engineer

20May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Ken Nightingall, sound engineer

Ken Nightingall ‑ a British sound engineer, popularly known as Pink Shorts Boom Guy after an image surfaced in 2015 of him working as a boom operator on Star Wars and wearing only pink shorts – died on 19 May 2020 from Covid-19. He had a long career in the film industry, including many James Bond films, and was part of the sound team that won the 1978 Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Sound. Over his career, Nightingall worked on over 47 films. Among these are the James Bond films For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), and The Living Daylights (1987), as well as other popular films like Alfie (1966), Funeral In Berlin (1966), The Boys from Brazil (1978), and Supergirl (1984). He has also worked in television, for shows such as Top Secret. ...

10May

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Belgium, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marc Engels, film sound engineer

Marc Engels –a Belgian film sound engineer who won the César Award for Best Sound in 2017 for his work on The Odyssey ‑ died of COVID-19 on 9 April 2020. His filmography includes Calvaire (2004), Komma (2006), Ex Drummer (2007) Outside the Law (2010), The Pack (2010), Largo Winch II (2011), A Happy Event (2011), Möbius (2013) À toute épreuve (2014), Prêt à tout (2014) Waste Land (2014), I'm Dead but I Have Friends (2015), Our Futures (2015), After Love (2016), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2016) and The Odyssey (2016). He won César Award for Best Sound for The Odyssey (2017) and was nominated for Magritte Award for Best Sound for I'm Dead but I Have Friends (2016).

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand, businessman, engineer and art collector

8May

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand, businessman, engineer and art collector

Ricardo Coimbra de Almeida Brennand a Brazilian businessman, engineer, and art collector in the state of Pernambuco died on 25 April 2020, aged 92, at Real Hospital Português in Recife, due to complications from COVID-19. In 2002 he founded the Ricardo Brennand Institute, which includes the world's largest private collection of Frans Post paintings, and was the 17th-highest-rated museum in the world according to TripAdvisor in 2014. Brennand was born to Dulce Padilha Coimbra and Antônio Luiz de Almeida Brennand in Cabo de Santo Agostinho. He and his family relocated to Recife in 1930, where Brennand completed his secondary education at Colégio Marista from 1937 to 1942. During this time he learned fluent German and English, owing to his British ancestor Edward Brennand who immig...

2Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Richard Passman, aeronautical engineer

Richard Passman ‑ an aeronautical engineer and space scientist from the United States – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on April 1, 2020. He worked on projects including the Corona, the first spy satellite. He was a volunteer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and author. Passman was born in Cedarhurst, New York to Ethel and Matthew Passman. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in aeronautical engineering in 1944 and mathematics in 1946. He earned a master's in aeronautical engineering in 1947. He joined the Navy Pilot Training program during WWII, but was discharged for medical reasons. He worked for Bell Aircraft, General Electric, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Grumman Corp. Passman worked on the team that created Bell X-1, the first airplane to ...

24Mar

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Profiles, United States

Walter Robb, engineer & philanthropist

Walter Lee Robb –an American engineer, executive, and philanthropist – died from coronavirus on March 23, 2020. He was 91. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1928, he was a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1993. He was a Research & Development (R&D) executive for General Electric. He owned a few local sports teams, purchasing the minor-league hockey franchise of the Albany River Rats in 1998.

16Feb

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China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Duan Zhengcheng, industrial engineer

Duan Zhengcheng ‑ a Chinese industrial engineer and inventor – died from coronavirus on 15 February 2020. He specialized in machinery manufacturing and automation, was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Duan was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, on 15 June 1934. After graduating from high school in 1953, he studied, then taught, at what is now Huazhong University of Science and Technology. On 15 February 2020, he died of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, aged 85. In 1996, he invented the OUR-QGD stereotactic gamma-ray system, which won him a State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) i...