Dr. Richard C. Nelson: An Important Multigenerational Father of Biomechanics
in Journal of Applied BiomechanicsClick name to view affiliation
Dr. Richard Nelson is internationally acknowledged in many countries as an extremely important leader in the emergence of biomechanics of human movement as a respected scientific discipline. As his PhD graduates, and, subsequently, their graduates, have become faculty members at many universities, Dr. Nelson’s influence has grown for more than 50 years via several generations of his biomechanics “children.” It was probably never known to him that he also had significant influence on all laboratory-based subdisciplines of the undergraduate and graduate education and faculty research programs of the then new (1967) Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The teaching and research programs included not only biomechanics but also exercise and work physiology, anatomy, biochemistry, and neurophysiology of human movement.
Norman and McGill were with the Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. McGill now heads Backfitpro Inc, Gravenhurst, ON, Canada. Potvin was with the Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
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