The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
#3801
Yoshio Sakka
#120908
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#3802
Jitendra K. Tugnait
#120922
Overall Influence
#3803
Roddam Narasimha
#120936
Overall Influence
#3804
Larry Fink
#42433
Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Laurence Bruce Fink was an American photographer and educator, best known for his black-and-white images of people at parties and in other social situations. Early life and education Laurence Bruce Fink was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, on March 11, 1941. The family moved to West Hempstead, New York when Fink was thirteen. His father, Bernard Fink, was a lawyer, and his mother, Sylvia Caplan Fink, was an anti-nuclear weapons activist and an elder rights activist for the Gray Panthers. He had a younger sister, Elizabeth Fink. He grew up in a politically conscious household and...
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Fabrizio Lombardi
#120939
Overall Influence
#3806
William Bateman Hall
#98840
Overall Influence
1923 - 2003 (80 years)
William Bateman Hall FREng was a British nuclear engineer, and emeritus professor at the University of Manchester. Early life He was educated at Urmston Grammar School. He studied at the Manchester Municipal College of Technology, which became University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology , graduating in 1950.
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Bill Vicenzino
#116482
Overall Influence
Bill Vicenzino is a scholar of physiotherapy who holds a chair in sports physiotherapy at the University of Queensland's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, where he also directs the Sports Injuries Rehabilitation and Prevention for Health research unit. Vicenzino's research focus is in the fields of lower limb musculoskeletal pain and injury, in particular tendinopathy of the elbow, hip, knee, and heel, and knee cap problems or pain . His publications include works on the effectiveness of cortisone shots for tennis elbow, and diagnostics for gluteal tendinopathy, a type of hip tendo...
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Yoichiro Hori
#120974
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Amiya K. Mukherjee
#120978
Overall Influence
#3810
Dennis M. C. Sylvester
#120980
Overall Influence
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Parvin Mirmiran
#120984
Overall Influence
#3812
Junshan Zhang
#97110
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
Junshan Zhang from the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to cross-layer optimization of wireless networks.
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Ahmad Taher Azar
#121004
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Tiziana Rossetto
#88488
Overall Influence
Tiziana Rossetto is a British–Italian structural engineer who is Professor of Earthquake Engineering at University College London. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.
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Asok Ray
#121019
Overall Influence
Asok Ray is a mechanical engineer, an applied mathematician, and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published in numerous academic and scientific journals. His contributions to the fields of signal processing, machine learning, and estimation were focused on anomaly detection and statistical pattern recognition based on the theories of symbolic dynamics, and statistical mechanics.
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Tian You Chai
#121023
Overall Influence
#3817
Graham V. � Candler
#121024
Overall Influence
#3818
Jan Van Humbeeck
#121025
Overall Influence
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Julius Natterer
#57843
Overall Influence
1938 - 2021 (83 years)
Julius Natterer, , was a German engineer and professor of wood construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Career Julius Natterer studied at the Technical University of Munich, where he graduated in 1965. He then stayed there for nine years as an assistant. During this time, he founded his own wood design office. In 1978, he was appointed to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. There he headed the timber construction laboratory which, according to the ideas of the university president, Maurice Cossandey, was to give a new impetus to timber construc...
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Bishnu Saroop Atal
#121082
Overall Influence
#3821
Edward J. Haug
#121114
Overall Influence
#3822
Ian A. Silver
#121116
Overall Influence
#3823
Anthony T. Patera
#121125
Overall Influence
#3824
Joseph S. Ross
#121156
Overall Influence
#3825
Sharad Malik
#121176
Overall Influence
#3826
Paul Pholeros
#79896
Overall Influence
1953 - 2016 (63 years)
Paul Anthony Pholeros was an Australian architect. He received his Bachelor of Science in architecture from the University of Sydney in 1974 and a Bachelor of Architecture in 1976. Pholeros established his own architectural practice, Paul Pholeros Architects, in 1984. He was also a director of Healthabitat, a non-profit organisation which aimed to improve the health of disadvantaged people by assessing and improving their housing.
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Aristides Patrinos
#42427
Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Dr. Aristides Patrinos is an expert in synthetic biology, and a former leader of the Human Genome Project. Biography Patrinos was born in 1947 to parents of Greek ancestry in Alexandria, Egypt. After attending and graduating Greek and British schools, in 1965 he left Cairo and moved to Athens, Greece. He studied engineering, both electrical and mechanical, at the National Technical University of Athens. Upon receiving his degree in 1970, he moved to the U.S. and studied in Chicago, Illinois at Northwestern University. In 1975, after receiving his Ph.D, he moved to New York State and taught at the University of Rochester.
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Nobuko Nakahara
#87581
Overall Influence
1929 - 2008 (79 years)
Nobuko Nakahara was a Japanese architect who reached prominence after World War II. Nakahara was one of the first women to become a Class 1 licensed architect in Japan. During the 21st Century, she did majority of works in Japan but very less works in western field.
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William E. Bentley
#106233
Overall Influence
1960 - Present (66 years)
William E. Bentley is the Robert E. Fischell Distinguished Professor of Engineering, founding Director of the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, and currently the Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. He was previously the Chair of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, where he assisted in establishing the department and provided leadership that led to its nationally ranked status.
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Aurelio Galfetti
#24855
Overall Influence
1936 - 2021 (85 years)
Aurelio Galfetti was a Swiss architect. Biography Galfetti was born in Biasca, Ticino, on 2 April 1936. Together with Mario Botta, Luigi Snozzi, and Livio Vacchini, he is one of the foremost 20th-century architects from the Canton of Ticino.
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Michael K. Lindell
#121272
Overall Influence
#3832
Chu-luo Yang
#121275
Overall Influence
#3833
Michiel S. J. Steyaert
#121279
Overall Influence
#3834
Yonghui Li
#121298
Overall Influence
#3835
Ken Jacobson
#121324
Overall Influence
#3836
Nasser Golzari
#80681
Overall Influence
Nasser Golzari is an architect and an academic. He is the principal partner in Golzari - NG Architects an award winning architectural practice based in London. Golzari is the design module leader at the University of Westminster, Masters of Architecture: Cultural Identity and Globalisation. Golzari has also been the Architecture Pathway Leader at University of the Arts London from 2004-2010. He was also a visiting professor at Art University of Isfahan and visiting critic at a number of universities in the UK and abroad. Golzari was the founding editor of A3 Times architectural magazine and A...
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Shyam P. Murarka
#121333
Overall Influence
#3838
Taku Aramasa
#93735
Overall Influence
1936 - Present (90 years)
is a Japanese photographer. Born in Tokyo, Aramasa moved with his family to Manchukuo in 1940. In 1948 he moved to Sakata, Yamagata. He graduated from in 1960, and set up a design company in which he was an art director, but became a freelance in 1970. He worked as a fashion photographer in Paris from 1973 to 1976. In 1980 he met his parents, from whom he had been separated, and started work on a photographic contribution to the effort of reuniting Japanese war orphans and their biological parents. This work branched into the photography of people of Japanese descent in Hawai'i and South Ame...
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Dmitri Ilyich Kozlov
#77071
Overall Influence
1919 - 2009 (90 years)
#3840
S. K. Ramesh
#80137
Overall Influence
S. K. Ramesh is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and former Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Northridge, United States. Education Ramesh graduated with the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1981 from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli , formerly affiliated to University of Madras, India and received the Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and 1986 respectively from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, United S...
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Rao S. Govindaraju
#88724
Overall Influence
Rao S. Govindaraju is the Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. His specialty is hydraulic and hydrologic engineering. He is currently the editor-in-chief of American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal of Hydrologic Engineering.
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Yang Ji-won
#88204
Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Yang Ji-won is a professor in Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST and CEO of ABC , which is a key research institutes for biofuel and bio-refinery in South Korea. He received B.S. from Seoul National University, and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He joined KAIST as a faculty member in 1986 and his research area has covered a wide range of topics in environmental biotechnology. Dr. Yang has more than 200 publications and supervised 50 post-graduate students.
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Herbert Nagasawa
#121463
Overall Influence
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Izhak Etsion
#121473
Overall Influence
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Fred W. Billmeyer
#121475
Overall Influence
#3846
Reza Shadmehr
#121479
Overall Influence
#3847
Michael Jemtrud
#93915
Overall Influence
Michael Jemtrud is a McGill University associate professor of Architecture , and former Director of the School of Architecture . Education Jemtrud received a B.A. in Philosophy and a professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pennsylvania State University. He also holds a master's degree in History and Theory of Architecture from McGill University.
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Eric Morgan Yeatman
#119988
Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Eric Morgan Yeatman is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London in London, UK. He is an expert in micro-electromechanical systems and was the co-founder and Director of Microsaic Systems.
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Gordon Slemon
#108116
Overall Influence
1924 - 2011 (87 years)
Gordon Richard Slemon, was a Canadian electrical engineer and professor. Born in Bowmanville, Ontario, he received a B.A.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1946 and a M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering in 1948 from the University of Toronto. He received a Ph.D. from the University of London in 1952.
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Jaakko T. Astola
#121509
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