Benjamin Jekhowsky
Astronomer
1881 – 1953
Who was Benjamin Jekhowsky?
Benjamin Jekhowsky was a Russian-French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official. After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory, where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics. After 1934, he appears to have begun signing scientific articles as Benjamin de Jekhowsky. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name "B. Jekhovsky". In modern English transliteration, his name would be written as Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky. He discovered a number of asteroids, made more than 190 scientific publications and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky is named after him.
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- Born
- 1881
Warsaw - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Died
- 1953
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on July 23, 2013
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