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Dmitri Golberg

Dmitri Golberg is a Russian-born materials scientist known for pioneering boron nitride nanotube research, who spent two decades at NIMS in Japan before joining Queensland University of Technology in 2017.

DNA-guided nanoparticle assembly

DNA-guided nanoparticle assembly is a nanotechnology method in which DNA strands attached to nanoparticles act as programmable bonds that direct particles into ordered crystals with nanoscale precision.

Do Hwan Kim

Do Hwan Kim (김도환) is a South Korean chemical engineer and HYU Distinguished Professor at Hanyang University, known for stretchable electronic skins, iontronic devices, and organic microdisplay research.

Domenic Forte

Domenic Forte is an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Florida whose research covers hardware security, counterfeit integrated circuits, hardware Trojans, and supply-chain integrity.

Dominic M. Di Toro

Dominic M. Di Toro is an American environmental engineer at the University of Delaware, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for his water-quality models.

Dominik Schillinger

Dominik Schillinger is a computational mechanics researcher and Full Professor at TU Darmstadt, known for immersogeometric analysis of heart valves and winner of the US PECASE award.

Don Giddens

Don Giddens is an American biomedical engineer who established the fluid mechanics theory of atherosclerosis and led Georgia Tech's College of Engineering from 2002 to 2011.

Don Mark Lipkin

Don Mark Lipkin is an American materials scientist and Texas A&M professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for coatings and rhenium recovery innovations.

Don Towsley (computer scientist)

Don Towsley is a computer scientist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering network tomography and fluid models of large networks and for work on quantum networking.

Donald B. Johnson

Donald B. Johnson was a computer scientist at Pennsylvania State University known for a 1975 algorithm enumerating all elementary circuits of a directed graph and a 1977 shortest-paths algorithm.

Donald Bitzer

Donald Bitzer (1934–2024) was an American electrical engineer known as the father of PLATO, an early time-shared computer-based education system, and co-inventor of the flat-panel plasma display.

Donald Bruce Montgomery

Donald Bruce Montgomery, known as D. Bruce Montgomery, was an American electromagnet and fusion engineer at MIT who co-invented the cable-in-conduit conductor, now standard in fusion devices including ITER.

Donald C. Winter

Donald C. Winter is an American physicist and aerospace executive who served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from 2006 to 2009 and later chaired the National Academy of Engineering.

Donald Coles

Donald Coles (1924–2013) was an American aeronautical scientist at Caltech who formulated the law of the wake and produced the first comprehensive supersonic boundary-layer dataset.

Donald Cox (electrical engineer)

Donald Cox is an American electrical engineer, Harald Trap Friis Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for research in radio propagation and wireless personal communications.

Donald D. Chamberlin

Donald D. Chamberlin (born 1944) is an American computer scientist who co-designed SQL at IBM, where he worked on the System R relational database project.

Donald Davies

Donald Watts Davies was a Welsh computer scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory who invented packet switching in 1965 and coined the term, the technique underlying the Internet.

Donald DeVoe

Donald DeVoe is an American mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Maryland known for microfluidic methods that synthesize lipid nanoparticles of controlled size for drug delivery.

Donald Ellis Hudson

Donald Ellis Hudson (1916–1999) was an American earthquake engineer at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973 for instruments that recorded destructive earthquake ground shaking.

Donald G. Fink

Donald G. Fink was an American electrical engineer, editor-in-chief of Electronics magazine, who proposed the 525-line American television standard and became the first IEEE general manager.

Donald G. Russell

Donald G. Russell (1931–2015) was an American petroleum engineer who spent over thirty years at Shell, retiring as president of Shell Development Company, and served as president of both the SPE and AIME.

Donald Geman

Donald Geman, born 1943, is an American applied mathematician at Johns Hopkins University known for the Gibbs sampler, Markov random fields for image processing, and randomized decision trees.

Donald J. Blickwede

Donald J. Blickwede, also known as Donald Johnson Blickwede, was an American physical metallurgist who spent 33 years at Bethlehem Steel and co-invented Galvalume coated steel.

Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth, also known as Donald Ervin Knuth, is an American computer scientist at Stanford, author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX.

Donald L. Katz

Donald L. Katz (1907–1989) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of reservoir engineering and author of the Handbook of Natural Gas Engineering.

Donald M. Smyth

Donald M. Smyth was an American materials scientist and chemist, a Lehigh University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for work on the defect chemistry of electronic ceramics.

Donald N. Frey

Donald N. Frey (1923–2010) was an American industrial engineer who led the Ford Mustang's development and was Bell & Howell's chief executive from 1971 to 1988.

Donald Norman

Donald Norman is an American cognitive scientist, author of The Design of Everyday Things, who held the first User Experience Architect job title at Apple in the 1990s.

Donald O. Thompson

Donald Oscar Thompson (1927–2013) was an American physicist and engineer who founded the field of quantitative nondestructive evaluation, leading its founding 1973 DARPA program at Rockwell.

Donald P. Greenberg

Donald P. Greenberg is an American computer graphics researcher who taught at Cornell from 1966 to 2025, pioneered physically based image synthesis, and won the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Coons Award.