Evgeni Ametistov
Evgeni Viktorovich Ametistov (; born 17 June 1940, in Krasnodar) is a Russian Thermophysicist and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1997). He was the Rector of Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI) in 1990–2005 and since 2006 he has been an Advisor to Rector of MPEI. Biography Evgeni Viktorovich Ametistov was born in Krasnodar. In 1960 he graduated from Kuban State Agrarian University, and in 1965—from Moscow Power Engineering Institute, where he has been working since then: he was consistently a Post-graduate, Assistant, Assistant Professor and Professor. In 1975, a new Department of cryogenic technology was established in MPEI (now it is called the Department of Low Temperatures) where the study of processes of boiling cryogenic liquids began under the leadership of Valentin Grigoriev. In early 1980s, Ametistov also started to study methods of obtaining systems of monodisperse particles and transport processes inside them. Evgeni Ametistov also took active part in this research; in 1985, Evgeni Ametistov, Valentin Grigoriev and Yury Pavlov were awarded the USSR State Prize in the field of science and technology. In 1985 (when Grigoriev, who was then the Rector of MPEI and also the Head of Cryogenic Technology Department, was invited to work