Vladimir Karapetoff (January 8, 1876 - January 11, 1948) was a Russian-American electrical engineer, inventor, professor, and author. In 1903 Karapetoff emigrated to America and apprenticed at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. The following year he began his long association with Cornell University as professor of electrical engineering. Karapetoff published the first part of his Engineering Applications of Higher Mathematics in 1911, and followed with parts two to five in 1916. That year he also published Electrical Measurements and Testing, Direct and Alternating Current. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers made him a Fellow in 1912. He became a charter member of the American Association of University Professors in 1915. He was an accomplished cellist, and in 1934 was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by the New York College of Music. He died in 1948 at the age of 72.
