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Quinn Burlingame
Quinn C. Burlingame is a solar-cell researcher at Princeton University who studies the stability of organic and perovskite photovoltaics, and co-led a 2019 Nature study showing packaged organic solar cells can be intrinsically stable.
R. Bruce Thompson
R. Bruce Thompson (1941–2011) was an Iowa State University professor and National Academy of Engineering member who pioneered quantitative ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation, including the Thompson-Gray Measurement Model.
R. Byron Pipes
R. Byron Pipes is an American polymer and composites researcher at Purdue University, known for the 1970 Pipes–Pagano analysis and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
R. Joseph Kline
R. Joseph Kline is a materials scientist at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland, who developed X-ray metrology methods for 3D nanostructures in the semiconductor industry and received a 2012 PECASE award.
R. Noel Longuemare
R. Noel Longuemare is an American electrical engineer who spent 41 years developing radar and avionics systems at Westinghouse, then served in the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton.
R. Peter King
R. Peter King (1938–2006) was a South African-born metallurgical engineer and University of Utah professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for mineral processing simulation.
R. Rhodes Trussell
R. Rhodes Trussell is an American civil and environmental engineer who founded Trussell Technologies, chaired the 2012 NRC Water Reuse study, and won the 2013 Clarke Prize.
Radek Zbořil
Radek Zbořil, born in 1973, is a Czech physical chemist and professor at Palacký University Olomouc, known as a pioneer of single-atom engineering and for work on nanomaterials.
Raffaele Mezzenga
Raffaele Mezzenga is a materials scientist and full professor at ETH Zurich who turns food proteins into amyloid fibrils for water purification and alcohol-detoxifying hydrogels.
Raffaello D'Andrea
Raffaello D'Andrea is an engineer, artist, and entrepreneur who co-founded Kiva Systems, sold to Amazon for $775 million, and founded the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich.
Rafic Helou
Rafic Helou, also published as Rafic G. El-Helou, is an American structural engineer at the Federal Highway Administration known for ultra-high performance concrete bridge design.
Rainer Waser
Rainer Waser (born 1955 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German materials scientist at RWTH Aachen known for work on redox-based resistive switching and memristive devices.
Raj N Singh
Raj N Singh is an American materials scientist at Oklahoma State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for pioneering ceramic matrix composites used in jet engines.
Rajiv Laroia
Rajiv Laroia is a wireless communications engineer who founded Flarion Technologies, whose OFDMA-based all-IP mobile broadband system became a foundation for 4G LTE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Rakesh Agrawal (chemical engineer)
Rakesh Agrawal is an American chemical engineer at Purdue University who received the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation for energy-efficient gas liquefaction and separation.
Ralf Riedel
Ralf Riedel is a German materials scientist and Professor (Emeritus) at TU Darmstadt, known for the polymer-derived ceramics route and a 1996 Nature paper on a silicoboron carbonitride ceramic stable to 2,000 °C.
Ralph Bown
Ralph Bown (1891–1971) was an American electrical engineer who led AT&T's transatlantic radio telephone research, became research director at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and won the IRE Medal of Honor in 1949.
Ralph E. Fadum
Ralph E. Fadum (1912–2000) was an American civil engineer and pioneer in soil mechanics who served as dean of engineering at North Carolina State University.
Ralph Hartley
Ralph Hartley (Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley) was an American electronics researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories who invented the Hartley oscillator and, in 1928, an early measure of information.
Ralph Krupke
Ralph Krupke is a German nanoscientist, professor of molecular nanostructures at TU Darmstadt since 2011, best known for the 2003 dielectrophoretic separation of metallic from semiconducting carbon nanotubes.
Ralph Modjeski
Ralph Modjeski, born Rudolf Modrzejewski, was a Polish-born American civil engineer, one of the pre-eminent American bridge designers, who worked in truss, cantilever, and suspension construction.
Ralph S. Gens
Ralph S. Gens was an American electric power transmission engineer who led Bonneville Power Administration's 500 kV grid and HVDC introduction, elected to the NAE in 1983.
Ralph T. Yang
Ralph T. Yang (1942–2025) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan, known for inventing zeolite and metal-organic framework adsorbents for fuel desulfurization and carbon dioxide capture.
Ram Rajagopal
Ram Rajagopal is a Stanford associate professor of civil and environmental engineering who directs the Stanford Sustainable Systems Lab, working on sensing, data analytics, and stochastic control for integrating renewables into power grids.
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, also published as R. Ramesh, is an Indian-born American materials physicist at UC Berkeley known for solving ferroelectric fatigue and electric-field control of magnetism.
Raman I. Sujith
Raman I. Sujith, born 1967, is an Indian aerospace engineer and Institute Professor at IIT Madras known for applying dynamical systems theory to thermoacoustic instability.
Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles
Ramón Iribarren Cavanilles (1900–1967) was a Spanish civil engineer who founded modern breakwater design, publishing the first rubble-mound stability formula in 1938; the Iribarren number is named for him.
Randall W. Poston
Randall W. Poston is an American structural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 and a founding principal of Pivot Engineers in Austin, Texas.
Ranjan Singh
Ranjan Singh is a terahertz photonics researcher and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, known for on-chip topological beamforming for 6G wireless.
Rao R. Tummala
Rao R. Tummala is an electrical and materials engineer who spent 25 years at IBM developing multichip packaging, then founded Georgia Tech's Packaging Research Center in 1993.