• Question: Do you know any well-known engineers?

    Asked by 11mgazelshigh to Alex, Chris, Harriet, Jed, Ken on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Jed Ramsay

      Jed Ramsay answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Hmm I’m not sure there are that many famous engineers. I know some engineers that are well known for their work in flooding or rivers, but they are only well known to other people who work with rivers.

    • Photo: Ken Gibbs

      Ken Gibbs answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Sorry to disappoint you, but no because I am not into this celebrity thing at all. Also, the trouble is that “proper” well-known engineers like Brunel aren’t around any longer. Pity, he’d have been brilliant to listen to, I imagine.

    • Photo: Harriet Fletcher

      Harriet Fletcher answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      When you are immersed in an industry, especially researching something, the real key figures who publish loads of stuff become like celebrities. I have met people in conferences and found myself almost unable to talk to them because they are so famous in the water field.

    • Photo: Alexander Zacheshigriva

      Alexander Zacheshigriva answered on 18 Mar 2012:

      I know a few people that are: widely known in a narrow circle. But no one that is a world wide celebrity.

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