The microbiographies in the book are supplemented by the
following links. Authoritative biographies are sometimes
hard to find online. The author is grateful for any proposals to improve
this list.
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Almansi, Emilio (1869-1948)
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Amontons, Guillaume
(1663-1705)
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Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212bc)
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Avogadro, Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo (1776-1856)
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Benard, Henri (1874-1939)
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Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-82)
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Blasius, Paul
Richard Heinrich
(1883-1970)
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Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906)
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Boussinesq, Valentin
Joseph (1842-1929)
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Breguet, Louis Charles
1880-1955)
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Burgers, Johannes
Martinus (1895-1981)
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Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard (1796-1832)
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Cauchy, Augustin
Louis
(1789-1857)
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Charles, Jaques
Alexandre Cesar (1746-1823)
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Clapeyron, Benoit
Paul Emile (1799-1864)
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Clausius, Rudolf (1822-1888)
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Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)
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Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave
(1792-1843)
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Cosserat, Eugène Maurice Pierre (1866-1931)
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Couette, Maurice
Frederic Alfred (1858-1943)
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Coulomb, Charles
Augustin de (1736-1806)
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d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
(1717-83)
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da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519)
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Darcy, Henri
Philibert Gaspard
(1803-58)
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Descartes, Rene
(1596-1650)
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Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave
(1832-1923)
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Ekman, Vagn
Walfrid (1874-1954)
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Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)
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Fanning, John
Thomas (1837-1911)
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Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier (1657-1757)
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Foucault, Jean Bernard
Leon
(1819-68)
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Fourier,
Jean Baptiste Joseph
(1768-1830)
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Francis, James Bicheno (1815-1892)
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Frenet, Jean Frédéric (1816.1900)
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Fresnel,
Augustin Jean
(1788-1827)
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Froude, William
(1810-79)
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Galilei, Galileo
(1564-1642)
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Gauss, Johann
Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
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Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839-1903)
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Glauert, Hermann (1892-1934)
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Goldstein, Sydney
(1903-89)
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Grashof, Franz
(1826-93)
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Green, George
(1793-1841)
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Hagen, Gotthilf
Heinrich Ludwig
(1797-1884)
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Hamel, Georg
Karl Wilhelm (1877-1954)
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Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865)
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Helmholtz, Hermann
Ludwig Ferdinand von
(1821-94)
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Hooke, Robert
(1635-1703)
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Hubble, Edwin
Powell (1889-1953)
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Hugoniot, Pierre-Henri (1851-87)
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Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877-1946)
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Joukowsky - see Zhoukovsky, Nikolai Egorovich
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Joule, James
Prescott (1818-89)
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Jurin, James (1684-1750)
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Karman, Theodore von
(1881-1963)
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Kelvin - see Thomson, William
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Kepler, Johannes
(1571-1630)
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Kirchoff, Gustav Robert (1824-1887)
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Kolmogorov, Andrey
Nikolaevich (1903-87)
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Kronecker, Leopold
(1823-91)
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Kutta, Martin
Wilhelm (1867-1944)
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Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813)
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Lame, Gabriel
(1795-1870)
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Lamb, Horace
(1849-1934)
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Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827)
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Laval, Gustav de (1845-1913)
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Levi-Civita, Tullio
(1873-1941)
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Lilienthal, Otto
(1848-96)
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Love, Augustus
Eward Hough (1863-1940)
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Munchhausen, Karl
Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von (1720-97)
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Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)
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Marangoni, Carlo Guiseppe Matteo (1840-1925)
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Millikan, Robert
Andrews (1868-1953)
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Montgolfier, Joseph
Michel (1740-1810)
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Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-99)
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Navier, Claude
Louis Marie Henri (1785-1836)
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Newton,
Sir Isaac (1643-1727)
Year of birth adjusted to the Gregorian Calendar.
According to the calendar in use at the time of his birth the year was 1642.
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Oseen, Carl Wilhelm (1879-1944)
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Ostwald, Wilhelm
(1953-1932)
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Peclet, Jean Claude
Eugene (1793-1857)
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Pascal, Blaise
(1623-62)
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Perrin, Jean Baptiste
(1870-1942)
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Pitot, Henri (1695-1771)
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Plateau, Joseph
Antoine Ferdinand (1801-83)
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Poiseuille, Jean
Louis Marie (1799-1869)
There is some confusion about Poiseuille's precise name and year of birth,
sometimes quoted as Jean Leonard Marie Poiseuille (1797-1869).
See S. P. Sutera and R. Skalak,
The history of Poiseuille's Law,
Ann. Rev. Fluid. Mech 25, 1 (1993)
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Poisson, Simeon
Denis (1781-1840)
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Prandtl, Ludwig
(1875-1953)
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Proudman, Joseph
(1888-1975)
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Rankine, William
John Macquorn (1820-72)
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Rayleigh - see Strutt, John William
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Reynolds, Osborne
(1842-1912)
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Richardson, Lewis
Fry (1881-1953)
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Rivlin, Ronald Samuel (1915-2005)
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Rossby, Carl-Gustav
Arvid (1898-1957)
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Saint-Venant,
Adhemar Jean Claude Barre de (1797-1886)
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Sedov, Leonid Ivanovich (1907-1999)
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Serret, Joseph Alfred (1819-1885)
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Siple, Paul Allen
(1908-68)
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Snell, Willebrord
van Roijen (1580-1626)
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Stokes, George
Gabriel (1819-1903)
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Strouhal, Vincenz (1850-1922)
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Strutt, John William (1842-1919)
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Taylor, Geoffrey
Ingram (1886-1975)
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Thomson, William (1824-1907)
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Torricelli, Evangelista
(1608-1647)
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Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin (1857-1935)
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Venturi, Giovanni
Battista (1746-1822)
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Waals, Johannes
Diederik van der (1837-1923)
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Wright, Orville (1871-1948)
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Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912)
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Young, Thomas
(1773-1829)
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Zhoukovsky, Nikolai Egorovich (1847-1921)