Engineers and computer scientists

Eric W. Kaler

Eric W. Kaler is an American chemical engineer, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and president of Case Western Reserve University since 2021.

Eric W. McFarland

Eric W. McFarland is a chemical engineer and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, known for molten-metal catalysis converting methane to hydrogen and solid carbon.

Eric Wachsman

Eric D. Wachsman is an American materials scientist and University of Maryland professor known for lowering solid oxide fuel cell temperatures and for 3D ceramic solid-state battery electrolytes.

Sep 19, 2026

Erich Bloch

Erich Bloch (1925–2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer who managed IBM's Stretch supercomputer and System/360, then directed the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1990.

Erich Spitz

Erich Spitz (Эрих Шпиц) is a Czech-born French physicist, born in Brno in 1931, who with J.C. Simon at CSF realized single-mode propagation would benefit optical fiber communication.

Oct 26, 2026

Erik Bernhardsson

Erik Bernhardsson, Swedish engineer, founder and CEO of Modal Labs; ex-CTO of Better.com and Spotify engineer who built its music recommendations and created Luigi and Annoy.

Erik C. Garnett

Erik C. Garnett (born 1982) is a Dutch-based materials chemist who leads the Nanoscale Solar Cells group at AMOLF, Amsterdam, and won the 2022 KNCV gold medal.

Erik K. Antonsson

Erik K. Antonsson is a mechanical engineer and Caltech professor emeritus known for formal methods for engineering design, including the Method of Imprecision, and served as JPL Chief Technologist.

Erik Schlangen is a Dutch civil engineer and professor of Experimental Micromechanics at TU Delft, known for the Delft lattice fracture model and for pioneering self-healing asphalt and bacteria-based concrete.

Erik Winfree

Erik Winfree is a computer scientist and bioengineer at Caltech, known for algorithmic self-assembly of DNA, DNA strand displacement circuits, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship.

Erkan Aydın

Erkan Aydın is a photovoltaics scientist who leads a research group at LMU Munich, known for a certified 32.5% perovskite/silicon tandem efficiency reported in 2023.

Ernest Edwin Sechler

Ernest Edwin Sechler (1905–1979) was an American aerospace engineer and Caltech professor of aeronautics whose thin-shell buckling research shaped airplane fuselages, missiles, booster rockets, and the Palomar telescope shell.

Ernest G. Cravalho

Ernest G. Cravalho (1939–2021) was an American mechanical engineer who spent 44 years on the MIT faculty and helped establish cryopreservation and biomedical heat transfer as research fields.

Ernest George Coker

Ernest George Coker (1869–1946) was an English engineer who turned photo-elasticity, measuring stress in structures by polarized light, into a practical method, teaching at McGill and University College London.

Ernest T. Smerdon

Ernest T. Smerdon (1930–2014) was an American water-resources engineer and dean of engineering at the University of Arizona, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986.

Ernest Thiele

Ernest Thiele (1895–1993) was an American chemical engineer who spent 35 years at Standard Oil of Indiana and is remembered for the Thiele modulus and the McCabe–Thiele method for designing distillation columns.

Ernesto Joselevich

Ernesto Joselevich is an Israeli materials scientist and Drake Family Professor of Nanotechnology at the Weizmann Institute, known for guided growth of nanowires and self-organized carbon nanotube serpentines.

Ernst Alexanderson

Ernst Alexanderson, born Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer at General Electric whose high-frequency alternator made radio transmission practical; he held over 300 US patents.

Ernst Guillemin

Ernst Adolph Guillemin (1898–1970) was an American electrical engineer and educator at MIT, generally considered the founding father of circuit theory education and author of six sole-authored textbooks.

Ernst Weber (electrical engineer)

Ernst Weber (1901–1996) was an Austrian-born American electrical engineer who founded Polytechnic's Microwave Research Institute and served as the first president of the IEEE in 1963.

Esko Ukkonen

Esko Ukkonen, born 1950 in Savonlinna, Finland, is a Finnish computer scientist and University of Helsinki professor whose on-line suffix tree construction and edit-distance algorithms became standard tools for DNA sequence analysis in bioinformatics.