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Mauricio Futran

Mauricio Futran is a chemical engineer who led pharmaceutical process development at Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Janssen, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.

Mauricio Terrones

Mauricio Terrones is a Mexican physicist at Penn State known for research on carbon nanotubes and 2D materials, and head of its physics department since 2023.

Max Knoll

Max Knoll (1897–1969) was a German electrical engineer who co-invented the electron microscope with his student Ernst Ruska in Berlin in 1931 and later proposed the scanning principle behind the scanning electron microscope.

Max L. Williams, Jr

Max L. Williams, Jr. (1922–2013) was an American mechanical and aerospace engineer, a pioneer of fracture mechanics who founded the International Journal of Fracture in 1963.

Max Mathews

Max Vernon Mathews (1926–2011) was an American Bell Labs engineer called the father of computer music; his Music programs underlie synthesis software like Csound and Max/MSP.

Max S. Peters

Max S. Peters (1920–2011) was an American chemical engineer and educator who served as dean of engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1962 to 1978.

Max William Carbon

Max William Carbon was an American nuclear engineer who founded the University of Wisconsin–Madison's nuclear engineering department and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Maxime Beauchemin

Maxime Beauchemin (@mistercrunch) is a software engineer, original creator of Apache Airflow (2014, Airbnb) and Apache Superset (originally Caravel), founder and CEO of Preset, and now builder of the AI-agent orchestration platform Agor.

Maxime Faget

Maxime Faget (1921–2004) was an American aerospace engineer who designed the Mercury capsule, America's first crewed spacecraft, and shaped every NASA vehicle from Mercury through the Shuttle.

Maximilian Fichtner

Maximilian Fichtner (born 1961 in Heidelberg) is a German chemist, professor at the University of Ulm, and managing director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, known for rechargeable magnesium–sulfur batteries.

Maynard Pennell

Maynard Pennell (1910–1994) was an American aeronautical engineer and Boeing executive who helped develop the B-29, B-52, 707, and 727, and managed Boeing's supersonic transport program in the 1960s.

Md Golam Kibria

Md Golam Kibria is a Bangladeshi-born materials and electrochemistry scientist and associate professor at the University of Calgary, known for work on CO2 conversion, water splitting, and sustainable fuels.

Meagan S. Mauter

Meagan S. Mauter is an American environmental engineer at Stanford who works on water treatment and desalination, directing WE3Lab and the National Alliance for Water Innovation.

Meenesh R. Singh

Meenesh R. Singh is a chemical engineer and full professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, working on carbon capture and solar-energy conversion, with a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory.

Megan O'Rourke

Megan O'Rourke is an American agroecologist who studies how farmland biodiversity, landscape management, and pest control affect crop production, and received the PECASE award, honored at the White House in 2019.

Mehdi Hatamian

Mehdi Hatamian is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and Distinguished University Professor at Florida International University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for integrated circuits for video and communications.

Mehmet Toner

Mehmet Toner, born 1958 in Istanbul, is a Turkish-American bioengineer at Harvard and Mass General known for microfluidic chips that isolate circulating tumor cells from blood.

Meilin Liu

Meilin Liu (刘美林) is a materials scientist at Georgia Tech, a Regents' Professor known for fuel cell and battery research, 33 U.S. patents, and co-founding PolyPlus Battery.

Meimei Li

Meimei Li is a materials physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who leads its Nuclear Materials Group and received a 2012 PECASE award for nuclear reactor materials research.

Melissa E. Orme

Melissa E. Orme is an aerospace engineer and Boeing vice president, a pioneer in metal additive manufacturing elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Melissa Teague

Melissa Teague is an American nuclear materials scientist who performed the first 3-D characterizations of irradiated high burn-up mixed oxide fuel, earning a 2013 PECASE award.

Melody Swartz

Melody Swartz is a bioengineer and William B. Ogden Professor at the University of Chicago who studies how lymphatic vessels regulate immunity, informing cancer immunotherapy approaches.

Melville Eastham

Melville Eastham (1885–1964) was an American electrical engineer who founded the General Radio Company, built instruments that standardized radio-frequency measurement, and led the MIT Radiation Laboratory group that developed LORAN.

Melvin Baron

Melvin Baron (1927–1997) was an American civil and structural engineer, partner and board chairman of Weidlinger Associates, known for shock and vibration of immersed shells and blast-resistant design.

Melvin Conway

Melvin Conway is an American computer scientist whose 1968 paper "How Do Committees Invent?" gave rise to Conway's Law, the observation that system designs mirror the organizations that build them.

Melvin F. Kanninen

Melvin F. Kanninen is a mechanical engineer known for developing elastic-plastic fracture mechanics and applying it to nuclear reactor piping and gas pipelines; he co-authored the textbook Advanced Fracture Mechanics in 1985.

Menachem Elimelech

Menachem Elimelech is an environmental engineer known for pioneering membrane technologies for seawater desalination and wastewater reuse; he was Yale's first engineering Sterling Professor before joining Rice University in 2025.

Mendel Rosenblum (scientist)

Mendel Rosenblum is an American computer scientist, a Stanford professor known for operating systems and virtualization research, who co-founded VMware in 1998 and served as its Chief Scientist.

Meni Wanunu

Meni Wanunu is a physicist and bioengineer at Northeastern University who directs the Nanoscale Biophysics Laboratory and develops solid-state nanopore sensors for single-molecule DNA, RNA, and protein analysis.

Meredith Gourdine

Meredith Gourdine was an American engineer and physicist who pioneered electrogasdynamics, converting ionized gas flow into electricity, and won Olympic long jump silver in 1952.