Background
DAVIDENKOV, Nikolay was born on March 26, 1879 in Riga.
DAVIDENKOV, Nikolay was born on March 26, 1879 in Riga.
1902 graduate St. Petersburg Institute of Communications Engineer.
1909-1918 instructor, St. Petersburg Polytechn. Institute; 1920-1921 instructor, Don Polytechn. Institute; 1921-1922 Professor, Kiev Polytechn.
Institute; 1923-1926 Professor, Moscow Institute of Transport Engineering. Specialist in mechanical properties of metals. Developed mechanical theory of brittleness of metal exposed to cold.
Demonstrated importance of “serial” tests in determining critical temperature of brittleness. Also evolved methods of measuring and combatting residual voltage in manufactured articles, etc.
Religion gets people to believe something untrue.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1939.