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. 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.
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). 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. He later supervised research on 3D-modeling of Eddy currents. Malti was an IEEE Fellow.
Works
- Circuit analysis (Wiley, 1930). Translated into Russian.
Notes
- Winfield Scott Downs (1947). Who's Who in New York (City and State). Bloomington. p. 672. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
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- ^ "Professor Michel Malti Due to Retire in July". The Cornell Daily Sun. 8 June 1962. p. 5. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
- "DYNAMO 'BALANCE' FOUND AT CORNELL; Problem Left by Faraday Is Solved ..." New York Times. 13 March 1939. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- "Cornell Scientists Find New Way to 'Balance' Dynamos". Washington Post. 13 March 1939. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- 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. Bibcode:1963ITPAS..82..793M. doi:10.1109/TPAS.1963.291410.