Vladimir Karapetoff was a professor at Cornell University after publishing Electrical Measurements and Testing, Direct and Alternating Current.
Vladimir Karapetoff (January 8, 1876 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire  January 11, 1948) was a Russian-American electrical engineer, inventor, professor, and author. The following year he began his long association with Cornell University as professor of electrical engineering. That year he also published Electrical Measurements and Testing, Direct and Alternating Current. He became a charter member of the American Association of University Professors in 1915. 
