PEOPLE KNOWN FOR: engineering
American engineer
Jack Kilby American engineer and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected transistors on a single microchip. In 2000 Kilby was a corecipient, with Herbert Kroemer and...
American inventor and engineer
Frederick W. Taylor was an American inventor and engineer who is known as the father of scientific management. His system of industrial management, known as Taylorism, greatly influenced the development...
American engineer
Harold Rosen American engineer who designed Syncom 2, the first geosynchronous communications satellite. Rosen received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans...
American engineer and roller coaster designer
Ron Toomer American engineer and roller coaster designer who could be considered the sovereign of steel coasters. His work with Arrow Dynamics (founded as Arrow Development Company in 1946) brought to...
Swiss oceanic engineer
Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanic engineer, economist, and physicist, who helped his father, Auguste Piccard, build the bathyscaphe for deep-sea exploration and who also invented the mesoscaphe, an undersea...
American architect and engineer
William Francis Gibbs was a naval architect and marine engineer who directed the mass production of U.S. cargo ships during World War II, designed the famous, standardized cargo-carrying Liberty ships,...
Japanese engineer
Honda Kenichi Japanese engineer whose discovery (with Fujishima Akira) of the photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide led to an expansion in the field of photoelectrochemistry. After receiving a...
American inventor
Dean Kamen American inventor who created the Segway Human Transporter (Segway HT; later called the Segway Personal Transporter [Segway PT]), a motorized device that allowed passengers to travel at up to...
American engineer
J. Presper Eckert was an American engineer and co-inventor of the first general-purpose electronic computer, a digital machine that was the prototype for most computers in use today. Eckert was educated...
American metallurgical engineer and science administrator
Arden L. Bement, Jr. American metallurgical engineer who served as director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 2004 to 2010. Bement attended the Colorado School of Mines, where he earned a bachelor’s...
American engineer
Ben R. Rich American engineer who conducted top secret research on advanced military aircraft while working at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (now Lockheed Martin Corporation) under the alias Ben Dover,...
Dutch physicist
Simon van der Meer was a Dutch physical engineer who in 1984, with Carlo Rubbia, received the Nobel Prize for Physics for his contribution to the discovery of the massive, short-lived subatomic particles...
British civil engineer
Adam Clark British civil engineer who is associated with the construction of the Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Széchenyi Lánchíd) between Buda and Pest (two districts of present-day Budapest), the first permanent...
American engineer
Peter Carl Goldmark was an American engineer who developed the first commercial colour-television system and the 33 13 revolutions-per-minute (rpm) long-playing (LP) phonograph record, which revolutionized...