Dimitri Riabouchinsky

Dimitri Riabouchinsky
Дми́трий Па́влович Рябуши́нский
Dimitri Riabouchinsky and his wife at the International Mathematical Congress, Zürich 1932
Born
Dimitri Pavlovitch Riabouchinsky

(1882-11-06)6 November 1882
Died22 August 1962(1962-08-22) (aged 79)
Paris, France
Alma materUniversity of Paris
Known forDiscovery of the Riabouchinsky solid technique and founding of the Institute of Aerodynamics
Spouse
Vera Sergeevna (Zybina) Riabouchinsky
(m. 1906; died 1952)
[1]
Scientific career
FieldsFluid dynamics
ThesisRecherches d'hydrodynamique (1922)
Doctoral advisorsHenri Villat
Gabriel Xavier Paul Koenigs
Other academic advisorsNikolay Zhukovsky
Notable studentsKonstantin Voronjec

Dimitri Pavlovitch Riabouchinsky (Russian: Дми́трий Па́влович Рябуши́нский,6 November 1882– 22 August 1962) was a Russian fluid dynamicist noted for his discovery of the Riabouchinsky solid technique.[2] With the aid of Nikolay Zhukovsky he founded the Institute of Aerodynamics in 1904, the first in Europe.[3] He also independently discovered equivalent results to the Buckingham Pi Theorem in 1911.

Riabouchinsky left Russia following the October Revolution and his short-term arrest, spending the rest of his life in Paris. He never accepted the French citizenship and, instead, used his Nansen passport up until death.[3][4] He was a member of the Moscow State University, the University of Paris, the French Academy of Sciences as well as one of the co-founders of the Russian Higher Technical School in France.[3]

Over 200 scientific works were published during his lifetime.[5] He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1920 at Strasbourg,[6] in 1928 at Bologna,[7] and in 1932 at Zurich.[8]

References

  1. ^ "вера сергеевна зыбина рабушинская - the Russian necropolis of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois". www.cimetiere-russe.org (in Russian). Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  2. ^ Riabouchinsky, Dimitri P. (April 1935). "Thirty Years of Theoretical and Experimental Research in Fluid Mechanics". The Aeronautical Journal. 39 (292): 282–348. doi:10.1017/S0368393100112039. ISSN 0368-3931. Retrieved 9 November 2025. (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b c Buchanan, S. (November 1962). "Prof. D. P. Riabouchinsky". Nature. 196 (4856): 719–720. Bibcode:1962Natur.196..719B. doi:10.1038/196719b0. ISSN 1476-4687. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  4. ^ "Dimitry Pavlovitch Riabouchinsky - the Russian necropolis of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois". www.cimetiere-russe.org (in French). Le Comité d'entretien des Sépultures Orthodoxes Russes. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  5. ^ "RIABUSHINSKII, Dmitrii Pavlovich (1882-1962) - Library | University of Leeds". explore.library.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  6. ^ "Sur le calcul des valeurs absolues par D. Riabouchinski" [On the Calculation of Absolute Value by D. Riabouchinski] (PDF). Comptes Rendus du Congres International des Mathematiciens (in French and German). Strasbourg: 231–242. 22–30 September 1920. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  7. ^ "Hydrodynamiques non lagrangiennes" [Non-Lagrangian Hydrodynamics] (PDF). Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici, Bologna (in French and Italian). Bolona: 175–184. 3–10 September 1928. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Sur un Problème d'Hydrodynamique"" [On a Problem of Hydrodynamics] (PDF). Verhandlungen des Internationalen Mathematiker-Kongresses (in French and Swedish). Zürich: 296–297. 1932. Retrieved 9 November 2025.