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.

The term Mechanician is also used by the Irish Navy to refer to junior engine room ratings.

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-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
• 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.

• 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