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David A. Wallace
1917 - 2004 (87 years)
David A. Wallace FAICP, AIA, PP was an urban planner and architect who co-founded, with Ian McHarg, the firm of Wallace Roberts & Todd . Early career Wallace's career spanned the second half of the 20th century. Beginning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1953, under Mayor Joseph S. Clark, Wallace led a citywide urban redevelopment evaluation that resulted in the Central Urban Renewal Area Report , which established a new strategy for overall redevelopment that targeted catalytic actions to strengthen communities and downtown. CURA became a model for several other cities, notably Baltimore, M...
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Douglas Werner
1960 - Present (64 years)
Douglas Henry Werner is an American scientist and engineer. He holds the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair Professorship in the Penn State Department of Electrical Engineering and is the director of the Penn State University Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research Laboratory. Werner holds 20 patents and has over 1020 publications. He is the author/co-author of 7 books and 30 book chapters. According to Google Scholar, his h-index is 74 with more than 23,900 citations. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in electromagnetics, antenna design, optical metamaterials...
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Ashok M. Raichur
1966 - Present (58 years)
Ashok M. Raichur is an Indian materials scientist, nanotechnologist and a professor at the Department of Materials Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Known for his studies on the use of nanotechnology for biomedical and environmental applications, Raichur is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a life member of the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2009.
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Lawrence Landweber
2000 - Present (24 years)
Lawrence Hugh Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1967. His doctoral thesis was "A design algorithm for sequential machines and definability in monadic second-order arithmetic."
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Momoyo Kaijima
1969 - Present (55 years)
Momoyo Kaijima Is a Japanese architect known for her work at Atelier Bow-wow, a studio that was founded by herself and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Her work has focused mainly on urban residential buildings in Japan. In 2021, was appointed a as Full Professor of Affective Architectures in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.
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Rodney C. Ewing
1946 - Present (78 years)
Rodney Charles Ewing is an American mineralogist and materials scientist whose research is focused on the properties of nuclear materials. He is the Frank Stanton Professor in Nuclear Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, an Affiliate of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a professor in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University.
Go to ProfileDavid J. Comer received the BSEE degree from San Jose State University, the MSEE degree from the University of California, Berkeley and the PhD from Washington State University. He spent five years with IBM's Advanced Systems Development Division working in the automatic speech recognition area and the automated warehousing area. Doctor Comer's academic career began as an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in 1964. He moved to the University of Calgary as an associate professor in 1966 and then to California State University, Chico in 1969 as a professor and dean of the engineering program.
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Robert B. Kamm
1919 - 2008 (89 years)
Robert B. Kamm served as the 13th president of Oklahoma State University–Stillwater from July 1, 1966 to January 31, 1977. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for the United States Senate in 1978, losing to Democratic nominee and then-Governor David Boren.
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Lee Swindlehurst
1960 - Present (64 years)
Lee Swindlehurst is an electrical engineer who has made contributions in sensor array signal processing for radar and wireless communications, detection and estimation theory, and system identification, and has received many awards in these areas. He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Irvine.
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Richard Billingham
1970 - Present (54 years)
Richard Billingham is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere.
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Jurjen Battjes
1939 - Present (85 years)
Jurjen Anno Battjes is a Dutch civil engineer. He was a professor of fluid dynamics at Delft University of Technology until his retirement in 2004. Battjes was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for international leadership, research, and teaching in coastal engineering and storm protection.
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Vukan R. Vuchic
1935 - Present (89 years)
Vukan R. Vuchic is a public transport expert, a professor of the University of Pennsylvania, and a former consultant to the United States Department of Transportation on the planning, design and operation of transport systems. In 1994, he was elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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André Kuipers
1958 - Present (66 years)
André Kuipers is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He became the second Dutch citizen, third Dutch-born and fifth Dutch-speaking astronaut upon launch of Soyuz TMA-4 on 19 April 2004. Kuipers returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-3 11 days later.
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Alan Hywel Jones
1970 - Present (54 years)
Alan Hywel Jones, usually Hywel Jones professionally, is a British materials scientist, working on ceramic composites and body armour, tribology, metals, including sustainable use of precious metals and rare-earth elements, and decorative alloys, wear-resistant coatings, materials analysis and ballistics, and friction-stir methods . He has appeared on radio and television to discuss some of his areas of interest.
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Fei-Yue Wang
1961 - Present (63 years)
Fei-Yue Wang is a specially appointed state expert, and the Chief Scientist and Founding Director of the State Key Laboratory for Management and Control of Complex Systems of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems and the IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. Previously he was a Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona, president of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , and editor-in-chief of I...
Go to ProfilePeter Clewes is a Canadian architect and the principal of the Toronto-based firm architectsAlliance. He has been one of the leading architects in the condo boom that has reshaped Toronto in the first decade of the 21st century. His projects include SP!RE, Casa Condominio Residenza, Murano, Burano, X Condominium, 20 Niagara, Ideal Lofts, and MoZo. He most often works for Howard Cohen of Context Developments.
Go to ProfileUpmanu Lall is an Indian-American engineer and the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering at Columbia University. He serves as Director of the Columbia Water Center. Lall studies water scarcity and how to predict and mitigate floods. He was named an American Geophysical Union Fellow in 2017 and their Walter Langbein Lecturer in 2022. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018, and has received the Arid Lands Hydrology and the Ven Te Chow Awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers. In April 2021 he was named to the “Hot List ...
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Soung Chang Liew
2000 - Present (24 years)
Soung Chang Liew is a Hong Kong professor of information engineering. He worked at Bellcore in New Jersey from 1988 to 1993 before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong faculty in 1993. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 "for contributions to wireless communications and networking".
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Harvey Gantt
1943 - Present (81 years)
Harvey Bernard Gantt is an American architect and Democratic politician active in North Carolina. The first African-American student admitted to Clemson University after attending Iowa State University, Gantt graduated with honors in architecture, earned a master's at MIT, and established an architectural practice in Charlotte with a partner.
Go to ProfileMaryline Hélard is a French research engineer specializing in wireless networks. Her research interests include wired and wireless communications and multiple-input multiple-output techniques. Life and work Maryline Hélard received her engineering degree and her Ph.D. degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes, France, as well as her post-doc habilitation degree in 2004.
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Mien Ruys
1904 - 1999 (95 years)
Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault-Ruys , was a Dutch landscape and garden architect. Her gardening legacy is maintained in the Dutch town of Dedemsvaart, which is home to the Tuinen Mien Ruys. With people such as Piet Oudolf, she is considered a leader in the "New Perennial Movement."
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Nanni Loy
1925 - 1995 (70 years)
Nanni Loy was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas. Biography Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli. Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law.
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David Gann
1960 - Present (64 years)
David Michael Gann CBE is a British academic administrator and civil engineer. He is Vice-President at Imperial College London and a member of the College's Executive Board. His academic research spans strategy, management science and systems engineering.
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Gabriella Bosco
1973 - Present (51 years)
Gabriella Bosco is an Italian engineer and professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Polytechnic University of Turin. She is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Lightwave Technology, and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Stephen Daldry
1960 - Present (64 years)
Stephen David Daldry CBE is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway and an Olivier Award for his work in the West End. He has received three Academy Awards nominations for Best Director, for the films Billy Elliot , The Hours , and The Reader .
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Massimo Alioto
1972 - Present (52 years)
Massimo Alioto is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016, for contributions to energy-efficient VLSI circuits.
Go to ProfileNanshu Lu is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin where she leads the Lu Research Group in the department of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the department of biomedical engineering. Lu is recognized for her work on the integration of electronics into stretchable materials compatible with human tissue, for which she was named one of the Top 35 innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review in 2012.
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Richard G. Folsom
1907 - 1996 (89 years)
Richard Gilman Folsom was an American mechanical engineer, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and the twelfth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also known as the 91st president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1972–73.
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Sue Ion
1955 - Present (69 years)
Dame Susan Elizabeth Ion is a British engineer and an expert advisor on the nuclear power industry. Ion was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2012 for contributions to nuclear fuel development.
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Wallace D. Hayes
1918 - 2001 (83 years)
Wallace Dean Hayes was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists, whose numerous and fundamental contributions to the theories of supersonic and hypersonic flow and wave motion strongly influenced the design of aircraft at supersonic speeds and missiles at hypersonic speeds. This greatly enhanced the development of supersonic flight and supersonic aircraft design.
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Michael Segal
1972 - Present (52 years)
Michael Segal is a professor of Communication Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, known for his work in ad-hoc and sensor networks. After completing his undergraduate studies at Ben-Gurion University in 1994, Segal received a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University in 2000 under the supervision of Klara Kedem. The topic of his PhD Dissertation was: Covering point sets and accompanying problems.
Go to ProfileMatthew Carmona is an architect, planner and researcher based in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on the process of design governance and management of Public Space. He has taught at the University of Nottingham and The Bartlett, the latter since 1998.
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Malcolm Bolton
1946 - Present (78 years)
Malcolm David Bolton is a British soil mechanics engineer and professor of geotechnical engineering at the University of Cambridge. Education He read engineering at the University of Cambridge. He then studied for a MSc at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and then did research in soil mechanics at Cambridge which led to the award of a PhD.
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Jaroslaw Drelich
1957 - Present (67 years)
Jarosław Drelich is a Polish-born surface engineer and professor of materials science at Michigan Technological University . He also holds an adjunct professorship in the department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta . He is known primarily for his contributions to the field of wetting phenomena, which include the effect of drop/bubble size on apparent contact angle on a rough surface, in addition to fundamental work on structured hydrophilic/hydrophobic alternating surfaces.
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Karl Tryggvason
1947 - Present (77 years)
Karl Tryggvason is an Icelandic medical researcher. Karl Tryggvason was born in Reykjavik. He trained as a medical doctor at Finland's University of Oulu, where he graduated with an M.D. in 1975 and with a Ph.D. in 1977 with doctoral dissertation Glomeruli and their basement membrane in the normal human kidney and in congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type. At the University of Oulu for the academic years from 1974 to 1978 and in 1979, he was an assistant in the medical biochemistry department. For the academic year 1978–1979 he was a visiting associate at the NIH's National Institute of Dental Research in Bethesda, Maryland.
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