Mechanician

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 prior to the 20th century

• Ibn al-Haytham: motion • Galileo Galilei: notion of strength • Robert Hooke: Hooke's law • Isaac Newton: Newton's laws, law of gravitation • Guillaume Amontons: laws of friction • Leonhard Euler: buckling, rigid body dynamics • Jean le Rond d'Alembert: d'Alembert's principle, Wave equation • Joseph Louis Lagrange: Lagrangian mechanics • Pierre-Simon Laplace: effects of surface tension • Sophie Germain: elasticity • Siméon Denis Poisson: elasticity • Claude-Louis Navier: elasticity, fluid mechanics • Augustin Louis Cauchy: elasticity • Barré de Saint-Venant: elasticity • William Rowan Hamilton: Hamiltonian mechanics • George Gabriel Stokes: fluid mechanics • Gustav Kirchhoff: theory of plates • Josiah Willard Gibbs: thermodynamics • Heinrich Rudolf Hertz: contact mechanics ==People who made lasting contributions to mechanics and died during or after the 20th century==

People who made lasting contributions to mechanics and died during or after the 20th century

• Ludwig Burmester: theory of linkages • Carlo Alberto Castigliano: Elasticity (physics) • Ludwig Prandtl: Fluid mechanics, Plasticity • Stephen Timoshenko: author of many lasting textbooks, father of modern applied mechanics • Theodore von Karman: Fluid mechanics, Structural instability • Richard Edler von Mises: Plasticity • Geoffrey Ingram Taylor: Fluid mechanics, theory of dislocations. • Alan Arnold Griffith: founder of Fracture mechanics • George Rankine Irwin: father of modern Fracture mechanics • Warner T. Koiter: Solid mechanics, Structural instability • John D. Eshelby: inclusion in elastic body ==Honors and awards==

Honors and awards

by European Mechanics Society * Euromech Fellow [http://www.euromech.org/fellows/euromech-fellows • Solid and Fluid Mechanics Prizes by Applied Mechanics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers • Timoshenko Medal • Koiter Medal • Drucker Medal • Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award • Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award • Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award by American Society of Civil Engineers • Theodore von Karman Medal, ASCE by Society of Engineering Science, Inc. • Eringen Medal • William Prager Medal in Solid Mechanics • G. I. Taylor Medal in Fluid Mechanics ==See also==

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