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Russell Ohl

Russell Shoemaker Ohl was an American engineer at Bell Labs who discovered the P-N junction in 1939, a crucial semicondu...

American Semiconductor Historical Materials

9.4 Excellent

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Washington Roebling

Washington Roebling was a prominent American civil engineer renowned for his pivotal role in designing and overseeing th...

American Historical Bridges Civil Engineer

9.3 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

9.3 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

9.3 Excellent

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Max Faget

Maxime Faget was a Belizean-American aerospace engineer who designed the Mercury capsule and contributed heavily to the...

American Aerospace Historical Nasa

9.3 Excellent

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Robert Gilruth

Robert Gilruth was a pioneering American aerospace engineer instrumental in early human spaceflight programs. His leader...

American Aerospace Nasa Human Spaceflight

9.2 Excellent

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Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan

Elbert L. Rutan is an American aerospace engineer noted for designing the Voyager aircraft, which completed a non-stop f...

Modern American Aerospace Experimental

9.2 Excellent

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Mikhail Mil

Mikhail Mil was a Soviet aerospace engineer who founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and designed the Mi-8 transport...

Aerospace Historical Aviation Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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James Buchanan Eads

James Buchanan Eads was an American civil engineer famous for designing and building the Eads Bridge over the Mississipp...

American Structural Historical Bridges

9.1 Excellent

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Frederick Terman

Frederick Terman was an American electrical engineer and academic who mentored David Packard and William Hewlett, earnin...

American Academic Silicon Valley Historical

9.0 Excellent

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Joe Sutter

Joe Sutter was a Boeing engineer instrumental in designing and developing the iconic 747 aircraft. His leadership shaped...

Aircraft American Aerospace Boeing 747

8.9 Great

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Jack Northrop

Jack Northrop was a pioneering American aerospace engineer whose innovative designs fundamentally shaped aircraft develo...

Aircraft American Aerospace Flying Wing

8.9 Great

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Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault was a French aeronautical engineer and industrialist who founded Dassault Aviation, famously producing t...

French Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.9 Great

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Alexei Isayev

Alexei Isayev was a prominent Soviet rocket engineer who founded the Isayev Design Bureau and developed crucial liquid-p...

Aerospace Historical Soviet Rocketry

8.9 Great

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Calvin Fuller

Calvin Souther Fuller was an American physical chemist at Bell Labs who co-invented the first practical silicon solar ce...

American Historical Chemical Materials

8.9 Great

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Gerald Pearson

Gerald Pearson was an American physicist who worked at Bell Labs and co-invented the first practical silicon solar cell...

American Historical Physicist Bell Labs

8.9 Great

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Chris Kraft

Chris Kraft was a pivotal American aerospace engineer instrumental in shaping early spaceflight operations. He developed...

American Aerospace Nasa Mission Control

8.8 Great

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John Frank Stevens

John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer who built the Great Northern Railway and later served as chief enginee...

American Historical Railways Civil

8.8 Great

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Donald Douglas

Donald Wills Douglas was an American aircraft industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921, famous for...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.7 Great

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John J. Montgomery

John Joseph Montgomery was an American aviation pioneer who achieved the first controlled flights by a human in a heavie...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.4 Great