Nekrasov

Aleksandr Ivanovich Nekrasov

Born: 9 Dec 1883 in Moscow, Russia
Died: 21 May 1957 in Moscow, Russia

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Nekrasov graduated from the University of Moscow, receiving a gold medal for his work on the Theory of the Satellites of Jupiter, and then he taught at Moscow University all his life.

Nekrasov published important work on the theory of waves, the theory of whirlpools, the theory of jet streams and gas dynamics. He is the author of an excellent text on vector mechanics and he collaborated with Zhukovsky on some joint work.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Aleksandr Ivanovich Nekrasov (Moscow-Leningrad, 1950). 
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