Simon Stevin

Simon Stevin

male, deceased (1620)
Simon Stevin (1548/49 - 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both...
Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

male, deceased (1925)
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex...
Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski

male, deceased (1950) (United States)
Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire and died on March 1, 1950, in Lakeville,...
Al-Karaji

Al-Karaji

male, deceased (1029)
Al-Karaji was an engineer and mathematician of the highest calibre. His enduring contributions to the field of mathematics and engineering are...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs

male, deceased (1903)
Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 - April 28, 1903) was a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted...
Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

male, 78 years old
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of...
Boris Berezovsky

Boris Berezovsky

male, 63 years old
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky a.k.a. Platon Elenin is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001, where he was granted political asylum.
Zhang Heng

Zhang Heng

male, deceased (139)
Zhang Heng (78 - 139 AD) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar of the Eastern Han...
Ibn Sahl

Ibn Sahl

male
Ibn Sahl (Abu Sa`d al-`Ala' ibn Sahl) (c. 940-1000) was an Arabian mathematician and optics engineer associated with the court of Baghdad. About...
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