Nikolay Zhukovsky (scientist)

Nikolay Yegorovich Zhukovsky was a Russian scientist, mathematician and engineer, born in 1847 in the village of Orekhovo, and a founding father of modern aero- and hydrodynamics, often called the Father of Russian Aviation. He graduated from Moscow University in 1868, where he studied under August Davidov, and from 1872 was a professor at the Imperial Technical School. He was the first scientist to explain mathematically the origin of aerodynamic lift through his circulation hypothesis, built the first wind tunnel in Russia, established the world's first Aerodynamic Institute at Kachino in 1904 and in 1918 became the first head of TsAGI. The Joukowsky transform is named after him, and the Kutta-Joukowski theorem is named after both him and Martin Kutta.