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Also known as Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin

Russian mathematician (1869–1942)

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Leningradskaya oblast'
Active from
1981-02-11

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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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date of birth
1869-04-05
date of death
1942-10-08
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Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin (physicist)
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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.

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