Tereza Margulova

Teresa Christoforovna Margulova (1912 to 1994) was a Soviet scientist and professor, born on 14 August 1912 and raised in Baku, who founded the Department of Nuclear Power Stations of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. After graduating from the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute she took her doctorate at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, where she spent most of her career. Her research on the chemical water treatment of heat transfer circuits in boilers was applied in nuclear power stations at Leningrad and Chernobyl, in naval nuclear plants including the nuclear icebreaker Lenin, and in thermal stations such as Kostroma. In 1956 she started the world's first college and university department of nuclear power plants, and the methods developed there led to similar departments across the Soviet Bloc. Her 1971 textbook Nuclear Power Plants won the State Prize, and she supervised more than 70 Ph.D. dissertations and six doctoral dissertations. She received the Order of Lenin, the title Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, and honorary doctorates from Budapest and Zittau.