Mechanician 4595238 214373268 2008-05-23T07:17:31Z 98.212.177.119 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]]