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#10151

Ludwig Levy

1854 - 1907 (53 years)

Ludwig Levy was a German Jewish architect of the Historicist school. He designed a number of synagogues, amongst which was the huge Neue Synagoge in Strasbourg, as well as official buildings such as the ministries of Alsace-Lorraine on the Kaiserplatz in that same town.

#10152

Max Munk

1890 - 1986 (96 years)

Max Michael Munk was a German aerospace engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the 1920s and made contributions to the design of airfoils. Education and early career Munk earned an engineering degree from the Hannover Polytechnic School in 1914 and doctorates in both physics and mathematics from the University of Göttingen in 1918 with a dissertation on parametric studies of airfoils under Ludwig Prandtl. Munk's dissertation contained the nucleus of what would become airfoil theory. After World War I, NACA brought Munk to the United States. President Woodrow Wilson signed orders allowing Munk to come to the United States and work in government.

#10153

Robin Boyd

1919 - 1971 (52 years)

Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd was an Australian architect, writer, teacher and social commentator. He, along with Harry Seidler, stands as one of the foremost proponents for the International Modern Movement in Australian architecture. Boyd is the author of the influential book The Australian Ugliness , a critique on Australian architecture, particularly the state of Australian suburbia and its lack of a uniform architectural goal.

#10154

Ivan Rerberg

1869 - 1932 (63 years)

Ivan Ivanovich Rerberg was a Russian civil engineer, architect and educator active in Moscow in 1897–1932. Rerberg's input to present-day Moscow include Kiyevsky Rail Terminal, Central Telegraph building and the Administration building of Moscow Kremlin. Rerberg, a fourth member in a dynasty of engineers, was credited with innovative approach to structural frames and despised the title of an architect, always signing his drafts Engineer Rerberg.

#10155

Ludwig Ruff

1878 - 1934 (56 years)

Ludwig Ruff was an architect in Germany. Born in Dollnstein, he was the father of Franz Ruff, who would later be responsible for completing the Nuremberg Party Congress Hall left unfinished by his father's death in Nuremberg, in 1934.

#10156

George Frederick Bodley

George Frederick Bodley

1827 - 1907 (80 years)

George Frederick Bodley was an English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and worked in partnership with Thomas Garner for much of his career. He was one of the founders of Watts & Co.

#10157

Louis-Émile Bertin

Louis-Émile Bertin

1840 - 1924 (84 years)

Louis-Émile Bertin was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune École" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships.

#10158

Michele Valori

1923 - 1979 (56 years)

Michele Valori was an Italian urban designer and architect. Biography Son of author and journalist Aldo Valori and brother of famous actress Bice Valori, Michele Valori graduated with a degree in Architecture in Rome in 1948.

#10159

José Villagrán García

1901 - 1982 (81 years)

José Villagrán García was a Mexican architect. Career He is known for having developed several theories of Modernist architecture, and for designing the master plan for the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

#10160

Giovanni Giorgi

Giovanni Giorgi

1871 - 1950 (79 years)

Giovanni Giorgi was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units . Early life Giovanni Giorgi was born in Lucca on November 27, 1871.

#10161

Michelozzo

1396 - 1472 (76 years)

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi was an Italian architect and sculptor. Considered one of the great pioneers of architecture during the Renaissance, Michelozzo was a favored Medici architect who was extensively employed by Cosimo de' Medici. He was a pupil of Lorenzo Ghiberti in his early years, and later collaborated with Donatello.

#10162

Luigi Canina

1795 - 1856 (61 years)

Luigi Canina was an Italian archaeologist and architect. Luigi Canina, an Italian architect and archaeologist, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of Ferdinando Bonsignore in Turin, and settled in Rome in 1818. Among his works are: some construction at the Villa Borghese ; Casino Vagnuzzi outside of Porta del Popolo in Egyptian style; not realized projects for reconstruction of the sanctuary of Oropa . He became professor of architecture at Turin, and his most important works were the excavation of Tusculum in 1829 and of the Appian Way in 1848, ...

#10163

James Wilson

1816 - 1900 (84 years)

James Wilson was a prominent Victorian architect practising in Bath, Somerset and partner in the firm Wilson & Willcox. On 12 January 1843 he married Maria Buckley of Llanelli, and in 1846 they had a son, James Buckley Wilson, who followed his father to also become an architect.

#10164

Rudolf Diesel

1858 - 1913 (55 years)

Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him. Early life and education Diesel was born at 38 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth in Paris, France in 1858 the second of three children of Elise and Theodor Diesel. His parents were Bavarian immigrants living in Paris. Theodor Diesel, a bookbinder by trade, left his home town of Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1848. He met his wife, a daughter of a Nuremberg merchant, in Paris in 1855 and became a leather goods manufacturer there.

#10165

Washington Roebling

Washington Roebling

1837 - 1926 (89 years)

Washington Augustus Roebling was an American civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, designed by his father John A. Roebling. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as an officer at the Battle of Gettysburg.

#10166

Juan Antonio Scasso

1892 - 1973 (81 years)

Juan Antonio Scasso was a Uruguayan architect and urbanist. He was also an association football leader at C.A. Peñarol, of which he was chairman. Works Escuela Experimental de Malvín Estadio Centenario Hotel Miramar Urban expansion of La Paloma, Rocha

#10167

John Ridley

1806 - 1887 (81 years)

John Ridley was an English miller, inventor, landowner, investor, farming machinery manufacturer, farmer and preacher who lived in Australia between 1839 and 1853. He is best known for the development, manufacture and invention of "Ridley's Stripper", a machine that removed the heads of grain, with the threshing being done later by a separate machine. The suburb of Ridleyton in the city of Adelaide, Australia was named for him.

#10168

Louis C. Spiering

Louis C. Spiering

1874 - 1912 (38 years)

Louis Clemens Spiering was an American architect and architecture professor based in St. Louis who worked on building designs for the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 and other local commissions. He died at the age of 37.

#10169

John Douglas

1709 - 1778 (69 years)

John Douglas of Pinkerton was a Scottish architect who designed and reformed several country houses in the Scottish Lowlands. His work deserves to be noted for what the 2002 history of Scottish architecture remarks as an approach "of relentless surgery or concealment.". His most notable works are Killin and Ardeonaig Church, Stirlingshire ; Archerfield House, East Lothian ; Finlaystone House, Renfewshire , Wardhouse , Insch, Aberdeenshire ; and Campbeltown Town Hall, Argyll and Bute . Several of these are listed buildings.

#10170

Enzo Ferrari

1898 - 1988 (90 years)

Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as Il Commendatore or Il Drake. In his final years he was often referred to as L'Ingegnere or Il Grande Vecchio .

#10171

Richard S. Morse

Richard S. Morse

1911 - 1988 (77 years)

Richard S. Morse was an American inventor and scientist credited with the invention of orange juice concentrate, the founder of the Minute Maid, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, Assistant Secretary of the Army, and senior lecturer at Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#10172

Eduard Krüger

1901 - 1967 (66 years)

Eduard Krüger was a German architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

#10173

Charles B. Breed

1875 - 1958 (83 years)

Charles Blaney Breed was professor of civil engineering and head of the Department of Civil and Sanitary Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studied and worked at MIT from the late 1800s to 1946. He co-wrote with George L. Hosmer the textbook, The Principles and Practice of Surveying, which was republished multiple times during the first half of the twentieth century. He was a consulting engineer in and around Boston until 1950.

#10174

Ira Osborn Baker

1853 - 1925 (72 years)

Ira Osborn Baker was an engineering professor at the University of Illinois and author. Biography Baker was born in Linton, Indiana, on Sep. 23 1853 the son of Amanda Osborn Baker and Hiram Walker Baker. Baker enrolled at the University of Illinois in March 1871 and graduated in civil engineering in 1874, to become an assistant in civil engineering and physics and then in charge of the department in 1878. He was in charge of the civil engineering department for 39 years, with an overall teaching career spanning 48 years. His married his first wife Emma Burr on 1877-08-05 and his second wife A...

#10175

Eliza Newkirk Rogers

Eliza Newkirk Rogers

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

Eliza Newkirk Rogers was an architect and a professor at Wellesley College. Biography Eliza Newkirk grew up in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, and pursued undergraduate degrees in art and math at Wellesley College, beginning in 1896 and graduating in 1900. She garnered a fellowship in architecture and attended classes from 1902-4 at MIT and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Subsequently, she spent 15 months in Italy researching her thesis "Domes of Renaissance Italy", which was completed in 1906; she received a master's degree from Wellesley in 1907.

#10176

Johann Balthasar Lauterbach

1663 - 1694 (31 years)

Johann Balthasar Lauterbach was a German mathematician, architect and master builder at the Court in Braunschweig, from 1688 until his death. Life and work His father, Johann , was a shoemaker and guild master. His half-brother, from his father's second marriage, was the cartographer, . After grammar school, he studied theology at the University of Tübingen, then studied mathematics at the University of Jena.

#10177

Alfred Morton Githens

1876 - 1973 (97 years)

Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect particularly known for his work designing library buildings. Early life and education Githens was born on August 25, 1876, in Philadelphia to William H.H. Githens, a doctor, and Frances Adelle Stotesbury Githens. He attended Episcopal Boys Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1896 with a B.S. in Architecture. He received a Stewardson Scholarship to study at the American Academy in Rome and then spent two years at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris.

#10178

Robert Alfred Herman

1861 - 1927 (66 years)

Robert Alfred Herman was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who coached many students to a high wrangler rank in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos. Herman was senior wrangler in 1882. In the early days of Tripos, coaches were in private business in rooms off-campus. In the 1880s and 1890s instruction at college improved to the point that coaches merely supervised their students’ progress. Under these conditions the tradition of private coaching fell away, and fellows such as Herman coached students.

#10179

Jeremy Greene

Jeremy A. Greene is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University. Career Greene is a professor of Medicine and History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Greene has studied the generic drug industry. His work appears in Slate.

#10180

William Hamilton

William Hamilton

1751 - 1801 (50 years)

William Hamilton was an English painter and illustrator. Life Hamilton was born in Chelsea, London, but travelled and worked in Italy with Antonio Zucchi for several years. He trained first as an architectural draftsman, but soon moved to theatrical portraits and scenes from plays.

#10181

Wifredo Ricart

1897 - 1974 (77 years)

Wifredo Pelayo Ricart Medina was a Spanish engineer, designer and executive manager in the automotive industry, who spent his professional career in Spain and Italy. The Barcelona "Happy Twenties" Born in Barcelona, Ricart graduated in 1918 as an industrial engineer. His first job was in a Hispano-Suiza dealer, but he soon moved to a new company, Motores Ricart-Perez, that successfully produced industrial engines.

#10182

Thomas L. Martin

Thomas L. Martin

1885 - 1958 (73 years)

Thomas L. Martin was a renowned soil agronomist. He was a professor at Brigham Young University and became the Dean of the College of Applied Sciences. Early life and education Thomas "Tommy" Lysons Martin was born in Lancashire, England on November 21, 1885, to James and Mary Ann Martin. His family was very poor, and 4 of his older siblings had died of malnutrition. His father was a miner, while his mother worked in a factory. As a baby, Martin was left with a wet nurse who, unknown to his parents, left him to sit in a maggot-filled, decomposing nursery chair for most of the day. Eventually his mother found maggots on Martin as well.

#10183

C. V. Nielsen

1833 - 1910 (77 years)

Christian Vilhelm Nielsen was a Danish architect, furniture designer, and professor of perspective. Many aspiring architects attending his drawing school in preparation for admission to the Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole.

#10184

Andrew Baxter Leven

1885 - 1966 (81 years)

Andrew Baxter Leven was a Scottish-born architect in Australia. As chief architect in the Queensland Department of Public Works, he designed many of Queensland's public buildings, some of which are now heritage-listed.

#10185

Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

1589 - 1658 (69 years)

Christopher Wren B.D. was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Windsor from 1635 until his death, and the father of the prominent architect Christopher Wren. Family Christopher Wren Senior was the son of Francis Wren, a citizen and mercer of London, who served steward to Mary Queen of Scots during her captivity in England.

#10186

Gerald Bull

1928 - 1990 (62 years)

Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.

#10187

John Gallalee

1883 - 1961 (78 years)

John Morin Gallalee was an American engineer, who became President of the University of Alabama. Gallalee was raised in Portsmouth, Virginia, and earned a master's degree in engineering from the University of Virginia. He began teaching at the University of Alabama in 1913, and later oversaw campus construction. Gallalee's tenure as university president began in 1948. During his time in office, UA added nine residence halls, two classroom buildings and a stadium expansion to its campus, as well as the Capstone College of Nursing. Gallalee was succeeded by interim president Lee Bidgood in 1953, and continued working as a consultant engineer.

#10188

Inokuchi Ariya

1856 - 1923 (67 years)

Inokuchi Ariya was a mechanical technologist and professor. He was born in Kanazawa, and graduated from the University of Tokyo Kōgakubu . In Meiji 29 , he was installed in the University of Tokyo professor. He invented an Inoguchi shiki turbine pump . He established Nihon Kikai Gakkai

#10189

Jean Negulesco

1900 - 1993 (93 years)

Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter. He first gained notice for his film noirs and later made such notable films as Johnny Belinda , How to Marry a Millionaire , Titanic , and Three Coins in the Fountain .

#10190

Ellis O. Knox

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Ellis O'Neal Knox was the first African American to be awarded a PhD in California. Knox received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1922 from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctorate in the history and philosophy of education from the University of Southern California in the 1931.

#10191

Liu Shiying

1893 - 1973 (80 years)

Liu Shiying , also known as Feixiong, was a Chinese architect and educator. Liu Shiying had five major contributions to the history of Chinese architecture:He was the founder of modern architectural education in China.He founded one of the first design firms run by Chinese architects in China.He was in charge of urban planning for Suzhou, laying the foundation for modern city development in Suzhou.He founded the Department of Architecture in Hunan University. Liu designed the early modern architectural complex in Hunan University, which became a nationally protected cultural relic.He introduce...

#10192

John Thomson of Duddingston

John Thomson of Duddingston

1778 - 1840 (62 years)

Rev John Thomson FRSE HonRSA was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and noted amateur landscape painter. He was the minister of Duddingston Kirk from 1805 to 1840. Life The youngest of eight children, Thomson was born in the manse at Dailly, Ayrshire, the fourth son of Mary Hay and her husband, Rev Thomas Thomson, the local parish minister of the Church of Scotland. He was educated at Dailly Parish School.

#10193

James Smith McDonnell

James Smith McDonnell

1899 - 1980 (81 years)

James Smith "Mac" McDonnell was an American aviator, engineer, and businessman. He was an aviation pioneer and founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, later McDonnell Douglas, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

#10194

Leonard D. Jungwirth

1903 - 1963 (60 years)

Leonard D. Jungwirth American sculptor born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied with his father Joachim Jungwirth, a Detroit wood carver. His formal education was furthered at the School of Fine Arts and Wayne State University both in Detroit. He spent 1929 through 1933 studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany.

#10195

Raymond Moore

1920 - 1987 (67 years)

Raymond Moore was a post-war English art photographer. Born in Wallasey, then part of Cheshire, he served in the RAF and then trained as a painter at the Royal College of Art. After graduating, he was asked to set up a photography department at Watford College. Moore became interested in photography at a time when photography was still viewed in Britain as an undistinguished craft rather than a serious art form. Influenced by some of the images in Hugo van Wadenoyen's seminal 1947 Wayside Snapshots book - a book which marked the start of the decisive British break with Pictorialism - Moore began to see fresh possibilities in the composition & framing of everyday English landscapes.

#10196

George Pullman

1831 - 1897 (66 years)

George Mortimer Pullman was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to the Pullman Strike due to the high rent prices charged for company housing and low wages paid by the Pullman Company. His Pullman Company also hired African-American men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters, who provided elite service and were compensated only in tips.

#10197

Aristoteles Philippidis

1915 - 1985 (70 years)

Aristoteles Iraklis Philippidis was a scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made contributions to the mechanics of materials, especially to the theory of plasticity. He was born in Smyrna. He graduated from the Praktikon Lykeum Athens in 1932 and got Diploma Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He went to Technical University of Berlin in 1938 and made his doctoral study under the supervision of Prof. Georg Hamel. In 1939, he got his doctor degree.

#10198

William Hague

1836 - 1899 (63 years)

William Hague Jr. was a well-known Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout mid- to late-nineteenth-century Ireland, particularly in Ulster. He is known as a protégé of A.W.N. Pugin. His office was located at 50 Dawson Street, Dublin.

#10199

Henry Hill

1806 - 1887 (81 years)

Henry Hill was an Irish architect based in County Cork. Biography Henry Hill was the second surviving son of Thomas Hill, and along with his elder brother William Hill was half of the founding generation of the dynasty of the Hill family of architects. In the next generation, his son, Arthur Hill, along with William's son William Henry Hill, and another of his nephews, Arthur Richard Hill, all became architects. Arthur Hill's son, Henry Houghton Hill and William Henry Hill's son -also called William Henry Hill- would both go on to become architects as well. Henry Houghton Hill was also the fa...

#10200

William Davidson Niven

William Davidson Niven

1842 - 1917 (75 years)

Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and electrical engineer. After an early teaching career at Cambridge, Niven was Director of Studies at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, for thirty years.

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