Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Philipp Forchheimer: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Born August 7, 1852 • Vienna • Austria
Died October 2, 1933 (aged 81) • Vienna • Austria
Subjects Of Study groundwater flow
default image
Henri-Philibert-Gaspard Darcy
French engineer
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British industrialist and engineer
default image
Antoine de Chézy
French engineer
default image
Ernst Weber
American engineer
Welsbach, Carl Auer, Freiherr von
Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach
Austrian chemist and engineer
Porsche, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Porsche
Austrian engineer
default image
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
default image
Ed Yost
American engineer
default image
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor
default image
Herbert Seymour Saffir
American structural engineer
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Sonam Wangchuk smailes as he poses for a photograph during the 40th Anniversary of Rolex Awards for Enterprise at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer and activist
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist
James B. Eads
James B. Eads
American engineer
R. Buckminster Fuller shown with a geodesic dome constructed as the U.S. pavilion at the American Exchange Exhibit, Moscow, 1959
R. Buckminster Fuller
American engineer, architect, and futurist
Henry Bessemer
Henry Bessemer
English inventor and engineer
Black and white portrait of a man in military dress.
Cyrus B. Comstock
Union army officer and engineer
William Mulholland
William Mulholland
American civil engineer
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Abdul Qadeer Khan
Pakistani scientist