Nikolay Buchholtz

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Nikolay Buchholtz
Born
Nikolay Nikolayevich Buchholtz

22 July 1881
Ryazan, Russian Empire
Died14 December 1943
Moscow, Soviet Union
OccupationSpecialist in the field of analytical mechanics

Nikolay Nikolayevich Buchholtz (

Major-General of the Engineering and Aviation Service, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Laureate of Stalin Prize.[1]

Biography

Nikolay Nikolayevich Buchholtz was born on 22 July 1881 in Ryazan.[2] In 1914 he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow University.

Head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1930–1933.[3] Professor (1931). In 1933—1938 — Head of the Department of Elasticity Theory of Moscow State University.[1]

In 1938-1943 he was acting head of the Department of Theoretical Mechanics of Moscow State University (while the previous head of this department, Professor Aleksandr Nekrasov was imprisoned together with Andrei Tupolev).[4] He also worked at Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.[5]

Now he in the first place is remembered as the author of Basic course of theoretical mechanics textbook, which was first published in 1932 and for many years had been the primary book on the topic of theoretical mechanics for Soviet students.

He lived in Moscow, in Plotnikov Lane, 20. He was a parishioner and altarpiece of St. Nicholas Church of the Carpenters in Moscow.[6][7]

Nikolay Buchholtz died on 13 December 1943 and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Лёвшин Л. В. Физический факультет МГУ: Исторический справочник (персоналии). 3-е изд. — М.: Физический факультет МГУ, 2002. — 344 с.
  2. ^ Научные работники Москвы. — Л., 1930
  3. ^ История Кафедры Теоретической Механики и Мехатроники МЭИ
  4. ^ "История кафедры теоретической механики и мехатроники МГУ". Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  5. ^ Энциклопедия Авиации
  6. Наука и жизнь
    . — 1980. — № 8.
  7. ^ Щелкачёв В. Дорога к Истине.
  8. ^ Сведения из учётно-послужной карты генерала Н. Н. Бухгольца, хранящейся в Главном управлении кадров Министерства обороны РФ. Ошибочны сведения о дате смерти 03.02.1943.
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