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Franklin S. Cooper
Franklin Seaney Cooper (1908–1999) was an American speech scientist who built the Pattern Playback, the first practical speech synthesizer, and led Haskins Laboratories for decades.
Franky So
Franky So is an electrical engineer and Walter and Ida Freeman Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University who spent fourteen years in industrial OLED research at Motorola and OSRAM.
Frans Spaepen
Frans Spaepen is a materials scientist, the John C. and Helen F. Franklin Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
František Křižík
František Křižík (1847–1941) was a Czech electrotechnical engineer and industrialist called the Czech Edison, who lit the 1891 Prague Jubilee Exhibition and electrified the Tábor–Bechyně railway.
Franz F. Pischinger
Franz F. Pischinger, an Austrian-German mechanical engineer, directed thermodynamics at RWTH Aachen until 1997, founded FEV, and pioneered key patents for modern emissions technology.
Fred B. Schneider
Fred B. Schneider is an American computer scientist at Cornell University known for work on fault-tolerant distributed systems, security, and formal methods, including fail-stop processors.
Fred Brooks
Fred Brooks, born Frederick Phillips Brooks Jr., was an American computer scientist who managed IBM's System/360, wrote The Mythical Man-Month, and won the 1999 Turing Award.
Fred H. Poettmann
Fred H. Poettmann was an American chemical and petroleum engineer known for the Poettmann-Carpenter gas-lift correlation, 30 years at Marathon Oil, and a Colorado School of Mines professorship.
Fred N. Finn
Fred N. Finn (1923–2023) was an American pavement engineer who led the AASHO Road Test work, the Asphalt Institute design procedure, and SHRP's $50 million asphalt research program.
Fred W. Albaugh
Frederic W. Albaugh (1913–1999) was an American chemist-engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who led plutonium reprocessing and reactor research at Hanford, helping establish Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Frederic Holloway
Frederic Holloway (1914–1990) was an American chemical engineer and Exxon executive who worked on fluid catalytic cracking and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1965.
Frédéric Kaplan
Frédéric Kaplan is a French digital humanities researcher, professor at EPFL in Lausanne, best known for the Venice Time Machine and as president of the Time Machine Organization.
Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.
Frederick Anthony Kish Jr., known as Fred Kish, is an American electrical engineer at North Carolina State University who developed high-efficiency LEDs and commercial photonic integrated circuits.
Frederick C. Lindvall
Frederick C. Lindvall (1903–1989) was an American electrical and mechanical engineer who chaired Caltech's engineering division for over 20 years and modernized American engineering education.
Frederick Dryer
Frederick L. Dryer is an American combustion engineer, emeritus professor at Princeton and research professor at the University of South Carolina, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Frederick F. Lange
Frederick F. Lange (1939–2010) was an American ceramic scientist and engineer at UC Santa Barbara, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to ceramic processing.
Frederick F. Ling
Frederick F. Ling, also known as Frederick Fongsun Ling, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and tribologist who wrote Surface Mechanics and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Frederick G. Pohland
Frederick G. Pohland, also known as Frederick George Pohland, was an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for advancing anaerobic treatment.
Frederick H. Dill
Frederick H. "Rick" Dill is an American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for founding the scientific modeling of photolithography, the Dill Parameters, and video RAM.
Frederick H. Todd
Frederick H. Todd (1903–1992) was a British naval architect who led hydrodynamics labs in Britain and America and created the Series 60 ship hull experiments, still a standard data set.
Frederick J. Doyle
Frederick J. Doyle (1920–2013) was an American photogrammetry and remote-sensing scientist who led Apollo lunar mapping photography, won the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, and served the U.S. Geological Survey as senior advisor for cartography.
Frederick J. Hooven
Frederick J. Hooven (1905–1985) was an American engineer and inventor who held dozens of patents, including the first radio compass and first electronic phototypesetter, and taught at Dartmouth.
Frederick J. Moody
Frederick J. Moody is an American nuclear engineer at General Electric in San Jose, known for his analysis of two-phase blowdown and fluid transients in nuclear plants.
Frederick Jelinek
Frederick Jelinek was an information theorist who pioneered statistical speech recognition and machine translation, leading IBM's speech group and then Johns Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing.
Frederick R. Chang
Frederick R. Chang is an American computer security expert and former Director of Research at the National Security Agency, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Frederick S. Billig
Frederick S. Billig was an American aerospace engineer at Johns Hopkins APL who pioneered scramjet propulsion and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Frederick T. Andrews
Frederick T. Andrews (1926–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who helped develop the T1 digital carrier and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
Frederick Terman
Frederick Emmons Terman (1900–1982) was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering and provost at Stanford, who advised Hewlett-Packard's founders and is credited with building Silicon Valley.
Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick W. Lanchester, also known as Frederick William Lanchester, was an English engineer who built the first British automobile in 1895 and pioneered the circulation theory of lift.
Frederik Sangster
Frederik Sangster (Frederik Leonard Johan Sangster) is a Dutch Philips researcher in Eindhoven credited with patenting the bucket brigade device, an analog shift register, with Kees Teer.