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.

Works

• Circuit analysis (Wiley, 1930). Translated into Russian.

Notes

1. ^ Winfield Scott Downs (1947). Who's Who in New York (City and State). Bloomington. pp. 672. http://books.google.com/books?lr=&output=html&q=Michel++Malti+who%27s+who&btnG=Search+Books. Retrieved 2008-06-23. 
2. ^ "Social Security Death Index Interactive Search". http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Professor Michel Malti Due to Retire in July". Cornell Daily Sun: p. 5. 8 June 1962. http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/newscornell?a=d&d=CDS19620608.2.5.1&e=--------20--1-----all. Retrieved 2011-07-13. 
4. ^ "DYNAMO 'BALANCE' FOUND AT CORNELL; Problem Left by Faraday Is Solved ...". New York Times. 13 March 1939. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30811F6355B177A93C1A81788D85F4D8385F9&scp=2&sq=michel+malti&st=p. Retrieved 2008-06-27. 
5. ^ "Cornell Scientists Find New Way to 'Balance' Dynamos". Washington Post. 13 March 1939. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/237541992.html?dids=237541992:237541992&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Mar+13%2C+1939&author=By+the+Associated+Press.&pub=The+Washington+Post++(1877-1954)&edition=&startpage=2&desc=Cornell+Scientists+Find+New+Way+to+%27Balance%27+Dynamos. 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. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?isnumber=4072841&arnumber=4072868&count=28&index=24. Retrieved 2008-06-27. 

Persondata
Name	Malti, Michel
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1895-11-07
Place of birth
Date of death	1978
Place of death