George Stigler

George Stigler

male, deceased (1991)
George Joseph Stigler (January 17, 1911 - December 1, 1991) was a U.S. economist. He won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of...
Speed Glue

Speed Glue

male
In table tennis speed glue is glue that is used to re-fix the rubber surfaces to the racket or paddle. Speed glue is usually applied around 30...
Fritz John

Fritz John

male, deceased (1994)
Fritz John was a German born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon...
Stephen Timoshenko

Stephen Timoshenko

male, deceased (1972)
Stephen P. Timoshenko or Stepan Prokofyevich Timoshenko (December 22 1878 - May 29 1972), is reputed to be the father of modern engineering...

James Wright

male
James Wright was an engineer at General Electric who invented Silly Putty in 1943. The invention of Silly Putty happened by accident. During World...

Ctesibius

male
Ctesibius or Ktesibios or Tesibius was a Greek or Egyptian inventor and mathematician in Alexandria. His contributions to mathematics and science...
Augustus Edward Hough Love

Augustus Edward Hough Love

male, deceased (1940)
Augustus Edward Hough Love (17 April 1863, Weston-super-Mare - 5 June 1940, Oxford) was a mathematician famous for his work on the mathematical...
Igor Ansoff

Igor Ansoff

male, deceased (2002)
Igor Ansoff (1918-July 14 2002) was an applied mathematician and business manager. He is known as the father of Strategic management. Ansoff was...
John M. Ball

John M. Ball

male
Professor Sir John Macleod Ball FRS (born 1948) is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of...

Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant

male, deceased (1886)
Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant was a mechanician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the one-dimensional un...