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Donald C. Winter
Donald C. Winter is an American physicist and aerospace executive who served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from 2006 to 2009 and later chaired the National Academy of Engineering.
Donald Coles
Donald Coles (1924–2013) was an American aeronautical scientist at Caltech who formulated the law of the wake and produced the first comprehensive supersonic boundary-layer dataset.
Donald Cox (electrical engineer)
Donald Cox is an American electrical engineer, Harald Trap Friis Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, known for research in radio propagation and wireless personal communications.
Donald D. Chamberlin
Donald D. Chamberlin (born 1944) is an American computer scientist who co-designed SQL at IBM, where he worked on the System R relational database project.
Donald Davies
Donald Watts Davies was a Welsh computer scientist at the UK National Physical Laboratory who invented packet switching in 1965 and coined the term, the technique underlying the Internet.
Donald DeVoe
Donald DeVoe is an American mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Maryland known for microfluidic methods that synthesize lipid nanoparticles of controlled size for drug delivery.
Donald E. Procknow
Donald E. Procknow (1923–2016) was an American engineer who served as president and chief executive of Western Electric, AT&T's manufacturing arm, from 1971 to 1983.
Donald Ellis Hudson
Donald Ellis Hudson (1916–1999) was an American earthquake engineer at Caltech, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973 for instruments that recorded destructive earthquake ground shaking.
Donald G. Fink
Donald G. Fink was an American electrical engineer, editor-in-chief of Electronics magazine, who proposed the 525-line American television standard and became the first IEEE general manager.
Donald G. Russell
Donald G. Russell (1931–2015) was an American petroleum engineer who spent over thirty years at Shell, retiring as president of Shell Development Company, and served as president of both the SPE and AIME.
Donald Geman
Donald Geman, born 1943, is an American applied mathematician at Johns Hopkins University known for the Gibbs sampler, Markov random fields for image processing, and randomized decision trees.
Donald J. Blickwede
Donald J. Blickwede, also known as Donald Johnson Blickwede, was an American physical metallurgist who spent 33 years at Bethlehem Steel and co-invented Galvalume coated steel.
Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth, also known as Donald Ervin Knuth, is an American computer scientist at Stanford, author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX.
Donald L. Katz
Donald L. Katz (1907–1989) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of reservoir engineering and author of the Handbook of Natural Gas Engineering.
Donald Liu
Donald Liu is an American naval architect who spent 37 years at the American Bureau of Shipping, rising to Chief Technology Officer and creating the SafeHull ship design system.
Donald M. Smyth
Donald M. Smyth was an American materials scientist and chemist, a Lehigh University professor and National Academy of Engineering member known for work on the defect chemistry of electronic ceramics.
Donald Murray (inventor)
Donald Murray (1865–1945) was a New Zealand-born engineer and inventor whose five-unit telegraph code became the international standard for teleprinters, and who introduced the carriage return character.
Donald N. Frey
Donald N. Frey (1923–2010) was an American industrial engineer who led the Ford Mustang's development and was Bell & Howell's chief executive from 1971 to 1988.
Donald Norman
Donald Norman is an American cognitive scientist, author of The Design of Everyday Things, who held the first User Experience Architect job title at Apple in the 1990s.
Donald O. Dusenberry
Donald O. "Don" Dusenberry is an American structural and forensic engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024 for his work on structural design load standards.
Donald O. Thompson
Donald Oscar Thompson (1927–2013) was an American physicist and engineer who founded the field of quantitative nondestructive evaluation, leading its founding 1973 DARPA program at Rockwell.
Donald P. Greenberg
Donald P. Greenberg is an American computer graphics researcher who taught at Cornell from 1966 to 2025, pioneered physically based image synthesis, and won the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Coons Award.
Donald P. Hearth
Donald Payne Hearth (1928–2013) was an American aerospace engineer who directed NASA's Langley Research Center from 1975 to 1984, managed its planetary exploration programs, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Donald P. Visco
Donald P. Visco is an American chemical engineer at the University of Akron known for the Signature molecular descriptor, used in machine-learning models that screen millions of molecules for drug candidates.
Donald Petersen
Donald Petersen (1926–2024) was an American automotive executive who led Ford as chairman and CEO from 1985 to 1990, reviving it through the Taurus and a quality program.
Donald R. Paul
Donald R. Paul (1939–2026) was an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Donald S. Berry
Donald S. Berry (1911–2002) was an American transportation engineer and Northwestern University professor who in 1966 became the first transportation educator elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Donald Sadoway
Donald Robert Sadoway, born in Toronto in 1950, is a materials chemist and MIT professor emeritus known for inventing the liquid metal battery for grid-scale energy storage.
Donald W. Bahr
Donald W. Bahr is an American gas turbine combustion engineer who worked at General Electric in Cincinnati, Ohio, holding patents on combustors and publishing on aircraft engine emissions control.
Donald W. Gentry
Donald W. Gentry, also known as Donald William Gentry (1943–2012), was an American mining engineer and Colorado School of Mines dean who led the SME and AIME.