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Biography
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He was born on May 14, 1880, in Tbilisi, Georgia . He married Helen on July 22, 1905, in Kineshma , Russia.
His wife Helen died in 1921.[3]
He became a member of the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906.[4]
His position as ambassador was recognized by the United States government until his resignation in June 1922, when he established the Lion Match Company with other Russian immigrants.[1] [5]
He introduced the concept of specific energy in hydraulics in his thesis and book Hydraulics of Open Channels in 1932.[6]
He married Marie C. Cole in 1938 in Duval County, Florida .
In 1947 he received the Norman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers .
He died on July 21, 1951, in Brookfield, Connecticut , of a heart attack.[7]
Legacy
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The Russian archives and a professorship of Russian at Columbia are named after him, as is a Harvard research fellowship in hydraulics.
Bakhmeteff's former residence in Washington, D.C.
Boris Bakhmeteff was also on the Board of Directors for the Tolstoy Foundation Center in Valley Cottage, New York .
Works
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Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, Hydraulics of Open Channels (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1932)
Boris Aleksandrovich Bakhmateff, The Mechanics of Turbulent Flow (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1941)
Notes
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^ "Mme. Bakhmeteff, Wife of Russian Envoy Dies of Heart Disease in Owego" . The New York Times . July 25, 1921. Retrieved August 1, 2009 .
^ "Бахметьев Борис Александрович" . hrono.ru . Retrieved 2020-11-17 .
^ James E. Hassell (1991). Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars ISBN 978-0-87169-817-9
^ Kay, Melvyn (2008). Practical Hydraulics Taylor & Francis . p. 150. ISBN 978-0-415-35115-7
^ "Boris Bakhmeteff Of Columbia Dead. Professor of Civil Engineering Since 1931. Was Kerensky Regime's Envoy to U.S." The New York Times . July 22, 1951. Retrieved August 1, 2009 . Dr. Boris A. Bakhmeteff, who was Russian Ambassador to the United States during the Kerensky regime, and since 1931 had been Professor of Civil Engineering at Columbia University, died yesterday morning of a heart attack at his home in Brookfield, Conn. He was 71 years old.
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