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John A. Roebling
John A. Roebling, born Johann August Röbling in 1806, was a German-born American civil engineer who invented wire rope and designed suspension bridges, including the Brooklyn Bridge.
John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, also called the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge, is an 1867 suspension bridge over the Ohio River linking Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
John A. Rogers
John A. Rogers, born 1967, is an American materials scientist at Northwestern University known for stretchable, skin-like electronics and transient devices that dissolve harmlessly in the body.
John A. Schey
John A. Schey is a manufacturing engineering researcher at the University of Waterloo known for his 1983 monograph Tribology in Metalworking and his textbook Introduction to Manufacturing Processes.
John A. Young
John A. Young was an American electrical engineer and business executive who led Hewlett-Packard as president and CEO from 1978 to 1992, succeeding founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
John Adolphus Dahlgren
John Adolphus Dahlgren (1809–1870) was a United States Navy admiral who designed the Dahlgren cannon, the standard guns of the Union Navy in the Civil War.
John Alf Lennart Agren
John Alf Lennart Ågren is a Swedish materials scientist and KTH professor emeritus known for computational modeling of phase transformations in steels and the Thermo-Calc and DICTRA software.
John Altobelli
John Edward Altobelli was an American college baseball coach who led Orange Coast College to four state titles and died in the 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash.
John Ambrose Fleming
John Ambrose Fleming was a British electrical engineer who invented the thermionic valve, the first vacuum tube, and designed the transmitter for the first transatlantic radio signal.
John B. Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough (1922–2023) was an American physicist and materials scientist who developed the lithium cobalt oxide cathode enabling the lithium-ion battery, winning the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
John B. MacChesney
John B. MacChesney (1929–2021) was an American materials scientist at Bell Laboratories who invented the MCVD process for manufacturing optical fibers, and won the 1999 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
John B. Wachtman Jr.
John B. Wachtman Jr., known as Jack Wachtman, was an American ceramic materials scientist at the National Bureau of Standards and founding director of Rutgers' Center for Ceramic Research.
John B. Whitehead
John B. Whitehead (1872–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, known for research on electrical insulation and for building its engineering school as first dean.
John Backus
John Backus was an American computer scientist at IBM who led the team that created FORTRAN, invented BNF, and received the 1977 Turing Award; he died in 2007.
John Baker, Baron Baker
John Baker, Baron Baker, born John Fleetwood Baker, was a British civil engineer who pioneered the plastic theory of structural design and advised the Ministry of Home Security in World War II.
John Barnard
John Barnard is an English racing car designer who introduced Formula 1's carbon fiber chassis and semi-automatic paddle-shift gearbox, and won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 with his Chaparral 2K.
John Barnett (whistleblower)
John Barnett, full name John Mitchell Barnett, was a Boeing quality manager who became a whistleblower in 2019 over unsafe production practices at the 787 plant in North Charleston.
John Baskerville
John Baskerville (1706–1775) was an English printer and typefounder of Birmingham who made his fortune in japanning before creating the Baskerville typeface and printing the 1763 Cambridge folio Bible, regarded as his masterpiece.
John Blume
John Augustus Blume (1909–2002) was an American earthquake engineer called the father of earthquake engineering; his firm shaped seismic design of Diablo Canyon and Stanford's Linear Accelerator.
John Bradford Mooney Jr.
J. Bradford Mooney Jr. is a retired US Navy rear admiral and ocean engineer who piloted Trieste II in the 1963 Thresher search and coordinated the 1966 Palomares recovery.
John Briscoe (environmental engineer)
John Briscoe (1948–2014) was a South African-born environmental engineer and World Bank water specialist who led its 2003 Water Resources Sector Strategy and won the 2014 Stockholm Water Prize.
John Brooks Slaughter
John Brooks Slaughter (1934–2023) was an American electrical engineer who became the first African American director of the National Science Foundation, serving from 1980 to 1982.
John Browning
John Moses Browning (1855–1926) was an American firearms designer from Ogden, Utah, credited with 128 patents and over 30 million firearms, including the M1911 pistol and M2 machine gun.
John Bull (locomotive)
The John Bull is an 1831 steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Camden and Amboy Railroad, now displayed at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
John C. Angus
John C. Angus is a Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University known for low-pressure vapor synthesis of diamond and for explaining hydrogen-terminated diamond's surface conductivity.
John C. Calhoun (scientist)
John C. Calhoun was an American petroleum engineer who spent most of his career at Texas A&M University and wrote the influential 1976 textbook Fundamentals of Reservoir Engineering.
John C. Crittenden
John C. Crittenden is an environmental engineer who led Georgia Tech's Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems from 2009 to 2022 and won the 2015 Clarke Prize.
John C. Doyle
John C. Doyle is a control theorist at Caltech, emeritus since 2025, known for the 1989 state-space H-infinity solution and for applying robustness theory to biology and large networks.
John C. Geyer
John C. Geyer was an American sanitary and environmental engineer at Johns Hopkins University who co-authored the profession's first modern textbook, Water Supply and Waste-Water Disposal.
John C. Malone
John C. Malone, born John Carl Malone in 1941, is an American cable executive who built TCI into the largest US cable operator and later chaired Liberty Media.