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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#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

Llewellyn M. K. Boelter

1898 - 1966 (68 years)

Llewellyn Michael Kraus Boelter was an American engineer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founding Dean of its UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

#9473

Gordon Rawcliffe

1910 - 1979 (69 years)

Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe FRS was a British electrical engineer and academic. Life Gordon Hindle Rawcliffe, whose father was an Anglican clergyman in Sheffield, was born on 2 June 1910, moving from Sheffield to Gloucester when he was two. He was educated at the King's School, Gloucester, Hereford Cathedral School and St Edmund's School, Canterbury before matriculating at Keble College, Oxford to study mathematics. After his first-year examinations, he switched to engineering, under Richard V. Southwell, and obtained a first-class degree in 1932. He worked for the next five years for Metropolitan-Vickers in Manchester, initially as an apprentice and then as a design engineer.

#9474

Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Krafft Arnold Ehricke

1917 - 1984 (67 years)

Krafft Arnold Ehricke was a German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization. Ehricke is a co-designer of the first Centaur liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper stage. Biography Born in Berlin, Ehricke believed in the feasibility of space travel from a very young age, influenced by his viewing of the Fritz Lang film Woman in the Moon. At the age of 12, he formed his own rocket society. He attended Technical University of Berlin and studied celestial mechanics and nuclear physics under physicists including Hans Geiger and Werner Heisenberg, attaining his degree in Aeronaut...

#9475

Reginald J. S. Pigott

1886 - 1966 (80 years)

Reginald James Seymour Pigott was a British/American mechanical and consulting engineer, director of the engineering division of Gulf Research & Development Company, a subsidiary of Gulf Oil, and inventor.

#9476

Sigfried Giedion

1888 - 1968 (80 years)

Sigfried Giedion was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books, Space, Time and Architecture, and Mechanization Takes Command, had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950s. Giedion was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin. He was the first secretary-general of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the ETH-Zurich.

#9477

Mieczysław G. Bekker

Mieczysław G. Bekker

1905 - 1989 (84 years)

Mieczysław Gregory Bekker was a Polish engineer and scientist. Bekker was born in Strzyżów, near Hrubieszów, Poland and graduated from Warsaw Technical University in 1929. Early career Bekker worked for the Polish Ministry of Military Affairs at the Army Research Institute in Warsaw. There he worked on systems for tracked vehicles to work on uneven ground. In the Invasion of Poland he was in a unit that retreated to Romania and then he was moved to France in 1939.

#9478

Ernst Neufert

1900 - 1986 (86 years)

Ernst Neufert was a German architect who is known as an assistant of Walter Gropius, as a teacher and member of various standardization organizations, and especially for his widely disseminated reference book Architects' data.

#9479

A. L. Strand

1894 - 1980 (86 years)

August Leroy Strand was an American entomologist who served as President of Montana State University from 1937 to 1942, and as President of Oregon State University from 1942 to 1961. Life and career Strand was born on February 12, 1894, in Victoria, Texas, to August M. and Christina Strand. His father was born in Sweden about 1855, and his mother in Sweden about 1861. They emigrated to the United States, first taking up residence in Missouri, where their first three children were born: Rose L. in 1885, Ettie C. in 1888, and May F. in 1887. The family moved to Victoria, Texas, where August was born in 1894.

#9480

Odd Dahl

1898 - 1994 (96 years)

Odd Dahl was a Norwegian engineer and explorer. He is particularly remembered for his contributions to research in nuclear physics. Biography He was born at Drammen in Buskerud, Norway, the son of businessman Lauritz Dahl and his wife Olga Sørensen. Dahl attended an evening technical school during his teenage years. In 1917, he was employed by Fenger Hagen, an electrical engineer with an interest in radio telephony. In 1921, Dahl was admitted as a student at the Army Flyvevæsens flight school at Kjeller in Skedsmo where he received an international pilot's license. Roald Amundsen hired him i...

#9481

William Wurster

William Wurster

1895 - 1973 (78 years)

William Wilson Wurster was an American architect and architectural teacher at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, best known for his residential designs in California.

#9482

Gustave Magnel

1889 - 1955 (66 years)

Gustaaf Paul Robert Magnel was a Belgian engineer and professor at Ghent University, known for his expertise regarding reinforced concrete and prestressed concrete. Biography Gustave Magnel studied civil engineering at Ghent University from 1907 to 1912. He left Belgium in 1914 and worked as a civil engineer at the D. G. Somerville & Co. Contractor Company until 1917, finally becoming chief engineer there. After he returned to Belgium from the UK in 1919, he joined the Strength of Materials Laboratory at Ghent University. He first started lecturing at the university in 1922 and went on to bec...

#9483

Eižens Laube

1880 - 1967 (87 years)

Eižens Laube was a Latvian architect. He was responsible for some of the reconstruction work of Riga Castle in the 1930s and designed more than 200 houses in Riga. Biography Eižens Laube was born in Riga as a son of a potter. In 1899 he graduated Realschule and started architecture studies in Riga Polytechnic Institute. While still a student he started to work in Konstantīns Pēkšēns's architecture office in 1900. In 1904 he took a study trip to Finland where he was introduced to National Romanticism in architecture. Laube graduated from the Riga Polytechnic Institute's department of architecture in 1907.

#9484

William Hovgaard

1857 - 1950 (93 years)

William Hovgaard was a Danish, later American professor of naval design and construction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 1933. Hovgaard was one of the foremost authorities on ship design in his generation, especially on the general and structural design of warships. He wrote several books on naval design and construction and the history thereof, but also on a diversity of other subjects, and he received a significant number of orders, awards and merits during his life. William was the brother of officer of the Danish Navy Andreas Peter Hovgaard, who led an Ar...

#9485

George Ashley Campbell

George Ashley Campbell

1870 - 1954 (84 years)

George Ashley Campbell was an American engineer. He was a pioneer in developing and applying quantitative mathematical methods to the problems of long-distance telegraphy and telephony. His most important contributions were to the theory and implementation of the use of loading coils and the first wave filterss designed to what was to become known as the image method. Both these areas of work resulted in important economic advantages for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company .

#9486

William Gould Dow

1895 - 1999 (104 years)

William Gould Dow was an American scientist, educator and inventor. He was a pioneer in a variety of fields, including electrical engineering, space research, computer engineering, and nuclear engineering. He helped develop life-saving radar jamming technology during World War II, and was a long-time professor at the University of Michigan.

#9487

Issac Koga

1899 - 1982 (83 years)

was an inventor and scientist. Early life and education He was the eldest of seven children born in Tashiro Village , Saga Prefecture. In July 1920, at the age of 20, he started to study at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Tokyo Imperial University . After graduation in August 1925, he moved to the new Tokyo City Electrical Institute, which was established to develop and promote radio broadcasting technology under the directorship of Kotaro Kujirai, a pioneer of the research and teaching of radio science.

#9488

Eugene L. Grant

1897 - 1996 (99 years)

Eugene Lodewick Grant , was an American civil engineer and educator. He graduated with a BS from the University of Wisconsin in 1917. He started teaching in 1920 at Montana State University and then in 1930 at the School of Engineering, Stanford University where he taught until 1962. He is known for his work in Engineering Economics with his textbook first published in 1930. Grant was the intellectual heir of work performed by John Charles Lounsbury Fish who published Engineering Economics: First Principles in 1923, providing the critical bridge between Grant and the pioneering effort of Arthur M.

#9489

Serge von Bubnoff

Serge von Bubnoff

1888 - 1957 (69 years)

Sergius Nikolajewitsch von Bubnoff was a geologist and geotechnical engineer with Germano-Baltic ancestry who made important contributions to the rebuilding of geological research in East Germany after World War II. Starting in 1922, he was a professor at the University of Breslau. In 1929 he became a professor at the University of Greifswald and in 1950, he started his professorship at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. The Bubnoff unit, which is the unit of measure for the speed of geological processes, is named after him.

#9490

Thomas Church

1902 - 1978 (76 years)

Thomas Dolliver Church was a 20th century landscape architect based in California. He is a nationally recognized as one of the pioneer landscape designers of Modernism in garden landscape design known as the 'California Style'. His design studio was in San Francisco from 1933 to 1977.

#9491

Saul Kaplun

1924 - 1964 (40 years)

Saul Kaplun was a Polish-American aerodynamicist at the California Institute of Technology . Family Kaplun was the only child of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Morris J. Kaplun , a textile businessman and industrialist and a prominent Zionist philanthropist beginning in the 1930s, and Betty Kaplun . Saul and his parents, who were refugees from Nazi persecution, lived in Lwów until 1939, when they fled Poland; they immigrated to New York shortly before World War II. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1944 and served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946.

#9492

Gaetano Crocco

1877 - 1968 (91 years)

Gaetano Arturo Crocco was an Italian scientist and aeronautics pioneer, the founder of the Italian Rocket Society, and went on to become Italy's leading space scientist. He was born in Naples. In 1927, Crocco began working with solid-propellant rockets and, in 1929, designed and built the first liquid-propellant rocket motors in Italy. He began work with monopropellants in 1932, making him one of the first researchers in this field.

#9493

Charles Frewen Jenkin

1865 - 1940 (75 years)

Charles Frewen Jenkin, CBE, FRS was a British engineer and academic. He held the first chair of engineering at the University of Oxford as Professor of Engineering Science. Early life Jenkin was born on 24 September 1865 in Claygate, Surrey. He was the second son of Fleeming Jenkin who was Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, then an all boys private school in Edinburgh. He attended the University of Edinburgh, before matriculating into Trinity College, Cambridge in 1883. As the University of Cambridge had no engineering degree, he instead studied the Mathematical Tripos.

#9494

Svetopolk Pivko

Svetopolk Pivko

1910 - 1987 (77 years)

Svetopolk Pivko was a professor and engineer at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, was a colonel of the Yugoslav Air Force deputy commander of JRV, the founder and the first director of the Aeronautical Technical Institute in Žarkovo. In 1961 he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and from 1976 he was a full member of the Academy.

#9495

Bristow Adams

1875 - 1956 (81 years)

Bristow Adams was an American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator. Adams was born in Washington, D.C. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945. Adams also founded the Stanford Chaparral, the oldest humor magazine in the west, in 1899.

#9496

Walter Boas

1904 - 1982 (78 years)

Walter Moritz Boas FAA was a German-Australian metallurgist. Boas was born in Berlin, Germany and was educated at the Berlin Institute of Technology . After several positions at German and Swiss institutions, Boas became a lecturer in metallurgy at University of Melbourne in 1938; then from 1940 to 1947, senior lecturer. From 1947 to 1949, Boas was principal research officer, CSIR Division of Tribophysics; and from 1949 to 1969 chief of the division.

#9497

Eric Arthur

1898 - 1982 (84 years)

Eric Ross Arthur, was a Canadian architect, writer and educator. Born in Dunedin, New Zealand and educated in England, he served in World War I with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade. He emigrated to Canada in 1923 to teach architecture at the University of Toronto.

#9498

Leicester Bodine Holland

1882 - 1952 (70 years)

Leicester Bodine Holland was an American architect, art historian and archaeologist and holder of the Carnegie Chair at the Library of Congress. Holland was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Dr. James W. Holland and Mary Boggs Holland. His father was the Dean of the Jefferson Medical College; and when he graduated from William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1898 Leicester Holland originally intended to also become a doctor. However, instead he went into architecture and after he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1902 he gained a further Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture in 1904.

#9499

Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong

1890 - 1954 (64 years)

Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers , the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International Telecommunication Union's roster of great inventors. Armstrong attended Columbia University, and served as a professor there for most of his life.

#9500

John R. Ragazzini

John R. Ragazzini

1912 - 1988 (76 years)

John Ralph Ragazzini was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Biography Ragazzini was born in Manhattan, New York City from Italian immigrants Luigi Ragazzini and Angelina Badelli and received the degrees of B.S. and E.E. at the City College of New York in 1932 and 1933 and earned the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 1939 and 1941.

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