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11. Wilhelm Weber (1804 - 1891) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weber/

    4 Dec 2023: congress on the history of physics (Italian), Rend. ... B V Bulyubash, The problems of electrodynamics in Helmholtz' discussion with Weber (Russian), in Studies in the history of physics and mechanics, 1986 ('Nauka', Moscow, 1986), 110-124.

12. Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789 - 1857) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cauchy/

    30 Dec 2023: Specifically, in this connection, we should mention his major contributions to the development of mathematical physics and to theoretical mechanics. ... A N Bogolyubov, Augustin Cauchy and his contribution to mechanics and physics (Russian), Studies in

13. Amédée Mannheim (1831 - 1906) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Mannheim/

    7 Mar 2023: The summer of 1848 between Mannheim completing his studies at the Collège de Charlemagne and entering university, was a time of revolution in Paris. ... Math. 15 (1878), 242-257. A M Tokarenko, Development of the methods of the exact synthesis of

14. Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Feynman/

    30 Dec 2023: He had the best grades in physics and mathematics that anyone had seen, but on the other hand he was close to the bottom in history, literature and fine arts. ... O S Razumovskii and V A Firsov, Feynman's formulation in quantum mechanics, and path

15. Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788 - 1867) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poncelet/

    2 Nov 2023: From 1815 to 1825 he was a Captain of Engineers at Metz, overseeing the construction of machinery in the arsenal at Metz and teaching mechanics in the military college. ... A N Bogolyubov, Geometry and mechanics in the works of J-V Poncelet (Russian),

16. Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911 - 1978) - Biography - MacTutor…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Keldysh_Mstislav/

    30 Dec 2023: Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2004), 25-40. A T Grigor'yan, Academician Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh and his contribution to the development of his native-land science (Russian), in Studies in the ... history of physics and mechanics, 1991-1992 (Russian)

17. Nikoloz Muskhelishvili (1891 - 1976) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Muskhelishvili/

    7 Mar 2023: it is one you will hear often in the future!" Muskhelishvili graduated with a first degree in 1914 and continued his studies at St Petersburg in the Department of Mechanics, preparing ... P Kapodanno, On a neglected work of N I Muskhelishvili (Russian),

18. Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Newton/

    11 Jan 2024: Histoire Sci. 40 (3-4) (1987), 357-366. A T Grigor'yan, Isaac Newton's work of genius (Russian), Studies in the history of physics and mechanics 1987 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1987), ... L L Kul'vetsas, The content of the concept of force in Newton's mechanics

19. Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) - Biography - MacTutor History…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lagrange/

    30 Dec 2023: His work in Berlin covered many topics: astronomy, the stability of the solar system, mechanics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, probability, and the foundations of the calculus. ... On the occasion of the bicentennial of the publication of 'Mécanique

20. Piers Bohl (1865 - 1921) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bohl/

    7 Mar 2023: Von Oettingen had studied physics and astronomy at the University of Dorpat, then continued his studies in Paris and Berlin before becoming professor of physics at Dorpat in 1868. ... L L Kul'vetsas, P Bohl's fourth thesis and Hilbert's sixth problem