Sergey Blazhko
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote".Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Sergey Nikolayevich Blazhko (Template:Langx; November 17, 1870, Khotsimsk – February 11, 1956, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet astronomer, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929). He was a graduate of Moscow State University[1] and held a number of positions there including head of the Moscow Observatory from 1920-1931.[2] He discovered a secondary variation of the amplitude and period of some RR Lyrae stars and related pulsating variables, now known as the Blazhko effect.
Awards and honours
- Laureate of the Stalin Prize, 2nd degree (1951)
- Orders of Lenin (1944, 1953)
- Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1940, 1945)
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1946)
Crater on the Moon and asteroid No. 2445 are named after Blazhko.[3]
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- 1870 births
- 1956 deaths
- People from Mogilev region
- People from Klimovichskiy Uyezd
- 19th-century astronomers from the Russian Empire
- 20th-century Russian astronomers
- Soviet astronomers
- 19th-century astronomers
- Academic staff of Moscow State University
- Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery