Plato Malozemoff

Plato Malozemoff (1909–1997) was a Russian-American engineer, manager, and businessman.

Plato Malozemoff
BornAugust 28, 1909
Saint Petersburg, Russia
DiedAugust 8, 1997 (aged 88)
Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BS)
Montana School of Mines (MS)
Home townOakland, California, U.S.

Early life and education

Malozemoff was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on August 28, 1909 and immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area as a child.[1] Malozemoff was raised in Oakland, California.[2] He attended the University of California, Berkeley as an undergraduate and did his graduate studies at the Montana School of Mines, where he studied under metallurgist Antoine Marc Gaudin.[3][4]

Career

Unable to secure an engineering position after earning his master's degree, Malozemoff held jobs provided by the Works Progress Administration.

In 1945, Malozemoff took an entry-level engineering position with the Newmont Corporation in Colorado. Quickly rising up the corporate ranks, Malozemoff became president of the company in 1954. At the time it was valued at $147 million. He expanded it into a $2.3 billion firm via acquisitions and international expansion by the time he left in 1986.[5] He was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in 1994.[6]

The UC Berkeley College of Engineering has since established a named professorship in honor of Malozemoff, the Plato Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.[7][8]

Plato Malozemoff House, New York

Personal life

Malozemoff and his wife, Alexandria, had two children. He died on August 8, 1997 in Greenwich, Connecticut.[9]

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gollark: Also forced updates, giant EULA, broken search, and general lack of configurability.
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References
  1. "PLATO MALOZEMOFF 1909–1997". NAE Website. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  2. https://ethw.org/Oral-History:Plato_Malozemoff
  3. Read "Memorial Tributes: Volume 11" at NAP.edu.
  4. "PLATO MALOZEMOFF 1909–1997". NAE Website. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  5. "Harvard Business School biography". Harvard Business School. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  6. "Mining Hall of Fame Inductees Database - Inductee #117". Mining Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  7. "David Sedlak, Plato Malozemoff Professor at University of California at Berkeley". Blue Tech Forum. 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  8. "David L. Sedlak | Civil and Environmental Engineering". ce.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  9. "Plato Malozemoff, 88, Retired Executive". The New York Times. 1997-08-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
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