Michel G. Malti

Michel George Malti (November 7, 1895 - May 1978) was an American electrical engineer, known for his work in circuit analysis. He was born in Deir el Qamar, in modern day Lebanon and died in Miami, Florida.[1][2] He graduated from the Syrian Protestant college (1915) and from Georgia Tech (1922), before joining Cornell University as an instructor and student, earning a M.Sc. (1924) and Ph.D. (1927), all degrees in electrical engineering.[3]

He continued to serve as research assistant and faculty member in civil engineering and as a professor in electrical engineering until his retirement (1962), spending sabbaticals at the University of Puerto Rico (1947) and the University of Roorkee in India (1955–57).[3] In 1939 Malti and Fritz Herzog solved an important electric power problem on balancing dynamos, which had remained unsolved since the days of Michael Faraday a century before.[4][5] He later supervised research on 3D-modeling of Eddy currents.[6] Malti was an IEEE Fellow.

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  1. Winfield Scott Downs (1947). Who's Who in New York (City and State). Bloomington. p. 672. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  2. "Social Security Death Index Interactive Search".
  3. 1 2 "Professor Michel Malti Due to Retire in July". Cornell Daily Sun. 8 June 1962. p. 5. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
  4. "DYNAMO 'BALANCE' FOUND AT CORNELL; Problem Left by Faraday Is Solved ...". New York Times. 13 March 1939. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  5. "Cornell Scientists Find New Way to 'Balance' Dynamos". Washington Post. 13 March 1939. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  6. Malti, Michel G.; Ramakumar, R. (October 1963). "Three-Dimensional Theory of the Eddy-Current Coupling". IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems 82 (68): 793–800. doi:10.1109/TPAS.1963.291410. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
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