George de Bothezat
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| Born | June 7, 1882 Bessarabia Governorate,Russian Empire (present day Moldova) |
| Died | February 1, 1940 (aged 57) Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Nationality | Russian Empire, United States |
| Education |
Kharkov Polytechnic Institute University of Paris |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Ramsay Hilton |
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| Projects | de Bothezat helicopter |
George de Bothezat (Romanian: Gheorghe Botezatu, Russian: Георгий Александрович Ботезат, June 7, 1882 – February 1, 1940) was a Bessarabian-born (of Romanian ethnicity) Russian American engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight.
George de Bothezat was born in 1882 in Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire, into a family of Moldavian landlords. After graduating the School of Exact Sciences in Kishinev (Chișinău), he went to the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Iași, in Romania. In 1902, he started attending the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute, then Montefiore Electrotechnical Institute in Liege, Belgium (between 1905 and 1907), and graduated as engineer from Kharkov Polytechnical in 1908. He then continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Göttingen and Humboldt University of Berlin (1908-1909), and received, in 1911, his Ph.D. at Sorbonne, for a study of aircraft stability (Étude de la Stabilité de l`aeroplane). In 1911, he joined the Faculty of Shipbuilding from the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, and continued theoretical studies of flight along with Stephen Timoshenko, Alexey Lebedev and Alexander Vanderfleet. His scientific interests gradually moved from general aerodynamic theory to applied studies of propellers.
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