Mikhail Andreevich Schatelen

Mikhail Andreevich Schatelen (postage stamp of the USSR Post, 1966)

Mikhail Andreyevich Saddle steles ( Russian Михаил Андреевич Шателен ; born January 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. January  1866 ^greg. In Anapa , † 31 January 1957 in Leningrad ) was a Russian electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Schatelen's parents were Andrei Alexandrovich Schatelen, a tax officer, and his wife Julija Vasilievna, née Novitskaya. Soon after Schatelen's birth, the family moved to Tbilisi . Schatelen attended the First Classical High School in Tbilisi and left it in 1884 with a gold medal.

Schatelen then studied at the physical - mathematical faculty of the University of St. Petersburg . After the presentation of his first scientific work on methods for investigating the polarization of solar corona radiation , the faculty council decided to accept him in 1888 in the preparatory service for the career of a professor. In 1888 he was sent to Paris . He attended lectures at the Electrical Engineering School and the University of Paris . He also worked in the Edison factory, where he eventually became a chief fitter. In 1890 he returned to the University of St. Petersburg and worked at the chair of physics as an assistant to professors Ivan Borgman and Nikolai Jegorow . He also taught at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute.

In 1893 the technology school of the Post Telegraph Office in St. Petersburg was converted into the St. Petersburg Electrical Engineering Institute (ETI). After successfully completing the selection process and two public trial lectures, Schatelen was the first in Russia to become a professor of electrical engineering at the ETI. In 1900 he became an honorary member of the French electrical engineering society and honorary secretary of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers . At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 he was a jury member for electrical engineering. In 1901 he and other professors were dismissed from the ETI for supporting the student movement.

In July 1901 Schatelen was asked by Finance Minister SJ Witte to take part in the organization of the new Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg. Schatelen became a professor and then dean of the electromechanics department. The Polytechnic Institute remained the focus of his work until his death.

In 1906 at the foundation of the EIT's Popow Prize , Schapelen was a member of the award committee alongside Pawel Woinarowski (chair), Alexander Krakow , Pyotr Ossadtschi , Nikolai Jegorow, Alexei Petrowski and others.

In February 1907, Schatelen lost the Dean's office because of “unlawful neglect of duty”, received a severe reprimand and was able to continue teaching at the Polytechnic Institute.

After the October Revolution , Schatelen joined the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia in 1920 , which later became part of the State Planning Commission . There Schatelen was the representative for Petrograd and the North Rajon . The electrification plan for the northern district was approved and served as a model for the other districts. In addition, Schatelen was a member of the Commission for the Electrification of the Urals and Donbas from 1921 to 1932 . He was an expert on the hydropower plants to be built on the Volkhov , Swir and Dnepr and headed the Volkhov office. On Schatelen's initiative, the magazine Elektritschestwo appeared from 1922 . In 1923, Schatelen took part in the international conference on high voltage networks and was vice- chairman of the conference committee. In 1926 he was elected to the council of the International Electrotechnical Commission . Together with WF Mitkewitsch and WA Tolwinski , he worked out a multi-volume manual for electrical engineers from 1928 to 1934 .

In 1924 Schatelen was appointed to the Leningrad Main Office for Weights and Measures . As chief metrologist he founded and headed the photometry - calibration laboratory . 1929–1932 he was President of the Main Office for Weights and Measures.

In 1931 Schatelen became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (AN-SSSR) and participated in the organization of the Energy Technology Institute of the AN-SSSR.

After the start of the German-Soviet war , Schatelen was evacuated to Tashkent in September 1941 , where he worked for armaments. He became a professor at the evacuated Leningrad Polytechnic Institute and the Central Asia Industrial Institute. He participated in the organization of the Uzbek branch of the AN-SSSR and became its president. In 1944 he returned to Leningrad with the Polytechnic Institute. He now taught there and headed the Leningrad Energy Technology Laboratory of the AN-SSSR.

Schatelen was buried in the Bogoslovskoye cemetery in Leningrad .

Schatelen's younger brother Sergei was the Russian Deputy Finance Minister after the February Revolution in 1917 , emigrated after the October Revolution, became a banker and died in London in 1946 .

Honors

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1936)
• Order of Lenin (1945, 1946, 1953, 1956)
• Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• Medal "For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1949)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (1956)
• Honored Scientist of the RSFSR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Funeral-SPB.ru: Шателен Михаил Андреевич (accessed on September 14, 2017).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Landeshelden: Шателен Михаил Андреевич (accessed on September 14, 2017).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Rodovid: Сергей Андреевич Шателен р. 1873 ум. 1 август 1946 (accessed September 14, 2017).
4. ↑ В.П.СЕВЕРИНОВА (член НТОРЭС им А.С.Попова.), В.А.УРВАЛОВ (почётный член НТОРЭС им А.С.Попова.): Первые лауреаты премии имени профессора А.С.Попова (accessed on 6 September 2017).