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#9451

Bülent Şık

#173942

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Bülent Şık is a Turkish food engineer, environmental and human rights activist and a whistleblower. He was convicted after disclosing the results from a government study on environmental pollution and carcinogens.

#9452

Christine Webster

#181589

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Christine Webster is a New Zealand visual artist and photographer. Background Webster was born in 1958 in Pukekohe, Auckland. She currently lives in the United Kingdom. Webster has a Diploma in Photography from Massey University and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art.

#9453

Sergei Prokhanov

Sergei Prokhanov

#184140

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Sergei Borisovich Prokhanov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, artistic director of . People's Artist of the Russian Federation . The most famous for him was the role Kesha Chetvergov in the Vladimir Grammatikov's comedy Mustached Nanny .

#9454

Ion Bostan

#101222

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Ion Bostan is a professor and researcher from Moldova. He is the rector of the Technical University of Moldova and a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He is the father of Marcel Ion Bostan, the soloist, keyboards, composer and lyricist.

#9455

Robert Fox

#115861

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Robert Michael John Fox is an English theatre and film producer, whose work includes the 2002 film The Hours. Life and career He was born the third son of theatrical agent Robin Fox and actress Angela Worthington. He is the younger brother of actors Edward Fox and James Fox. The actress Emilia Fox is his niece and the actors Laurence Fox and Freddie Fox are his nephews. His maternal grandfather was playwright Frederick Lonsdale. Fox was educated at Harrow School.

#9456

Sarah Haffner

#79199

Overall Influence

1940 - 2018 (78 years)

Sarah Haffner was a German-British painter, author, and active feminist. In West Berlin she engaged with the protest issues of the 1960s, on occasion alongside her father, the journalist and writer Sebastian Haffner. Through a television documentary and a book she was instrumental in the late 1970s in establishing the city's first women's shelter. The range of her painting included portraits, still lifes, landscapes and cityscapes.

#9457

Antonia Papandreou

#128547

Overall Influence

Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola from the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to applications of time-frequency signal processing.

#9458

Babak Farzaneh

#178850

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Babak Farzaneh is a researcher, author and a professor of the Arabic Language and literature born in 1964 in Tehran, Imperial Sate of Iran. Researcher and scholarly, author and professor of Arabic language and literature. After his college graduation, Farzaneh continued his university education and achieved BSc of Arabic Language and Literature at Isfahan University. In the middle of his career, in 2004, he achieved Associate Professor and at the apex of his educational profession in 2009, he achieved Full Professor. Dr. Farzaneh was invited to University of Toronto as a Visiting Research Associate in January 2011.

#9459

Park Chan-dea

#192364

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

#9460

Cyrus Alai

#192368

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Cyrus Alai is a Persian-British engineer, map collector and the author of the book "General Maps of Persia". Alai was born in Tehran and studied at Technical University of Berlin. Before the 1979 revolution he was a lecturer at Tehran University. Shortly after the revolution he moved to London.

#9461

Tong Binggang

#173597

Overall Influence

1927 - 2020 (93 years)

Tong Binggang was a Chinese physicist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Biography Tong was born in the town of , Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu, on September 28, 1927. In 1946 he entered National Central University, majoring in mechanics. In 1953 he earned a master's degree in mechanics from Harbin Institute of Technology. After graduation, he taught at the university. In 1956, because of his comments on the then deputy dean of Harbin Institute of Technology, Tong was criticized and punished for five years. During the Cultural Revolution, he was labeled as a "Rightist" and was jailed for one year and reformed through labor for two and a half years.

#9462

Jieh-Haur Chen

#192381

Overall Influence

Jieh-Haur Chen is a professor. Chen is a Distinguished Professor of National Central University , Taiwan, where he teaches and performs research related to construction management, computational intelligence, and engineering finance. He is currently the Chairman of Institute of Construction Engineering and Management and the Director of Center of Alumni Relations in NCU.

#9463

Giulia

#177378

Overall Influence

1994 - Present (32 years)

Giulia is an English-born Italian-Japanese professional wrestler. She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she is the current Artist of Stardom Champion in her second reign and is the leader of Donna Del Mondo. She also makes appearances for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where she is the current Strong Women's Champion in her first reign.

#9464

Kazuyuki Nagashima

#192391

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

is a Japanese wrestler. He won the silver medal in the 74 kg class in the men's freestyle wrestling competition, at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. External links

#9465

Shawn Blanton

#192398

Overall Influence

Shawn Blanton is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1995, he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include various aspects of integrated system tests, testable design, and test methodology development. He has consulted for various companies, and is the founder of TestWorks, a Carnegie Mellon University spinout focused on information extraction from IC test data. Blanton is a founding member of the Security Assurance of Fabricated Electr...

#9466

Jonathan Shaw

#99603

Overall Influence

Jonathan Shaw is a British photographer and educator. Photography Shaw's work has been shown at Leeds Met Gallery, Goethe Institute in Dresden, Germany and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Shaw is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and is a member of the society's 'Multimedia and Narrative Distinction Panel' alongside Andy Golding and Daniel Meadows among others.

#9467

Jamie Baldridge

#146582

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Jamie Baldridge is an American photographer and arts educator. He creates highly manipulated and surreal tableau vivant photographs. He is currently a professor of Photography in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

#9468

Helen O'Toole

#186994

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Helen O'Toole is an Irish-born painter based in the United States, who is known for abstract paintings suggestive of landscape. She has exhibited throughout Ireland and the United States, in Singapore, and at venues including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Portland Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Tacoma Art Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. Her work has been featured in the journals Artforum, Arts Magazine, New Art Examiner, and Zyzzyva, as well as the Chicago Tribune, The Irish Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and National Public Radio. Art writers frequen...

#9469

Seung Chan Kim

#93849

Overall Influence

1991 - Present (35 years)

Seung Chan Kim KTM is a South Korean medical scientist and inventor. His main area of research is biomagnetism [nonsensical translation]. He received the 2009 Talent Medal of Korea along with Yuna Kim. Kim serves as World Talent Exchange and Sharing Organization's Chairperson.

#9470

Jack T Landrigan

#192428

Overall Influence

#9471

Igor Vladimirov

Igor Vladimirov

#143772

Overall Influence

1919 - 1999 (80 years)

Igor Petrovich Vladimirov was a Soviet film and theater actor, theater and film director, and teacher. People's Artist of the USSR . From 1960 until his death in 1999 he was the Principal Director of the Lensovet Theatre in Leningrad.

#9472

Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz

1883 - 1948 (65 years)

Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz was a Polish architect and conservator of monuments, a leading representative of historicism and modernism in Poland. Life and career He was born on 1 September 1883 in Narva, Russian Empire to parents Polikarp Szyszko-Bohusz and mother Marcelina .

#9473

Vladimír Teyssler

1891 - 1958 (67 years)

Vladimír Teyssler was a Czechoslovak engineer and professor at the Czech Higher Technical School in Prague . From 1927 to 1949 Teyssler, together with editor Václav Kotyška, published Technický slovník naučný , a massive illustrated Czech-language encyclopedia covering technical topics.

#9474

Saturnino de Brito

1864 - 1929 (65 years)

Francisco Rodrigues Saturnino de Brito is considered the pioneer of sanitary engineering and environmental engineering in Brazil. He was a hydraulics and sanitation engineer and professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He lived in Rio de Janeiro. His son Francisco Saturnino de Brito Filho had continued his important works.

#9475

Fritz Schupp

1896 - 1974 (78 years)

Fritz Schupp was a German architect. He was educated from 1914 to 1917 at the Universities of Karlsruhe, München and Stuttgart. Despite mostly working alone, he formed a partnership based in Essen and Berlin with Martin Kremmer . From 1949, Schupp was a lecturer at the Technical University in Hannover. Between 1920 and 1974, he built 69 factories and plants. In the Bergbauarchiv , 17500 sketches are at the disposal of researchers. His best-known work was the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.

#9476

Selman Selmanagić

1905 - 1986 (81 years)

Selman Selmanagić was a Bosnian-German architect and long-time professor at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin who worked extensively for the government of East Germany. Biography Selmanagić was born in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia, then administered by Austria-Hungary, and grew up from 1918 on in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and his journeyman's examination, Selmanagić first worked as a carpenter in the wagon factory in Sarajevo in 1923-24 and in 1925, after a one-year visit to the Ljubljana School of Crafts, made his master's job as a construction and furniture carpenter.

#9477

Ludwig A. Colding

Ludwig A. Colding

1815 - 1888 (73 years)

Ludwig August Colding was a Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected.

#9478

Jiří Trnka

1912 - 1969 (57 years)

Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946. Most of his films were intended for adults and many were adaptations of literary works. Because of his influence in animation, he was called "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", despite the great differences between their works. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustrators in 1968, recognizing his career con...

#9479

Clarence Hudson White

Clarence Hudson White

1871 - 1925 (54 years)

Clarence Hudson White was an American photographer, teacher and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. He grew up in small towns in Ohio, where his primary influences were his family and the social life of rural America. After visiting the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, he took up photography. Although he was completely self-taught in the medium, within a few years he was internationally known for his pictorial photographs that captured the spirit and sentimentality of America in the early twentieth century. As he became well known for his images, White was sought out by other photographers who often traveled to Ohio to learn from him.

#9480

Karl Willy Wagner

Karl Willy Wagner

1883 - 1953 (70 years)

Karl Willy Wagner was a German pioneer in the theory of electronic filters. He is noted by Hendrik Bode as being one of two Germans whose; The other German being referred to is Wilhelm Cauer. Wagner was the second referee on Cauer's milestone 1926 thesis but Wagner fell out with Cauer in 1942 after he refused to support Wagner's research proposals with the German Society of Electrical Engineers .

#9481

Victor Steinbrueck

Victor Steinbrueck

1911 - 1985 (74 years)

Victor Eugene Steinbrueck was an American architect, best known for his efforts to preserve Seattle's Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. He authored several books and was also a University of Washington faculty member.

#9482

Franz Hillinger

1895 - 1973 (78 years)

Franz Hillinger was an architect of the Neues Bauen movement in Berlin and in Turkey. Early life Hillinger was born to Jewish parents in the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, in what was known at that time as the Kingdom of Hungary. He intended to study architecture at the University of Budapest following the completion of his military service during World War I. Due to violent, anti-Semitic demonstrations and subsequent calls for bans on Jewish enrollment and the enactment of restrictive legislation curtailing the Jewish student population, Hillinger instead went to Germany and studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1919 to 1922.

#9483

Joseph Smith

1897 - 1956 (59 years)

Joseph Smith CBE was an English aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarine upon the death of R. J. Mitchell and led the team responsible for the subsequent development of the Supermarine Spitfire.

#9484

Stephen Harriman Long

Stephen Harriman Long

1784 - 1864 (80 years)

Stephen Harriman Long was an American army civil engineer, explorer, and inventor. As an inventor, he is noted for his developments in the design of steam locomotives. He was also one of the most prolific explorers of the early 1800s, although his career as an explorer was relatively short-lived. He covered over 26,000 miles in five expeditions, including a scientific expedition in the Great Plains area, which he famously confirmed as a "Great Desert" .

#9485

Friedrich August Krubsacius

1718 - 1789 (71 years)

Friedrich August Krubsacius was a German architect, teacher, and architectural theoretician. He was born at Dresden. In 1755 he was made court architect to the Electorate of Saxony, in 1764 professor of architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and in 1776 chief architect of Saxony.

#9486

Erwin Barth

1880 - 1933 (53 years)

Erwin Barth was a German landscape gardener and architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Biography Barth was born to Albert Barth and Luise in Lübeck. A year after the birth of his sister Frieda in 1882, his father died from tuberculosis. Primary school at the Realgymnasium gave him an interest in nature studies, and he began to collect plants and other natural history objects. He wanted to find an education that would allow him to work and earn for the family, so he decided to train as a garden architect at the Royal Gardenin...

#9487

Gerard Antoni Ciołek

Gerard Antoni Ciołek

1909 - 1966 (57 years)

Gerard Ciołek was a Polish architect, as well as a leading historian of parks and gardens. Biography Gerard Antoni Ciołek was born in Wyżnica, a small town in the Austro-Hungarian Duchy of Bukovina . His parents, Adolf and Ludwika Ciołek were from Galicia and Bukovina . His father was a high-ranking official at the Austrian Tax Office, first in Kuty, then in nearby Wyżnica in Carpathia. Following the end of World War I, and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Wyżnica was incorporated into Romania.

#9488

Leonid Dushkin

1910 - 1990 (80 years)

Leonid Stepanovich Dushkin , was a major pioneer of Soviet rocket engine technology. He graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in mathematics and mechanics. In October 1932, he joined Fridrikh Tsander's brigade of GIRD, the Moscow rocket research group. He assisted in the creation of their first rocket engine OR-2, and after Tsander's death, he oversaw the creation of engine "10" which powered the first Soviet liquid-fuel rocket, GIRD-X.

#9489

Henry Atherton Frost

1883 - 1952 (69 years)

Henry Atherton Frost, was an American architect and instructor at Harvard University. He was largely responsible for inaugurating and overseeing an early graduate program in architecture and landscape architecture for women that became known as the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

#9490

Robert Taylor

1714 - 1788 (74 years)

Sir Robert Taylor was an English architect and sculptor who worked in London and the south of England. Early life Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father's footsteps and started working as a stonemason and sculptor, spending time as a pupil of Sir Henry Cheere. Despite some important commissions, including a bust of London merchant Christopher Emmott today held in the church of St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire, and another of William Phipps , now in the parish church of Westbury, Wiltshire, he enjoyed little success and turned instead to architecture.

#9491

William Buckland

William Buckland

1734 - 1774 (40 years)

William Buckland was a British architect who designed several important buildings in colonial Maryland and Virginia. Biography Born at Oxford, England, Buckland spent seven years as an apprentice to his uncle, James Buckland, "Citizen and Joiner" of London. At 21, he was brought to Virginia as an indentured servant to Thomson Mason, brother of George Mason. Most notable among his repertoire are: Gunston Hall and Hammond-Harwood House .

#9492

Vladimir Zotikov

1887 - 1970 (83 years)

Vladimir Evgenievich Zotikov was a prominent Russian and Soviet scientist and textile engineer best known for having developed the theory of cotton-spinning. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of mechanical technology of fibrous materials.

#9493

Werner Hegemann

Werner Hegemann

1881 - 1936 (55 years)

Werner Hegemann was a city planner, architecture critic, and political writer in Germany's Weimar Republic. His published criticism of Hitler and the Nazi party required him to leave Germany with his family in 1933. He died prematurely in New York City in 1936.

#9494

Harley A. Wilhelm

Harley A. Wilhelm

1900 - 1995 (95 years)

Harley A. Wilhelm was an American chemist who helped to establish the United States Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University. His uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs.

#9495

Dušan Stankov

1900 - 1983 (83 years)

Dušan Stankov/ , was an engineer and professor at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of the Mechanical Engineering, a Yugoslav aircraft constructor, who contributed greatly to developing the studies at the faculty and the Faculty itself as well as to the development of the Yugoslav Air Force in general.

#9496

Bob Clampett

1913 - 1984 (71 years)

Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. He was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in life, showed an interest in animation and puppetry. After dropping out of high school in 1931, he joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

#9497

A. K. Huntington

1852 - 1920 (68 years)

Professor Alfred Kirby Huntington was a British professor of metallurgy and aviation pioneer. He flew balloons and made and flew his own aeroplane. Early life Alfred Kirby Huntington was born on 18 January 1852 in Ipswich, Suffolk to Francis Henry Huntington and Amelia Huntington . He had an elder brother, Francis D’Esterre Huntington, who was born in 1847 but died aged 10 in 1857.

#9498

John Gibson

1817 - 1892 (75 years)

John Gibson was an English architect born at Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire. Life Gibson was an assistant to Sir Charles Barry and assisted him in the drawings of the Houses of Parliament. Gibson was a prominent bank architect at a time when joint-stock banking was an innovation. His 1847 National Bank of Scotland branch in Glasgow led to perhaps his best-known work, the former National Provincial Bank in Bishopsgate, London, designed in 1862. It was listed Grade I in 1950 and is now known as Gibson Hall.

#9499

Harlan Thomas

1870 - 1953 (83 years)

Harlan Thomas was an American architect in the first half of the twentieth century. From 1926 to the early 1940s he served as Chair of the University of Washington Department of Architecture. He was also a noted watercolorist.

#9500

Andy Haines

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