Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a French architect perhaps most notable for a theory on pyramid construction that has some chance

Is a French architect perhaps most notable for a theory on pyramid construction that has some chance of being proven correct in 2009 or shortly thereafter. Houdin was born in Paris in 1951, but he grew up in Abidjan, in Africa, where his father was the director of a construction company. As a small boy, he spent his spare time on construction sites while his mother, who was a doctor, cared for her patients in a bush dispensary. His interest in building and construction grew out of this first period of his life.

Was a French architect and structural engineer, known for his many stone arch bridges. His best know

Was a French architect and structural engineer, known for his many stone arch bridges. His best known work is the Pont de la Concorde (1787). In 1747, Perronet was named director of the Bureau des dessinateurs du Roi (Royal office of designers), which had also just put Daniel-Charles Trudaine in charge of producing maps and plans for the kingdom. This first École des ponts et chaussées was based in the hôtel Libéral Bruant in Paris.

Is a Jewish-American jewelry designer who first rose to prominence when her signature piece, an 18-k

Is a Jewish-American jewelry designer who first rose to prominence when her signature piece, an 18-karat gold charm in the shape of a leaf, was worn by Jennifer Aniston in the 2006 film The Break-Up.

Was an American computer scientist. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, th

Was an American computer scientist. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. In 1968 he became the first chair of the University of Washington's Computer Science Group, which later evolved into the Computer Science and Engineering Department.

Was a Polish scientist and university professor

Was a Polish scientist and university professor

Is a London-based luxury fashion designer best known for his hand-made women's shoes.Choo is a Malay

Is a London-based luxury fashion designer best known for his hand-made women's shoes.Choo is a Malaysian of Chinese descent, who was born in Penang in 1961 into a family of shoemakers. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He is perhaps the most famous of students of Cordwainers' Technical College in London, from which he graduated in 1983. The college is now part of the London College of Fashion. Choo has divulged that he worked part-time at restaurants and as a cleaner at a shoe factory to help fund his college education.

Is a Dutch architect and urban planner.Between 2000 and 2004 Coenen was Rijksbouwmeester (Chief Gove

Is a Dutch architect and urban planner.Between 2000 and 2004 Coenen was Rijksbouwmeester (Chief Government Architect) of the Netherlands, The Hague. In 1995 he won the BNA Kubus award. He is honorary member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).[1]

Is an Israeli-American computer scientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of

Is an Israeli-American computer scientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Joel Moses was born in Palestine in 1941 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and a masters degree in Mathematics, also from Columbia. Under the supervision of Marvin Minsky, Moses received his doctorate in Mathematics at MIT in 1967 with a thesis Symbolic Integration.

Started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer.Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Intern

Started and ran the Anon.penet.fi internet remailer.Anon.penet.fi was one of the most popular Internet remailers, handling 10,000 messages a day. The server was the first of its kind to use a password-protected PO box system for sending and receiving e-mails. In the eighties he was the system administrator for the central Finnish news node as well as one of the founding members of the Finnish UNIX User Group.

Was a notable Finnish architect.Ehrenström was a resident of the Finland in the Swedish Kingdom. Fo

Was a notable Finnish architect.Ehrenström was a resident of the Finland in the Swedish Kingdom. Following the Swedish defeat in the Finnish War, Finland became a part of the Russian Empire. The city of Helsinki was promoted to be the new capital of the new Grand Duchy of Finland. Ehrenström was selected to be the chairman of the committee in charge of rebuilding the city of Helsinki after a fire that destroyed many of its old wooden structures in 1808.

Is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theo

Is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory.

Was a Finnish architect. He graduated as an architect in 1931 and is best known for Eduskuntatalo, w

Was a Finnish architect. He graduated as an architect in 1931 and is best known for Eduskuntatalo, which is where the Parliament of Finland meets. The building was finished the year he graduated.Sirén was a shareholder at "K. Borg, J.S. Sirén & Hj. Åberg" from 1918 to 1925. In 1931, Sirén set up his own office and also worked as a professor of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology until 1957.

Was a German Baroque architect. After the War of the Palatine Succession, the Elector Johann Wilhelm

Was a German Baroque architect. After the War of the Palatine Succession, the Elector Johann Wilhelm initiated the reconstruction of Heidelberg giving Breuning and other architects a broad field of activity.

Was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1796.[1]P

Was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1796.[1]Problems with the printing of his play Mathilde von Altenstein caused him to fall into debt, and unable to afford to publish a new play he had written, Senefelder experimented with a novel etching technique using a greasy, acid resistant ink as a resist on a smooth fine-grained stone of Solnhofen limestone. He then discovered that this could be extended to allow printing from the flat surface of the stone alone, the first planographic process in printing.

Was born in Landau in the Palatinate of the Rhine. He was an architect of the Baroque-period, most a

Was born in Landau in the Palatinate of the Rhine. He was an architect of the Baroque-period, most active in the southwest of Germany and in northern Switzerland. His father was born in Como, Italy, whereas his mother, Anna Maria Stickelmeyer, was German.

Was a Dresden-born architect who was active primarily in Poland.There is a record of Kammsetzer havi

Was a Dresden-born architect who was active primarily in Poland.There is a record of Kammsetzer having attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1771. From 1773 he worked for Poland's King Stanislaw August Poniatowski. Together with Johann Christian Schuch and Domenico Merlini, he redesigned the King's Lazienki Park in Warsaw.He also worked for other Polish nobility, e.g., for the Raczynskis on their Rogalin Palace, and for Ludwik Tyszkiewicz on his palace in Warsaw.

Was a Dresden-born garden designer and architect, active in Poland.Schuch learned gardening from his

Was a Dresden-born garden designer and architect, active in Poland.Schuch learned gardening from his father, a House of Wettin court gardener. Later he studied painting and civil engineering at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, and to complete his education he traveled extensively, visiting gardens at Kew, the Grand Trianon and the Schönbrunn Palace.In 1775 Schuch came to Poland, where he worked for Princess Izabela Lubomirska and Count Michal Jerzy Mniszech. From 1781 he was superintendent of royal gardens at the Warsaw court of King Stanislaw August Poniatowski, for whom he, together with Domenico Merlini and Jan Chrystian Kamsetzer, redesigned Lazienki Park. The King gave him a large estate bordering Lazienki Park, thus securing his prosperity. There Schuch established Poland's first fruit-tree nursery, experimenting with novel methods of protecting the trees from excessive sun and frost, until the abnormally harsh winter of 1802–3 caused a substantial financial loss.

Was a German architect from Bekenreihe near Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. His best-known work is the

Was a German architect from Bekenreihe near Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein. His best-known work is the Brick Expressionist Chilehaus in Hamburg, constructed 1922-24 for saltpeter importer Henry B. Sloman. Höger constructed several other office buildings, a

Was an Austrian architect.Joseph Thalherr studied architecture in Vienna and, after graduation, wo

Was an Austrian architect.Joseph Thalherr studied architecture in Vienna and, after graduation, worked there as court architect, under the direction of Isidore Canevale.In 1782 he moved to Budapest and worked as chamber-architect, being promoted chief of the Hungarian Direction of Constructions. He is one of the main representatives of the Palladian revival in Central Europe. His constructions can be found in Budapest, Bratislava, Györ and several other Hungarian cities.

Was a Dutch architect influential in the rebuilding of Rotterdam after World War II.

Was a Dutch architect influential in the rebuilding of Rotterdam after World War II.

Was a Danish architect. He was the son of an important developer in Viborg, and graduated from the R

Was a Danish architect. He was the son of an important developer in Viborg, and graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in 1938 after having completed a degree as a constructor in Århus.In 1942, during the occupation of Denmark, he established an architect's office in Virum. In the following decades he left a stamp on buildings in contiguously built-up urban areas of Copenhagen.

Johann Ruijsch or Giovanni Ruisch was an explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator

Johann Ruijsch or Giovanni Ruisch was an explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter from the Low Countries who produced a famous map of the world: the second oldest known printed representation of the New World. This Ruysch map was published and widely distributed in 1507.In old documents Ruysch was sometimes called a Fleming or German, but he was likely born in Utrecht in the current Netherlands. It is thought (see the Beneventanus commentary below) that he accompanied John Cabot on his expedition to North America in 1497 and 1498, or, considering the prevalence of Portuguese names on his 1507 map, a Portuguese ship leaving from Bristol. Around 1505, Ruysch probably entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Martin in Cologne as a secular priest. Soon he left for Rome, where pope Julius II gave him a dispensation concerning his priestly occupation

Was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first ge

Was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the first commercial

An architect whose best known works are Scarborough College (1963) and CN tower (1973, in joint vent

An architect whose best known works are Scarborough College (1963) and CN tower (1973, in joint venture with WZMH Architects ), both in Toronto, and Gund Hall at Harvard University.

Is an American architect who was a founder and partner of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Camb

Is an American architect who was a founder and partner of The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Walter Gropius and six other architects. He was a part of TAC from its inception in 1945 until the firm's ultimate demise in 1995.