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Izabela Szlufarska
Izabela Szlufarska is a Polish-educated materials scientist and engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, known for a 2009 Nature paper showing that classical friction laws extend to the nanoscale.
J Strother Moore
J Strother Moore is an American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, co-creator of the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm and the ACL2 theorem prover.
J. Brent Hiskey
J. Brent Hiskey is an American hydrometallurgist and Professor Emeritus of Mining and Geological Engineering at the University of Arizona, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider (1915–1990) was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose 1960 paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and ARPA leadership shaped interactive computing and networking.
J. David Hellums
J. David Hellums, also known as Jesse David Hellums (1929–2016), was an American chemical engineer at Rice University who pioneered bioengineering and studied how shear stress activates blood platelets.
J. Donovan Jacobs
J. Donovan Jacobs, Joseph Donovan Jacobs (1908–2000), was an American civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1969 for inventing the tunnel sliding floor for rapid excavation.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson, born John Erik Jonsson, was an American engineer and industrialist who co-founded Texas Instruments and served as mayor of Dallas from 1964 to 1971.
J. Fred Bucy
J. Fred Bucy is an American physicist and semiconductor executive who spent 1953 to 1985 at Texas Instruments, rising to president in 1976 and CEO in 1984.
J. George Thon
J. George Thon (c. 1908–1988) was a Polish-born civil engineer who designed major hydroelectric, nuclear, and transit systems and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
J. Halcombe Laning
J. Halcombe Laning, Jr. (1920–2012) was an American computer pioneer and aerospace engineer at MIT known for the George compiler, Q-guidance, and Apollo's onboard software.
J. Herbert Waite
J. Herbert Waite is an American biochemist and materials scientist at UC Santa Barbara who identified the DOPA-rich proteins that let mussels glue themselves underwater.
J. Karl Hedrick
J. Karl Hedrick (John Karl Hedrick, 1944–2017) was an American control engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, known for nonlinear control theory applied to transportation.
J. Keith Brimacombe
J. Keith Brimacombe (1943–1997) was a Canadian metallurgical engineer at the University of British Columbia who pioneered coupling mathematical modeling with plant measurements in metal casting.
J. Lewis Blackburn
J. Lewis Blackburn (1913–1997) was an American electrical engineer who spent his career at Westinghouse, led the IEEE Power System Relaying Committee, and wrote the standard protective relaying textbooks.
J. Nicholas Laneman
J. Nicholas (Nick) Laneman is an American electrical engineer at the University of Notre Dame known for cooperative wireless communication research and a 2006 PECASE award.
J. Randolph Paulling
J. Randolph Paulling was a professor of naval architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, whose 1959 analysis of unstable ship motions founded the study of parametric rolling.
J. Th. M. De Hosson
J. Th. M. De Hosson, full name Jeff Th. M. De Hosson, is a Dutch materials scientist who was professor of applied physics at the University of Groningen.
Jack A. Morton
Jack A Morton was an American electrical engineer and Bell Labs vice president who led the mass-production of the transistor, earning the IEEE David Sarnoff Medal in 1965.
Jack Dennis
Jack Bonnell Dennis (1931–2026) was an MIT computer science professor known for the Multics operating system and pioneering dataflow models of computation, winning the Eckert-Mauchly Award.
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra, born in 1950, is an American computer scientist whose numerical libraries and the TOP500 supercomputer benchmark shaped high-performance computing, earning him the 2021 Turing Award.
Jack E. Buffington
Jack E. Buffington was an American civil engineer and Navy rear admiral who commanded the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and later taught at the University of Arkansas.
Jack E. Cermak
Jack E. Cermak, also known as Jack Edward Cermak, was an American civil engineer at Colorado State University known as the father of wind engineering.
Jack H. Wernick
Jack H. Wernick (Jack Harry Wernick, 1923–2006) was an American materials scientist who led device-materials research at Bell Laboratories and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1979.
Jack H. Westbrook
Jack H. Westbrook, born Jack Hall Westbrook in 1924, is an American metallurgist at General Electric known for early work on intermetallic compounds and for computerized materials property databases.
Jack J. Jiang
Jack J. Jiang is a laryngologist and voice scientist who is a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2001.
Jack Keller
Jack Keller (1928–2013) was an American irrigation and water resources engineer who taught at Utah State University, co-founded Keller-Bliesner Engineering in Logan, Utah, and consulted in more than 60 countries.
Jack Kuehler
Jack Kuehler (1932–2008) was an American electrical engineer who joined IBM in 1958, rose to president and vice chairman, and became the highest-ranking technologist in IBM's history.
Jack L. Kerrebrock
Jack Leo Kerrebrock (1928–2019) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded MIT's Space Propulsion Laboratory, headed its aero-astro department, wrote Aircraft Engines and Gas Turbines, and served NASA.
Jack N. Nielsen
Jack N. Nielsen (Jack Norman Nielsen) was an American aerodynamicist known as "the father of missile aerodynamics", who worked at NACA, NASA Ames, and his own firm.
Jack Northrop
Jack Northrop, born John Knudsen Northrop (1895 to 1981), was an American aircraft designer and founder of the Northrop Corporation, known for the Lockheed Vega's monocoque fuselage and his flying-wing aircraft.