Мирон Павлович Зейлигер (1874–1952), (English transcription: Miron Pavlovich Zeyliger), birthname: ''Меер Пинхусович Зейлигер'' (English transcription: Meer Pinkhusovich Zeyliger), known as: Myron Seiliger, was a Russian physicist and university professor who developed the Seiliger cycle, a hypothetical model that describes how the

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works.

Life and career

Seiliger, who was born in

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, studied at the Institute of Technology in

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. Later, he became a professor there and lectured in

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and

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s. In 1910, Seiliger developed the

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, which was later named Seiliger cycle after him. After the

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, Seiliger left Russia; in October 1924, he moved to France, where he became a professor of the RWTI Paris and continued lecturing. Also, Seiliger was a member of the Society of Russian Engineers.James E. Hassell: ''Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars'', American Philosophical Society, 1991, p. 74

Published works

*''Graphische Thermodynamik und Berechnen der Verbrennungs-Maschinen und Turbinen'', Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1922, *''Die Hochleistungs-Dieselmotoren'', Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1926, *''Kompressorlose Dieselmotoren und Semidieselmotoren'', Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1929,

References

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