6 lives in this collection worked in fluid dynamics, from 1707 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: optics, acoustics, analysis, celestial mechanics, mechanics, thermodynamics. All fields
The most prolific mathematician in history, who shaped modern analysis and notation, founded graph theory, and wrote the equations of rigid bodies and ideal fluids.
analysis, number theory, graph theory
French mathematician and philosopher who founded dynamics on d'Alembert's principle, solved the wave equation, and co-edited the Encyclopédie.
mechanics, partial differential equations, fluid dynamics
Irish-born Cambridge mathematical physicist, Lucasian Professor for 54 years, known for the Navier–Stokes equations, Stokes's law, fluorescence, the Stokes parameters and Stokes's theorem.
fluid dynamics, optics, mathematical physics
Physician and physicist who gave the first general statement of the conservation of energy, measured the speed of the nerve impulse, invented the ophthalmoscope, founded vortex dynamics and introduced free energy.
physics, physiology, thermodynamics
Glasgow physicist who defined absolute temperature, stated the second law and the dissipation of energy, and supplied the theory and instruments of the transatlantic telegraph.
thermodynamics, electricity and telegraphy, fluid dynamics
Physicist who founded the modern theory of sound and vibration, explained the blue sky by scattering, and discovered argon.
acoustics, optics, fluid dynamics