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Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl was a German mechanical engineer and physicist, called the father of aerodynamics, who founded modern fluid mechanics with his 1904 boundary layer theory.
Luigi Crocco
Luigi Crocco (1909–1986) was an Italian aerospace engineer, son of rocketry pioneer Gaetano Arturo Crocco, who taught at Rome and Princeton and whose combustion-instability research helped make the Saturn V's F-1 engine flyable.
Luis E. Hueso
Luis E. Hueso is a Spanish physicist working on spintronics and nanoscale devices; he has led the Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian since 2008.
Luis Enrique Garcia
Luis Enrique García Reyes is a Colombian structural and earthquake engineer, honorary professor at Universidad de los Andes and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Luis M. Liz‐Marzán
Luis M. Liz-Marzán is a Spanish chemist and Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC biomaGUNE in San Sebastián, known as a pioneer in nanoplasmonics and the colloidal synthesis of plasmonic metal nanoparticles.
Luiz Davidovich
Luiz Davidovich is a Brazilian physicist at UFRJ working in quantum optics and quantum information, and president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences from 2016 to 2022.
Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral
Luís A. Nunes Amaral is a complex-systems and network scientist at Northwestern University, known for the 2005 Nature paper "Functional cartography of complex metabolic networks."
Luke P. Lee
Luke P. Lee, also known as Luke Lee, is a bioengineer working in bionanophotonics and optofluidics, known for PRET nanospectroscopy and the 2010 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering.
Luke Zettlemoyer
Luke Zettlemoyer is a computer scientist working on natural language processing who is a professor at the University of Washington and a Senior Research Director at Meta FAIR.
Lulu Qian
Lulu Qian (钱璐璐) is a bioengineer and Professor of Bioengineering at Caltech since 2019, known for inventing DNA-based artificial neural networks that classify molecular patterns.
Lydia E. Kavraki
Lydia E. Kavraki is a Greek computer scientist at Rice University known for the Probabilistic Roadmap Planner and the Open Motion Planning Library, widely used in robotics.
Lymon C. Reese
Lymon C. Reese was an American geotechnical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin whose p-y curve method and FHWA manuals became standard in deep-foundation design.
Lyndsey McMillon-Brown
Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown is a research electrical engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center who leads development of perovskite solar cells made in space and received a 2025 PECASE award.
Lynn Conway
Lynn Ann Conway (1938–2024) was an American computer scientist and electrical engineer who, with Carver Mead, created the VLSI design methodology that transformed microchip design from the late 1970s.
Lynn S. Beedle
Lynn S. Beedle (1917–2003) was an American structural engineer at Lehigh University whose plastic-design research reshaped steel building practice and who founded the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
M. Eugene Merchant
M. Eugene Merchant (1913–2006) was an American machining scientist who developed a mathematical model of metal cutting, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
M. George Craford
M. George Craford, born 1938, is an American electrical engineer who led development of the first yellow LED and high-brightness red, orange, and amber LEDs.
M. Granger Morgan
M. Granger Morgan, also known as Millett Granger Morgan, is an American engineer and risk analyst at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.
M. J. Buerger
Martin Julian Buerger (1903–1986) was an American mineralogist and crystallographer at MIT who invented the X-ray precession camera and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.
M. Robert Aaron
M. Robert Aaron was a Bell Labs engineer who applied computer-aided design to the first repeatered transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1, and shared the 1978 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
M. Rosa Palacín
M. Rosa Palacín (María Rosa Palacín Peiró, born 1968 in Barcelona) is a Spanish solid-state chemist and Research Professor at ICMAB-CSIC working on lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and calcium battery materials.
M. Taher A Saif
M. Taher A Saif is a mechanical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for studying mechanics at small scales.
Mac Van Valkenburg
Mac Van Valkenburg was an American electrical engineer and University of Illinois professor whose textbooks on circuit theory shaped how the subject was taught worldwide.
Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan is an Indian-born American theoretical computer scientist, a Harvard professor since 2015, known for probabilistically checkable proofs and list decoding and winner of the 2002 Nevanlinna Prize.
Magdalena Titirici
Magdalena Titirici, full name Maria-Magdalena Titirici, is a Romanian-born materials chemist who holds the Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials at Imperial College London since 2019.
Magnus Berggren
Magnus Berggren is a Swedish professor of organic electronics at Linköping University and director of its Laboratory of Organic Electronics, known for organic bioelectronics, electronic plants, and cofounding nine companies.
Maithilee Kunda
Maithilee Kunda is an American cognitive scientist and AI researcher studying visual thinking in autism and neurodiversity, a reader at the University of Edinburgh and 2025 PECASE recipient.
Maja Pantić
Maja Pantić, also written Maja Pantic, is a computer scientist and professor of affective and behavioral computing at Imperial College London, known for machine analysis of facial expressions and social signals.
Makhsud I. Saidaminov
Makhsud I. Saidaminov is a materials scientist and Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria, known for fast growth of perovskite single crystals and more stable perovskite solar cells.
Makoto Kikuchi
Makoto Kikuchi (菊池誠), 1925 to 2012, was a Japanese semiconductor physicist who developed point-contact transistors at Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory and led Sony's silicon CCD development.