Engineer/designer Famous Names Starting with Letter R

Is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'[ci

Is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'[citation needed]. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, which is fundamental t

Is an Estonian architect.Beyond doubt, Karp has created the most bold examples of 1960s-1980s modern

Is an Estonian architect.Beyond doubt, Karp has created the most bold examples of 1960s-1980s modernism in Estonia. Characterised by monumentalism, his designs often have a distinct Soviet feel to them. Prized on many occasions for his designs for different buildings, Karp was among the most known architects of the demised Estonian SSR.

Is an American fashion designer and business executive. He is most notable for his Polo Ralph Lauren

Is an American fashion designer and business executive. He is most notable for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand.Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Rueben Lifshitz in The Bronx to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Belarus[1]: Fraydl (Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz, a house painter.[

Was one of the world's oldest practicing architects at his death at age 93, and also one of the most

Was one of the world's oldest practicing architects at his death at age 93, and also one of the most prolific.apson practiced in Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1954-2008. His work was predominantly in the Modernist style. “Practically all the work I’ve done is not too far off from Bauhaus principles,” he said.

Was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College

Was a famous Egyptian architect and designer, and a professor of art and architecture at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo.[1] Ramses was also a potter and weaver who taught many disadvantaged Egyptian children to weave tapestries.

An inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK.In 1981, Ra

An inventor at IBM Research. One of the famous inventions he has contributed to is LASIK.In 1981, Rangaswamy discovered that an ultraviolet excimer laser can be used to etch a living tissue precisely without causing any thermal damager to surrounding area. He named it Ablative Photodecomposition (APD).

Was an Austrian-born British helicopter pioneer and engineer.Born in 1905, he was educated in Vienna

Was an Austrian-born British helicopter pioneer and engineer.Born in 1905, he was educated in Vienna, first at the university and then at technical college where he became interested in rotary-wing concept as a means of making aircraft land more slowly an

Is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the fir

Is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms. Raphael Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.

Is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and currently president of Avaya Labs Researc

Is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and currently president of Avaya Labs Research. He is best known as one of three authors of the classic computer science textbook Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, also known as the Dragon Book.

He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Urb

He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked on the PLATO system, and began his working career at Data General Corporation where he worked for Jonathan Sachs. After leaving Data General, Ozzie worked at Software Arts for Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the creators of VisiCalc, on that product and TK Solver. Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by Sachs and Mitch Kapor to work for Lotus Development to develop what became Lotus Symphony

Was a Levantine architect of French descent, who was born and spent his entire life in Izmir, Turkey

Was a Levantine architect of French descent, who was born and spent his entire life in Izmir, Turkey. He is best remembered as the designer of the Izmir Clock Tower, the landmark of Izmir situated at city's Konak Square.

Was a mechanician who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied phys

Was a mechanician who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences. Mindlin was the second of three sons of Henry, a prosperous businessman, and Beatrice (née Levy).In 1924 he enrolled at Columbia University, where he received a B.A. followed by a B.S. in 1931, and in 1932 by a C.E. and the Illig medal for "proficiency in scholarship." During his graduate study, Mindlin attended a series of summer courses organized by Stephen Timoshenko in 1933, '34, and '35, and there is no doubt that the experience at Ann Arbor served to confirm him in his choice of his life's work.

Was an Australian-born architect and interior designer who for the greater part of his career was Pr

Was an Australian-born architect and interior designer who for the greater part of his career was Principal Architect for the Office of Public Works in Ireland.[1]he studied English and architecture at Sydney University, graduating in 1926.[1] He then moved to England to take up a fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge, during which Mansfield Forbes had McGrath redecorate the interior of the College's house Finella, a large Victorian house on the backs in Cambridge now belonging to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. McGrath's bold modernist remodelling of Finella made adventurous use of materials, with copper clad doors, an aluminium walled bathroom, mirrored ceilings and a rubberised floor decorated with Pictish motifs.

Was an aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire.R.J. Mitchell wa

Was an aeronautical engineer, best known for his design of the Supermarine Spitfire.R.J. Mitchell was born at 115 Congleton Road, Butt Lane, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England. [2] After leaving Hanley High School at the age of 16 he gained an apprenticesh

Was a Finnish architect. He did most of his work together with his wife Raili Pietilä (born August

Was a Finnish architect. He did most of his work together with his wife Raili Pietilä (born August 15, 1926). Their daughter (the only child), Annukka Pietilä (born 1963), is also a qualified architect.The life and career of Reima Pietilä has been well charted in the writings of British architectural historian-critics Roger Connah and Malcolm Quantrill, as well as Norwegian theorist and historian Christian Norberg-Schulz. Their basic question is to what extent Pietilä goes against the grain of a Finnish modernist architecture concerned with rationalism and economy. The whole question is problematic, however, because Finland's most-famous architect, Alvar Aalto, was also seen as someone who broke the mould of pure modernism, someone who indeed talked about extending the notion of rationalism

S a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture

S a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture

Is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture an

Is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Is a world renowned Italian architect.Piano was born in Genoa, where he still maintains a home and o

Is a world renowned Italian architect.Piano was born in Genoa, where he still maintains a home and office (Building Workshop). He was educated and subsequently taught at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1965 to 1970 he worked with Louis Kahn and with Makow

Was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his

Was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo incorporating seven cable-stayed bridge spans with unusual pi

Was a German architect and classical archaeologist. He was involved in the German Archaeological pro

Was a German architect and classical archaeologist. He was involved in the German Archaeological project at Olympia, Greece.

Was a German architect, painter and graphic designer. From 1903 to 1906, he attended the 'Kö­nig­

Was a German architect, painter and graphic designer. From 1903 to 1906, he attended the 'Kö­nig­li­che Preu­ßi­sche Bau­ge­werk­schule' at Erfurt. For a short time, he worked with Karl Doflein in Berlin, and from 1907-1922 at the municipal building contr

In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has

In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the project's lead architect and organizer. With the launch of the GNU Project, he started the free software movement and, in October 1985, set up the Free Software Foundation

Was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of Americ

Was an American architect of the nineteenth century and a preeminent figure in the history of American architecture. Hunt was, according to design critic Paul Goldberger writing in The New York Times, "American architecture's first, and in many ways its greatest, statesman."[1] Aside from Hunt's sculpting of the face of New York City, including designs for the facade and Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Was an architect who designed many of the important public buildings in Perth during the latter half

Was an architect who designed many of the important public buildings in Perth during the latter half of the nineteenth century.Jewell was articled(trained) as an architect/builder in Barnstaple in Devonshire. He was employed to supervise many major building projects around England, churches in Bristol, Cardiff, Clifton, Eye, Horsley and Stroudswater. As well as churches he also supervised construction of Stanstead College, a military prison in Gosport and fortifications at Portland Castle and Southsea Castle. He was also employed as a clerk of works in the offices of Sir Charles Barry.

Was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent 19th century architects. It has been said he did more than any

Was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent 19th century architects. It has been said he did more than any other designer to shape the face of New Zealand's Victorian cities, especially Dunedin.[1] He is the architect of over forty churches, including First Church for which he is best remembered, but also other buildings, such as Larnach Castle, a country house, with which he is also associated.