Gustave Eiffel
French chemical engineer and architect (1832–1923)
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Built the tower that made Paris impossible to ignore. Eiffel engineered bridges across France before his 1889 iron lattice became the world's most recognizable structure, then pivoted to meteorology and aerodynamics research.
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct. He is best known for the Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty in New York. After his retirement from engineering, Eiffel focused on research into meteorology and aerodynamics, making significant contributions in both fields.
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