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James B. Coulter
James B. Coulter was an American sanitary engineer and Maryland's Secretary of Natural Resources from 1971 to 1983. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
James B. Francis
James B. Francis (James Bicheno Francis, 1815–1892) was a British-born American hydraulic engineer who ran Lowell, Massachusetts's canal system and invented the Francis turbine, still the world's most used hydropower turbine.
James B. Rawlings
James B. Rawlings is an American chemical engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for developing the theory of model predictive control for chemical processes.
James B. Reswick
James B. Reswick (born 1922) is an American bioengineer who helped found rehabilitation engineering in the United States and served as the first president of RESNA.
James Bartley
James Bartley is the central figure of an 1891 legend in which a British sailor survived inside a sperm whale's stomach near the Falkland Islands, debunked by later investigation.
James Bay Project
The James Bay Project, also known as the James Bay Hydroelectric Project, is a group of hydroelectric developments in northern Quebec, Canada, begun in 1971 with its core being the La Grande complex.
James Boyd (mining engineer)
James Boyd (1904–1987) was an Australian-born mining engineer and geologist who directed the United States Bureau of Mines from 1947 to 1951 and led Kennecott Copper's exploration.
James Brindley
James Brindley (1716–1772) was an English civil engineer, the leading canal engineer of the early Industrial Revolution, who built the Bridgewater Canal and about 350 miles of waterways.
James Buchanan Eads
James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887) was a self-taught American civil engineer best known for the Eads Bridge at St. Louis and for jetties that opened the Mississippi's mouth to oceangoing ships.
James C. Elms
James C. Elms, also known as James Cornelius Elms IV, was an American aerospace engineer and executive who led NASA's Electronic Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
James C. Keck
James C. Keck (1924–2010) was an American engineer and physicist, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, known for his work on automotive engine combustion aimed at minimizing noxious emissions.
James C. Liao
James C. Liao (廖俊智) is a Taiwanese metabolic engineer and synthetic biologist known for redesigning microbial metabolism to convert renewable feedstocks and greenhouse gases into fuels and chemicals.
James C. Williams
James C. Williams is an American metallurgical engineer known for research on titanium alloys for aerospace, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
James Carlini
James Carlini is a defense systems engineer at Leidos, elected to the National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2026, who founded and directed DARPA's Special Projects Office.
James Curran (computer scientist)
James R. Curran, also published as J. R. Curran, is an Australian computer scientist at the University of Sydney known for CCG parsing and founding Grok Learning.
James D. Foley
James D. Foley is an American computer scientist, Professor and Fleming Chair Emeritus at Georgia Tech, who founded its GVU Center and helped establish the annual SIGGRAPH conferences.
James D. Idol, Jr.
James D. Idol, Jr. (1928–2015) was an American chemical engineer at Standard Oil of Ohio who invented ammoxidation, the single-step process that commercialized acrylonitrile production in 1960.
James D. Marks
James D. Marks is an American physician-scientist and pioneer of antibody engineering at UCSF, known for fully human antibodies by phage display and botulism antitoxin research.
James D. Meindl
James D. Meindl (1933–2020) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford and Georgia Tech known for low-power microelectronics and his 2001 Science paper on silicon's limits.
James Dahlman
James Dahlman is an American bioengineer at Georgia Tech and Emory known for DNA-barcoded lipid nanoparticles that test hundreds of drug delivery vehicles in one animal.
James Demmel
James Demmel is an American computer scientist and mathematician at UC Berkeley, a career numerical linear algebra researcher known for the LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and SuperLU libraries and for communication-avoiding algorithms.
James Drake (engineer)
Sir James Drake (1907–1989) was a British civil engineer who, as Lancashire's County Surveyor and Bridgemaster, delivered the Preston Bypass, Britain's first motorway, opened in 1958.
James Duane Livingston
James Duane Livingston III (1930–2019) was an American physicist and metallurgist who spent 33 years at General Electric research and later taught materials science at MIT, studying how metals' microstructure controls their properties.
James Duderstadt
James Duderstadt (1942–2024) was an American nuclear engineer who rose from Michigan professor to its 11th president, 1988 to 1996, and co-authored the leading textbook Nuclear Reactor Analysis.
James Dyson
James Dyson, also known as Sir James Dyson, is a British inventor and entrepreneur born in Norfolk, England, in 1947, best known for inventing the bagless vacuum cleaner.
James E. Gebhardt
James E. Gebhardt (born 1955) is an American metallurgical and mineral-processing engineer, a UC Berkeley alumnus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
James E. Rogers Energy Complex
The James E. Rogers Energy Complex, formerly Cliffside Steam Station, is a coal- and natural-gas-fired power station in Mooresboro, North Carolina, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas.
James Earl Smay
James Earl Smay is an American materials scientist and engineer at Oklahoma State University, a 2005 PECASE recipient known for direct ink writing of colloidal inks.
James Edward Rekoske
James Edward Rekoske is an American chemical engineer and R&D executive elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023, cited for petrochemical, renewable fuel, and water conservation technologies.
James Edwin Barger
James Edwin Barger is an American acoustician, Chief Scientist at BBN in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led forensic analyses of the JFK, Watergate, and Kent State recordings.