4,646 articles
Francis Bashforth
Francis Bashforth (1819–1912) was an English mathematician, Anglican priest, and ballistics expert who invented the Bashforth chronograph for measuring the varying velocity of projectiles in flight.
Françis Garnier
Françis Garnier, also known as Francis Garnier, is a French materials scientist at CNRS who built the first all-organic transistor in 1990 and the first printed all-polymer transistor in 1994.
Francis H. Clauser
Francis H. Clauser (1913–2013) was an American aeronautical engineer and fluid dynamicist at Caltech, one of the founders of the modern science of turbulent boundary layers.
Francis L. LaQue
Francis L. LaQue (1904–1988) was a Canadian-born corrosion scientist who spent 42 years at International Nickel and created renowned seawater corrosion test sites at Kure Beach, North Carolina.
Francis VerSnyder
Francis Louis VerSnyder was an American high-temperature metallurgist who invented the single-crystal turbine blades used in jet engines, receiving the National Medal of Technology in 1986.
Francis W. Boulger
Francis W. Boulger was an American metallurgist who led the Ferrous Metallurgy Division at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio, and wrote widely used reports on metal deformation processing.
Frank Allgöwer
Frank Allgöwer is a German control theorist, professor of mechanical engineering, and director of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control at the University of Stuttgart.
Frank Caruso (nanotechnologist)
Frank Caruso (Francesco Caruso, born 1968 in Italy) is an Australian chemical engineer and nanotechnologist at the University of Melbourne known for engineering polymer capsules and nanoparticles for drug delivery.
Frank D. Robinson
Frank D. Robinson (Franklin Davis Robinson, 1930–2022) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Robinson Helicopter Company in 1973 and designed the R22, R44, and R66 light helicopters.
Frank E. Pickering
Frank E. Pickering (1931–2009) was an American mechanical engineer who spent his 39-year career at General Electric's aircraft engine business, becoming a GE vice president and chief engineer.
Frank E. Richart Jr.
Frank E. Richart Jr., known as Bill Richart, was an American civil engineer who helped define soil dynamics and was a University of Michigan professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969.
Frank E. Talke
Frank E. Talke is a mechanical engineer at UC San Diego known for pioneering hard-disk-drive tribology and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.
Frank F. Aplan
Frank F. Aplan (1923–2020) was an American mineral processing engineer and world authority on flotation, a Distinguished Professor at Penn State elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Frank J. Schuh
Frank Joseph Schuh (1935–2020) was an American petroleum drilling engineer who pioneered horizontal drilling, held 29 patents, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Frank J. Sprague
Frank J. Sprague (Frank Julian Sprague) was an American electrical engineer, called the father of electric traction, who built the first large electric street railway in Richmond, Virginia.
Frank Kenneth Crundwell
Frank Kenneth Crundwell is a South African hydrometallurgist, founder of the consultancy CM Solutions and visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Frank L. Lewis
Frank L. Lewis is an American control and systems engineer who holds an endowed chair at the University of Texas at Arlington and applies reinforcement learning to optimal control.
Frank L. Parker
Frank L. Parker was an American environmental engineer who specialized in radioactive waste disposal at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the IAEA, and Vanderbilt University, joining the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Frank McSherry
Frank McSherry is an American computer scientist who co-invented differential privacy, led the Naiad and timely dataflow project at Microsoft Research, and is now Chief Scientist at Materialize.
Frank P. Incropera
Frank P. Incropera (born 1939) is an American mechanical engineer and heat transfer researcher, longtime Purdue professor and co-author of Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Frank Robinson (aeronautical engineer)
Frank Robinson, also known as Frank D. Robinson, was an American aeronautical engineer who founded Robinson Helicopter Company in 1973 and designed the affordable R22 helicopter.
Frank Rosenblatt
Frank Rosenblatt (1928–1971) was an American psychologist at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York, who invented the perceptron in 1957, a direct ancestor of today's neural networks.
Frank S. Barnes
Frank S. Barnes is an American electrical engineer and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Frank Stan Settles
Frank Stan Settles, known as F. Stan Settles, is an American industrial engineer who spent about 30 years at AlliedSignal Aerospace and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Frank Verstraete
Frank Verstraete (born 1972, Izegem, Belgium) is a Belgian quantum physicist known for tensor networks, and Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics at Cambridge since 2022.
Frank W. DelRio
Frank W. DelRio is an American mechanical engineer who studies nanomechanics and mechanobiology, won the 2011 PECASE at NIST, and joined Sandia National Laboratories in 2020.
Franklin F. Offner
Franklin F. Offner (1911–1999) was an American biophysicist and inventor who founded Offner Electronics in 1938, built the world-standard Type R Dynograph EEG machine, and taught biophysics at Northwestern University.
Franklin F. Snyder
Franklin Farison Snyder (1910-2008) was an American hydrologic engineer who created the synthetic unit hydrograph in 1938 and supervised Rhine River flood forecasts for Allied crossings in 1944-45.
Franklin K. Moore
Franklin K. Moore, also known as Franklin Kingston Moore, was a mechanical engineer and Cornell professor known for fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, and heat transfer research.
Franklin M. Orr Jr.
Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr Jr. is an American petroleum engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, and the first Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the Department of Energy.