Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
Nikoloz Muskhelishvili February 161601601891 July 16, 1976 was a renowned Soviet Georgian mathematician, physician and engineer who was one of the founders and first President of the Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences . He is often referred by the Russian version of his name, Nikolay Ivanovich Muskhelisvili .
Muskhelishvili was born on February1891 in Tbilisi Georgia, then part of the USSR into a family of engineers. He graduated from local grammar school in 1909 and afterwards from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Saint Petersburg in 1914. Immediately after his graduation he became head of Applied Mathematics of the same faculty and in 1918 passed the exam for the masters degree. His first scientific magazine was published already earlier in 1915 containing a number of issues on elasticity theory. From 1917 to 1920 he worked as assistant director of the Petrograd University and also taught mathematics in other institutions in Saint Petersburg. At request of the short lived Democratic Republic of Georgia he moved back to his native country in 1920 in order to organize the establishment of a national scientific school. There Muskhelishvili conducted lessons in the Tbilisi State University and Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor and from 1922 to 1938 as head professor. Af
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