Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science

Preface by the Series Editor; Preface; Archimedes (287-212 BC), by Thomas G. Chondros; Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (1758-1824), by Juan Ignacio Cuadrado Iglesias; Oene Bottema (1901-1992), by Teun Koetsier; William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) , by Joe Rooney; Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), by Teresa Zielinska; Alexander Yershov (1818-1867), by Alexander Golovin and Dina Mkrtychyan; Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926-2006), by Bernard Roth; Kurt Ham (1908-1995), by Hanfried Kerle; Heron of Alexandria (c. 10-85 AD), by Evangelos Papadopoulos; Willibald Lichtenheldt (1 901-1 980), by Kurt Luck; Xian-Zhou Liu (1890-1975), by Hong-Sen Yan, Hsin-Te Wang, Chun-Wei Chen and Kuo-Hung Hsiao; Giulio Mozzi (1730-1813), by Marco Ceccarelli; Theodore Olivier (1793-1 853), by J.M. Hervé; Ufimtsev Anatoly Georgievich (1 880-1936), by Sergey Jatsun; James Watt (1736-1819), by Gordon R. Pennock; Walter Wunderlich (1910-1998), by Manfred Husty

Marco Ceccarelli was born in Rome in 1958. He received his mechanical engineering degree cum laude in 1982 at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. At the same University he completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics in 1988. In 1987 he was visiting scholar at Stanford University, U.S.A., and in 1990 he received a CNR-NATO annual grant as visiting professor at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain. Since 1990 he teaches courses on Mechanics of Machinery and Mechanisms and Mechanics of Robots at the School of Engineering at the University of Cassino. Since 1996 he is Director of LARM, the Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics of DiMSAT, the Department of Mechanics, Structures, Environment and Territory at the University of Cassino. Since 2001 he has been appointed Full Professor of Mechanics of Machinery and Mechanisms at the University of Cassino. From 2003 to 2005 he has been Vice Director of DiMSAT.
He is member of ASME (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers), AIMETA (Italian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), AEIM (Spanish Society of Mechanical Engineers), SIRJ (Italian Association of Robotics and Automation), IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), FeIbIM (Iberoamerican Federation for Mechanical Engineering).

He is author or co-author of more than two hundreds and fifty papers, which have been presented at Conferences or published in national and international journals.
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