Dmitry Dmitrievich Kalafati ( March 11, 1914 , Moscow - September 25, 2003 , Moscow ) is a Russian and Soviet scientist and teacher .
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| Date of Birth | March 11, 1914 | ||||||||
| Place of Birth | Moscow | ||||||||
| Date of death | September 25, 2003 (89 years old) | ||||||||
| A place of death | Moscow | ||||||||
| Citizenship | USSR, Russia | ||||||||
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Biography
He was born on March 11, 1914 (from his words 1913) in Moscow. Father, Dmitry Pavlovich Kalafati - delegate of the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP, brother of the outstanding musician Vasily Pavlovich Kalafati.
In 1939 he graduated from Odessa Industrial (Polytechnic) Institute. From 1941 to 1945 - a participant in the Great Patriotic War. In January 1946 he entered the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, at the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Heat Engineering (TOT). In 1948 he defended his Ph.D. "Theory of Regenerative Cycles of Thermal Power Stations". Achievements of D. D. Calafati in this area of research for the period 1949-1958 reflected in the book of A. S. Yastrzhembsky "Thermodynamics and the history of its development" ed. Energy, 1966
In 1959, Dmitry Dmitrievich Kalafati was appointed deputy. Head, and in 1960, Head of the Head of Engineering and Technical Universities of the Ministry of Higher Education of the RSFSR and a member of the collegium of the Ministry of Higher Education and Training of the RSFSR .
In 1961 he returned to MPEI to the Department of Technical Engineering and in 1963 he defended his doctoral dissertation. To defend his doctoral dissertation, the book “Thermodynamic Cycles of Nuclear Power Plants” was presented to the State Power Engineering Publishing House of 1963. It was immediately transferred to the USA , then to Israel and India . In the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, in an article that defines a nuclear power plant, the book of D. D. Calafati is among six others to which the author of the article refers. [one]