John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos
John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (born June 20, 1889 in Piraeus , † March 15, 1951 ) was a Greek-South African astronomer .
Paraskevopoulos was born in Piraeus and studied at the University of Athens . During the Balkan War and World War I he served in the Greek army.
In 1919 he went to the USA to work for the Yerkes Observatory . He returned to Athens two years later and became head of the Athens Observatory at the age of only 32 .
Due to tight financial resources, he later gave up his research at the Athens Observatory and went to Arequipa , Peru , on behalf of the Harvard College Observatory to work at Boyden Station . Paraskevopoulos decided to move the station from Arequipa to Bloemfontein in South Africa because of the more favorable weather conditions for the observatory . As director of the Boyden Observatory , he conducted research in South Africa from 1927 until his death in 1951. Paraskevopoulos discovered several comets .
The Paraskevopoulos crater on the moon was named after him, also in 2006 the asteroid (5298) Paraskevopoulos .
Web links
- Publications by JS Paraskevopoulos in the Astrophysics Data System
- Obituaries for JS Paraskevopoulos in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biography on the websites of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paraskevopoulos, John Stefanos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Piraeus |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1951 |