Jensen Huang

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded the graphics-processor company Nvidia in 1993 and has been its president and chief executive officer since inception. Huang graduated from Oregon State University before moving to California. Huang was born in the coastal city of Tainan, Taiwan. His family immigrated to the United States .....

Ravi B. Grover

Ravi B. Grover is an Indian nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer. He is the founding vice chancellor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and World Academy of Art and Science He was the president of the Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer for the period 2010–2013. He has been awarded P.....

SriKrishnadevaraya

Krishnadevaraya was a prominent ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire of South India. As the third ruler of the Tuluva Dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire, he extended the empire to most of South India, which included present-day Karnataka, Northern Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, stretching upwards in the northeast to Cuttack. He ascended the throne during the most critical stage of the empire and went .....

William Henry Preece

Born 15 February 1834 Died 6 November 1913 (aged 79) Welsh electrical engineer who was a major figure in the development and introduction of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Great Britain. Preece's interest in applied electricity and telegraphic engineering was developed as a graduate student under Michael Faraday. For 29 years, from 1870, he was an engineer with the Post Office telegraph.....

Galileo Galilei

Born: 15 February 1564, Pisa, Italy Died: 8 January 1642, Arcetri Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science" Italian natural philosoph.....

Biren Mookerjee

Sir Birendranath Mookerjee (Bengali: স্যার বীরেন মুখার্জ্জী) (1899 – 1982) was an Indian industrialist who established steel-making facilities at IISCO, Burnpur and developed other industrial establishments. Personal life In 1925, Biren Mookerjee married Ranu Adhikari, daughter of Phani Bhusan Adhikari, a professor of philosophy of the Ba.....

George Washington Gale

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1859 Place of Birth: Galesburg, Illinois, United States Date of Death: 22-Nov-1896 Profession: Civil engineer Nationality: United States Ferris was born on February 14, 1859, in Galesburg, Illinois, the town founded by his namesake, George Washington Gale. Ferris left Nevada in 1875 to attend the California Military Academy in Oakland, where he graduated in 1876. He graduate.....

Archives: Legendary