Boris Bakhmeteff
Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff (Russian: Борис Александрович Бахметев) (also spelled Bakhmetieff or Bakhmetev) (1880- July 21, 1951)[1] was an engineer, businessman, professor of Civil Engineering at Columbia University and the only ambassador of the Russian Provisional Government to the United States.[2] He was unrelated to his predecessor as ambassador, George Bakhmeteff.[3] His wife Helen died in 1921.[4] His position as ambassador was recognized by the US government until his resignation in June 1922,[5] when he established the Lion Match Company with other Russian immigrants.[2] He introduced the concept of specific energy in hydraulics in his thesis and book Hydraulics of Open Channels.[6] In 1947 he received the Norman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Russian archives and a professorship of Russian at Columbia are named after him, as is a Harvard research fellowship in hydraulics.
Boris Bakhmeteff was also on the Board of Directors for the Tolstoy Foundation Center in Valley Cottage, New York.
Works
- Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, Hydraulics of Open Channels (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1932)
- Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, The Mechanics of Turbulent Flow (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941)
Notes
- ↑ "BORIS BAKHMETEFF OF COLUMBIA DEAD; Professor of Civil Engineering Since 1931 Was Kerensky Regime's Envoy to U.S.". New York Times. July 22, 1951. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Oleg Budnitskii (September 2003). "Boris Bakhmeteff's Intellectual Legacy in American and Russian Collections". Slavic & East European Information Resources 4 (4): 5–12. doi:10.1300/J167v04n04_02.Jared S. Ingersoll; Tanya Chebotarev (2003). Russian and East European books and manuscripts in the United States: Proceedings of a Conference in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture. New York: Haworth Information Press. pp. 5–12. ISBN 0-7890-2405-5.
- ↑ "PLANS OF BAKHMETIEFF. New Russian Envoy's Stay Is Only To Be Temporary" (PDF). New York Times. June 8, 1917.
- ↑ "Mme. Bakhmeteff, Wife of Russian Envoy Dies of Heart Disease in Owego". New York Times. July 25, 1921. Retrieved August 1, 2009.
- ↑ Hassell, James E. (1991). Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. p. 33. ISBN 0-87169-817-X.
- ↑ Kay, Melvyn (2008). Practical Hydraulics. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis. p. 150. ISBN 0-415-35115-4.
External links
- Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff
- Boris Alexandrovich Bakhmeteff biography at Columbia University
- Hunter Rouse. "Highlights in the History of Hydraulics". Hydraulics Collection at the University of Iowa.
- New York Times obituary
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