Sergey Chaplygin
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Russian mathematician (1869–1942)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1869-04-05 ) 5 April 1869, Ranenburg , Russian Empire
- Died
- 8 October 1942 (1942-10-08) (aged 73), Novosibirsk , Soviet Union
- Alma mater
- Moscow University
- Known for
- mechanics
- Awards
- Hero of Socialist Labour (1941), Orders of Lenin (1933, 1941), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1927,?), Zhukovsky Prize (1925)
- Fields
- Mechanical
- Institutions
- TsAGI , Moscow University , etc.
- Doctoral advisor
- Nikolay Zhukovsky
- Doctoral students
- Nikolai Kochin
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sergey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Chaplygin
- Place of death
- Novosibirsk
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Doctoral advisor
- Nikolay Zhukovsky
- Doctoral student
- Nikolai Kochin
- Field of work
- applied mathematics
- Image
- Chaplygin S A.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1869-04-05
- date of death
- 1942-10-08
- Commons category
- Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (physicist)
- cause of death
- stroke
- member of
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (Russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Чаплы́гин; 5 April 1869 – 8 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
He graduated in 1890 from Moscow University, and later became a professor. He taught mechanical engineering at Moscow Higher Courses for Women in 1901, and of applied mathematics at Moscow School of Technology, 1903. He was appointed Director of the courses in 1905. Leonid I. Sedov was one of his students.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sergey Chaplygin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.