The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
This archive, developed by two professors of mathematics, hosted by the University of St Andrews, Scotland, contains biographies of many mathematicians. It also contains biographies of quite a few mechanicians, including
- George Keith Batchelor (1920-2000)
- Michael James Lighthill (1924-1998)
- Sydney Goldstein (1903-1989)
- William Prager (1903-1980)
- Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (1886-1975)
- Theodore von Kármán (1881-1963)
- Richard von Mises (1883-1953)
posted by Zhigang Suo @ 12:33 PM
1 comments
1 Comments:
(1) "Scientists in applied mechanics" are called mechanicians. See an entry in AMN.
(2) Because there is much biographical information online or in print. Perhaps as a first step we can make links to various sources.
(3) At some point we can start a project in wikipedia on the history of applied mechanics.
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