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Daniel C. Edelstein

Daniel C. Edelstein is an IBM Fellow and Chief Interconnect Strategist at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center who led IBM's industry-first copper interconnect technology, announced in 1997.

Daniel Christopher Worledge

Daniel Christopher Worledge is an IBM materials scientist and Senior Manager of MRAM who developed embedded STT-MRAM technology, earning the 2025 IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award and 2024 NAE election.

Daniel Cohen‐Or

Daniel Cohen-Or is an Israeli computer scientist and Tel Aviv University professor working in computer graphics and geometric modeling, now focused on generative models for image and shape synthesis.

Daniel D. Joseph

Daniel D. Joseph (1929–2011) was an American fluid dynamicist and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota known for stability theory, viscoelastic fluids, and lubricated pipelining.

Daniel De Freitas

Daniel De Freitas is a machine learning researcher who co-founded the chatbot company Character.AI with Noam Shazeer in 2021, led it as president, and returned to Google DeepMind in 2024.

Daniel Defense

Daniel Defense is an American firearms manufacturer in Black Creek, Georgia, founded by Marty Daniel in 2001, known for AR-15-style rifles and the SOCOM RIS II rail.

Daniel E Milkie

Daniel E Milkie is a microscopy engineer and Senior Scientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, known for lattice light-sheet microscopy and a complete electron microscopy volume of the adult fly brain.

Daniel E. Morse

Daniel E. Morse is an American molecular biologist and biomaterials scientist at UC Santa Barbara known for identifying how marine organisms build their shells and skeletons.

Daniel E. Noble

Daniel E. Noble was an American electronics engineer who designed the first statewide two-way FM police radio system and led development of Motorola's SCR-300 walkie-talkie.

Daniel G. Anderson

Daniel G. Anderson is a chemical engineer and professor at MIT whose laboratory pioneered robotic, combinatorial methods for discovering drug delivery biomaterials, including lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery.

Daniel Garmann

Dr. Daniel J. Garmann is a senior research aerospace engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, who won the 2019 PECASE award for computational aerodynamics.

Daniel Goldin

Daniel Goldin is an American engineer who served as NASA's ninth and longest-serving Administrator, from 1992 to 2001, championing "faster, better, cheaper" and starting the Discovery and Origins programs.

Daniel Gross

Daniel Gross is an Israeli-born entrepreneur and investor, born in Jerusalem in 1991, who co-founded the search startup Cue, became a Y Combinator partner, and led Safe Superintelligence.

Daniel Guggenheim Medal

The Daniel Guggenheim Medal is an international award honoring notable achievements in advancing the safety and practicality of aviation, first awarded to Orville Wright in 1929.

Daniel I.C. Wang

Daniel I.C. Wang (王义翘) was an American biochemical engineer at MIT, a founding figure of biochemical engineering who directed its Biotechnology Process Engineering Center from 1985 to 1998.

Daniel J. Fink

Daniel J. Fink (1926–2012) was an American aerospace engineer and executive best known for leading the NASA and industry team that built and flew Landsat, winning the 1974 Collier Trophy.

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, formerly Honolulu International Airport, is the main airport of Honolulu, Hawaii, renamed in 2017 to honor the longtime Senator Daniel K. Inouye.

Daniel Kottke

Daniel Kottke, also known as Dan Kottke, is an American computer engineer who was Apple employee No. 12 and worked on the Apple-1 and Macintosh.

Daniel Lewin

Daniel Lewin, also known as Danny Lewin, was an Israeli-American computer scientist who co-founded Akamai Technologies and is identified as the first victim of the September 11 attacks.

Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind (born 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born American architect known for the Jewish Museum Berlin and the World Trade Center master plan.

Daniel M. Hancock

Daniel M. Hancock, known as Dan Hancock, is a retired American automotive engineer who spent 43 years at General Motors and led SAE International in 2014.

Daniel M. Kammen

Daniel M. Kammen is an American energy scientist who founded the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at UC Berkeley and joined Johns Hopkins in 2025.

Daniel Michael Tellep

Daniel Michael Tellep (1931–2020) was an American aerospace engineer who led reentry-system design for the Fleet Ballistic Missile program and became the first chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin.

Daniel P. Hess

Daniel P. Hess is an American mechanical engineer at the University of South Florida known for research on friction dynamics and winner of a 1996 PECASE award.

Daniel P. Loucks

Daniel P. Loucks is an American civil and environmental engineer who spent his career at Cornell University, applying economics, ecology, and systems analysis to water resources management.

Daniel Shiffman

Daniel Shiffman is an American programmer and educator at NYU's ITP, author of The Nature of Code and creator of The Coding Train YouTube channel.

Daniel Sperling

Daniel Sperling is an American transportation sustainability researcher, founding director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, who co-designed California's low carbon fuel standard.

Daniel Spielman

Daniel Spielman is an American computer scientist and mathematician at Yale University known for smoothed analysis of algorithms, fast Laplacian solvers, and the Kadison–Singer solution.

Daniel V. Esposito

Daniel V. Esposito is an American chemical engineer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who leads the Solar Fuels Engineering Laboratory, known for membraneless electrolyzers that produce hydrogen.

Daniël Vanmaekelbergh

Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, also known as Daniel Vanmaekelbergh, is a Belgian physical chemist and professor at Utrecht University known for work on colloidal nanocrystals and quantum dots.