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John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer, Stanford professor emeritus, known as "the father of DSL" for the discrete multitone research that became the 1993 US standard.
John Cocke (computer scientist)
John Cocke was an American computer scientist at IBM who pioneered RISC architecture and optimizing compilers, earning the 1987 A.M. Turing Award and the National Medal of Science.
John D. Anderson
John D. Anderson is an American aerospace engineer at the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian, known for hypersonic gas dynamics and textbooks like Introduction to Flight.
John D. Kraus
John D. Kraus (1910–2004) was an American radio astronomer and electrical engineer at Ohio State University who invented the helical antenna and built the Big Ear radio telescope.
John D. Mackenzie
John D. Mackenzie was a materials scientist at UCLA who trained in London, pioneered glass and ceramics processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John D. O'Brien
John D. O'Brien was an American electrical engineer and USC professor known for photonic-crystal nanocavity lasers and the 1998 PECASE award; he died in 2017.
John David Kubiatowicz
John David Kubiatowicz is an American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, known for the Alewife multiprocessor, OceanStore, and Tapestry, and a 2000 PECASE award.
John David Rhodes
John David Rhodes, born in 1943, is a British microwave engineer, emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, and founder of Filtronic plc, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993.
John Doyle (control theorist)
John Comstock Doyle is a Caltech control theorist, emeritus as of 2025, known for the structured singular value, H-infinity control, and highly optimized tolerance theory of robust-yet-fragile complex systems.
John E. Allison
John E. Allison is an American metallurgist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and a pioneer of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering.
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers is an electrical engineer who spent 38 years at UC Santa Barbara pioneering silicon photonics, cofounding six companies, and winning the 2024 IEEE Nishizawa Prize.
John E. Breen
John E. Breen, known as Jack Breen, was an American civil engineer and structural concrete researcher who taught at the University of Texas at Austin for over 50 years.
John E. Dolan
John E. Dolan (1923–2018) was an American engineer who led generation and transmission engineering at American Electric Power and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
John Eugene Kunzler
John Eugene Kunzler was an American metallurgist and materials scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, known for the 1961 discovery that niobium-tin remains superconducting in very high magnetic fields.
John F. Ahearne
John F. Ahearne (1934–2019) was an American physicist who chaired the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and became a leading figure in nuclear safety policy.
John F. Elliott
John Frank Elliott (1920–1991) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor of metallurgy known for the thermochemistry of steelmaking and the two-volume Thermochemistry for Steelmaking.
John F. McCarthy Jr.
John F. McCarthy Jr. (1925–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer known for Apollo spacecraft work at North American Rockwell and for directing NASA's Lewis Research Center.
John F. Reid
John F. Reid is an American agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for agricultural automation.
John Finley Yardley
John Finley Yardley (1925–2001) was an American aeronautical engineer who managed the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft for McDonnell Aircraft and led NASA's space shuttle development.
John Frank Davidson
John Frank Davidson (1926–2019) was a British chemical engineer at Cambridge, the founding father of fluidization, who co-wrote the classic textbook Fluidised Particles in 1963.
John G. Barnard
John Gross Barnard (1815–1882) was a US Army Corps of Engineers officer who built the defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and studied the gyroscope.
John G. Linvill
John G. Linvill (1919–2011) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University known for transistor circuit theory and for inventing the Optacon, an electronic reading device for blind readers.
John G. Speer
John G. Speer is an American steel metallurgist, professor at the Colorado School of Mines, who invented quenching and partitioning steel processing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
John G. Trump
John G. Trump (John George Trump, 1907–1985) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who developed megavolt X-ray generators for cancer therapy and evaluated Tesla's papers in 1943.
John G. Truxal
John G. Truxal (1924–2007) was an American control theorist and systems engineer who led electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic and served as Dean of Engineering at Stony Brook.
John G. Ziegler
John G. Ziegler (c. 1909–1997) was an American engineer who, with mathematician Nathaniel B. Nichols, created the Ziegler–Nichols method, the first systematic procedure for tuning PID controllers.
John Grant Aunins
John Grant Aunins is an American biochemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021, known for vaccine process development at Merck and microbiome therapeutics at Seres.
John Gustafson (computer scientist)
John L. Gustafson is an American computer scientist known for Gustafson's law of parallel speedup, winning the inaugural Gordon Bell Prize in 1988, and inventing the posit number format.
John H. Chesters
John H. Chesters, full name John Hugh Chesters, was a British metallurgist whose research on heat-resistant furnace linings improved steelmaking furnaces; he was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 1969.
John H. Dessauer
John H. Dessauer (1905–1993) was a German-born American chemical engineer who, as research director of Haloid and later Xerox, brought Chester Carlson's xerography into the office.