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George J. Dvorak
George J. Dvorak was a Czech-born American researcher in the mechanics of materials, known for transformation field analysis of composites and his career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
George J. Hirasaki
George J. Hirasaki (born 1939) is an American chemical and petroleum engineer, a Rice University professor who spent 26 years at Shell before joining the faculty in 1993.
George J. Pappas
George J. Pappas is an American control theorist and computer scientist, the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for hybrid systems and cyber-physical safety verification.
George J. Schroepfer
George J. Schroepfer was an American civil and sanitary engineer who led the Minneapolis–St. Paul Sanitary District and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.
George L. Stegemeier
George L. Stegemeier is an American petroleum engineer whose scaled steam-drive models underpinned Shell's heavy-oil production in California, and who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
George L. Turin
George Lewis Turin (1930–2014) was an American electrical engineer who joined UC Berkeley in 1960, chaired its EECS department, and did pioneering work on urban radio multipath.
George Leitmann
George Leitmann (1925–2025) was an Austrian-born American control theorist and professor of engineering science at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering guaranteed control of uncertain systems and dynamic game theory.
George Low
George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer who managed the Apollo program after the 1967 fire, then served as NASA Deputy Administrator and RPI president.
George M. C. Fisher
George M. C. Fisher is an American engineer who served as President and CEO of Motorola from 1988 to 1993 and as CEO of Eastman Kodak from 1993 to 1999.
George Malliaras
George Malliaras is a materials scientist in organic electronics and bioelectronics, Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge since 2017 and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2024.
George Mueller (electrical engineer)
George Mueller (1918–2015) was an American electrical engineer who, as NASA's associate administrator for Manned Space Flight from 1963 to 1969, directed Gemini and Apollo to the Moon landing.
George N. Hatsopoulos
George N. Hatsopoulos (1927–2018) was a Greek-born American mechanical engineer who founded Thermo Electron Corporation, grew it to over 24,000 employees, and reshaped the teaching of thermodynamics at MIT.
George Owen Squier
George Owen Squier was a U.S. Army major general and inventor who invented telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910, became the first airplane passenger in 1908, and founded Muzak.
George R. Irwin
George R. Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory whose stress intensity factor made him the father of fracture mechanics.
George Rankine Irwin
George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist known as the father of fracture mechanics, who identified the stress intensity factor at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
George S. Schairer
George S. Schairer was an American aerodynamicist who led Boeing's aerodynamics from 1939 and pushed the swept wing into the B-47, the pattern for Boeing's jetliners.
George Sachs (German metallurgist)
George Sachs (1896–1960) was a German mechanical metallurgist, born in Moscow, who developed the iso-stress polycrystal model and the boring-out method for measuring residual stresses in tubes and bars.
George Stibitz
George Stibitz (1904–1995) was an American research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories who built the first relay-based digital computers and demonstrated remote computing over telephone lines in 1940.
George T. Ligler
George T. Ligler is an American systems integration engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017, known for satellite-based aircraft navigation and ADS-B standards.
George Tchobanoglous
George Tchobanoglous is a professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, an international authority on wastewater treatment, and coauthor of the textbook Wastewater Engineering.
George W. Govier
George W. Govier (George Wheeler Govier) was a Canadian chemical engineer who led the University of Alberta's engineering faculty and chaired Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board.
George W. Housner
George W. Housner (1910–2008) was an American engineer at Caltech, called the father of earthquake engineering and winner of the 1988 National Medal of Science.
George W. Lewis
George W. Lewis (1882–1948) was an American aeronautical research administrator who directed NACA research from 1924 to 1947, overseeing the NACA engine cowling and airfoil research.
George W. Scherer
George W. Scherer is a materials scientist and emeritus Princeton professor known for research on how porous solids like gels, cement, and stone deform and deteriorate.
George W. Sutton
George W. Sutton (1927–2021) was an American aerospace engineer who invented the ablation heat-protection material for hypersonic reentry and served as the AIAA Journal's longest-serving editor in chief.
George W. Swenson Jr.
George W. Swenson Jr. (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.
George Warner Swenson
George Warner Swenson (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.
George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (c. 1864 to 1943) was an American agricultural scientist at Tuskegee Institute who promoted crop rotation for poor Southern farmers and developed over 300 peanut products.
Georges A. Deschamps
Georges A. Deschamps (1911–1998) was a French-born electrical engineer who proposed the microstrip antenna in 1953 and later taught electromagnetic theory at the University of Illinois.
Georges Belfort
Georges Belfort is a bioengineer and membrane scientist, Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for bioseparations advances.