Nikoloz (Niko) Muskhelishvili (February 16, 1891 - July 16, 1976) was a notable Georgian mathematician, one of the founders and first President (1941-1972) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1934), Professor (1922).

In 1914 he graduated from the St. Petersburg University (Russia). In 1917-1920 Muskhelishvili was Assistant Professor of this University, in 1920-1922 - Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State University (TSU), in 1922-1976 - a Professor of TSU, in 1941-1972 - first President of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), in 1972-1976 - Honorary President of GAS.

In 1939 Muskhelishvili was elected as Academician (Full Member) of the Academy of Sciences of USSR (now the Russian Academy of Science). Since 1956 he was a member of the International Committee of Congreses on Applied Mechanics , since 1960 a member of the Bureau of the International Union on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics . In 1969 he received the International Prize "Modesto Panetti" of the Turin Academy of Sciences (Italy), in 1970 a Gold Medal of the Slovakian Academy of Sciences , in 1972 - a Lomonosov Gold Medal.

Muskhelishvili was author of outstanding scientific works in the fields of singular integral equations, mathematical physics, theory of elasticity, etc.

Some of main works of Nikoloz Muskhelishvili

• "Some basic problems of mathematical theory of elasticity", Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1953, (a monograph)
• "Singular integral equations", Groningen, P. Noordhoff, 1953 (a monograph)
• "Einige Grundaufgaben zur mathematischen Elastizitatstheorie", Leipzig, 1971 (a monograph, in German)