Lev Davidovich Belkind

Prof. Lev Davidovich Belkind (Russian: Лев Давидович Белькинд, Профессор, Доктор Технических наук; (August 27, 1896, Myrhorod – November 16, 1969) was a Soviet scientist, engineer and historian; author of numerous publications on the history of science and technology.

His academic activity is associated with the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University) (Russian: Московский энергетический институт (технический университет)), where he has founded the department of Lighting Engineering (Russian: Кафедра Светотехники) in the Physics-Energy Faculty (Russian: Физико-энергетический факультет (ФИЗЭН)) in 1932.[1][2][3][4] In 1937, he became the first dean of the faculty of Electro-Physics upon its formation (Russian: Электрофизический факультет (ЭлФИЗ)).[5] Later he has headed the department of History of Engineering (Russian: Кафедра истории техники)[6]

Fluent in Russian, English, French and German, and knowledgeable in additional languages, Prof. Belkind was a prominent researcher and collector of materials on the history of science and technology, both Russian and International. He was considered an authority in the field of scientific history, being an author of unique biographical research work of a number of influential figures in the Russian science.[7][8][9]

In recognition of his scientific achievements and contribution he was awarded the "Honored Scientist and Technologist" title (Russian: Заслуженный деятель науки и техники).[2][7] by the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Partial list of works and publications

Biographical Books

Technical Dictionaries

Books on the History of Science and Technology

Articles Published in Collections of Works by Different Authors

Autobiography


Publications about Prof. Belkind by other authors

Notes

  1. ↑ Illuminator - Magazine of Lighting Solutions, Number 1, 2002 (Russian) - Interview with Prof. Ataev, Head of Department (Russian)
  2. 1 2 Illuminator - Magazine of Lighting Solutions, Number 3(17), 2005 (Russian)
  3. ↑ History of Lighting Engineering Department, Clio Soft free indexed collection of reference works. Copyright © 2008 Clio Soft (Russian)
  4. ↑ Article mentioning
  5. ↑ History of the Department of Lighting Engineering, Moscow Power Engineering Institute site (Russian) -
  6. ↑ Memoirs of Erwing Nagi, MPEI Student in the 1950s (Russian)
  7. 1 2 Citation in the article regarding Thomas Edison (Russian)
  8. ↑ Sources mentioning in the article regarding Karl Krug
  9. ↑ Mentioning in the article "Analysis of priorities in science and technologies", Slovo (Russian)
  10. ↑ Short content summary (Russian)
  11. ↑ Reference on the book (Russian)
  12. ↑ Short reference on the monograph
  13. 1 2 3 In the library of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russian)
  14. 1 2 Reference in the V. V. Mayakovsky Library (Russian)
  15. ↑ English-Russian Polytechnical Dictionary @ Amazon.co.uk
  16. ↑ Dictionary for Sale at the Purabelle Books - in Cambridge
  17. ↑ The dictionary in the libraru of Hokkaido University (Japanese)
  18. ↑ Reference of the dictionary
  19. ↑ List of scientific and technical russian dictionaries (Russian)
  20. ↑ Dictionary for Sale at the online Hungarian book store (Hungarian)
  21. ↑ Dictionary of Machine Elements in the University Library in Tirol, Austria (German)
  22. ↑ In the online library Нефть и Газ (Russian)
  23. ↑ The book in the library of the Hokkaido University (Japanese)
  24. ↑ History of Energy Engineering in the Library of Energotrade.ru site (Russian)
  25. ↑ 50 years of MPEI book @ urss.ru (Russian)
  26. ↑ Articles in the library of the Russian State Technical University in Irkutsk (Russian)
  27. ↑ Contributors and Editors for Volumes 10, 28
  28. 1 2 VIET Journal, 1998, #3 (Russian)
  29. ↑ Из прошлого. Отрывки Воспоминаний. (Russian)

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.