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Johanna Rosén
Johanna Rosén is a Swedish materials physicist and professor at Linköping University working on 2D materials, including MXenes and boridene, for energy storage and water purification.
Johannes Moe
Johannes Moe (1926–2023) was a Norwegian structural and shipbuilding engineer, professor of shipbuilding and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and managing director of SINTEF from 1977 to 1989.
John A. Herbst
John A. Herbst, also known as John Arthur Herbst, was an American mineral processing engineer at the University of Utah, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.
John A. Hrones
John Anthony Hrones (1912–2000) was an American mechanical engineer and engineering-education leader, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975 as a pioneer in automatic control.
John A. Jansen
John A. Jansen, also known as J.A. Jansen, is a Dutch biomedical engineer and dentist known for research on implant surfaces, calcium phosphate cements, and synthetic bone substitutes at Radboud University Nijmegen.
John A. Quinn
John A. Quinn was an American chemical engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for mass transfer research.
John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers, born 1967, is an American materials scientist at Northwestern University known for stretchable, skin-like electronics and transient devices that dissolve harmlessly in the body.
John A. Schey
John A. Schey is a manufacturing engineering researcher at the University of Waterloo known for his 1983 monograph Tribology in Metalworking and his textbook Introduction to Manufacturing Processes.
John A. Young
John A. Young was an American electrical engineer and business executive who led Hewlett-Packard as president and CEO from 1978 to 1992, succeeding founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
John Adolphus Dahlgren
John Adolphus Dahlgren (1809–1870) was a United States Navy admiral who designed the Dahlgren cannon, the standard guns of the Union Navy in the Civil War.
John Alf Lennart Agren
John Alf Lennart Ågren is a Swedish materials scientist and KTH professor emeritus known for computational modeling of phase transformations in steels and the Thermo-Calc and DICTRA software.
John B. Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough (1922–2023) was an American physicist and materials scientist who developed the lithium cobalt oxide cathode enabling the lithium-ion battery, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John B. MacChesney
John B. MacChesney (1929–2021) was an American materials scientist at Bell Laboratories who invented the MCVD process for manufacturing optical fibers, and won the 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
John B. Wachtman Jr.
John B. Wachtman Jr., known as Jack Wachtman, was an American ceramic materials scientist at the National Bureau of Standards and founding director of Rutgers' Center for Ceramic Research.
John B. Whitehead
John B. Whitehead (1872–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for research on electrical insulation and for building its engineering school as first dean.
John Backus
John Backus was an American computer scientist at IBM who led the team that created FORTRAN, invented BNF, and received the 1977 Turing Award; he died in 2007.
John Baker, Baron Baker
John Baker, Baron Baker, born John Fleetwood Baker, was a British civil engineer who pioneered the plastic theory of structural design and advised the Ministry of Home Security in World War II.
John Blume
John Augustus Blume (1909–2002) was an American earthquake engineer called the father of earthquake engineering; his firm shaped seismic design of Diablo Canyon and Stanford's Linear Accelerator.
John Briscoe (environmental engineer)
John Briscoe (1948–2014) was a South African-born environmental engineer and World Bank water specialist who led its 2003 Water Resources Sector Strategy and won the 2014 Stockholm Water Prize.
John Brooks Slaughter
John Brooks Slaughter (1934–2023) was an American electrical engineer who became the first African American director of the National Science Foundation, serving from 1980 to 1982.
John C. Calhoun (scientist)
John C. Calhoun was an American petroleum engineer who spent most of his career at Texas A&M University and wrote the influential 1976 textbook Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering.
John C. Crittenden
John C. Crittenden is an environmental engineer who led Georgia Tech's Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems from 2009 to 2022 and won the 2015 Clarke Prize.
John C. Doyle
John C. Doyle is a control theorist at Caltech, emeritus since 2025, known for the 1989 state-space H-infinity solution and for applying robustness theory to biology and large networks.
John C. Geyer
John C. Geyer was an American sanitary and environmental engineer at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored the profession's first modern textbook, Water Supply and Waste-Water Disposal.
John C. Platt
John C. Platt is a computer scientist known for the SMO algorithm and Platt scaling, with a research career at Synaptics, Microsoft Research, and Google.
John Canny
John Canny is an Australian-born computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley, best known for the Canny edge detector, a standard image-processing algorithm published in 1986.
John Chae
John Chae is a physician-scientist in physical medicine and rehabilitation who leads academic affairs at MetroHealth in Cleveland and studies electrical stimulation for post-stroke limb function and pain.
John Charles Vassberg
John Charles Vassberg is an American aerodynamicist, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, who led Boeing aerodynamics for decades and now designs JetZero's blended wing body Z4.
John Chipman (metallurgist)
John Chipman (1897–1983) was an American metallurgist and physical chemist who brought thermodynamics into industrial steelmaking, led MIT's Department of Metallurgy, and headed the Manhattan Project's metallurgy section in Chicago.
John Christopher Mauro
John Christopher Mauro is an American glass scientist at Penn State who co-invented Gorilla Glass at Corning and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.