Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty

The list Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty includes Michael J. Massimino, Feniosky Peña-Mora, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Bjarne Stroustrup and Ferdinand Freudenstein. The list consists of 68 members.

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Michael Massimino

American astronaut and engineer (born 1962)

Overview: Michael James Massimino (born August 19, 1962) is an American professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and a former NASA astronaut. He is the senior advisor of space programs at the ...

Date of birth: 19 August 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronaut

Gender: Male

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Spacewalkers 240T

MIT School of Engineering alumni 854T

Space Shuttle program astronauts 353T
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Feniosky Peña-Mora

Academic

Overview: Feniosky Peña-Mora (born March 6, 1966) is a Dominican-born engineer, educator, and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Design and Construction. He also served as the 14th Dean of C ...

Date of birth: 6 March 1966

Age: 59

Nationality: Dominican

Occupation: Scientist

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Bronx Community College alumni 12T

Dominican Republic scientists 8T

Dominican Republic engineers 6T
3.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Danish computer scientist

Overview: Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the C++ programming language. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University ...

Date of birth: 30 December 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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C++ people 7T

People from Watchung, New Jersey 13T

Aarhus University alumni 91T
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Jacob Millman

Ukrainian academic

Overview: Jacob Millman (1911 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukraine – May 22, 1991 in Longboat Key, Florida) was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University.

Date of birth: 1911

Date of death: 22 May 1991

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: Ukrainian

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People from Longboat Key, Florida 15T

People from Volhynian Governorate 73T

Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 780T
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Edwin Howard Armstrong

American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)

Overview: Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – February 1, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, who developed FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. He ...

Date of birth: 18 December 1890

Date of death: 31 January 1954

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

Gender: Male

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1954 suicides 30T

Suicides by jumping in New York City 57T

Suicides by defenestration 78T
6.

Van C. Mow

American medical researcher

Overview: Van C. Mow (Chinese: 毛昭憲; pinyin: Máo Zhāoxiàn; born January 10, 1939) is a Chinese-born-American bioengineer, known as one of the earliest researchers in the field of biomechanics.

Date of birth: 10 January 1939

Age: 86

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military,Military

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Engineers from Sichuan 12T

Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 108T

ASME Medal recipients 72T
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Ferdinand Freudenstein

American physicist and engineer

Overview: Ferdinand Freudenstein (12 May 1926 – 30 March 2006) was an American physicist and engineer who is considered to be the "Father of Modern Kinematics." Freudenstein made revolutionary contribution applying ...

Date of birth: 5 December 1926

Date of death: 30 March 2006

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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20th-century American engineers 1,272T

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni 195T

Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 254T
8.

Elmer L. Gaden

American scientist

Overview: Elmer L. Gaden Jr. (1923 – 10 March 2012) has been described as "the father of biochemical engineering". A graduate of Columbia University, he wrote a dissertation that quantified the amount of oxygen ...

Date of birth: 1923

Date of death: 10 May 2012

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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20th-century American inventors 1,114T

Fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 21T

Brooklyn Technical High School alumni 72T
9.

Klaus Lackner

American geoengineer

Overview: Klaus Lackner is a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University and co-founder of Global Research Technologies in Tucson, AZ. Lackner pioneered the concept ...

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Heidelberg University alumni 833T

Geoengineers 13T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
10.

Michal Lipson

American physicist

Overview: Michal Lipson (born 1970) is an American physicist known for her work on silicon photonics. Lipson was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow for contributions to silicon photonics especially towards enabling GHz ...

Date of birth: 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Cornell University College of Engineering faculty 6T

Women in optics 47T

21st-century American physicists 917T
11.

Charles F. Chandler

American chemist

Overview: Charles Frederick Chandler (December 6, 1836 – August 25, 1925) was an American chemist, best known for his regulatory work in public health, sanitation, and consumer safety in New York City, as well as ...

Date of birth: 6 December 1836

Date of death: 25 August 1925

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Commissioners of Health of the City of New York 18T

Scientists from New York 628T

People from Westhampton, New York 7T
12.

Emanuel Derman

American, Scientist

Overview: Emanuel Derman (born c. 1945) is a South African-born academic, businessman and writer. He is best known as a quantitative analyst, and author of the book My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and ...

Date of birth: 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Alumni of Herzlia High School 12T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Expatriate academics 8T
13.

Mario Salvadori

American engineer and architect

Overview: Mario G. Salvadori (March 19, 1907 – June 25, 1997) was a structural engineer and professor of both civil engineering and architecture at Columbia University.

Date of birth: 19 March 1907

Date of death: 25 June 1997

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Architect

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National Research Council (Italy) people 58T

20th-century American architects 1,474T

Wason medalist 7T
14.

Mark Cane

American climate scientist

Overview: Mark A. Cane is an American climate scientist. He obtained his PhD at MIT in 1975. He is currently the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences at Columbia University and the Lamont Doherty ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni 400T

Fellows of the American Meteorological Society 57T

Sverdrup Gold Medal Award Recipients 13T
15.

Herbert Goldstein

Physicist

Overview: Herbert Goldstein (June 26, 1922 – January 12, 2005) was an American physicist and the author of the standard graduate textbook Classical Mechanics.

Date of birth: 26 June 1922

Date of death: 12 January 2005

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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20th-century American physicists 853T

Judaism and science 16T

Jewish physicists 305T
16.

Steven M. Bellovin

American, Scientist

Overview: Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and security. He has been a professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University since 2005. Previously, Bellovin was a Fellow at ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T

Computer security academics 64T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
17.

Horst Ludwig Störmer

German physicist

Overview: Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and ...

Date of birth: 6 April 1949

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 979T

21st-century American physicists 917T

People with acquired American citizenship 943T
18.

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin

Serbian American inventor and autobiographer

Overview: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Идворски Пупин, 9 October 1858 – 12 March 1935), also known as Michael Pupin was a Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist, philanthropist ...

Date of birth: 9 October 1858

Date of death: 12 March 1935

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Inventor

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Columbia College (New York) alumni 1,291T

Serbian Freemasons 17T

People from Kovačica 8T
19.

Vladimir Vapnik

Soviet mathematician

Overview: Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (Russian: Владимир Наумович Вапник; born 6 December 1936) is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning, and the co-inventor of the ...

Date of birth: 6 December 1936

Age: 88

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Mathematician

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Soviet emigrants to the United States 511T

Russian computer scientists 69T

Machine learning researchers 96T
20.

Alfred Aho

Computer scientist

Overview: Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of ...

Date of birth: 9 August 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni 80T

Fellow Members of the IEEE 869T

Canadian computer scientists 126T