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Steven Vogel (April 7, 1940 – November 24, 2015) was an American biomechanics researcher. He was the James B. Duke professor in the Department of Biology at Duke University. He was born in Beacon, New York.〔http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/newsobserver/obituary.aspx?pid=176664739〕 Over the course of his professional career, Vogel, along with Stephen A. Wainwright and R. McNeil Alexander, played a fundamental role in the establishment of the discipline of biomechanics, and was a prolific author of popular works on the intersection of physics and biology. He died on November 24, 2015 in Durham. ==Works== In English: * ''Life in Moving Fluids: The Physical Biology of Flow.'' Princeton University Press (1981; 2nd ed. 1996). * ''Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants''. Princeton University Press (1988). * ''Vital Circuits: On Pumps, Pipes, and the Workings of Circulatory Systems''. Oxford University Press (1993). * ''Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People''. W.W. Norton (1998). * ''Prime Mover: a Natural History of Muscle''. W. W. Norton & Co. (2002). * ''Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World''. Princeton University Press (2003). * ''Glimpses of Creatures in Their Mechanical Worlds''. Princeton University Press (2009). * ''The Life of a Leaf''. University of Chicago Press (2012). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steven Vogel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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