Engineers and computer scientists

Günter Blöschl

Günter Blöschl is an Austrian engineering hydrologist who heads the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at TU Wien and received the 2025 Stockholm Water Prize.

Günter Gottstein

Günter Gottstein (G. Gottstein, born 1944) is a German materials scientist and physical metallurgist who led grain boundary and recrystallization research at RWTH Aachen University.

Gunter Spur

Günter Spur (1928–2013) was a German production engineering scientist who held the machine tools chair at TU Berlin from 1965 to 1997 and built the Production Technology Centre Berlin.

Gunther Eggeler

Gunther F. Eggeler is a German materials scientist who has led the Chair of Materials Science at Ruhr-Universität Bochum since 1995, studying superalloys and shape memory alloys.

Guosong Hong is a materials scientist and neuroengineer, an Assistant Professor at Stanford University, known for fluorescent and light-generating materials for deep, non-invasive imaging of the nervous system.

Sep 20, 2026

Guoxiu Wang

Guoxiu Wang (G. X. Wang) is an Australian materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, known for research on lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and sodium-ion batteries.

Sep 20, 2026

Guozhong Cao

Guozhong Cao (曹国忠) is a materials scientist who holds the Boeing-Steiner professorship at the University of Washington and studies nanostructured materials and coatings for energy applications.

Gus Archie

Gus Archie (1907–1978) was an electrical and mining engineer at Shell Oil who derived the equations, known as the Archie Formula, that underlie modern well-log interpretation.

Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

Gustaaf Van Tendeloo is a Belgian materials scientist who led the EMAT electron microscopy group at the University of Antwerp, pushing microscopy into quantitative crystallography.

Gustaf de Laval

Gustaf de Laval, born Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval, was a Swedish engineer and inventor who created the centrifugal cream separator and a 30,000-rpm steam turbine.

Gustau Catalán

Gustau Catalán is a Spanish materials scientist and ICREA Research Professor at the ICN2 near Barcelona, where he leads the Oxide Nanophysics Group and studies flexoelectricity and oxide ferroics at the nanoscale.

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (1868–1932) was a French army engineer-general who built France's military wireless system, made the Eiffel Tower a famous radio station, and mass-produced the vacuum tube in World War I.

Gustavo Rivas-Mijares

Gustavo Rivas-Mijares (1922–2014) was a Venezuelan civil engineer specializing in water supply, sewerage, and wastewater treatment, who taught at the Central University of Venezuela and led IVIC.

Guy Hoffman

Guy Hoffman is an Israeli roboticist and associate professor at Cornell University known for expressive, non-anthropomorphic robots built around anticipation and timing, including the improvising marimba player Shimon.

Guy L. Steele Jr.

Guy L. Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist who co-created the Scheme programming language in 1975, co-wrote The Java Language Specification, and retired in January 2025.

Guyford Stever

Guyford Stever was an American physicist and aeronautical engineer who led Carnegie-Mellon University, directed the National Science Foundation, and advised Presidents Nixon and Ford on science.

Gyu‐Chul Yi

Gyu-Chul Yi (이규철) is a South Korean physicist and professor at Seoul National University known for zinc oxide nanorod growth and flexible LEDs grown on graphene.

H. J. Round

H. J. Round (Henry Joseph Round) was a British radio engineer at Marconi who in 1907 first reported electroluminescence, the effect behind the LED, and held 117 patents.

H. Jerry Qi

H. Jerry Qi (Hang Qi) is a Woodruff Professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech, known for 4D printing, shape-memory polymers, and 3D printing of soft active materials.

H. Kent Bowen

H. Kent Bowen, born Harvey Kent Bowen, was an American ceramics scientist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986 who taught at MIT and Harvard Business School.

H. Polat Gülkan

H. Polat Gülkan, full name Hakkı Polat Gülkan, is a Turkish earthquake engineer, professor at Başkent University elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

H. T. Kung

H. T. Kung (孔祥重), full name Hsiang-Tsung Kung, is a computer scientist, the William H. Gates Professor at Harvard, known for systolic arrays and concurrency control.

H. Van Swygenhoven

Helena Van Swygenhoven, born 1955, is a Belgian materials scientist who studies how nanocrystalline metals deform, leading a research group at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.

Sep 20, 2026

H. Vincent Poor

H. Vincent Poor, born Harold Vincent Poor, is an American electrical engineer and Princeton professor known for work in signal processing, information theory, and wireless networks.

H.‐S. Philip Wong

H.-S. Philip Wong is a Stanford electrical engineering professor who works on nanoscale semiconductor devices, solid-state memory, and carbon nanotube electronics, after 16 years at IBM.

Haibin Ling

Haibin Ling (凌海滨) is a computer vision researcher who left Stony Brook University to become a chair professor of AI at Westlake University in Hangzhou in 2025.

Haimei Zheng

Haimei Zheng is a materials scientist and senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for developing liquid-cell TEM to study batteries, catalysis, and materials synthesis.

Haining Tian

Haining Tian is a Chinese-born physical chemist and professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, researching organic materials and devices for solar energy conversion, including dye-sensitized solar cells.

Haizhou Li

Haizhou Li (李海洲) is a Singaporean speech and language technology researcher known for multilingual speech recognition and the Abacus engine, and Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at CUHK-Shenzhen.