Kārlis Šteins

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Kārlis Šteins ( Russian Карл Августович Штейнс , Karl Awgustowitsch Schtejns, scientific transliteration Karl Avgustovič Štejns ; born October 13, 1911 in Kazan , Russia ; † April 4, 1983 ) was a Latvian and Soviet astronomer .

Life

Kārlis Šteins grew up in Riga. He attended until 1925, the renowned city junior high school to Riga (Rīgas pilsētas reālskola), the first in Riga, which offered a scientifically oriented education since the 1870s, then high school. From 1929 to 1934, Šteins studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the Latvian University in Riga . 1935–1936 and 1938 he worked at the observatory in Krakow , and in 1937 at the observatory in Copenhagen . Since 1944, Šteins worked at the now renamed Latvian State University ( Latvijas Valsts universitāte / LVU). In 1951 he was appointed to the chair for theoretical physics at the LVU. In 1959 he was appointed director of the local observatory and in 1966 professor of astronomy.

Šteins examined in his dissertation ( "Komētu orbītu Evolucija") the changes of comets and was for his work on comets - cosmogony known. He studied the rotation of the earth and was involved in the development of astronomical instruments. During his stay in Krakow, he calculated the orbit of the 1933 asteroid discovered in 1933 OP , which he named after the English term for Latvia ( Latvia ). Shortly after his death, the asteroid (2867) Šteins discovered by Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych in 1969 was named after him.

literature

  • H. Gailītis, F. Geikina, L. Roze (eds.): Profesors Kārlis Šteins. Biobibliogrāfija . Latvijas Valsts Universitāte (LVU), Riga 1972 (Latvian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Gailītis, F. Geikina, L. Roze (ed.): Profesors Kārlis Šteins. Biobibliogrāfija . Riga 1972 (lat.).
  2. ↑ Štejns Karl Avgustovič. In: astronet.ru. Retrieved on September 8, 2008 (Russian).
  3. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : (2867) Šteins. . In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names , 6th edition, Springer, Heidelberg, New York etc. 2012, p. 222.

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personal data
SURNAME Šteins, Kārlis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kazan
DATE OF DEATH April 4th 1983