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Charles D. Greskovich
Charles David Greskovich (1942–2007) was an American ceramic materials scientist at General Electric who co-invented the first efficient ceramic scintillator used in GE CT scanners.
Charles D. Scott
Charles D. Scott (1929–2022) was an American chemical engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who worked on separations, nuclear fuel processing, and bioprocessing, winning the 1980 E.O. Lawrence Award.
Charles E. Murry
Charles E. Murry (born 1959) is an American physician-scientist in pathology, bioengineering, and cardiology, known for repairing heart muscle after heart attacks using human pluripotent stem cells.
Charles F. Kettering
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) was an American engineer and inventor who headed General Motors research from 1920 to 1947, holding 185 patents including the electric starter.
Charles F. Tiffany
Charles Ferguson Tiffany (1929–2014) was an American aircraft structural integrity engineer at Boeing who created the Tiffany test, adopted by NASA and the Air Force.
Charles Francis Brush
Charles Francis Brush (1849–1929) was a Cleveland inventor and electrical engineer who made arc lighting practical, built America's first central electric station, and founded Brush Electric.
Charles Geschke
Charles Geschke (1939–2021), known as Chuck Geschke, was an American computer scientist who co-founded Adobe with John Warnock in 1982 and led PostScript and PDF.
Charles Ginsburg
Charles Ginsburg was an American electrical engineer who led the Ampex team that built the first practical videotape recorder, demonstrated in 1956, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.
Charles Gorrie Wynne
Charles Gorrie Wynne (1911–1999) was a British optical engineer whose damped least squares method underlies lens-design software, and who designed field correctors for large telescopes including Palomar.
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett, born 1943, is an American physicist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research who devised the BB84 quantum cryptography protocol and quantum teleportation, winning the 2025 Turing Award.
Charles H. Thornton
Charles H. Thornton (1940–2023) was an American structural engineer who co-founded and led Thornton Tomasetti, designed the Petronas Twin Towers, led structural failure investigations, and founded the ACE Mentor Program.
Charles Husband
Sir (Henry) Charles Husband (1908–1983) was a British consulting civil engineer based in Sheffield who designed the 250-foot steerable Jodrell Bank radio telescope, completed in 1957.
Charles J. Kuehmann
Charles J. Kuehmann is an American materials scientist who co-founded the alloy-design company QuesTek Innovations and led materials engineering at both SpaceX and Tesla Motors.
Charles J. McMahon Jr.
Charles J. McMahon Jr. was an American metallurgist at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980 for work on steel embrittlement.
Charles L. Cooney
Charles L. Cooney is an American chemical and biochemical engineer at MIT, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for contributions to biochemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Charles L. Seitz
Charles L. Seitz, known as Chuck Seitz, is an American computer scientist who built the Cosmic Cube, the first multicomputer, at Caltech and co-founded the interconnect company Myricom in 1994.
Charles Lee Isbell, Jr.
Charles Lee Isbell, Jr. is an American computer scientist in interactive AI who served as dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing and became Chancellor of the University of Illinois in 2025.
Charles M. Lieber
Charles M. Lieber is an American chemist and nanoscientist who pioneered semiconductor nanowire synthesis at Harvard, where he chaired the chemistry department, and was convicted in 2021 of false statements about his China ties.
Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest is an American mechanical engineer who was the 15th president of MIT from 1990 to 2004, launching OpenCourseWare, and led the National Academy of Engineering.
Charles Massonnet
Charles Massonnet (1914–1996) was a Belgian engineer and professor of strength of materials at the University of Liège, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Charles Noelke
Charles Noelke is a retired American chemical engineer who led DuPont's development of the HFC-134a refrigerant process and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009.
Charles Oatley
Sir Charles William Oatley (1904–1996) was a British electrical engineer at Cambridge whose students built the first SEMs, leading to the 1965 Stereoscan, the first commercial scanning electron microscope.
Charles P. Thacker
Charles P. Thacker was an American computer scientist who led the hardware design of the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, and co-invented Ethernet.
Charles R. Cutler
Charles R. Cutler (1936–2020) was an American chemical engineer who originated Dynamic Matrix Control, the industrial algorithm from which model predictive control, a widely used multivariable approach, grew.
Charles R. Kurkjian
Charles R. Kurkjian (died 2023) was an American glass scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories known for measuring the strength and fatigue of silica optical fibers.
Charles R. O'Melia
Charles R. O'Melia (1934–2010) was an American environmental engineer and Abel Wolman Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for the first theoretical model of particle removal in water filters.
Charles R. Wilke
Charles R. Wilke (1917–2003) was an American chemical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, who founded its chemical engineering department and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff, born in 1948, is a cryptographer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto who co-originated zero-knowledge proofs with Goldwasser and Micali, co-winning the 1993 Gödel Prize.
Charles S. Barrett
Charles S. Barrett, or Charles Sanborn Barrett, was an American metallurgist and X-ray crystallographer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967, known for Structure of Metals.
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi (Simonyi Károly), born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born American software engineer who created the first WYSIWYG text editor and was chief architect of Microsoft Word and Excel.