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Donald P. Visco

Donald P. Visco is an American chemical engineer at the University of Akron known for the Signature molecular descriptor, used in machine-learning models that screen millions of molecules for drug candidates.

Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen (1926–2024) was an American automotive executive who led Ford as chairman and CEO from 1985 to 1990, reviving it through the Taurus and a quality program.

Donald R. Paul

Donald R. Paul (1939–2026) was an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Donald S. Berry

Donald S. Berry (1911–2002) was an American transportation engineer and Northwestern University professor who in 1966 became the first transportation educator elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Donald Sadoway

Donald Robert Sadoway, born in Toronto in 1950, is a materials chemist and MIT professor emeritus known for inventing the liquid metal battery for grid-scale energy storage.

Donald W. Gentry

Donald W. Gentry, also known as Donald William Gentry (1943–2012), was an American mining engineer and Colorado School of Mines dean who led the SME and AIME.

Donald W. Murphy

Donald W. Murphy is a solid-state chemist who spent his career at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, and later AT&T and Nokia, doing early work on rechargeable lithium battery cathodes.

Donald Wills Douglas Sr.

Donald Wills Douglas Sr., known as Donald W. Douglas, was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Douglas Aircraft Company in 1920 and led it for four decades.

Dong Ding

Dong Ding is a senior materials engineer and scientist at Idaho National Laboratory who leads research on high-temperature electrolysis, protonic ceramic cells, and electrocatalysis for clean energy and hydrogen production.

Dong Su

Dong Su (苏东) is a Chinese electron microscopist who studies battery and catalyst materials by in-situ TEM, a professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, since 2019.

Dong‐Wan Kim

Dong-Wan Kim (김동완) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Korea University since 2017 who studies electrode materials for lithium-ion, lithium metal, and zinc batteries, working with SK On and LG Energy Solution.

Dong‐Yu Kim

Dong-Yu Kim is a South Korean materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at GIST, working since 1999 on conjugated polymers, organic electronics, and organic and perovskite solar cells.

Dongeun Huh

Dongeun Huh, known as Dan Huh, is a biomedical engineer, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who helped develop the lung-on-a-chip and other organs-on-chips.

Donghee Son

Donghee Son (손동희) is a South Korean engineer working on stretchable, self-healing bio-integrated electronics for medical use, including an injectable tissue prosthesis that restored walking in damaged muscle.

Donglei Fan

Donglei (Emma) Fan is an American materials scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for Electric Tweezers, a technique for manipulating nanowires and nanomachines.

Donhee Ham

Donhee Ham (함돈희) is a Korean-born electrical engineer and Harvard's Armstrong Professor since 2002, known for chip-scale nuclear magnetic resonance and DNA synthesis on silicon chips.

Dorin Comaniciu

Dorin Comaniciu is a Romanian-American computer scientist, senior vice president at Siemens Healthineers, known for mean shift image analysis and AI contouring used in over 800 cancer centers.

Doros N. Theodorou

Doros N. Theodorou (Δώρος Θεοδώρου), born 1957, is a Greek chemical engineer and professor emeritus at the National Technical University of Athens, known for molecular simulation methods predicting polymer properties.

Doros Nicolas Theodorou

Doros Nicolas Theodorou, born 1957, is a Greek chemical engineer at NTUA known for molecular simulation of polymers and election to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Dorothy Vaughan

Dorothy Vaughan, born Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan, was an American mathematician who led NACA's segregated West Area Computing Unit from 1949 and later became an expert FORTRAN programmer at NASA.

Dorsa Sadigh

Dorsa Sadigh is a computer scientist and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research helps robots learn from and adapt to humans.

Doug Cutting

Doug Cutting (born 1961), American software engineer and Stanford graduate, founder of Apache Lucene, Nutch, Hadoop, and Avro; Hadoop creator at Yahoo!, later Cloudera chief architect and former ASF board chairman.

Douglas B. Lenat

Douglas B. Lenat, also known as Douglas Bruce Lenat, was an American AI researcher who created AM and Eurisko and led the Cyc commonsense project until his death in 2023.

Douglas C. Cameron

Douglas C. Cameron is an American chemical and biological engineer and biotechnology investor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 and based in Erie, Colorado.

Douglas C.H. Yu

Douglas C.H. Yu, also known as Chen-Hua Yu or Doug Yu, is a Taiwanese semiconductor engineer who spent 1994 to 2025 at TSMC creating the 3DFabric advanced packaging platform.

Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Carl Engelbart (1925–2013) was an American computer scientist who invented the computer mouse, built the oN-Line System at SRI, and won the 1997 Turing Award.

Douglas Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter is an American cognitive scientist, physicist, and writer, Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, best known for Gödel, Escher, Bach and for computational models of analogy-making.

Douglas M. Chapin

Douglas M. Chapin was an American nuclear engineer who spent five decades at MPR Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.

Douglas McIlroy

Douglas McIlroy, full name Malcolm Douglas McIlroy, is a computer scientist who headed Bell Labs computing research, where Unix was born, and conceived the Unix pipe.

Douglas W. Fuerstenau

Douglas W. Fuerstenau (born 1928) is an American mineral engineer, P. Malozemoff Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.