User:Zhigangsuo/Genealogy of Mechanicians

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See the entry We Are Mechanicians in Applied Mechanics News.

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Title
WikiProject on Genealogy of Mechanicians

Structure

 * Identify a person who fits the above description of a mechanician.
 * Search the person in the Wikipedia.
 * If an entry of the person exists in Wikipedia, simply add a section containing her advisors, and another section containing her students. Fill out information that you are sure about, and no need to be complete.
 * If no entry of her exists in Wikipedia, you can search her advisor in Wikipedia.
 * If an entry of her advisor exists, then add her name as a student in the entry of the advisor. Enclose her name within , which automatically starts an entry of her.
 * If you don't know her advisor, simply add her name in the following list of Founders, again enclosed within.

When creating an article on a Mechanician, be sure to include the following information:
 * Biography - Leave this blank or keep it short if you don't have time for it now.
 * Master degree - Year, Place, Title of thesis, Advisor
 * Doctoral degree - Year, Place, Title of thesis, Advisor
 * Post-doctoral training - Year, Place, Research topics, Advisor
 * Notable students

Also see
Genealogy of Mechanicians Project

Goals

 * 1) To trace the genealogy of all mechanicians who have received master, doctoral, or post-doctoral training in the field known variously as mechanics, applied mechanics, engineering mechanics, geomechanics, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials.

Tasks

 * 1) The advisors of the following mechanicians are unknown.  If you know the advisor of a person in the list, update the Wikipedia entry of this person, and replace her name by her advisor's name in the list.  Please keep the list in the alphabetical order.


 * Issac Newton
 * William Prager
 * Stephen Timoshenko

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
 * Example article: User:Example

General strategy and discussion forums

 * /General
 * /Strategy

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Categories

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Wikipedia articles on Genealogy of Mechanicians

 * Genealogy of Mechanicians

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Genealogy of Mechanicians

 * Genealogy of Mechanicians
 * Genealogy of Mechanicians

New Wikipedia articles related to Genealogy of Mechanicians
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