Louis Marie Henri Navier
(1785-1836)

Louis Marie Henri Navier, a famous French mathematician and engineer, was one of the founders of the mathematical theory of elasticity. He contributed to beam, plate, and shell theory, to theory of vibrations, and to the theory of viscous fluids.

From Mechanics of Materials, 4th Ed., by J.M. Gere and S.P. Timoshenko, PWS Publishing, 1997, pp. 835-42.