Leonid Ramzin

Leonid Ramzin
Black and white photograph of the bust of a Caucasian man wearing a white shirt, tie and coat with wavy, pulled-back hair and an abstracted gaze
Born
Leonid Konstantinovich Ramzin

(1887-10-26)26 October 1887
Died28 June 1948(1948-06-28) (aged 60)
NationalityRussian
Alma materImperial Moscow Technical School
Known forInvention of the Ramzin boiler, innovations in boiler design, furnace radiation theories
AwardsStalin Prize
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Scientific career
FieldsThermal engineering
InstitutionsMoscow Power Engineering Institute
All-Russia Thermal Engineering Institute
Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Leonid Konstantinovich Ramzin (Russian: Леони́д Константи́нович Рамзи́н; 26 October 1887 – 28 June 1948) was a Soviet thermal engineer, and the inventor of a type of flow-through boiler known as the straight-flow boiler, or Ramzin boiler. He was a laureate of the Stalin Prize First-Class, which he received in 1943.