ジョージ・アトウッド
アトウッドの論文は主として『フィロソフィカル・トランザクションズ』に寄稿され、そのうちの一編は彼にコプリ・メダルをもたらした。以下に代表的なものを挙げる。
Analysis of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Natural Philosophy (Cambridge, 1784).
Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion and Rotation of Bodies (Cambridge, 1784), which gives some interesting experiments, by means of which mechanical truths can be ocularly exhibited and demonstrated, and describes the machine, since named after Atwood, for verifying experimentally the laws of simple acceleration of motion.