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Draft Kasterin Nikolai Petrovich Kasterin (1869–1947) was a Russian physicist, student of Aleksandr Stoletov. Among other things, his 1903 doctoral dissertation was praised by two of the major developers of multiple scattering theory, Paul Peter Ewald and Jan Korringa, for the seminal role it played in the development of that theory.

==Biography== Kasterin studied at the Physical-Mathematical Faculty of Moscow University under the supervision of Aleksandr Stoletov. He graduated in 1892 and continued to work for Stoletov as a laboratory assistant. In 1896-1899 he trained abroad. In 1899 Kasterin returned to Moscow University where he became an assistant professor and taught theoretical physics. In 1905 Kasterin defended his doctoral dissertation "On the propagation of waves in non-uniform medium".

In 1906 Kasterin became a professor at the Department of Physics of Novorossiyskii University in Odessa. He also headed the Institute of Physics. In 1906-1922 he was the Chairman of the Department of Physics at Novorossiyskii University.

In 1922 Kasterin moved to the Biophysics Institute in Moscow.

Since 1930 he was a consultant for various scientific institutions including CAGI, Angarsrtoy and the National Institute of Building Materials.

He is generally known for his works opposing special relativity.

Kasterin authored more than forty scientific publications in theoretical physics.