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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 Kocher (cryptographer)
Paul Kocher is an American cryptographer who discovered timing attacks and differential power analysis, contributed to SSL 3.0, and founded Cryptography Research, Inc., sold to Rambus in 2011.
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 Mockapetris
Paul Mockapetris is an American computer scientist who invented the Domain Name System (DNS) in 1983 at USC's Information Sciences Institute and operated its first root servers.
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.
Paul Ohodnicki
Paul R. Ohodnicki Jr. is an American materials scientist and engineer known for harsh-environment optical fiber sensors and magnetic nanocrystalline materials, who received a PECASE award at NETL.
Paul Penfield Jr.
Paul Penfield Jr. (1933–2021) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who led the EECS department from 1989 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
Paul R. Gray
Paul R. Gray is an American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley known for analog integrated circuit design and the standard textbook with Robert G. Meyer.
Paul R. Shearing
Paul R. Shearing, also published as Paul Shearing, is a chemical engineer known for X-ray imaging of batteries and thermal runaway, and since 2025 has been a professor at Oxford.
Paul S. Peercy
Paul S. Peercy was an American materials scientist and semiconductor researcher who directed microelectronics research at Sandia National Laboratories and was dean of engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1999 to 2013.
Paul Stephen Drzaic
Paul Stephen Drzaic is an American display scientist and Distinguished Engineer at Apple who led commercialization of E Ink e-paper, the technology behind the Kindle screen.
Paul Torgersen
Paul Torgersen (1931–2015) was an American industrial engineer who served Virginia Tech as dean of engineering from 1970 to 1990 and as its 14th president from 1994 to 2000.
Paul V. Braun
Paul V. Braun, also published as Paul Braun, is an American materials scientist at the University of Illinois known for battery electrodes that charge in seconds.
Paul W. M. Blom
Paul W. M. Blom is a Dutch physicist known for research on polymer LEDs and organic solar cells, and a director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
Paul Westerhoff
Paul K. Westerhoff is an American environmental engineer at Arizona State University known for research on nanomaterials and PFAS in drinking water; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Paul Zia
Paul Zia (1926–2023) was a Chinese-born American structural engineer at North Carolina State University and a founding figure of prestressed concrete in the United States.
Paulo J.M. Monteiro
Paulo J.M. Monteiro is a civil engineer and materials scientist at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for his work on concrete.
Pavel Sukhoi
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (Павел Сухой, 1895–1975) was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Sukhoi Design Bureau, creating over 50 designs including the Su-7, Su-24, and Su-27.
Peder Oluf Pedersen
Peder Oluf Pedersen (1874–1941) was a Danish engineer and physicist who co-developed the Poulsen arc radio transmitter and the telegraphone magnetic recorder with Valdemar Poulsen.
Pedro Jose Alvarez
Pedro Jose Alvarez, also known as Pedro J.J. Alvarez, is a Nicaraguan-born environmental engineer at Rice University elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Peer Fischer
Peer Fischer is a German-based physicist and professor at Heidelberg University who heads a Max Planck lab in Heidelberg, known for micro- and nanorobotics and the first acoustic hologram.
Peide D. Ye
Peide D. Ye is an electrical engineer and professor at Purdue University known for research on 2D channel materials like phosphorene, negative-capacitance transistors, and oxide electronics.
Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang (杨培东) is a chemist and materials scientist at UC Berkeley, known for the first nanowire nanolaser and artificial photosynthesis converting CO2 into fuels.