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Joseph Strauss

1870 - 1938

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Joseph Baermann Strauss (January 9, 1870 – May 16, 1938) was a German-American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Strauss is the 193rd most popular engineer (down from 148th in 2019), the 4,806th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,176th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Joseph Strauss ranks 193 out of 389. Before him are Genichi Taguchi, Eduard Totleben, Louis Dollo, Jorge Chávez, Marc Isambard Brunel, and Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse. After him are Alexey Sudayev, Sergei Tumansky, Philippe LeBon, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Alexander Lodygin, and François Hennebique.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Joseph Strauss ranks 98. Before him are Osachi Hamaguchi, Nikolay Lossky, John Paine, Édouard Le Roy, William J. Seymour, and Ferdynand Ruszczyc. After him are Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Masabumi Hosono, Yi Jun-yong, Peter Struve, and Evgeny Paton. Among people deceased in 1938, Joseph Strauss ranks 128. Before him are Lampião, Florence Lawrence, Oscar Dessomville, Juho Vennola, Leopoldo Lugones, and Aleksander Kakowski. After him are Tang Shaoyi, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Agvan Dorzhiev, Georges Urbain, Samuel Alexander, and Jānis Rudzutaks.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Joseph Strauss ranks 4,806 out of 20,380. Before him are Richard Linklater (1960), Dimebag Darrell (1966), Dutch Schultz (1902), Ed O'Ross (1949), Greg LeMond (1961), and Chico Marx (1887). After him are Sandra Harding (1935), Richard Harrison (1936), James Hillman (1926), Maurice Greene (1974), Kevin McCarthy (1914), and Gabriel Almond (1911).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Joseph Strauss ranks 14. Before him are Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), J. Walter Christie (1865), and Kelly Johnson (1910). After him are Eugene Stoner (1922), Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Gene Kranz (1933), Seymour Cray (1925), Jon Postel (1943), and Charles F. Brush (1849).

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