11 lives in this collection worked in elasticity, from 1635 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: optics, mathematical physics, applied mechanics, astronomy, electrostatics, experimental physics. All fields
English experimental philosopher, the Royal Society's first Curator of Experiments, author of Micrographia and of the law of elasticity, and an architect of London's rebuilding after the Great Fire.
experimental physics, elasticity, microscopy
French military engineer and physicist who measured the inverse-square law of electric force with his torsion balance and founded the classical laws of friction and earth pressure.
electrostatics, magnetism, applied mechanics
Physician and polymath who established the principle of interference of light, introduced the modulus of elasticity, and proposed the three-receptor theory of colour vision.
physical optics, elasticity, physiological optics
Self-taught French mathematician who proved the main nineteenth-century result on Fermat's Last Theorem before Kummer and won the Paris Academy prize for a theory of vibrating elastic plates.
number theory, elasticity, differential geometry
French engineer who first wrote down the general equations of elastic solids (1821) and of viscous fluids (1822), the latter now called the Navier–Stokes equations.
fluid mechanics, elasticity, structural engineering
Founder of rigorous analysis and complex function theory, and creator of the stress tensor and the theory of linear elasticity.
analysis, complex analysis, differential equations
Self-taught Nottingham miller who introduced the potential function, Green's theorem and Green's functions in his 1828 Essay.
potential theory, mathematical physics, electrostatics
Astronomer Royal for 46 years who fixed the Greenwich meridian and gave his name to the Airy disk, the Airy function, Airy isostasy and the Airy stress function.
astronomy, optics, geodesy
Mathematical physicist who formulated the circuit laws, founded spectral analysis with Bunsen, and stated the law of thermal radiation that defined the black-body problem.
mathematical physics, electrical circuits, spectroscopy
Physicist who founded the modern theory of sound and vibration, explained the blue sky by scattering, and discovered argon.
acoustics, optics, fluid dynamics
Italian analyst who founded the theory of functionals and of Volterra integral equations, created the theory of elastic distortions, and with Lotka founded mathematical population dynamics.
functional analysis, integral equations, mathematical physics