1. Nikoloz Muskhelishvili graduated from local grammar school in 1909 and afterwards from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of Saint Petersburg in 1914.
16 Facts About Nikoloz Muskhelishvili
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili became a member of the CPSU in 1940.
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In 1941 based on the former Georgian Academy of Sciences a new USSR Academy of Sciences was established by the Georgian SSR and Nikoloz Muskhelishvili got elected as its first president and academician.
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From 1956 to 1976 Nikoloz Muskhelishvili was chairman of the National Committee of the USSR on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili was an academician and honorary professor of the Academies of Sciences of the Armenian and Azerbaijani SSRs since 1961.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili was an honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1952, Polish Academy of Sciences since 1960 and the Berlin Academy of Sciences since 1967.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili held the position of deputy chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in eight convocations from 1937 to 1974.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili died on 15 July 1976 in Tbilisi and is buried in the Mtatsminda Pantheon.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili conducted fundamental research on the theories of physical elasticity, Integral equations, Boundary value problems and other.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili was one of the first to apply the theory of functions of complex variables to the problems of elasticity theories, proposing a number of techniques that have been successfully implemented in numerous areas of mathematics, theoretical physics and mechanics.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili's works solved all major problems of the Plane Elasticity Theory opening a wide class of domains reducing the plane problem to finite systems of linear algebraic equations c singular kernels.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili is credited with major contributions to the theory of linear boundary value problems for analytic functions and one-dimensional integral equations.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili is the author of various scientific articles, monographs and textbooks on mathematics which have been used by universities since their publishing.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili completed a series of research, experimental and theoretical work in different areas of applied mathematics, physics and mechanics, which all had great practical importance and decisive impact on the development of a range of military hardware during and after the war.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili got awarded for the launch of the world's first artificial satellite into space in 1961 on which development he had contributed as well.
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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili was a renowned specialist in engineering able to apply a lot of his theories and solutions, including torsion bar suspension for tracked vehicles such as tanks.