Lidija Petrovna Zeraskaya
Lidija Petrovna Zeraskaja born Lidija Petrovna Schelechowa , ( Russian Лидия Петровна Цераская , maiden name Russian Лидия Петровна Шелехова * June 11 jul. / 23. June 1855 greg. In Astrakhan ; † 22. December 1931 in Moscow ) was a Russian astronomer .
Life
Lidija Petrovna studied in St. Petersburg in the pedagogy COURSES women and then taught from 1875 to 1916 French at various Moscow educational institutions. In 1884 she married the astronomer Witold Karlowitsch Zeraski , who had worked in the Astronomical Observatory of Moscow University from 1871 .
In 1898, Zeraskaya and her husband began the search for new variable stars . She discovered 219 variable stars. This also includes the RV Tauri star , whose special behavior caught her eye. Her technical papers were published with W. Zeraski as the author, ie under the name of her husband.
Zeraskaya received the Russian Astronomical Society Prize in 1908. Her name is closely linked to the history of the Moscow Observatory ( Sternberg Institute of Astronomy since 1931 ). The Venusian crater Tseraskaya bears her name.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Колчинский И. Г., Корсунь А. А., Родригес М. Г. (Ed.): Астрономы: Биографический справочник . 2nd Edition. Наукова думка, Kiev 1986.
- ^ A b Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard A. Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché, and F. Jamil Ragep (Eds.): The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Springer , 2009, ISBN 978-0-387-35133-9 .
- ↑ a b c Astronet: Цераская Лидия Петровна (accessed January 11, 2020).
- ↑ Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Tseraskaya (accessed January 11, 2020).
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| SURNAME | Zeraskaya, Lidija Petrovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schelechowa, Lidija Petrovna (maiden name); Цераская, Лидия Петровна; Шелехова, Лидия Петровна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Astrakhan |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 22, 1931 |
| Place of death | Moscow |