Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev ( Russian Николай Александрович Козырев ., English transcription ; Nikolay Kozyrev (born 20 August) jul. / 2 September 1908 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 27. February 1983 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet astronomer .
He was arrested in 1936 and later deported (he spent a few years in the GULAG camps until 1946).
The main focus of his research was the earth's moon , on which Kosyrew focused on possible signs of volcanic activity ( Lunar Transient Phenomena ). In the years around 1955 he was the first to examine the luminescence of the lunar surface (method of residual intensity and lunar eclipses ) and was able to explain the extraordinary brightness of the lunar crater Aristarchus through the effect of solar corpuscular radiation .
According to information from D. Alter (1956), he observed a. a. also regularly the lunar crater Alphonsus using special spectrograms . In November 1958 he discovered volcanic luminous phenomena on the crater floor of this centrally located ring mountain and on the central mountain .
This was a scientific sensation and gave new impetus to the hypothesis that many lunar craters could have been formed by volcanism . However, later studies showed that the most common cause is meteorite impacts since the Great Bombardment 4 billion years ago.
In 1997, in honor of Nikolai Kosyrew, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) renamed the lunar crater Carver K , located south-southeast of the Carver crater, to Kozyrev . The asteroid (2536) Kozyrev was also named after him.
Kosyrev mirror
A device used by esoteric fans (a simple aluminum tube) called the " Kozyrev mirror" (also known as Kozyrev mirror ) is associated with Kozyrev . The Kosyrew mirror should be able to open gates to space and time, enable telepathy or establish contact with extraterrestrials . Kozyrev himself had neither invented nor described the mirror in any way.
literature
- Josef Sadil: Focus on the moon. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Berlin 1962
Web links
- NA Kozyrev publications in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biography Chronos (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ USGS Astrogeology Science Center : Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Kozyrev on Moon
- ↑ Bernd Kramer: Kozyrev-Spiegel: Master's thesis at Viadrina Uni proves clairvoyance. DER SPIEGEL , May 7, 2012, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Sebastian Herrmann: Looked too deep into the tube. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 12, 2012, accessed February 23, 2020 .
- ^ Edzard Ernst : Professor Harald Walach, pseudo-scientist of the year. October 21, 2012, accessed February 23, 2020 (UK English).
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SURNAME | Kozyrew, Nikolai Alexandrovich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Козырев, Николай Александрович; Kozyrev, Nikolay |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian astronomer |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1983 |
Place of death | Leningrad |