He certainly didn't think of himself this way, but Ward Christensen was the smartest person I knew personally. He was always experimenting, trying to find new w

He certainly didn't think of himself this way, but Ward Christensen was the smartest person I knew personally. He was always experimenting, trying to find new ways to do things. The smartest person I've ever met, according to others, was Earl Pace[1], a retired Westinghouse engineer who designed and implemented the control systems for the 6 stand cold reduction mill at US Steel in Gary, Indiana. Pulling steel like taffy with huge motors, and a compound system involving DC generators as huge operational amplifiers strained the absolute limits of what could be done with 1964 technology, yet it ran for decades. [1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/obituaries/earl-c-pace-in/ https://www.chicagotribune.com/obituaries/earl-c-pace-in/