My hearty thanks to iMechanica for providing these great speeches of these great scientists and engineers in the fields of mechanics. These are inspiring a lot for young people like me.

Anindya Bhar Ph.D Student IIT-Kharagpur INDIA-721302

thanks a lot for this great work, keep it up

Thanks for the great  speeches but  I cannot download the timoshenko lectures.

that is great especially for young researchers or teachers.
looking for someone upload the unavailable

Thank you so much for this good job........

Thank you, great work for me very interest  Howard W. Emmons.

thanks a lot

they great persons inspire me a lot

Thanks a lot for iploading these inspiring lectures...

I may be asking for too much... Is it possible to get & upload the audio files of atleast some of these lectuers (which are available)?  It would be really great to hear these people... I don't think I will ever have a chance for that otherwise!

Thanks again...

Jayadeep 

Morton E Gurtin:

A scientist who had great influence on my work was Bernard Coleman. His papers, partly in collaboration with Noll, made thermodynamics understandable, at least to me. I had detested this subject since my undergraduate days at RPI, where thermodynamics was synonymous with steam tables. Coleman had a marvelous knowledge of the physical world and worked with great intensity. We would discuss work over the telephone, usually after midnight. One problem with Coleman is that he loves to talk and hates to end a conversation. Often I would put the phone down and work until I stopped hearing his voice; I would then pick up the phone and say; “Bernard, I agree completely”.

John R Willis:

Paul Matthews, a physicist of great distinction (I knew him when he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath, where I spent many happy years as a Professor), told me that, when he was a young research student in the Cavendish Laboratory, he one day approached Paul Dirac and asked him if he might be willing to supervise his research. Dirac’s response, utterly sincere and modest, was that he didn’t need any help with his problems at that time.

O. C. Zienkiewicz:

First, I realised that even quite complex ideas could be presented in a lucid form.

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Second, which perhaps took me longer to realise, was the fact that good teaching cannot be practised properly without underlying research.

If you are interested in the other Timoshenko medal acceptance speeches, go here.

Here is another post from the same site with links to Ashby’s “How to write a paper(pdf)” and Whiteside’s “Writing a paper(pdf)“.

By the way, if you are even remotely interested in mechanical aspects of materials, iMechanica is a must-read; add it to your feed aggregator, and you wouldn’t regret it. Probably, it is time for iMaterialia? Abi, are you there?

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