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SAMXIN SEMYONOVICH KUTATELADZE was born in 1914
in Leningrad. His working activity began in 1931 when
he became laboratory assistant at the N. I. PolzunovCentral Boiler and Turbine Institute. In 1936 heformulated the basic conditions of the similarity of heattransfer processes in change of state of matter.
From 1941 up to 1945 heserved in the Soviet Armyin
the Field, took part in battles and was wounded. Afterthe war he resumed his work at the Polzunov Institutewhere he carried out numerous
experimental
investigations of the properties of liquid-metal heattransfer agents for nuclear power engineering andformulated
the basic ideas that underlay thehydrodynamic theory of burnouts.
In 1958 Professor S. S. Kutateladze was invited to theSiberian Branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Scienceswhere he did a great deal for the formation of theInstitute ofThermophysics whose Director he has been
since 1964. In 1968 he was elected Corresponding
Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, in 1979
its Full Member.
S. S. Kutateladze has advanced the theory ofturbulent boundary layer with vanishing viscosity,
discovered the effect of compressibility on heat transfer
in bubbling and boiling and performed considerable
researches into the structure ofwall turbulence and into
a number of other problems of physical hydrogasdynamics. All these investigations
have been
generally recognized. In 1969 he received the Max
Jacob International Award donated by the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American
Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Being the creator of original investigations, S. S.
Kutateladze has authored, or co-authored with hisKUTATELADZEBIRTHDAY

colleagues, many of the important fundamental works,including 14 monographs.
At the age of 24 he authored the monographFundamentals of Heat Transfer in Change of State ofMatter-the first monograph in the world literature tocover the subject. In 1958 he published, together withM. A. Styrikovich, the book Hydrodynamics of GasLiquid Flows. Well known are : A Concise Encyclopediaof Heat Transfer by S. S. Kutateladze and V. M.
Borishansky, the monograph Liquid-Metal HeatTransfer, edited together with V. M. Borishansky et al.,and the text-book Fundamentals of Heat Transfer
which has run several editions, one of which having
been marked with the N. I. Polzunov Award of theU.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. Twelve editions of thebooks by S. S. Kutateladze have been issued in GreatBritain, U.S.A. and Czechoslovakia. Lately the books
Similarity Analysis in Thermophysics and Hydrodynamics and Waves in Gas-Liquid Systems (the latter incollaboration with V. Ye. Nakoryakov) have been
published. In 1983 hereceived theU.S.S.R. State Awardfor his investigations in the field of wave dynamics oftwo-phase media.
In the scientific world S. S. Kutateladze is well known
not only as a gifted researcher, but also as an organizerof international scientific relations. He is one of theorganizers and oldest members of the Assembly ofInternational Heat Transfer Conferences, a member of
the Scientific Council of the International Center for
Heat and Mass Transfer, a member of the Honorary
Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journalof Heat and Mass Transfer and a member of theEditorial Boards ofthejournals Heat Transfer-Soviet
Research and Heat and Technology. Besides, he is a1946

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member of the Editorial Boards of four Soviet journals.
S. S. Kutateladze pays great attention to the trainingof scientific personnel. He has created several researchschools. Being the adviser of numerous candidates anddoctors of sciences, he has determined the developmentof new scientific trends of the investigations carried out
at the Institute of Thermophysics
of the Siberian
Branch of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences (inparticular,
the investigationsof the dynamics
ofrarefied gases and radiativeconductive
heat transfer),
formed large research teams who actively use theKUTATELADZE

achievements of science on heat transfer in energetics,chemistry and other industrial fields.
S. S. Kutateladze
is celebrating his 70th birthday
anniversary as a tireless worker, rich in creative ideas.
His pupils and colleagues wish him good health for longprolific years.
YE. M. KHABAKHPASHEVA
B. P. MIRONOV
V. YE. NAKORYAKOV

A. K. REBROV
N. A. RUBTSOV