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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#2701

George F. Pinder

George F. Pinder

#83586

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

George Francis Pinder is an American environmental engineer who is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a secondary appointment in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont. He also served as a professional witness in various notable environmental cases including Love Canal and the Woburn groundwater contamination incident.

#2702

Derek Pletcher

#102483

Overall Influence

#2703

Jeffrey Karl Ochsner

#64428

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Jeffrey Karl Ochsner is an architect, architectural historian, and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is known for his research and writing on American architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Lionel H. Pries, and on Seattle architecture; he has also published articles that link architecture and psychoanalysis.

#2704

Jeremy Till

#69135

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Professor Jeremy Till is a British architect, educator and writer. He is Professor of Architecture at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He was Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Arts London from 2012 to 2022.

#2705

Richard England

#39994

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Richard England is a Maltese architect, writer, artist, podcaster and academic. Biography Son of Edwin England Sant Fournier and Ina Desain, Richard studied at St. Edward's College, and later graduated in Architecture at the University of Malta. He then continued his studies in Italy at the Polytechnic University of Milan and also worked as a student-architect in the studio of the Italian architect-designer in Gio Ponti in 1960-62.

#2706

Chin‐hui Lee

#102551

Overall Influence

#2707

John D. Cressler

John D. Cressler

#80670

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

John D. Cressler is an American academic and author, currently the Regents Professor and holder of the Schlumberger Chair in Electronics at Georgia Tech. Early life and education John D. Cressler was born in 1961 and grew up in Georgia. He received his B.S. in physics from Georgia Tech in 1984, and his Ph.D. in applied physics from Columbia University in 1990. From 1984 to 1992, he was on the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and from 1992 to 2002 he served on faculty at Auburn University. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Georgia Tech, and is currently Schlumberger ...

#2708

Tsuhan Chen

#81264

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Prof Chen Tsuhan is the Deputy President at National University of Singapore. He is currently the Chief Scientist of AI Singapore. Prior to his current appoint he was the Dean of the College of Engineering at Nanyang Technological University from 2015 to 2017. He was previously Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University from 2009 to 2013.

#2709

Hilario Fernández Long

#43297

Overall Influence

1918 - 2002 (84 years)

Hilario Fernández Long was an Argentine structural engineer and educator. He was born in Bahía Blanca and was of Spanish and Volga German descent. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires in 1941 and his professional life was centered on structural engineering. He participated in, among other projects, the construction of the Argentine National Library, the Buenos Aires IBM Building and the Zárate–Brazo Largo and Chaco-Corrientes bridges. He pioneered the use of computer tools in his discipline.

#2710

Nancy Allbritton

Nancy Allbritton

#60553

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Nancy Allbritton is a Professor of Bioengineering and the Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. She was previously a Kenan Professor and Chair in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.

#2711

Alexander Tzagoloff

#102612

Overall Influence

#2712

Mark H. Wilcox

#102614

Overall Influence

#2713

Bruce A. A. Francis

#102616

Overall Influence

#2714

Sondipon Adhikari

#102628

Overall Influence

#2715

Ram Mohan

#14779

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Ram Mohan was an Indian animator, title designer and design educator, who was also known as father of Indian Animation and was a veteran in the Indian animation industry, who started his career at the Cartoon Films Unit, Films Division of India, Government of India in 1956. He was chairman and chief creative officer at Graphiti Multimedia, a Mumbai-based animation company which was established in 1995, and later he also established the Graphiti School of Animation in 2006.

#2716

William Hawthorne

#76001

Overall Influence

1913 - 2011 (98 years)

Sir William Rede Hawthorne CBE, FRS, FREng, FIMECHE, FRAES, was a British professor of engineering who worked on the development of the jet engine. Bragg-Hawthorne equation is named after him. Life Hawthorne was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, the son of a civil engineer from Belfast. He had two younger brothers, John and Edward. He was educated at Westminster School, London, then read mathematics and engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1934 with a double first. He spent two years as a graduate apprentice with Babcock & Wilcox Ltd, then went to the Massachusetts In...

#2717

Paul Matsudaira

#100800

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Paul Thomas Matsudaira is an American biologist who served as the head of the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore from 2009 to 2017. Biography Paul Matsudaira is the son of John Matsudaira, who was active as a painter mainly from the 1940s to the 1970s. During his childhood, his father gave him a rock for which he would observe from different sides. He graduated from O'Dea High School.

#2718

David N. Seidman

#102706

Overall Influence

#2719

Ben Britton

#84131

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Thomas Benjamin Britton is a materials scientist and engineer based at The University of British Columbia. He is a specialist in micromechanics, electron microscopy and crystal plasticity. In 2014 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining , a society of which he then became a Fellow in 2016.

#2720

Tülay Adalı

#74823

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Tülay Adalı is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, whose research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and data fusion.

#2721

Jean Gotman

#102795

Overall Influence

#2722

Hadi Mirmiran

#82500

Overall Influence

1945 - 2006 (61 years)

Seyed Hadi Mirmiran was an Iranian architect, and manager of Naghsh-e Jahan - Pars Consulting Company. He was born in 1945 in Qazvin, received his M.A. in architecture from the faculty of fine arts of Tehran University in 1968.

#2723

Helmut W. Schulz

#48272

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

Helmut W. Schulz was a German chemical engineer and professor at Columbia University known for his many works in disparate fields like nuclear physics, rocketry and waste-to-energy processes. He developed the process for separating uranium isotopes.

#2724

William Henry Stallings

#102851

Overall Influence

#2725

Varun Grover

#102859

Overall Influence

#2726

Mary Elizabeth Ramsay

#102870

Overall Influence

#2727

Adrian Snodgrass

#20050

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Adrian Snodgrass is an Australian architect and scholar in Buddhist studies and Buddhist art. He has developed theories in the area of hermeneutical philosophy and its application to knowledge production and cross-cultural understanding. Snodgrass is co-editor of the journal Architectural Theory Review and Editor of Architectural Theory.

#2728

Robert J. Beck

#24553

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Robert J. Beck is an educator and scholar of international law and international relations. Education Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and educated at Marquette University High School, Beck received an Honors B.A. , Phi Beta Kappa, from Marquette University in 1983. He received MA and PhD degrees in International Politics from Georgetown University's Department of Government. Beck also participated in law institutes at New York University's School of Law, the University of Virginia's School of Law, and Dartmouth College.

#2729

Roger Wattenhofer

#77018

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Roger Wattenhofer, born in 1969, is a Swiss computer scientist, active in the field of distributed computing, networking, and algorithms. He is a professor at ETH Zurich since 2001. He has published numerous research articles in computer science and a book on Bitcoin.

#2730

Rolf Sackenheim

#77151

Overall Influence

1921 - 2006 (85 years)

Rolf Sackenheim was a German artist and a graphic designer. Life and work In 1940 Sackenheim studied arts at Meisterschule für Deutsches Handwerk in Trier. The following year, he was drafted for military service, but in 1942 was retired due to a serious wound he had received. In 1943 he began to study art at Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe. After a two-year-break in the years 1947–1950 he continued his studies under the instruction of Karl Hubbuch. In 1950 he moved to Eifel, where he painted in watercolors, did drawings and worked out his theoretical statements on painting. Two years later h...

#2731

Don Giddens

#76154

Overall Influence

Don P. Giddens was the Dean of the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2002 to 2011. He is father of Olympic athlete Eric Giddens. In 1999, Giddens was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the understanding of the ultrasound and fluid mechanics of arteriosclerosis, and enhancing academic bioengineering education.

#2732

Hidetoshi Katori

#57151

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

, is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks. Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrology Lab, RIKEN.

#2733

James Kaiser

#63299

Overall Influence

1929 - 2020 (91 years)

James Frederick Kaiser was an American electrical engineer noted for his contributions in signal processing. He was an IEEE Fellow and received many honors and awards, including the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award, the Bell Laboratories Distinguished Technical Staff Award, and the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal.

#2734

George A. Mensah

#103032

Overall Influence

#2735

Simon Ramo

#90844

Overall Influence

1913 - 2016 (103 years)

Simon "Si" Ramo was an American engineer, businessman, and author. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile . He also developed General Electric's electron microscope. He played prominent roles in the formation of two Fortune 500 companies, Ramo-Wooldridge and Bunker Ramo Corporation .

#2736

Alberto Briganti

#103053

Overall Influence

#2737

Henry Lai

#97754

Overall Influence

Henry Lai is a bioengineering professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and editor-in-chief of Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. Lai published research in 1995 that concluded that low-level microwave radiation caused DNA damage in rat brains.

#2738

J. F. Archard

#103095

Overall Influence

#2739

Francis H. Harlow

#103100

Overall Influence

#2740

Ismail Serageldin

#12624

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Ismail Serageldin , Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina , the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria. He serves as Chair or Member of a number of advisory committees for academic, research, scientific and international institutions and civil society efforts, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the World Social Science Report for 2013 and 2016, as well as the UNESCO-supported World Water Scenarios and the executive council of the Encyclopedia of Life and Chairs the Executive Council of the World Digital Library .

#2741

Paul Prucnal

#89749

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Paul R. Prucnal is an American electrical engineer. He is a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. He is best known for his seminal work in Neuromorphic Photonics, optical code division multiple access and the invention of the terahertz optical asymmetric demultiplexor . He is currently a fellow of IEEE for contributions to photonic switching and fiber-optic networks, Optical Society of America and National Academy of Inventors.

#2742

Jeff Dozier

#57451

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Jeff Dozier is an American snow hydrologist, environmental scientist, researcher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

#2743

Robert R. Bitmead

#103164

Overall Influence

Robert R. Bitmead is an Australian engineer, currently the Cymer Corporation Professor in High Performance Dynamical Systems at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and a published author. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

#2744

Fritz Aldinger

#85875

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Fritz Aldinger is a German materials scientist. Life Fritz Aldinger was born in Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg in 1941. He received his Abitur at the Justinus Kerner Gymnasium in Heilbronn. In 1961 he began study at the University of Stuttgart in chemistry, but later switched to metallurgy. The then-Chair of Physical Metallurgy, Werner Köster, was also director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. The work for both his undergraduate thesis and his dissertation was carried out in the laboratories of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. He received his doctorate in 19...

#2745

Kenneth Price

#35332

Overall Influence

1935 - 2012 (77 years)

Kenneth Price was an American artist who predominantly created ceramic sculpture. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, before receiving his BFA degree from the University of Southern California in 1956. He continued his studies at Chouinard Art Institute in 1957 and received an MFA degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1959. Kenneth Price studied ceramics with Peter Voulkos at Otis and was awarded a Tamarind Fellowship.

#2746

Danie G. Krige

#33234

Overall Influence

1919 - 2013 (94 years)

Danie Gerhardus Krige GCOB was a South African statistician and mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics and was professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa. The technique of kriging is named after him. Krige's empirical work to evaluate mineral resources was formalised in the 1960s by French engineer Georges Matheron.

#2747

Osvaldo Simeone

#76427

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of Information Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at the Department of Informatics at King's College, London. He received an M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He was previously a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

#2748

Richard E. Carson

#86214

Overall Influence

Richard Ellis Carson is an American researcher and biomedical engineer. He is currently Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. At Yale he is also Director of the PET Center and Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering. His research focuses on the application of mathematical techniques to the study of humans and primates with Positron Emission Tomography.

#2749

B. J. Habibie

#12126

Overall Influence

1936 - 2019 (83 years)

Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was an Indonesian engineer and politician who was the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. Less than three months after his inauguration as the seventh vice president in March 1998, he succeeded Suharto who resigned after 32 years in office. His presidency was seen as a landmark and transition to the Reformation era. Upon becoming president, he liberalized Indonesia's press and political party laws, ended Indonesian occupation of East Timor leading to its independence, and held an early democratic election three years sooner than scheduled, which resulted in the end of his presidency.

#2750

Gianni Pedrizzetti

#85109

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Gianni Pedrizzetti is an Italian engineer who is a professor in fluid mechanics at the University of Trieste. His research is the application of fluid mechanics to cardiovascular science. Biography Pedrizzetti earned his BS and MS degree in 1987 from the University of Florence in the Faculty of Engineering. In 1992 he received the title of Doctor of Philosophy, in hydrodynamics, from the University of Padova with studies on vortex dynamics and turbulence. He carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of California in San Diego in 1992, working on theoretical aspects of turbulence, and at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 1994.

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