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.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
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Anjan Bose
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Peter K. J. Robertson
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Adeola Olubamiji
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1985 - Present (41 years)
Adeola Deborah Olubamiji is a Canadian technologist who specializes in metal and plastic additive manufacturing . In 2017, she became the first Black person to obtain a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the 112-year-old University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She went on to give a TEDx Talk on how she utilized 3D printing for recovery of damaged articular cartilage in Canada.
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Matthew Ohland
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Matthew Ohland is an engineering education professor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Education Ohland received a BA in Religion and a BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College in 1989, master's degrees in mechanical and civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991 and 1992, and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Florida in 1996.
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Donald B. Doty
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Richard H. R. White
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Tinh Quoc Bui
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Sriram Vishwanath
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Michael L. Kaiser
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Jian-gang (jimmy) Zhu
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Kam-yin Lau
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Simon Unwin
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1952 - Present (74 years)
Simon Unwin is a British architect and writer. Life He was born in 1952 in Yorkshire, but grew up in Wales. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London and the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff. From the Welsh School of Architecture, he obtained a PhD, and he went on to become a senior lecturer there.
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Paolo Scardi
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Nicholas S. Trahair
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Norman Newark Herron
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Ayman El-Baz
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Ayman El-Baz is an American bioengineer. He is the Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Louisville's J. B. Speed School of Engineering. El-Baz is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and National Academy of Inventors.
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Arvind Agarwal
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Roger A. Pierson
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Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar
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Yu-kwong Ricky Kwok
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Richard C. Bradt
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1938 - 2019 (81 years)
Richard Carl Bradt was an American materials engineer. Bradt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised in Mascoutah, Illinois. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in metallurgy and began working for Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation. After four years with Fansteel, Bradt enrolled at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for graduate study in materials engineering. He earned a master's degree in 1965 and a doctorate in 1967. Bradt joined the Pennsylvania State University faculty upon earning his Ph.D. He taught at Penn State until 1983, when he became a member of the University of Washington faculty.
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Thomas Malcolm Charlton
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1923 - 1997 (74 years)
Thomas Malcolm Charlton FRSE was a British civil engineer and historian. He is remembered for several notable textbooks on structural issues. He was a great lover of railways and railway engines. Life He was born on 1 September 1923, in South Normanton, Derbyshire, the son of William Charlton, a mining engineer, and Emily May Wellbank. His early education was at Doncaster Grammar School and then Doncaster Technical College.
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Atul Humar
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Hongbin Li
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Mary R. Lynn
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Joann Elmore
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Dr. Joann G. Elmore is a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program, the endowed chair in Health Care Delivery for The Rosalind and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and a practicing physician . She publishes studies on diagnostic accuracy of cancer screening and medical tests in addition to AI/machine learning, using computer-aided tools to aid in the early detection process of high-risk cancers Previously, she held faculty and leadership ...
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Aurélien Marabelle
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1976 - Present (50 years)
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Tomás Berl
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Marc Koehler
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1977 - Present (49 years)
Marc Koehler is a Dutch architect of Portuguese origin. Koehler studied at the Delft University of Technology and, in 2004, he became a staff member and lecturer at the University's Faculty of Architecture. In 2005, he began his research based design office in Amsterdam, which became known for its criticism and design proposals for private houses in the Netherlands. In 2009 Marc Koehler Architects won several international design competitions, such as the 1st prize in the Oporto waterfront idea competition , the 1st prize in the Belgium Open Call competition for the community centre in Loker ...
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Alison Davenport
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Alison Jean Davenport is the Professor of Corrosion Science at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham. Education Davenport studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge where she was a member of King's College, Cambridge. She remained there for her graduate studies, earning her PhD in 1987. Her PhD was in metallurgy, investigating the oxide layers that form on top of metals.
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Hamid Moradkhani
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Richard John Schonberger
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Wilfrido R. Castañeda-zúñiga
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Kristyn Masters
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Kristyn Simcha Masters is an American bioengineer who is professor and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Colorado Denver. She works as Director of the Anschutz Medical Campus Center. Her research looks to create tissue-engineered models of disease, with a focus on cancer and cardiac disease.
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Peter S. Mortimer
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H. D. Patterson
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Ali Rıza Yıldız
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Tzone-lih Hwang
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Philippe Réfrégier
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Michael K. Brawer
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Alexander M. Bronstein
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Keisuke Tanaka
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George Barbastathis
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Dawn Elliott
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Dawn M. Elliott is an American biomedical engineer whose research concerns the biomechanics of connective tissue including the tendons, menisci, and intervertebral discs. She is Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Delaware, adjunct professor of orthopaedic surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the former president of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
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Buford Lee Nichols
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Dilek Z. Hakkani-tür
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Pradeep Lall
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Bernd Pichler
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1969 - Present (57 years)
Bernd Pichler is a German biomedical engineer and expert in preclinical and molecular imaging as well as in imaging technology. He is Chair of the Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy as well as Director of the Werner Siemens Imaging Center at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tübingen and member of the University Hospital Executive Board of Directors.
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Nicole Steinmetz
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Nicole F. Steinmetz is a German–American biomedical engineer. She is a Full Professor in Biomaterials at the University of California, San Diego and Founding Director of the Center for Nano-ImmunoEngineering . Her research earned her Fellowship nominatioons from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering Society, and National Academy of Inventors. Steinmetz uses various plant viruses to assist with drug delivery, molecular imaging, and vaccines.
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Inge Johansen
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1928 - 2018 (90 years)
Inge Johannes Tjernes Johansen was a Norwegian electrical engineer and academician. Career Johansen was born in Gjerpen to an electrician and a homemaker. He took the sivling. degree, and in 1957, the dr.techn. degree. From 1959 to 1985, he was a professor of high-voltage technology at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. From 1975 he was the deputy rector, from 1976 to 1984 he served as rector, and from 1985 to 1989 was the director of the NTNF. In 1990, he returned to academia as a professor of elkraftteknikk. He chaired the Statoil board from 1984 to 1987 but resigned together with the r...
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