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John H. Gibbons
John H. Gibbons was an American nuclear physicist who directed the congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1979 to 1993 and served as President Clinton's science adviser.
John H. Koon
John H. Koon is an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for designing systems to treat complex industrial wastewaters.
John H. Linehan
John H. Linehan is an American biomedical engineer, a Northwestern University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for pulmonary mechanics research and medical device regulation.
John H. McElroy
John H. McElroy (1936–2007) was an American electrical engineer who led NASA Goddard's CO2 laser communications research, directed NOAA's satellite programs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
John H. Perepezko
John H. Perepezko is an American physical metallurgist and IBM Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for solidification processing innovations.
John H. Schmertmann
John H. Schmertmann, born 1928, is an American geotechnical engineer and University of Florida professor emeritus, best known for the Schmertmann settlement method for footings on sand.
John H. Sununu
John H. Sununu is an American Republican politician and mechanical engineer who served as governor of New Hampshire and as White House chief of staff under George H. W. Bush.
John Happel
John Happel was a chemical engineer at Columbia University known for Low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, written with Howard Brenner, and for isotope tracing methods in catalysis.
John Hays Hammond Jr.
John Hays Hammond Jr. (1888–1965) was an American inventor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, called the Father of Radio Control; he held 437 US patents and developed jam-resistant radio control of ships.
John Henry Holland
John Henry Holland (1929–2015) was an American scientist and University of Michigan professor who invented genetic algorithms, pioneered complex adaptive systems, and helped found the Santa Fe Institute.
John Herbert Hollomon, Jr.
J. Herbert Hollomon (1919–1985) was an American metallurgist who led materials research at General Electric, became the first Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology, and served as president of the University of Oklahoma.
John Hopcroft
John Hopcroft, full name John Edward Hopcroft, is an American computer scientist at Cornell University who shared the 1986 Turing Award for achievements in algorithms and data structures.
John Houbolt
John Houbolt (1919–2014) was an American aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center who championed lunar orbit rendezvous, the mission mode adopted for the Apollo Moon landings in 1962.
John Howard Dellinger
John Howard Dellinger (1886–1962) was an American telecommunication engineer who led the National Bureau of Standards radio laboratory and discovered the sudden ionospheric disturbance, the Dellinger effect.
John J. Cassidy
John J. ("Jack") Cassidy (1930–2022) was an American hydraulic engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994, known for dams and hydroelectric projects worldwide.
John J. Dorning
John J. Dorning is an American nuclear engineer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
John J. Gilman
John J. Gilman (1925–2009) was an American materials scientist nicknamed "Mr. Dislocations" for his work on the mechanical properties of solids, especially dislocations in crystals and ceramics.
John J. Hopfield
John J. Hopfield, born in Chicago in 1933, is an American physicist at Princeton known for the 1982 Hopfield neural network and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
John J. McKetta
John J. McKetta (1915–2019) was an American chemical engineer, dean emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, and energy adviser to five U.S. presidents.
John J. Vithayathil
John Joseph Vithayathil (1937–2011) was an Indian-American electric power engineer who invented the thyristor-controlled series capacitor and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
John Joseph Carty
John Joseph Carty (1861–1932) was an American electrical engineer who rose from telephone operator to Vice President of AT&T, led the first transcontinental telephone line in 1915, and chaired Bell Telephone Laboratories.
John Joseph Koszewnik
John Joseph Koszewnik is an American mechanical and powertrain engineer, retired chief technical officer of Achates Power, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for engine design.
John L. Anderson
John L. Anderson is an American chemical engineer known for research on colloidal hydrodynamics and membrane transport, and president of the National Academy of Engineering from 2019 to 2025.
John L. Bogdanoff
John L. Bogdanoff (1916–2003) was an American mechanical engineer at Purdue University who pioneered stochastic processes in engineering analysis and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
John L. Cleasby
John L. (Jack) Cleasby was an American environmental engineer at Iowa State University, a leading authority on granular filtration of drinking water, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1983.
John L. Hennessy
John L. Hennessy, also known as John Leroy Hennessy, is an American computer scientist who was Stanford University's 10th president from 2000 to 2016 and won the 2017 Turing Award.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley (1930–2015) was an American fluid dynamicist, Willis H. Carrier Professor at Cornell University, who pioneered proper orthogonal decomposition of turbulent flows and coauthored A First Course in Turbulence.
John L. Moll
John L. Moll (John Lewis Moll, 1921–2011) was an American electrical engineer known for the Ebers-Moll transistor model and the p-n-p-n switch theory behind the silicon controlled rectifier.
John L. Savage
John L. Savage was an American civil engineer who, as chief designing engineer of the US Bureau of Reclamation, supervised designs of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams.
John Lowe III
John Lowe III (1916–2012) was an American geotechnical engineer who worked on more than 45 dams and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.