“Man has no wings and is 72 times weaker than a bird in relation to the weight of his body to the weight of his muscles… But I think that he will fly relying not on the strength of his muscles, but on the strength of his mind”. These words were spoken in 1898 by Professor Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky in Kiev at the 10th congress of naturalists and doctors. A little time has passed and the power of man’s mind has lifted him high into the sky, and he now reigns as undividedly in the air as he does on earth.
The merits of this outstanding scientist for our homeland and especially for Russian aviation are difficult to estimate. It is enough to remember his activity in development of theoretical and experimental bases of aerodynamics, where he obtained fundamental results for all subsequent development of aviation; establishment of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute TsAGI, the world scientific aviation center, which he headed for the last years of his life, and the Military Aviation Engineering Academy.
17 January Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky was born in the village of Orekhovo, Vladimir province.
N.Ye. Zhukovsky entered the 4th Moscow Gymnasium on Mokhovaya.
Spring - graduation from the 4th Gymnasium with a silver medal.
Autumn - admission to Moscow University.
N.Ye. Zhukovsky graduated from Moscow University.
August 29 - started teaching physics at the 2nd Moscow Female Gymnasium.
1 January - enrolment as mathematics teacher at the Technical College.
Starting as a lecturer at the Moscow Practical Academy of Commercial Sciences.
Autumn 1874 - Associate Professor in the Mechanics Department of the Technical College.
November 4 - defence of his thesis for a master's degree in applied mathematics. The subject "Kinematics of fluid bodies", published before the defence, in the same year of 1876, became the first scientific work written by N. E. Zhukovsky.
Defending a doctoral dissertation in applied mathematics.
Starting teaching at Moscow University.
His work "On Birds soaring" is published, examining the mechanism of soaring with gaining altitude and for the first time estimating possible evolutions of soaring, including "dead loop" (Nesterov's loop, 1913).
Election as a corresponding member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
Meeting Otto Lilienthal
Publication of N.Ye. Zhukovsky's work "On the Hydraulic Impact in Water Pipes", which received worldwide recognition and was translated into foreign languages.
Building a wind-tunnel facility at Moscow University.
Publication of N.E.Zhukovsky's work "On Attached Vortices", revealing the mechanism of lifting force formation.
With the beginning of World War I, he organized and headed theoretical courses for pilot training (1915 - 1919).
The pinnacle of Zhukovsky's scientific organizational activity was the establishment on December 1, 1918 of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), the world's scientific aviation centre, at the head of which he spent the last years of his life and was the first Chairman of the Board of the Institute.
On September 26, 1920, the Institute of Red Air Fleet Engineers was founded with Zhukovsky as the first rector. The Institute was later renamed as the Military Aviation Engineering Academy.
17 March - Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky died
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