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John Draper
John Thomas Draper, known as Captain Crunch or Crunchman, is an American programmer and former phone phreak famous for making free long-distance calls with a Cap'n Crunch cereal-box whistle.
John E. Allison
John E. Allison is an American metallurgist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011 and a pioneer of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering.
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers is an electrical engineer who spent 38 years at UC Santa Barbara pioneering silicon photonics, cofounding six companies, and winning the 2024 IEEE Nishizawa Prize.
John E. Breen
John E. Breen, known as Jack Breen, was an American civil engineer and structural concrete researcher who taught at the University of Texas at Austin for over 50 years.
John E. Dolan
John E. Dolan (1923–2018) was an American engineer who led generation and transmission engineering at American Electric Power and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
John E. Flipse
John E. Flipse (1921–2007) was an American ocean-mining engineer who founded and led Deepsea Ventures, a deep seabed mining pioneer, and later served at Texas A&M University.
John E. Gray
John E. Gray, also known as John Edmund Gray, was an American chemical engineer who managed the Shippingport Atomic Power Station and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.
John Eugene Kunzler
John Eugene Kunzler was an American metallurgist and materials scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, known for the 1961 discovery that niobium-tin remains superconducting in very high magnetic fields.
John F. Ahearne
John F. Ahearne (1934–2019) was an American physicist who chaired the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and became a leading figure in nuclear safety policy.
John F. Cashen
John F. Cashen is an American electrical engineer, nicknamed "Dr. Stealth," who led low-observables work at Northrop and was chiefly responsible for the B-2 bomber's ability to elude enemy radar.
John F. Elliott
John Frank Elliott (1920–1991) was an American metallurgist and MIT professor of metallurgy known for the thermochemistry of steelmaking and the two-volume Thermochemistry for Steelmaking.
John F. Kahles
John F. Kahles (1914–1993) was an American metallurgical engineer who coined the term "surface integrity" and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.
John F. Kennedy assassination rifle
The John F. Kennedy assassination rifle, also called the JFK assassination rifle, is the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle found in the Texas School Book Depository after Kennedy was shot in 1963.
John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) is New York City's primary international gateway in Queens, operated by the Port Authority and serving 63.3 million passengers in 2024.
John F. McCarthy Jr.
John F. McCarthy Jr. (1925–1986) was an American aeronautical engineer known for Apollo spacecraft work at North American Rockwell and for directing NASA's Lewis Research Center.
John F. Reid
John F. Reid is an American agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for agricultural automation.
John Findley Wallace
John Findley Wallace, known as John F. Wallace, was an American civil engineer and the first Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal, serving from 1904 to 1905.
John Finley Yardley
John Finley Yardley (1925–2001) was an American aeronautical engineer who managed the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft for McDonnell Aircraft and led NASA's space shuttle development.
John Francis Dodge
John Francis Dodge, known as John F. Dodge, was an American automotive manufacturer who co-founded Dodge Brothers in 1914 and was an early Ford Motor Company shareholder.
John Frank Davidson
John Frank Davidson (1926–2019) was a British chemical engineer at Cambridge, the founding father of fluidization, who co-wrote the classic textbook Fluidised Particles in 1963.
John Frank Stevens
John Frank Stevens (1853–1943) was an American civil engineer who built the Great Northern Railway and served as chief engineer of the Panama Canal from 1905 to 1907.
John Fritz Medal
The John Fritz Medal is an annual American engineering award, established in 1902 as a memorial to steel industry pioneer John Fritz and often called the highest US engineering honor.
John G. Barnard
John Gross Barnard (1815–1882) was a US Army Corps of Engineers officer who built the defenses of Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and studied the gyroscope.
John G. Linvill
John G. Linvill (1919–2011) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford University known for transistor circuit theory and for inventing the Optacon, an electronic reading device for blind readers.
John G. Speer
John G. Speer is an American steel metallurgist, professor at the Colorado School of Mines, who invented quenching and partitioning steel processing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
John G. Trump
John G. Trump (John George Trump, 1907–1985) was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor who developed megavolt X-ray generators for cancer therapy and evaluated Tesla's papers in 1943.
John G. Truxal
John G. Truxal (1924–2007) was an American control theorist and systems engineer who led electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic and served as Dean of Engineering at Stony Brook.
John G. Ziegler
John G. Ziegler (c. 1909–1997) was an American engineer who, with mathematician Nathaniel B. Nichols, created the Ziegler–Nichols method, the first systematic procedure for tuning PID controllers.
John Glenn
John Glenn, born John Herschel Glenn Jr., was an American Marine aviator, NASA astronaut, and senator from Ohio who became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.
John Glenn Columbus International Airport
John Glenn Columbus International Airport, formerly Port Columbus, is the main airport serving Columbus, Ohio, opened in 1929 and renamed for the astronaut in 2016.