Marshall Brain

Marshall Brain

male, 48 years old
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute, HowStuffWorks, electrical engineering, American, engineer
Marshall Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a...
Ivar Giaever

Ivar Giaever

male, 80 years old
Nobel Prize in Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty, solid-state physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Bergen, Norway…rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute
Ivar Giaever (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David...
Amos Eaton

Amos Eaton

male, deceased (1842)
rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute, Yale University, Manual of Botany for the Northern States, A geological Survey of the County of Albany, Rensselaerwyck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Amos Eaton (May 17, 1776 - 1842) was a scientist and educator in the Troy, New York area. Eaton attended Williams College; after graduating in 1799...
Neil Rolnick

Neil Rolnick

male, 62 years old
John Coolidge Adams, Olly Wilson, Grammophone, Neil B. Rolnick, Richard Felciano, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty…rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute
Neil B. Rolnick (b. Dallas, Texas, United States, October 22, 1947) is an American composer and educator living in New York City. Rolnick's...
Sal Restivo

Sal Restivo

male (Troy, New York, United States)
sociology, sociology of mathematical knowledge, rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute, Science studies, Science and technology studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty…rensselaer
Sal Restivo is a leading contributor to science studies and in particular to the sociology of mathematical knowledge. His current work focuses on...
Sheldon Roberts

Sheldon Roberts

male, 83 years old
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, C. Sheldon Roberts, Amelco, Traitorous Eight, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Beckman Instruments…rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute
C. Sheldon Roberts (born 1926) is a semiconductor pioneer, and member of the Traitorous Eight who founded Silicon Valley. He earned a Bachelor's...

David Musser

male
Standard Template Library, c++, rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty, generic programming, David R. Musser
David R. Musser is a professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute known for his work in generic programming, particularly as...
Robert Resnick

Robert Resnick

male
Fulbright Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty, rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute, Harvard University, American Association of Physics Teacher, Oersted Medal…Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, professor emeritus at Rensselaer, rensselaer
Robert Resnick (1923 -) is a well respected physics educator and author of physics textbooks. He received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in...
George Low

George Low

male, deceased (1984)
NASA personnel, NASA, rensselaerpolytechnicinstitute, George Michael Low, delta phi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty…President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
George Michael Low, born George Wilhelm Low on June 10, 1926, near Vienna, Austria, was a NASA administrator. His parents were Artur and Gertrude...