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'''.
==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]]
*[[Ibn al-Haytham|Alhazen]]: [[attraction]] between [[mass]]es, [[acceleration]] due to [[gravity]], law of [[inertia]], [[Newton's laws of motion|first law of motion]]
*[[Al-Jazari]]: [[crank (mechanism)|crank]], [[reciprocating motion]], [[Steam engine#Double-acting engine|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 (physics)|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 (physics)|elasticity]], [[fluid mechanics]]
*[[Sophie Germain]]: [[Elasticity (physics)|elasticity]]
*[[Issac Newton]]: [[Newton's laws]], [[law of gravitation]]
*[[Siméon Denis Poisson]]: [[Elasticity (physics)|elasticity]]
*[[Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant|Saint-Venant]]: [[Elasticity (physics)|elasticity]]
*[[George Gabriel Stokes]]: [[fluid mechanics]]
==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]].
==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
==See also==
* [[Applied mechanics]]
* [[Mechanics]]
* [[Geomechanics]]
* [[Biomechanics]]
* [[Materials Science and Engineering]]
* [[Structural analysis]]
==External links==
*[http://iMechanica.org/ iMechanica], news and views of interest to mechanicians and their friends.
*[http://divisions.asme.org/amd/ Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division]
*[http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/ Mathematics Geneaology Project]
*[http://www.career-descriptions.co.uk/domestic-radio-and-television-mechanician-career-description.htm Mechanician Career Description]
*[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/ The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive]
[[Category:Mechanics]]