Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter S

A noted Japanese architect.Otani was born in Tokyo, and in 1946 graduated from the University of Tok

A noted Japanese architect.Otani was born in Tokyo, and in 1946 graduated from the University of Tokyo. He began his career in Kenzo Tange's studio, where he helped design the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1955). In 1960 he started his own practice, and has subsequently designed a number of memorable buildings including the Tokyo Children's Cultural Center (1964), Kyoto International Conference Center (1966), the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (1969), and the Kawaramachi housing project in Kawasaki, Kanagawa (1970).

Was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the gre

Was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the great scholars of the early Middle Ages. All the later medieval history-writing of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal) were based on his histories.At a time of disintegration of classical culture, and aristocratic violence and illiteracy, he was involved in the conversion of the royal Visigothic Arians to Catholicism, both assisting his brother Leander of Seville, and continuing after his brother's death. Like Leander, he took a most prominent part in the Councils of Toledo and Seville. The Visigothic legislation which resulted from these councils is regarded by modern historians as exercising an important influence on the beginnings of representative government.

Was the most influential early 17th-century French architect, a major influence on François Mansart

Was the most influential early 17th-century French architect, a major influence on François Mansart. Salomon was from a prominent Huguenot family, the grandson through his mother of the designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau and the son of the architect J

Is a Finnish architect and artist. He studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, com

Is a Finnish architect and artist. He studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, completing his studies in 1999. Rintala first came to public and critical attention with the joint projects he made with Marco Casagrande, under their partnetrship, Casagrande & Rintala, from 1998 to 2003, when their partnership dissolved. Casagrande & Rintala produced a series of critically acknowledged architectural installations around the world, often at art biennales, including the Venice Biennale.

Is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.[1] She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Disc

Is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.[1] She returned to Earth with the crew of STS-119 Discovery on March 28, 2009 after having spent 134 days in orbit.[2] She is also a licensed amateur radio operator with the call sign KE5FYE.

Is an American architect. She was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts.She attended the Smith College G

Is an American architect. She was born in Swampscott, Massachusetts.She attended the Smith College Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1940. She was a founder, in 1945, and now Principal Emeritus of the Architects' Collaborative (TAC). She was President of the Boston Society of Architects, a chapter of the AIA, in 1985. She is the author of Sustainable Design for Two Maine Islands, The Architects Collaborative Encyclopedia of Architecture, and co-edited The Architects Collaborative Inc., 1945-1965 with Walter Gropius. Her papers are stored at the International Archive of Women in Architecture.

A scientist based in Japan who is active in nanotechnology, photonics, plasmonics, and other areas o

A scientist based in Japan who is active in nanotechnology, photonics, plasmonics, and other areas of applied physics. He is a Professor of Department of Applied Physics at Osaka University. He is also a Chief Scientist at RIKEN.After his experience as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post-doctoral fellow at Osaka University and as a Research associate at the University of California, Irvine, he joined the Department of Applied Physics at Osaka University as a faculty member and studied under Shigeo MInami. In 1993, he was promoted to full professor, and served as the Director of Frontier Research Center, from 2001 to 2003, and is currently the Director of the Photonics Advanced Research Center. Since 2002, Kawata is jointly at RIKEN as a Chief Scientist of the Nanophotonics Laboratory.

Was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on a

Was a graphic designer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker, but he is best known for his design on animated motion picture title sequences, which is thought of as the best such work ever seen.During his 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including most notably Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the text racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the United Nations building in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that raced together and was pulled apart for Psycho.

Is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on automated pla

Is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on automated planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (and, in particular, the cascade correlation algorithm) and on Common Lisp (in particular CMU Common Lisp). Recently, Fahlman has been engaged in constructing a Knowledge Base, Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.

Was a French art déco architect, and artist, dividing his time between city planning and painting p

Was a French art déco architect, and artist, dividing his time between city planning and painting pictures, both centering on the art déco style. Through out his career he worked in the shadows of other canonised artists, focusing his attention on perfecting his style. He is little known for his artistry, however according to a 1986 book he had a great deal of influence over what was to signify art déco.[1]

Was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontaine

Was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise, "I sette libri dell'architettura" (aka "Tutte l'opere d'arc

Was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.Campini was born at Bologna, Emili

Was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine.Campini was born at Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. In 1931 he wrote a proposal for the Italian Air Ministry on the value of jet propulsion and in 1932 demonstrated a jet-powered boat in Venice. With support of the Air Ministry, he began work with Italian aircraft manufacturer Caproni to develop a jet plane, the Campini Caproni CC.2, which first flew in 1940.

A Soviet aircraft designer, Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958), Major Gen

A Soviet aircraft designer, Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1958), Major General of the Aviation Engineering (1944), Hero of Socialist Labor (1943 and 1956), member of the CPSU from 1953.

Was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between the United States and

Was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

Is a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanica

Is a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989).Since 1990 is working in the Moscow Central Scientific Research Institute of Automatics and Hydraulics, also the Chief of the scientific and technical center "REAGENT"

Was a Russian aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau.

Was a Russian aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau.

Was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory in particular; and com

Was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory in particular; and computer science in general.

Was a American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia Univ

Was a American professor emeritus of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied ScienceHe wrote extensively for fifty years on "economic conversion", the ordered transition from military to civilian production by military industries and facilities. Author of The Permanent War Economy and Pentagon Capitalism, this economist, writer, and gadfly of the military industrial complex,

Was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that w

Was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomput

Was a French architect. He was soon employed as a draughtsman by the Conseil des Bâtiments civils a

Was a French architect. He was soon employed as a draughtsman by the Conseil des Bâtiments civils and participated in numerous public competitions organised by the Ministry of the Interior. In 1803 A.-C. Thibaudeau, the prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhône, named him to the post of architect to the City of Marseille, with as his first grand civil project, the glasshouses of the botanical garden. But, caught up in quarrels between Thibaudeau and the mayor of Marseille,[1] Antoine-Ignace d'Antoine, he found himself replaced by another architect Louis-Gabriel Michaud, 1807-12.

Was a marketing manager for the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) who was murdered for sealing a corrupt

Was a marketing manager for the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) who was murdered for sealing a corrupt petrol station in UP. Who later became a rallying cry for IIM, IIT and other institutes students.Manjunath earned his Computer Science Engineering degree from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.

Was an Indian architect. He is known for designing B. R. Ambedkar's memorial at Deekshabhoomi in Nag

Was an Indian architect. He is known for designing B. R. Ambedkar's memorial at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur.[1]Mal was born in Phalodi, a city and a municipality in Jodhpur district, Rajasthan on August 5, 1923. He studied architecture at All India Council for Technical Education, and complated his diploma. He bacame an Associate Member of the Institution of Engineer (AMIE) in 1954.[1]

An award winning [1] pioneer of robotics technology[2][3] and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of

An award winning [1] pioneer of robotics technology[2][3] and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.His work includes designs for robots capable of various types of movement such as walking, crawling, swimming and slithering.[4] Specific designs include a "ninja-robot" capable of climbing buildings and a seven-ton robot capable of climbing mountainous slopes with the aim of installing bolts in the ground so as to prevent landslides.[5] Hirose is also involved in work with the United Nations to develop a remotely controlled robot capable of clearing landmines.[6]

An accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper

An accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Shigeru Ban was the winner in 2005 at age 48 of the 40th annual Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was profiled by Time Magazine in their projection of 21st century innovators in the field of architecture and design.[1]

Was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph t

Was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He had been a member of the Computer Science Department of the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptographer.