Gordon Beck

Gordon Beck

male, 73 years old
Gordon James Beck (born September 16, 1936 in Brixton, London) is a largely self-taught jazz pianist who left a career in engineering for jazz....
Dean Kamen

Dean Kamen

male, 58 years old
Dean L. Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic...
Tony Levin

Tony Levin

male, 69 years old
Tony Levin (born 30 January 1940 in Shropshire) is a British jazz drummer. His first major position came when he joined Tubby Hayes' Quartet...
Léon Foucault

Léon Foucault

male, deceased (1868)
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 - 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a d...
Charles Stark Draper

Charles Stark Draper

male, deceased (1987)
Charles Stark Draper, Sc.D. is often referred to as "the father of inertial navigation." Born in Windsor, Missouri, he attended the University of...

David Pritchard

male
David Pritchard is physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Professor Pritchard carried out pioneering experiments on...
Howard Baker

Howard Baker

male, deceased (1990)
Howard Baker (1905-1990) was an American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Baker was born in Philadelphia. He did graduate work in English at...
John Adams Howell

John Adams Howell

male, deceased (1918)
John Adams Howell (1840-1918) was an American naval officer whose career included combat duty in the Civil War. He was also a noted inventor, and...
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger

male, deceased (1831)
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger was born at Simmozheim, Württemberg. He studied at the University of Tübingen. In 1798, he was ap...

Max Schuler

male, deceased (1972)
Maximilian Schuler discovered the principle known as Schuler tuning which is fundamental to the operation of a gyrocompass or inertial guidance...