Sofja Wassiljewna Voroshilova-Romanskaya
Sofya Vasilyevna Woroschilowa-Romanskaja ( Russian Софья Васильевна Ворошилова-Романская * 3 . Jul / 15. August 1886 greg. Saint Petersburg , † 26. November 1969 ) was the first Russian-Soviet woman with a permanent position as an observational astronomer in Russia .
Life
In 1903 she completed the Bestuschew courses for women founded in 1878 by Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Bestuschew-Ryumin . From 1908 she worked at the Pulkovo Observatory . She took part in an expedition to Sweden to observe the solar eclipse on June 29, 1927 .
Voroshilova-Romanskaya studied the polar movement and made precision measurements of the latitude at the zenith telescope ZTF -135 of the Pulkovo observatory.
She took part in series of observations in the years 1918 to 1928 and 1955 to 1962 and made over 23,000 high-precision latitude determinations.
The asteroid (3761) Romanskaya , discovered by Grigory Nikolajewitsch Neuimin on July 25, 1936 , was named after her in 1995, as was the Venus crater Romanskaya .
literature
- Г. И. Колчинский, AA Корсунь, M. Г. Родригес: Астрономы. Биографический справочник. Naukova dumka, Kiev 1977.
- Izvestia (Известия) ГАО, 1971, No. 187, pp. 1–3.
- Earth and Cosmos ( Земля и Вселенная ), 1972, No. 4, pp. 50–51.
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| SURNAME | Voroshilova-Romanskaya, Sofja Wassiljewna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вороши́лова-Рома́нская, Со́фья Васи́льевна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Soviet astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1969 |