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Ivan Yarkovsky

1844 - 1902

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Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky (Polish: Jan Jarkowski) (24 May 1844, Asveya, Vitebsk Governorate – 22 January 1902, Heidelberg) was a Polish–Russian civil engineer. Born to a Polish family in Asveya (Russian Empire, now Belarus), he worked for a Russian railway company and was obscure in his own time. Beginning in the 1970s, long after Yarkovsky's death, his work on the effects of thermal radiation on small objects in the Solar System (e.g., asteroids) was developed into the Yarkovsky effect and the YORP effect, thanks to his rediscovery by Estonian astronomer Ernst J. Öpik. The asteroid 35334 Yarkovsky is named in his honour †. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Yarkovsky is the 160th most popular engineer (up from 189th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Belarus (up from 100th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 160 out of 389. Before him are Giuseppe Colombo, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Mstislav Keldysh, Anton Flettner, John Bagot Glubb, and Alec Issigonis. After him are Pierre Berthier, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Yaakov Ziv, Essam Sharaf, Aurel Vlaicu, and John Hughes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 56. Before him are Wilhelm Leibl, Édouard Branly, Gyula Benczúr, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Carl Hagenbeck, and Catherine Breshkovsky. After him are Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Béhanzin, Tivadar Puskás, Robert Themptander, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, and Andrew Lang. Among people deceased in 1902, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 36. Before him are Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Marie Alfred Cornu, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Jules Dalou, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and Moritz Kaposi. After him are Lazarus Fuchs, Adolf Kussmaul, Fyodor Stravinsky, Hervé Faye, Kálmán Tisza, and Count Richard Belcredi.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 83 out of 368. Before him are Jan Czerski (1845), Simon Dubnow (1860), Czesław Niemen (1939), Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), and Napoleon Orda (1807). After him are Ivonka Survilla (1936), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Issai Schur (1875), Ales Adamovich (1927), Benedykt Dybowski (1833), and Nahum Goldmann (1895).

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Among ENGINEERS In Belarus

Among engineers born in Belarus, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 2. Before him are Pavel Sukhoi (1895). After him are Sergei Tumansky (1901).

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