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

The Web of Mechanicians

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The Web of Mechanicians attempts to link all past and living mechanicians.

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

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• Guillaume Amontons: laws of friction
• Augustin Louis Cauchy: elasticity
• Leonhard Euler: buckling
• Galileo Galilei: notion of strength.
• Josiah Willard Gibbs: thermodynamics
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz: contact mechanics
• Robert Hooke: Hooke's law
• Gustav Kirchhoff: theory of plates.
• Pierre-Simon Laplace: effects of surface tension.
• Claude-Louis Navier: elasticity, fluid mechanics
• Issac Newton: Newton's laws, law of gravitation
• Siméon Denis Poisson: elasticity
• Saint-Venant: elasticity
• George Gabriel Stokes: fluid mechanics

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

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• 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.
• Stephen Timoshenko: author of many lasting textbooks, father of modern applied mechanics

Honors and awards

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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

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

External links

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• Applied Mechanics News (AMN), a blog of news and views of interest to the international community of Applied Mechanics.
• Applied Mechanics Research and Researchers, a sister blog of AMN.
• Homepage of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division
• Mathematics Geneaology Project
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

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