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Grigory Shajn

1892 - 1956

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Grigory Abramovich Shajn (Russian: Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G. Shajn. Nonetheless, his last name is sometimes given as Schayn. He earned a masters degree from Tomsk University in 1920. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grigory Shajn is the 456th most popular astronomer (down from 410th in 2019), the 690th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 719th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Grigory Shajn ranks 456 out of 644. Before him are Holger Thiele, Fernand Courty, Hans-Emil Schuster, Ernst Hartwig, Mary Proctor, and William Robert Brooks. After him are Hisashi Kimura, Aristarkh Belopolsky, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker, Frank Schlesinger, Kees de Jager, and Avi Loeb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Grigory Shajn ranks 223. Before him are Stanisław Ostrowski, Mirabehn, Ludwig Berger, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Vilmos Apor, and Valerio Arri. After him are Anders Larsson, Yuen Ren Chao, Noël Roquevert, Lauge Koch, Werner Bergengruen, and Mykola Kulish. Among people deceased in 1956, Grigory Shajn ranks 155. Before him are Jan Šrámek, Ostap Vyshnya, Johnny Claes, Robert Julius Trumpler, María Teresa Ferrari, and Guido Boni. After him are Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Henry Nicholas Ridley, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, Louis Calhern, Albert Kluyver, and George Bancroft.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Grigory Shajn ranks 690 out of 1,365. Before him are Louise Nevelson (1899), Mykola Khvylovy (1893), Alexander Galich (1918), Zinaida Turchyna (1946), Georgy Sedov (1877), and Sviatoslav Shevchuk (1970). After him are Vera Inber (1890), Mark Donskoy (1901), Eduard Mudrik (1939), Elina Svitolina (1994), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927), and Volodymyr Onyshchenko (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Grigory Shajn ranks 8. Before him are Otto Struve (1897), Tamara Smirnova (1935), Fyodor Bredikhin (1831), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Klim Churyumov (1937), and Viktor Knorre (1840).

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