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Benjamin Jekhowsky

1881 - 1975

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Benjamin Jekhowsky (Russian: Вениамин Павлович Жеховский; born 1881 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia – died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes,France) 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 (at the time, Algeria was a colony of France), where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics. After 1934, he appears to have begun signing scientific articles as Benjamin de Jekhowsky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benjamin Jekhowsky is the 369th most popular astronomer (up from 432nd in 2019), the 1,296th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,798th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 369 out of 644. Before him are Alvan Clark, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Seth Carlo Chandler, Lewis Boss, Jing Fang, and Johann von Lamont. After him are André Patry, Frank Watson Dyson, Kidinnu, David C. Jewitt, Shi Shen, and Robert Herman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 138. Before him are Dimitrana Ivanova, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Rudolf Ramek, Móric Esterházy, Henri Laurent, and Marcello Piacentini. After him are Curt Haase, Ivan Smirnov, Eugène Olivier, Dora Boothby, William R. Orthwein, and Nasib Yusifbeyli. Among people deceased in 1975, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 144. Before him are Maurice Feltin, Olga Bergholz, Alf Andersen, Argemiro, Kyusaku Ogino, and Harold Osborn. After him are Michał Sopoćko, Charles Reidpath, Murray Leinster, Mascha Kaléko, Gaston Gallimard, and Bas Jan Ader.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 1,296 out of 3,761. Before him are Oleg Salyukov (1955), Nikolay Cherkasov (1903), Kirill Lavrov (1925), Viacheslav Fetisov (1958), Rustam Minnikhanov (1957), and Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow (1507). After him are Alexandre Alexeieff (1901), Endel Puusepp (1909), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Alexander Kutepov (1882), and Jürgen Moser (1928).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 7. Before him are Nikolai Chernykh (1931), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Hermann von Struve (1854), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908). After him are Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), and Pelageya Shajn (1894).

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