Meshchersky

Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky

Born: 10 Aug 1859 in Arkhangelsk, Russia
Died: 7 Jan 1935 in Leningrad, USSR (now St Petersburg, Russia)

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Meshchersky taught at St Petersburg for 58 years. He studied mechanics, in particular the motion of bodies of variable mass. He applied this to comets being the first to study the inverse problem of determining the loss of mass from a knowledge of the orbit and the farces acting. His work formed the basis for the rocket technology developed after 1945.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Y L Geronimus, Ivan Vsevolodovich Meshchersky (1859-1935), Essays on the Works of the Leading Figures in Russian Mechanics (Moscow, 1952). 
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