Gustave Eiffel

Gustave Eiffel

male, deceased (1923)
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French structural engineer and architect and a specialist of metallic structures. He is famous for designing the...
Virgil Exner

Virgil Exner

male, deceased (1973)
Virgil Max "Ex" Exner, Sr. was an automobile designer for numerous American companies, notably Chrysler and Studebaker. He is known for his...
Frank Costin

Frank Costin

male
Frank Costin was an automotive engineer who pioneered monocoque chassis design and was instrumental in adapting aircraft aerodynamic knowledge for...
Parviz Moin

Parviz Moin

male
Parviz Moin is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his Bachelors degree...

Ron Ayers

male, 77 years old
Ron Ayers was responsible for the aerodynamics of the land speed record-holding vehicle, ThrustSSC. Born in London, England in 1932, Ron obtained a...
Franco Scaglione

Franco Scaglione

male, deceased (1997)
Franco Scaglione was an Italian automotive designer, famous for his aerodynamic B.A.T. (Berlina Aerodynamica Technica) designs while working for...

Albert Betz

male, deceased (1968)
Albert Betz was a German Physicist and a pioneer of wind turbine technology. In 1910 he graduated as a naval engineer from "Technische Hochschule...
Jean-Marie Le Bris

Jean-Marie Le Bris

male, deceased (1872)
Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856. A sailor...
Marta Bohn-Meyer

Marta Bohn-Meyer

female, deceased (2005)
Marta Bohn-Meyer (18 August 1957 - 18 September 2005) was an American pilot and engineer. At the time of her death, Bohn-Meyer was the chief...
Ingo Rechenberg

Ingo Rechenberg

male
Ingo Rechenberg was born on 11/20/1934 in Berlin. He is a pioneer of the fields of evolutionary computation and artificial evolution. In the 1960s...