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Yuan-Cheng Fung, UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering

Caption: Y.C. Fung, a professor emeritus of bioengineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, is credited with creating the field of automotive safety design -- all automobile crash tests today rely on his fundamental studies about tissue response.

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