Mechanician

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A Mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, or in a related or sub-field: engineering or computational mechanics, applied mechanics, geomechanics, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Names other than mechanician have been used occasionally, such as mechaniker and mechanicist.

Contents 1 People who made lasting contributions to mechanics more than 100 years ago 2 People who made lasting contributions to mechanics and died in recent 100 years 3 Honors and awards 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] People who made lasting contributions to mechanics more than 100 years ago

• Abū Sahl al-Qūhī: variation of weight and distance from centre of mass
• Alhazen: attraction between masses, acceleration due to gravity, law of inertia, first law of motion
• Al-Jazari: crank, reciprocating motion, double-acting principle
• Al-Khazini: variation of gravity and distance from centre of mass, distinction between force, mass and weight
• Guillaume Amontons: laws of friction
• Augustin Louis Cauchy: elasticity
• Leonhard Euler: buckling, rigid body dynamics
• Galileo Galilei: notion of strength
• Josiah Willard Gibbs: thermodynamics
• William Rowan Hamilton: Hamiltonian mechanics
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz: contact mechanics
• Robert Hooke: Hooke's law
• Gustav Kirchhoff: theory of plates
• Joseph Louis Lagrange: Lagrangian mechanics
• Pierre-Simon Laplace: effects of surface tension
• Claude-Louis Navier: elasticity, fluid mechanics
• Sophie Germain: elasticity
• Issac Newton: Newton's laws, law of gravitation
• Siméon Denis Poisson: elasticity
• Saint-Venant: elasticity
• George Gabriel Stokes: fluid mechanics

[edit] People who made lasting contributions to mechanics and died in recent 100 years

• Stephen Timoshenko: author of many lasting textbooks, father of modern applied mechanics
• John D. Eshelby: inclusion in elastic body
• Alan Arnold Griffith: founder of Fracture mechanics
• George Rankine Irwin: father of modern Fracture mechanics
• Theodore von Karman: Fluid mechanics, Structural instability
• Warner T. Koiter: Solid mechanics, Structural instability
• Richard Edler von Mises: Plasticity
• Ludwig Prandtl: Fluid mechanics, Plasticity
• Geoffrey Ingram Taylor: Fluid mechanics, theory of dislocations.

[edit] Honors and awards

by Applied Mechanics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers

• Timoshenko Medal
• Koiter Medal
• Drucker Medal

by American Society of Civil Engineers

• Theodore von Karman Medal, ASCE

by Society of Engineering Science, Inc.

• William Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics
• G. I. Taylor Medal in Fluid Mechanics

[edit] See also

• Applied mechanics
• Mechanics
• Geomechanics
• Biomechanics
• Materials Science and Engineering
• Structural analysis

[edit] External links

• iMechanica, news and views of interest to mechanicians and their friends.
• Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division
• Mathematics Geneaology Project
• Mechanician Career Description
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive