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.
Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.
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List of the most influential people in Engineering,
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Andreas Mortensen
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Vilmos Zsigmond
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1930 - 2016 (86 years)
Vilmos Zsigmond ASC was a Hungarian-American cinematographer. His work in cinematography helped shape the look of American movies in the 1970s, making him one of the leading figures in the American New Wave movement.
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Alice Maroudas
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Frank Wentz
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Frank Wentz is the CEO and director of Remote Sensing Systems, a company he founded in 1974, which specializes in satellite microwave remote sensing research. Together with Carl Mears, he is best known for developing a satellite temperature record from MSU and AMSU. Intercomparison of this record with the earlier UAH satellite temperature record, developed by John Christy and Roy Spencer, revealed deficiencies in the earlier work; specifically, the warming trend in the RSS version is larger than the University of Alabama in Huntsville one. From 1978 to 1982, Wentz was a member of NASA's SeaSa...
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Guang-deng Zong
#135548
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Hellmut Fischmeister
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1927 - 2019 (92 years)
Hellmut Friedrich Fischmeister was an Austrian metallurgist who was a pioneer in powder metallurgy. Education and career Fischmeister studied physics, mathematics, and chemistry at the University of Graz from 1945 to 1951 and received his doctorate in physical chemistry with Otto Kratky in 1951. From 1953, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1956, he became head of the Physics and Materials groups at the Development Laboratory of LM Ericsson in Stockholm. From 1958, he led the Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy at the Swedish Institute for Metals Research in Stockholm.
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Phillip J. Isola
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Laleh Behjat
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Laleh Behjat is a professor in engineering at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Biography Behjat completed a bachelor's degree in engineering at the University of Tehran in 1996 and immigrated from Iran to Canada in 1997. She received her Master's degree in electrical engineering in 1999 and her PhD in 2002. In 2002 she was appointed a professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Calgary.
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Shin-ichi Aizawa
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Rao Y. Surampalli
#135603
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Antoine E. Naaman
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Ricky Evans
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1990 - Present (36 years)
Ricky Evans is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation events. Career From 2007 to 2012 Evans attempted to qualify for each BDO World Championship but was unsuccessful. In 2011, Evans won a PDC Youth Tour event by beating David Coyne 4–1 in the final. He has played in the World Masters five times with his best finish coming in 2012 where he lost in the last 48 to James Wilson.
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Juan M. Taveras
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Gerhard Dehm
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Theodore Stathopoulos
#135676
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Kenneth Earnest Evans
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Susannah Hagan
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1951 - Present (75 years)
Susannah Hagan, FRSA is the founding Director of R_E_D and Professor and School Research Leader at the Royal College of Art School of Architecture. She has written and lectured extensively on the theory and practice of environmental design, in particular, environmentally led urban design. Hagan's major publications include City Fights: Debates on Sustainable Cities ; Taking Shape: A New Contract between Architecture and Nature ; and Digitalia: Architecture and the Environmental, the Digital and the Avant-garde .
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Nea L. F. Kassell
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Mohammad Samimy
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Mohammad Samimy is the John B. Nordholt Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the founding director of the Aerospace Research Center at Ohio State University . He has made significant contributions towards the understanding of the physics and control of high-speed and high Reynolds number turbulent shear flows and jet aeroacoustics.
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Robert Carpick
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Robert William Carpick is a Canadian mechanical engineer. He is currently director of diversity, equity, and inclusion and John Henry Towne Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work in tribology, particularly nanotribology.
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Godfrey Stuart Pawley
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Andrew Jenike
#135805
Overall Influence
1914 - 2003 (89 years)
Andrew W. Jenike was an American engineer who developed and expanded the science of bulk material handling. He founded and served as company president for engineering consulting firm Jenike & Johanson, Inc. and published Utah Engineering Experiment Station Bulletins 123 and 108, which introduce the idea of mass flow.
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Bruce K. Ferguson
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1949 - Present (77 years)
Bruce K. Ferguson is an American landscape architect, author, and educator. He is known for his research in environmental landscape technologies and their integration in urban design, and in particular for his work on permeable paving and stormwater management.
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I. D. Zhitomirsky
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Shuguang Deng
#135827
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Bin Ran
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Rex E. Britter
#135859
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Vladimı́r Kučera
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Yoram Vodovotz
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Venugopal V. Veeravalli
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1963 - Present (63 years)
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Clive Lee
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1939 - Present (87 years)
Alan John Clive Lee was a British design engineer known for co-creating the Exeter hip system in association with orthopaedic surgeon, Robin Ling. Unlike any other hip replacement, the collarless polished tapered cemented hip stem became the most widely used cemented total hip joint in the National Health Service.
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A. William Hajjar
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1917 - 2000 (83 years)
Abraham William Hajjar was an American architect active in Pennsylvania and Southern California particularly during the 1950s and 1960s. He created many modern residences, taught architectural design and history courses at The Pennsylvania State University, and conducted research on an early version of the double-skin glass facade, which later became a significant passive solar design element.
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Man Mohan Sondhi
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1933 - 2018 (85 years)
Man Mohan Sondhi was a prominent researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories during 1962–2001. He was famous for his research on echo cancellation. Born in Firozpur, Punjab, he was educated at Delhi University, Indian Institute of Science, and University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Kon-Well Wang
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Kon-Well Wang is an American academic and engineer, best known for his research work in structural dynamics, especially in the emerging field of adaptive structures & material systems, with applications in vibration & noise controls. acoustic & elastic wave tailoring, shape morphing & deployment, energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, and vehicle and robotic system dynamics. He is the Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Structural Dynamics and Controls Lab at the University of Michigan .
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Mel Levy
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Michael Gevers
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Gabriel Taubin
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Qing‐chang Zhong
#135995
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Andrei. M. Reinhorn
#135997
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Sadao Kawamura
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Jan Sijbers
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Journals Iosr
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Mahmood Mehrdad Shokrieh
#136044
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Takehiro Sasao
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Mohamed Cheriet
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Chi Hwan Lee
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Chi Hwan Lee is an American biomedical engineer, academic, and researcher. He is the Leslie A. Geddes Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and associate professor of mechanical engineering, and by courtesy, of materials engineering and speech, language, and hearing sciences at Purdue University.
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Glyn Garfield Jamieson
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Rustam O. Kaibyshev
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Wei-mon Yan
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