John Scott Russell was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel. He made the discovery of the wave of translation that gave birth to the modern study of solitons, and developed the wave-line system of ship construction.
- Occupation
- civil engineer, military engineer, physicist, shipbuilder
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- May 9, 1808
- Died
- June 8, 1882, June 1, 1882