Predvoditelev, Aleksandr Savvich

Predvoditelev, Aleksandr Savvich

 

Born Aug. 30 (Sept. 11), 1891, in the village of Bukrino, in what is now Starozhilovo Raion, Riazan Oblast; died Dec. 27, 1973, in Moscow. Soviet physicist. Corresponding member of the Academy of sciences of the USSR (1939).

Predvoditelev graduated from Moscow University in 1915 and was a professor there from 1935. From 1939 he was also head of a laboratory of the Institute of Power Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Predvoditelev’s major works were on molecular physics, hydrodynamics, and thermal physics. He studied the processes of combustion, the distribution of waves in liquid and gaseous mediums, and the physical properties of liquids. He was engaged in the development of the theory of heterogeneous combustion. Predvoditelev collaborated on carbon combustion research and presented the findings in 1949 in his monograph The Combustion of Carbon (State Prize of the USSR, 1950). He also proposed methods for calculating the constants of working substances.

Predvoditelev was awarded two Orders of Lenin, five other orders, and various medals.

REFERENCE

“Aleksandr Savvich Predvoditelev (It 80-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia).” Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk, 1971, vol. 105, issue 3.