Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky

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Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a pioneering Russian scientist widely regarded as the founding father of modern aerodynamics and hydrodynamics.

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instanceOf aerodynamicist
human
hydrodynamicist
mathematician
physicist
university teacher
birthDate 1847-01-17
birthPlace Orekhovo, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
Russian SFSR
deathDate 1921-03-17
deathPlace Moscow, Russian SFSR
linked to: Moscow
educatedAt Moscow University
employer Moscow Higher Technical School
Moscow University
fieldOfWork aerodynamics
fluid mechanics
hydrodynamics
mathematical physics
founded Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute
Moscow Aviation Institute (as precursor institutions and courses)
gender male
hasAcademicDiscipline aero- and hydrodynamics
theoretical mechanics
hasLegacy Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy named after him
city of Zhukovsky near Moscow named in his honor
crater Zhukovskiy on the Moon named after him
honorificTitle father of Russian aviation
founding father of modern aerodynamics
influenced Andrei Tupolev
Soviet aeronautical engineering
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
memberOf Russian Academy of Sciences
name Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
nativeName Николай Егорович Жуковский
notableFor Joukowski airfoil
Joukowski transform
Zhukovsky lift theorem
founding modern aerodynamics
founding modern hydrodynamics
theory of lift on rotating cylinders
notableIdea circulation theory of lift
use of conformal mapping in aerodynamics
positionHeld professor at Moscow Higher Technical School
professor at Moscow University
workLocation Moscow

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Zhukovsky namedAfter Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky name Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky nativeName Николай Егорович Жуковский
linked to: Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky