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George Hockham
George Alfred Hockham (1938–2013) was a British electronics engineer who, with Charles Kao, co-authored the 1966 paper founding optical fiber communication, supplying the waveguide theory and fiber-dimension calculations.
George Hotz
George Hotz, known online as geohot, is an American security hacker who produced the first iPhone hardware unlock in 2007, later hacked the PlayStation 3, and founded Comma.ai.
George I. Haddad
George I. Haddad is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for microwave electronics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
George J. Dvorak
George J. Dvorak was a Czech-born American researcher in the mechanics of materials, known for transformation field analysis of composites and his career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
George J. Gleghorn
George J. Gleghorn, also recorded as George Jay Gleghorn, is an aerospace engineer who retired as Vice President and Chief Engineer of TRW's Space and Technology Group.
George J. Hirasaki
George J. Hirasaki (born 1939) is an American chemical and petroleum engineer, a Rice University professor who spent 26 years at Shell before joining the faculty in 1993.
George J. Huebner Jr.
George J. Huebner Jr. (1910–1996) was an American automotive research engineer at Chrysler, best known for developing the first practical passenger-car gas turbine, tested in 50 turbine cars in 1963.
George J. Pappas
George J. Pappas is an American control theorist and computer scientist, the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for hybrid systems and cyber-physical safety verification.
George J. Schroepfer
George J. Schroepfer was an American civil and sanitary engineer who led the Minneapolis–St. Paul Sanitary District and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.
George K. Muellner
George K. Muellner (1943–2019) was an American aeronautical engineer and retired Air Force lieutenant general who led Boeing's Phantom Works and directed the program that became the Joint Strike Fighter.
George L. Stegemeier
George L. Stegemeier is an American petroleum engineer whose scaled steam-drive models underpinned Shell's heavy-oil production in California, and who was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
George L. Turin
George Lewis Turin (1930–2014) was an American electrical engineer who joined UC Berkeley in 1960, chaired its EECS department, and did pioneering work on urban radio multipath.
George Leitmann
George Leitmann (1925–2025) was an Austrian-born American control theorist and professor of engineering science at UC Berkeley, known for pioneering guaranteed control of uncertain systems and dynamic game theory.
George Low
George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer who managed the Apollo program after the 1967 fire, then served as NASA Deputy Administrator and RPI president.
George M. C. Fisher
George M. C. Fisher is an American engineer who served as President and CEO of Motorola from 1988 to 1993 and as CEO of Eastman Kodak from 1993 to 1999.
George Malliaras
George Malliaras is a materials scientist in organic electronics and bioelectronics, Prince Philip Professor of Technology at Cambridge since 2017 and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2024.
George Mueller (electrical engineer)
George Mueller (1918–2015) was an American electrical engineer who, as NASA's associate administrator for Manned Space Flight from 1963 to 1969, directed Gemini and Apollo to the Moon landing.
George N. Hatsopoulos
George N. Hatsopoulos (1927–2018) was a Greek-born American mechanical engineer who founded Thermo Electron Corporation, grew it to over 24,000 employees, and reshaped the teaching of thermodynamics at MIT.
George Neal Station North
George Neal Station North, also called Neal North Energy Center, is a coal-fired power plant in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, operated by MidAmerican Energy Company, with one 584 MW unit running since 1975.
George Owen Squier
George Owen Squier was a U.S. Army major general and inventor who invented telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910, became the first airplane passenger in 1908, and founded Muzak.
George P. Mitchell
George P. Mitchell was a Texas oil and gas engineer, wildcatter, and philanthropist whose two-decade Barnett Shale campaign earned him the title Father of the Shale Gas Revolution.
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (1831–1897) was an American industrialist who designed the Pullman sleeping car, founded the Pullman Palace Car Company, and built the company town of Pullman.
George R. Cotter
George R. Cotter is an American cryptologic engineer and retired NSA executive. He was the first NSA employee elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
George R. Irwin
George R. Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory whose stress intensity factor made him the father of fracture mechanics.
George Rankine Irwin
George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998) was an American physicist known as the father of fracture mechanics, who identified the stress intensity factor at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
George S. Schairer
George S. Schairer was an American aerodynamicist who led Boeing's aerodynamics from 1939 and pushed the swept wing into the B-47, the pattern for Boeing's jetliners.
George Sachs (German metallurgist)
George Sachs (1896–1960) was a German mechanical metallurgist, born in Moscow, who developed the iso-stress polycrystal model and the boring-out method for measuring residual stresses in tubes and bars.
George Stephenson
George Stephenson (1781–1848) was an English civil and mechanical engineer, called the "Father of Railways," who engineered the Stockton and Darlington and Liverpool and Manchester railways.
George Stibitz
George Stibitz (1904–1995) was an American research mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories who built the first relay-based digital computers and demonstrated remote computing over telephone lines in 1940.
George Sweigert
George Sweigert, also known as George H. Sweigert, was an American inventor from Euclid, Ohio, who patented a wireless two-way telephone link in 1969 that anticipated the cordless telephone.