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James Eugene Broadwell
James Eugene Broadwell, known as Gene Broadwell, was an American aeronautical engineer at Caltech, Stanford, and TRW, namesake of the Broadwell model of shock waves.
James Evans Robertson
James Evans Robertson (1924–1993) was an American computer scientist at the University of Illinois, known for the SRT division method and ORDVAC and ILLIAC I circuitry.
James F. Lardner
James F. Lardner (1924–2012) was an American manufacturing engineer who spent 44 years at Deere & Co. and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
James F. Stahl
James F. Stahl is an American environmental engineer who led the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County for 38 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
James G. Maser
James G. Maser is an American aerospace executive and engineer who led launch vehicle programs at Boeing, Sea Launch, SpaceX, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
James G. O'Connor
James G. O'Connor is a retired American aerospace engineer and executive who led Pratt & Whitney as president and chief executive from 1989 until his 1993 retirement.
James Glaisher
James Glaisher (1809–1903) was an English astronomer and meteorologist at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, who organized Britain's first weather observation network and made a record balloon ascent in 1862.
James Gosling
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, born in 1955, best known as the creator of the Java programming language, which he designed at Sun Microsystems.
James Graham Martindale
James Graham Martindale was a British textile researcher at the Wool Industries Research Association who devised the cloth-wearing tester that became the Martindale abrasion tester in 1942.
James H. Clark
James H. Clark (born 1944 in Plainview, Texas) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded Silicon Graphics, co-founded Netscape with Marc Andreessen, and started Healtheon and MyCFO.
James H. Crocker
James H. Crocker is an American aerospace engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for conceiving COSTAR, the corrective optics that restored the Hubble Space Telescope's vision.
James H. Mulligan Jr.
James H. Mulligan Jr. was an American electrical engineer, chairman of electrical engineering at New York University from 1952 to 1968 and president of the IEEE in 1971.
James H. Pikul
James H. Pikul, also published as James Pikul, is an American mechanical engineer and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for camouflaging skins, microbatteries, and metallic nanolattices.
James H. Pomerene
James H. Pomerene (1920–2008) was an American computer engineer who designed the arithmetic and memory hardware of the IAS machine and led IBM's HARVEST supercomputer for the NSA.
James H. Stratton
James H. Stratton was an American civil engineer and U.S. Army brigadier general, a named principal of the firm TAMS that consulted on Tarbela Dam in Pakistan.
James Henry Greathead
James Henry Greathead (1844–1896) was a South African-born British civil engineer whose cylindrical tunnelling shield, first used on the Tower Subway in 1869, made deep-level tunneling through soft ground practical and underpinned the London Underground.
James Hing
Dr. James T. Hing is an American robotics engineer at NAWCAD Lakehurst, New Jersey, who founded its RISE Laboratory and received the Presidential Early Career Award in 2019.
James Hobrecht
James Hobrecht (1825–1902) was a German civil engineer who directed Berlin's 1862 expansion plan and designed the city's radial sewerage system, pumping wastewater to sewage farms outside the city.
James Irwin
James Irwin, also known as Jim Irwin, was an American Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who became the eighth person to walk on the Moon in 1971.
James J. Carberry
James J. Carberry (1925–2000) was an American chemical engineer who taught at Notre Dame for 40 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
James J. De Yoreo
James J. De Yoreo is an American crystal growth scientist, a Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
James J. Markowsky
James J. Markowsky is an American power engineer who led American Electric Power's 21,000 MW coal fleet and served as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy from 2009.
James J. Mikulski
James J. Mikulski is an American electrical engineer who led development of Motorola's DynaTAC hand-held cellular telephone system and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.
James J. Padilla
James J. Padilla, known as Jim Padilla, is an American manufacturing engineer who spent four decades at Ford Motor Company, retiring as its president and chief operating officer.
James J. Solberg
James J. Solberg is an American industrial engineer and Professor Emeritus at Purdue University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for his work on manufacturing systems.
James K. Mitchell
James Kenneth Mitchell (1930–2023) was an American geotechnical engineer who led NASA's Apollo lunar soil mechanics investigations, advanced the study of soil behavior, and taught at Berkeley and Virginia Tech.
James Kim
James Kim (1971–2006) was a Korean-American technology journalist and senior editor at CNET who died of hypothermia in December 2006 after leaving his snowbound family in Oregon to seek help on foot.
James L. Flanagan
James L. Flanagan was an American electrical engineer who led speech and acoustics research at Bell Laboratories for 33 years, winning the 1996 National Medal of Science.
James L. Kirtley Jr.
James L. Kirtley Jr. is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor specializing in electric machinery and power systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
James L. Lammie
James L. Lammie, also known as James Louis Lammie (1931–2022), was an American civil engineer, a West Point graduate and Army colonel who led Parsons Brinckerhoff and oversaw Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel project.