Rafail Ilyich Steinberg (1910 - 1979 ) - Soviet aircraft designer.
| Rafail Ilyich Steinberg | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1910 |
| Place of Birth | Kharkov |
| Date of death | 1979 |
| Place of death | Zhukovsky |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Scientific field | aircraft designer |
| Place of work | TsAGI |
| Alma mater | Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Technical Sciences |
| Academic rank | Professor |
| Awards and prizes |
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Biography
Born in Kharkov in the family of a lawyer. Received a brilliant education. From childhood, he was distinguished by rare musical abilities, which allowed him to enroll and successfully graduate from the Gnessin School in Moscow in piano. His classmate was an outstanding Soviet composer Tikhon Nikolaevich Khrennikov. The repertoire was dominated by the works of S.V. Rachmaninov and F. Chopin. However, the musician’s career did not work out: as a result of medical intervention after an accident, his legs were taken away, which did not allow him to engage in concert activities. After graduating from the Gnesinka, Rafail Ilyich entered the physics department of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Already a student at Moscow State University, he participates in the First All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in 1933 and becomes his diploma student. Having successfully graduated from Moscow University, in 1938 he began working at TsAGI. in the group of the general structure A.N. Tupolev.
He worked at TsAGI until his death in 1979. One of the founders of Soviet military aviation.
Associate Professor (1964), later professor , lecturer at the Faculty of Aeromechanics and Aircraft Engineering, MIPT.
Doctor of Technical Sciences .
Awards and Prizes
- Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947) - for the development of projects of new wings for high-speed aircraft
- Prize named after N.E. Zhukovsky (1967) - for work on the Tu-144 .
Publications
- The interference of the body and wing with a supersonic edge // Tr. TsAGI. 1967 - issue 1035. - S. 1-19.
- The interference of a wing with a body of non-circular cross section at supersonic speeds. / RI Shteinberg. Tech. TsAGI reports. 1968. - issue. 324. - S. 14-27.
- Byushgens G.S., Shteinberg R.I. Development of aerodynamics and dynamics of aircraft in TsAGI. M .: TsAGI, 1968.52 p.
- Buesgens G.S., Steinberg R.I. Development of aerodynamics and dynamics of aircraft. M .: TsAGI, 1968.- 95 p.
Translated the book: A. Ferry . Aerodynamics of supersonic flows - Moscow: Gostekhizdat, 1952. - 468 p. : ill.
Sources
- The Order
- Jacobson P.M., Contemporaries Memoirs , Central Museum of the Russian Air Force