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Katelyn Meixner

Katelyn (Katie) Meixner is an American mathematician and AI researcher who won a PECASE at the NSA and now leads machine perception research at Johns Hopkins APL.

Kateřinský Potok Junction Point–Přimda Junction Point Gas Pipeline

The Kateřinský Potok–Přimda Gas Pipeline is a 150 km high-pressure natural gas pipeline in the Czech Republic, operated by NET4GAS and put into operation in January 2021.

Katharine G. Frase

Katharine G. Frase is an American materials scientist who spent about 30 years at IBM and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006.

Katharine Page

Katharine (Kate) Page is a materials scientist and neutron scattering instrument scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee professor who received a PECASE award in 2019.

Katherine Isaacs

Katherine Isaacs, also known as Kate Isaacs, is an American computer scientist and associate professor at the University of Utah who works on interactive visualization of large scientific data.

Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson, born Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, was an American mathematician at NASA whose orbital calculations were critical to early crewed spaceflights, including John Glenn's 1962 orbit, and told in Hidden Figures.

Katherine Kuchenbecker

Katherine Kuchenbecker is an American mechanical engineer and haptics researcher who directs the Haptic Intelligence department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

Katherine Ratliff

Katherine Ratliff is a physical scientist and principal investigator at the EPA who studies stormwater contaminant transport and tests air cleaning technologies against infectious aerosols.

Katherine W. Ferrara

Katherine W. Ferrara is an American biomedical engineer known for ultrasound molecular imaging and image-guided drug delivery, a National Academy of Engineering member who leads molecular imaging at Stanford.

Kathleen Bergeron

Kathleen Bergeron, known as Kate Bergeron, is an American mechanical engineer who is vice president of hardware engineering at Apple and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.

Kathleen O'Leary Havelka

Kathleen O'Leary Havelka is an American chemist and lubrication engineer, Senior Vice President of RD&A at Advancion Corporation, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Kathleen Rubins

Kathleen Hallisey (Kate) Rubins, born 1978, is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut who became the first person to sequence DNA in space, in 2016.

Kathleen-Cam-Mamdal-Woleebee Creek Gas Field

The Kathleen-Cam-Mamdal-Woleebee Creek Gas Field is a producing coalbed methane field in Queensland's Surat Basin, Australia, combining five gas fields that supply the Queensland Curtis LNG project.

Kathrein

Kathrein is a German family-owned antenna and communications technology group founded in 1919 by engineer Anton Kathrein in Rosenheim, Bavaria, with divisions for broadcast antennas and electronics.

Kathryn A. Whitehead

Kathryn A. Whitehead, known professionally as Katie Whitehead, is a chemical engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who develops lipid nanoparticles for RNA delivery, contributing to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

Kathryn J. Jackson

Kathryn J. (Kate) Jackson is an American energy-sector engineer and National Academy of Engineering member who served as chief technology officer of Westinghouse Electric Company and board chair of ISO New England.

Kathu Solar Park

Kathu Solar Park is a 100 MW concentrated solar power plant near Kathu in South Africa's Northern Cape, in commercial operation since 2019 with molten salt storage.

Kathy Jane Ehrig

Kathy Jane Ehrig is an American-born Australian geometallurgist who has worked on BHP's Olympic Dam for over 30 years and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Katia Bertoldi

Katia Bertoldi is an Italian applied mechanician who studies mechanical metamaterials, buckling, and instabilities; she is the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Applied Mechanics at Harvard.

Katie Bouman

Katie Bouman, also known as Katherine L. Bouman, is an American computational imaging scientist at Caltech who helped produce the first images of the black holes M87 and Sagittarius A.

Kato Works

Kato Works (株式会社加藤製作所) is a Japanese manufacturer of construction machinery headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo, founded in 1895 and best known for mobile cranes and hydraulic excavators.

Katse Dam

Katse Dam is a 185-meter-high concrete arch dam on the Malibamats'o River in Lesotho, the largest dam of Phase 1A of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

Katsura Imperial Villa

Katsura Imperial Villa (桂離宮, Katsura Rikyu), a 17th-century imperial detached palace and stroll garden in Kyoto built by Princes Toshihito and Toshitada of the Hachijo-no-miya line, famed for sukiya architecture and modernist admirers.

Katsushi Ikeuchi

Katsushi Ikeuchi (池内 克史) is a Japanese computer vision and robotics researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo, known for shape from shading and e-Heritage cultural digitization.

KATU

KATU (KATU Channel 2) is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Portland, Oregon. It signed on in 1962 as an independent station and is owned by Sinclair.

Katy Hub

Katy Hub is a natural gas trading and storage hub at Katy, Texas, near Houston, one of the state's principal gas price points and ERCOT's reference index since 2019.

Katyusha rocket launcher

The Katyusha, or BM-13, was the Soviet Union's truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher of World War II, which German soldiers called "Stalin's Organ"; it first fired in combat in July 1941.

KAUR (satellite bus)

KAUR (КАУР, short for "Spacecraft of the Unified Series") is a family of standardized Soviet and Russian satellite buses developed by NPO PM in Zheleznogorsk from the 1960s onward.

Kaushik Bhattacharya

Kaushik Bhattacharya is a materials scientist and mechanician who is the Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science at Caltech, known for his mathematical theory of martensitic microstructure.

Kaushik Chowdhury

Kaushik Chowdhury is an Indian-born American wireless networking researcher who won the PECASE award and holds the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.