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Russell Ohl

Russell Shoemaker Ohl was an American engineer and researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1939, while investigati...

American Semiconductor Historical Materials

9.39 Excellent

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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924–2019) was an American aerospace engineer who played a central role in the early United St...

Modern American Aerospace Nasa

9.31 Excellent

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Max Faget

Maxime Faget was an aerospace engineer born in British Honduras, now Belize, who became an American citizen and worked f...

American Aerospace Historical Nasa

9.31 Excellent

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John Houbolt

John Houbolt was an American aerospace engineer who championed the concept of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) during the ea...

Modern American Aerospace Apollo

9.26 Excellent

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Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan

Elbert L. Rutan, known as Burt Rutan, is an American aerospace engineer and aircraft designer associated with unconventi...

Modern American Aerospace Experimental

9.16 Excellent

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James Buchanan Eads

James Buchanan Eads was an American civil engineer who designed the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Loui...

American Structural Historical Bridges

9.14 Excellent

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Mikhail Mil

Mikhail Mil was a Soviet aircraft and helicopter designer who established the Mil design bureau in 1947, the organizatio...

Aerospace Historical Aviation Soviet

9.07 Excellent

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Frederick Terman

Frederick Terman was an American electrical engineer, Stanford University professor, and academic administrator who play...

American Academic Silicon Valley Historical

9.03 Excellent

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Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute was a French-American civil engineer and aviation researcher who became an important figure in the ninete...

Aerospace 19TH Century 20TH Century Aviation

8.96 Great

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Gerald Pearson

Gerald Pearson was an American physicist who worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1954, he, chemist Calvin Fuller,...

American Historical Physicist Bell Labs

8.94 Great

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Alexei Isayev

Alexei Mikhailovich Isayev was a Soviet rocket engineer who specialized in liquid-propellant propulsion. In 1944 he form...

Aerospace Historical Soviet Rocketry

8.92 Great

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Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, was a French aircraft designer and industrialist who founded the company that became...

French Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.91 Great

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Calvin Fuller

Calvin Souther Fuller was an American physical chemist at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1954, working with physicist G...

American Historical Chemical Materials

8.91 Great

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Albert Hull

Albert W. Hull was an American physicist and electrical engineer associated with the General Electric Research Laborator...

American Historical Electrical Vacuum Tube

8.83 Great

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George Washington Goethals

George Washington Goethals was a United States Army officer and civil engineer who directed the final construction of th...

Military American Historical Civil

8.79 Great

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John Frank Stevens

John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer associated with major railway and canal projects. He served as chief e...

American Historical Railways Civil

8.76 Great

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Yvonne C. Brill

Yvonne C. Brill was a Canadian-American aerospace engineer known for developing hydrazine-fueled resistojet propulsion....

Aerospace Historical Rocketry Canadian American

8.74 Great

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William Barclay Parsons

William Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer who served as chief engineer of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co...

American Historical Transportation Civil

8.72 Great

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Donald Douglas

Donald Wills Douglas was an American aircraft designer, engineer, and industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Com...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.67 Great

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John J. Montgomery

John J. Montgomery was an American engineer and aviation pioneer who designed and flew experimental gliders in Californi...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.38 Great