KU Leuven.
Paul J. Kern
Paul J. Kern is a retired US Army four-star general who commanded the Army Materiel Command from 2001 to 2004 and led the Army's battlefield digitization.
Paul J. Turinsky
Paul J. Turinsky is an American nuclear engineer at NC State known for computational reactor physics and nuclear fuel management, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Paul John Carter
Paul John Carter is an antibody engineer and Genentech Fellow whose humanization and knobs-into-holes technologies underlie approved antibody drugs; he joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Paul Josef Turinsky
Paul Josef Turinsky is an American nuclear engineer at NC State known for computational reactor physics and nuclear fuel management, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.
Paul K. Wright
Paul K. Wright is a British-born mechanical engineer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for the first open-architecture control of manufacturing systems, the CyberCut CAD/CAM project, and energy-scavenging research for the Internet of Things.
Paul Kolbach
Paul Kolbach (1894–1974) was a Luxembourg-born brewing scientist and chemist who spent his career at the VLB in Berlin, introduced pH measurement into brewing chemistry, and gave his name to the Kolbachzahl and the Grad Windisch-Kolbach.
Paul Laibinis
Paul Laibinis is an American chemical engineer who specializes in surface chemistry, developing coatings that protect metals from corrosion and resist protein adsorption. He received a PECASE award in 1996.
Paul M. Anderson
Paul M. Anderson (1926–2011) was an American electrical engineer, a professor at Iowa State University, and author of standard textbooks on power system analysis and stability.
Paul M. Cook
Paul M. Cook (1924–2020) was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded Raychem Corporation in 1957, commercializing radiation chemistry, and won the National Medal of Technology in 1988.
Paul M. Naghdi
Paul M. Naghdi (1924–1994) was an Iranian-born engineering scientist and professor at UC Berkeley for 36 years, known for shell theory, plasticity, and the 1980 Timoshenko Medal.
Paul Marasco
Paul Marasco is an American neuroscientist and biomedical engineer who heads the Laboratory for Bionic Integration at Cleveland Clinic and directs amputee research at the Cleveland VA, restoring touch to prosthetic limbs.
Paul N. Blumberg
Paul N. Blumberg is an American engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for automotive-system modeling that improved emissions control and fuel economy.