ASTRONOMER

Pelageya Shajn

1894 - 1956

Photo of Pelageya Shajn

Icon of person Pelageya Shajn

Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova (Пелагея Фёдоровна Шайн) (22 September 1894 – 27 August 1956), was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach. She was married to prominent Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pelageya Shajn is the 489th most popular astronomer (down from 474th in 2019), the 1,808th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,994th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Pelageya Shajn by language

Loading...

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pelageya Shajn ranks 489 out of 644. Before her are Patrick Moore, Lutz D. Schmadel, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Edward S. Holden, Walter Frederick Gale, and Mary Watson Whitney. After her are Cleveland Abbe, Kaoru Ikeya, Guillermo Haro, Wilhelm Anderson, Luciano Tesi, and Arno Arthur Wachmann.

Most Popular Astronomers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Pelageya Shajn ranks 204. Before her are Hans Henny Jahnn, Arkady Fiedler, Bo Ekelund, Jean Debucourt, Abram Room, and Paul Costello. After her are Estelle Taylor, Paul Peter Meouchi, Henry Daniell, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Hermanis Matisons, and Corinne Griffith. Among people deceased in 1956, Pelageya Shajn ranks 167. Before her are George Bancroft, Juan José de Amézaga, René Bougnol, César Espinoza, Max Beerbohm, and Augustin Chantrel. After her are Frithiof Mårtensson, E. T. Whittaker, Pierre Allemane, Marie Juchacz, Nikolai Panin, and Fernand Jourdant.

Others Born in 1894

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1956

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pelageya Shajn ranks 1,808 out of 3,761. Before her are Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (1900), Leonid Sobolev (1844), Dmitry Tolstoy (1823), Mark Dvoretsky (1947), Sigizmund Levanevsky (1902), and Stanislav Rostotsky (1922). After her are Nikolai Ottovich von Essen (1860), Isabella Bashmakova (1921), Dmitry Glukhovsky (1979), Viktor Kosichkin (1938), Dima Bilan (1981), and Valeri Popenchenko (1937).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Pelageya Shajn ranks 13. Before her are Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Vera Gaze (1899), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), and Lyudmila Karachkina (1948). After her are Matvey Gusev (1826), Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

Russian born Astronomers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous