Serhiy Vsechswjatskyj

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Сергій Костянтинович Всехсвятський
Transl. : Serhij Kostjantynovyč Vsechsvjats'kyj
Transcr. : Serhij Kostjantynowytsch Vsechswjatskyj
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Сергей Константинович Всехсвятский
Transl .: Sergej Konstantinovič Vsechsvjatskij
Transcr .: Sergei Konstantinowitsch Vsechswjatski

Serhiy Kostjantynowytsch Wsechswjatskyj (* July 7 . Jul / 20th July  1905 greg. In Moscow , Russian Empire ; † 6. October 1984 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet astronomer and professor.

Life

Serhij Vsechswjatskyj studied physics and mathematics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow from 1922 to 1925 . Between 1924 and 1935 he worked there at the Institute for Astrophysics, which in 1931 became part of the newly created Sternberg Institute for Astronomy . From 1935 to 1939 he was an employee and deputy director of the Pulkovo Observatory in Leningrad . From 1939 to 1981 he was professor, founder and head of the Faculty of Astronomy at the University of Kiev .

His most important scientific papers dealt with the physics of comets, solar winds and solar activity, as well as problems with cosmogony . In 1960 he proposed the existence of Jupiter rings , which were actually discovered in 1979.

Vsechswjatskyj died in Kiev and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .

Honors
Coin of Ukraine Vsekhsviatsky A.jpg
Obverse of the 2 ed commemorative coin from 2005 depicting the solar winds
Coin of Ukraine Vsekhsviatsky R.jpg
Reverse with the portrait of Serhiy Vsechswjatskyj


Honors

In 2005 the Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin with his portrait on the occasion of his 100th birthday . The asteroid of the main belt (2721) Vsekhsvyatskij , discovered by Nikolai Tschernych on September 22, 1973 , was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Serhiy Vsechswjatskyj on astronet.ru ; accessed on May 29, 2016 (Russian)
  2. ↑ Biography Serhiy Vsechswjatskyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on May 29, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ^ Biography Serhiy Vsechswjatskyj on the website of the University of Kiev ; accessed on May 29, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Biography Serhiy Vsechswjatskyj on sm.evg-rumjantsev ; accessed on May 29, 2016 (Russian)
  5. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on May 17, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Asteroid Vsekhsvyatskij in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA ; accessed on May 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Vsechswjatskyj, Serhiy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Всехсвятський, Сергій Костянтинович (Ukrainian); Vsechswjatskyj, Serhij Kostjantynowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet astronomer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1984
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic