Gallery of persons

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.

• Almansi, Emilio (1869-1948)

• Amontons, Guillaume (1663-1705)

• Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212bc)

• Avogadro, Lorenzo Romano Amadeo Carlo (1776-1856)

• Benard, Henri (1874-1939)

• Bernoulli, Daniel (1700-82)

• Blasius, Paul Richard Heinrich (1883-1970)

• Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844-1906)

• Boussinesq, Valentin Joseph (1842-1929)

• Breguet, Louis Charles 1880-1955)

• Burgers, Johannes Martinus (1895-1981)

• Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard (1796-1832)

• Cauchy, Augustin Louis (1789-1857)

• Charles, Jaques Alexandre Cesar (1746-1823)

• Clapeyron, Benoit Paul Emile (1799-1864)

• Clausius, Rudolf (1822-1888)

• Copernicus,  Nicolaus (1473-1543)

• Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave (1792-1843)

• Cosserat, Eugène Maurice Pierre (1866-1931)

• Couette, Maurice Frederic Alfred (1858-1943)

• Coulomb, Charles Augustin de (1736-1806)

• d'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717-83)

• da Vinci, Leonardo (1452-1519)

• Darcy, Henri Philibert Gaspard (1803-58)

• Descartes, Rene (1596-1650)

• Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave (1832-1923)

• Ekman, Vagn Walfrid (1874-1954)

• Euler, Leonhard (1707-83)

• Fanning, John Thomas (1837-1911)

• Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier (1657-1757)

• Foucault, Jean Bernard Leon (1819-68)

• Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph (1768-1830)

• Francis, James Bicheno (1815-1892)

• Frenet, Jean Frédéric (1816.1900)

• Fresnel, Augustin Jean (1788-1827)

• Froude, William (1810-79)

• Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

• Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)

• Gibbs, Josiah Willard (1839-1903)

• Glauert, Hermann (1892-1934)

• Goldstein, Sydney (1903-89)

• Grashof, Franz (1826-93)

• Green, George (1793-1841)

• Hagen, Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig (1797-1884)

• Hamel, Georg Karl Wilhelm (1877-1954)

• Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865)

• Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (1821-94)

• Hooke, Robert (1635-1703)

• Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889-1953)

• Hugoniot, Pierre-Henri (1851-87)

• Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877-1946)

• Joukowsky - see Zhoukovsky, Nikolai Egorovich

• Joule, James Prescott (1818-89)

• Jurin, James (1684-1750)

• Karman, Theodore von (1881-1963)

• Kelvin  - see Thomson, William

• Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)

• Kirchoff, Gustav Robert (1824-1887)

• Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich (1903-87)

• Kronecker, Leopold (1823-91)

• Kutta, Martin Wilhelm (1867-1944)

• Lagrange, Joseph-Louis (1736-1813)

• Lame, Gabriel (1795-1870)

• Lamb, Horace (1849-1934)

• Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827)

• Laval, Gustav de (1845-1913)

• Levi-Civita, Tullio (1873-1941)

• Lilienthal, Otto (1848-96)

• Love, Augustus Eward Hough (1863-1940)

• Munchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von (1720-97)

• Mach, Ernst (1838-1916)

• Marangoni, Carlo Guiseppe Matteo (1840-1925)

• Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953)

• Montgolfier, Joseph Michel (1740-1810)

• Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-99)

• Navier, Claude Louis Marie Henri (1785-1836)

• 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.

• Oseen, Carl Wilhelm (1879-1944)

• Ostwald, Wilhelm (1953-1932)

• Peclet, Jean Claude Eugene (1793-1857)

• Pascal, Blaise (1623-62)

• Perrin, Jean Baptiste (1870-1942)

• Pitot, Henri (1695-1771)

• Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand (1801-83)

• 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)

• Poisson, Simeon Denis (1781-1840)

• Prandtl, Ludwig (1875-1953)

• Proudman, Joseph (1888-1975)

• Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820-72)

• Rayleigh - see Strutt, John William

• Reynolds, Osborne (1842-1912)

• Richardson, Lewis Fry (1881-1953)

• Rivlin, Ronald Samuel (1915-2005)

• Rossby, Carl-Gustav Arvid (1898-1957)

• Saint-Venant, Adhemar Jean Claude Barre de (1797-1886)

• Sedov, Leonid Ivanovich (1907-1999)

• Serret, Joseph Alfred (1819-1885)

• Siple, Paul Allen (1908-68)

• Snell, Willebrord van Roijen (1580-1626)

• Stokes, George Gabriel (1819-1903)

• Strouhal, Vincenz (1850-1922)

• Strutt, John William (1842-1919)

• Taylor, Geoffrey Ingram (1886-1975)

• Thomson, William (1824-1907)

• Torricelli, Evangelista (1608-1647)

• Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin (1857-1935)

• Venturi, Giovanni Battista (1746-1822)

• Waals, Johannes Diederik van der (1837-1923)

• Wright, Orville (1871-1948)

• Wright, Wilbur (1867-1912)

• Young, Thomas (1773-1829)

• Zhoukovsky, Nikolai Egorovich (1847-1921)

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