Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky
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Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky (Николай Егорович Жуковский) (January 5, 1847 new style – March 17, 1921), Russian scientist, founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics.
Zhukovky was born in the village Orekhovo, Vladimir Oblast. He graduated from Moscow University in 1868. Since 1872 he is a professor at Emperial Technical School. He established the world's first Aerodynamic Institute in 1904 in Kachino near Moscow. From 1918 he was the head of TsAGI (Central AeroHydroDynamics Institute).
Not to be confused with Nikolai Ivanovich Zhukovsky.
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