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John S. Newman
John S. Newman is an American chemical engineer and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley whose Doyle-Fuller-Newman model is the benchmark physics-based description of lithium-ion battery behavior.
John Samuel Forrest
John Samuel Forrest (1907–1992) was a British electrical power engineer who helped develop the National Grid at 132, 275, and 400 kV and directed the Central Electricity Research Laboratory until 1973.
John Schulman
John Schulman is an American reinforcement-learning researcher, a co-founder of OpenAI, and creator of the PPO algorithm who helped build ChatGPT before leaving for Anthropic in 2024.
John Smeaton
John Smeaton (1724–1792) was an English engineer from near Leeds who designed the third Eddystone Lighthouse and became the first person to describe himself as a civil engineer.
John Stapp
John Stapp, also known as John Paul Stapp, was an Air Force flight surgeon whose rocket sled rides proved the human body could survive far more deceleration than believed.
John Stone Stone
John Stone Stone (1869–1943) was an American electrical engineer whose tuned wireless patents the Supreme Court held in 1943 to have anticipated Marconi's four-circuit radio patent.
John T. Christian
John T. Christian (1936–2022) was an American geotechnical engineer who brought computer methods and probabilistic reliability analysis into soil mechanics and earthquake engineering, co-writing the first general-purpose slope stability program.
John the Ripper
John the Ripper is a free, open-source password cracker created by Solar Designer in 1996 to detect weak Unix passwords by recovering them from password hashes.
John Tromp
John Tromp (born 1966) is a Dutch computer scientist known for the binary lambda calculus and for determining the number of legal Go positions, about 2.08 × 10^170.
John V. Breakwell
John V. Breakwell (1917–1991) was an American control theorist and Stanford professor of astronautics remembered as a key founder of astrodynamics, the science of spacecraft trajectories.
John van Nuys Granger
John van Nuys Granger (1918–1997) was an American antenna and telecommunications expert who founded Granger Associates in 1956, led Stanford Research Institute's Airborne Systems Laboratory, and served as IEEE president in 1970.
John Vincent Lawless Hogan
John Vincent Lawless Hogan (1890–1960) was an American radio engineer who helped found the Institute of Radio Engineers and founded the station that became WQXR.
John W. Cahn
John W. Cahn was an American materials scientist and metallurgist at NIST whose namesake Cahn–Hilliard equation describes phase separation, and who co-discovered quasicrystals, winning the 1998 National Medal of Science.
John W. Coltman
John W. Coltman (1915–2010) was an American physicist who spent his career at Westinghouse, co-invented the scintillation counter, developed the X-ray image amplifier, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
John W. Fondahl
John W. Fondahl (1924–2008) was an American civil engineer and Stanford professor who developed the precedence diagramming method of project scheduling and co-founded one of the first graduate programs in construction management.
John W. Hutchinson
John W. Hutchinson (J. W. Hutchinson) is an American solid mechanics researcher, emeritus professor at Harvard, known for nonlinear fracture mechanics, the HRR fields, and strain gradient plasticity.
John W. Kalb
John W. Kalb was an electric-power engineer at the Ohio Brass Company of Barberton, Ohio, known for full-scale switching-surge and lightning-arrester research on extra-high-voltage transmission lines in the 1960s.
John W. Landis
John W. Landis (1917–2013) was an American nuclear engineer who directed early civilian nuclear power projects, led Gulf General Atomic, and served as president of the American Nuclear Society in 1971.
John W. Morris
John W. Morris is a materials scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, known for work on strong steels, lead-free solders, and gum metal titanium alloys.
John W. Suurballe
John W. Suurballe is a computer scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories, best known for his 1974 algorithm finding minimum-total-length node-disjoint paths between two network terminals.
John W. Thompson
John W. Thompson, born in 1949, is an American business executive who led Symantec as chief executive officer from 1999 to 2009 and chaired the Microsoft board from 2014 to 2021.
John W. Townsend Jr.
John W. Townsend Jr., known as Jack Townsend, was an American physicist who helped create the first weather satellites and directed NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant
The John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant is a 600-megawatt coal-fired power station near Fulton, Arkansas, owned by SWEPCO and the first ultra-supercritical unit in the United States.
John Wang (materials scientist)
John Wang is a materials scientist and professor at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Advanced Ceramics Laboratory and studies functional and energy materials.
John Warnock
John Warnock (1940–2023) was an American computer scientist who invented the Warnock algorithm for hidden-surface graphics, co-founded Adobe Systems, and led the creation of PostScript and PDF.
John Wayne Airport
John Wayne Airport, also known as Orange County Airport, is the only commercial airport in Orange County, California, serving about 11 million passengers a year.
John Wistar Simpson
John Wistar Simpson (1914–2007) was an American electrical and nuclear engineer who led the Westinghouse teams behind the USS Nautilus reactor and the Shippingport nuclear power station.
John Yeager
John Yeager (John David Yeager) is an American materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies the mechanical properties of plastic-bonded explosives and received a 2017 PECASE award.
John Yin
John Yin is a Chinese American chemical engineer and computational virologist known for quantitative models of virus growth, spread, and evolution; he received a 1996 PECASE.
John Young (astronaut)
John Watts Young was an American NASA astronaut, the only person to fly in the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs, who walked on the Moon in 1972.