The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
#6401
Bo Wahlberg
#154586
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#6402
Lee Zou
#154591
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#6403
Jeffrey R. Kenworthy
#154592
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#6404
Ellen Dunham-Jones
#85889
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1959 - Present (67 years)
Ellen Dunham-Jones is an architectural educator and urbanist best known for her work on re-educating the public how to interact with their environment. She is also an authority on suburban redevelopment.
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W. George S. Feng
#154639
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#6406
Jill Slay
#105624
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Jill Slay is a British-Australian engineer and computer scientist. Her work has attracted international attention and she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the information technology industry through contributions in the areas of forensic computer science, security, critical infrastructure protection, and cyberterrorism."
Go to Profile#6407
Andrea Cortegiani
#154665
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2000 - Present (26 years)
#6408
Jonathan Scott Rose
#154689
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#6409
Gerardo Gamba
#154708
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#6410
James John Smith
#78141
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James John Smith was an Irish applied mathematician and electrical engineer whose career was mostly spent at General Electric in . His father Christopher Smith was an inspector of schools, so the family moved a lot, and James grew up in part in Cork city. He earned a diploma in engineering from the Royal College of Science in Dublin, and then two master's from University College Dublin , first in maths and then in maths physics and experimental physics . After a brief period at Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works in Stafford, England, he relocated to the USA, and started work at General Electric in Schenectady.
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Richard Niederman
#154731
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Javier Contreras
#154739
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#6413
Edward Sacher
#154742
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#6414
Motowo Takayanagi
#154762
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#6415
David J. Driscoll
#154776
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#6416
Benjamin Chung-i Kuo
#154795
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#6417
Eni G. Njoku
#154800
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#6418
M. Asif Khan
#154802
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#6419
George D. W. Smith
#100885
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1943 - Present (83 years)
George David William Smith FRS, FIMMM, FInstP, FRSC, CEng is a materials scientist with special interest in the study of the microstructure, composition and properties of engineering materials at the atomic level. He invented, together with Alfred Cerezo and Terry Godfrey, the Atom-Probe Tomograph in 1988.
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Gabriel M. Rebeiz
#119985
Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Gabriel M. Rebeiz is a Lebanese-American electrical and computer engineer, currently the Wireless Communications Industry Chair Chair and Professor at University of California, San Diego. He is the first to introduce MEMS and micromachining to the RF/microwave field by developing several novel components with this technology. He is also the pioneer of the integrated phased arrays for communication and defense systems. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to radio frequency microelectromechanical systems and phased array technologies. He is ...
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Dirk Bolt
#85846
Overall Influence
1930 - 2020 (90 years)
Dirk Bolt was a Dutch-born architect who is best known for his post-Second World War Australian modernist architecture and his later career as an academic and consultant that applied sustainable, equitable and humane principles to town planning.
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Hal Anger
#20858
Overall Influence
1920 - 2005 (85 years)
Hal Oscar Anger was an American electrical engineer and biophysicist at Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, known for his invention of the gamma camera. In all, Anger held 15 patents, many of them for work at the Ernest O. Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. Anger received several awards in recognition of his inventions and their contributions to the field of nuclear medicine. Anger died in Berkeley, California.
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Bezalel Cecil Haimson
#154920
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#6424
Sertaç Karaman
#154945
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#6425
Gerrit Isenberg
#154970
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#6426
John L. Crassidis
#154978
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#6427
Nasr M. Ghoniem†
#154986
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#6428
Takunori Taira
#154988
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#6429
Andrew R. Neureuther
#154993
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#6430
Kaare Høeg
#155033
Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Kaare Høeg is a Norwegian engineer. He was born in Drammen. He took a doctoral degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. He worked as a professor at Stanford University from 1968 to 1974 and director-general of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute from 1974 to 1991. He was then a professor at the University of Oslo from 1991 to his retirement.
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Andrew A. Goldenberg
#155036
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#6432
Eric A. Vittoz
#155068
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#6433
Bradford A. Hawkins
#155077
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#6434
Roger C. Barr
#155089
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#6435
Max Kishor Bulsara
#155090
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#6436
Michael Pyatok
#106241
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1944 - Present (82 years)
Michael Pyatok FAIA is an Oakland-based architect widely known for his expertise in the development and design of low-income and affordable housing. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland where he studied the housing policies of Scandinavia. Harvard University appointed him a Loeb Fellow in 1983 where he used the resources of the Business School and the Kennedy School for Public Policy to explore strategies for non-profits to develop decent and affordable housing in this age of shrinking public involvement. He is co-author of Good Neighbors: The Design of Affordable Family Hous...
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Iwona Jasiuk
#153091
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Iwona M. Jasiuk is a Polish-American materials scientist and bioengineer, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the former president of the Society of Engineering Science. Her research includes work on the mechanical properties of bone, of nanocomposites, and of 3D-printed cellular structures.
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Stuart Crozier
#155150
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#6439
Michael Seth Wogalter
#155156
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#6440
Dijana Alić
#108040
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Dijana Alić is a Bosnian-Australian architect and academic. She was born in Sarajevo and received degree in architecture from the University of Sarajevo and a M.Arch. and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. Alić is a lecturer and program coordinator for the School of Architecture and Design at the University of New South Wales. Previous to her academic career, she worked as an architect and consulted on a number of large projects.
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Wen-xi Tian
#155223
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#6442
Evgeny E. Nikitin
#133057
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1933 - Present (93 years)
Evgeny E. Nikitin is a Russian theoretical chemist and emeritus professor at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Education Nikitin studied physics at Saratov State University from 1950 to 1955. Later he moved to the Institute for Chemical Physics at The Academy of Sciences of the USSR Moscow where he earned his doctorate in 1965. From 1965 to 1991 he was Professor at the Institute for Chemical Physics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1992 he went to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he became Emeritus professor in 2002. Since 2002 he has been guest profess...
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Yun-hui Liu
#155228
Overall Influence
#6444
Michele Caraglia
#155231
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#6445
Luo-nan Chen
#155240
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#6446
James Gary Eden
#155250
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#6447
William A. Wolovich
#155281
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#6448
Giora Weisz
#155291
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#6449
Pan Yunhe
#110241
Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Pan Yunhe is a Chinese specialist in artificial intelligence and geographic information systems. He served as President of Zhejiang University and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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Perry R. Cook
#155317
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