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Svetlana Gerasimenko

1945 - 2025

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Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko (Russian: Светлана Ивановна Герасименко; Ukrainian: Світлана Іванівна Герасименко; 23 February 1945 – 8 April 2025) was a Soviet and Tajikistani astronomer and discoverer of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Svetlana Gerasimenko is the 127th most popular astronomer (up from 250th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 414th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Svetlana Gerasimenko ranks 127 out of 644. Before her are Frank Drake, N. R. Pogson, Ernst Öpik, Maria Mitchell, Girolamo Fracastoro, and Hermann Goldschmidt. After her are E. M. Antoniadi, Didier Queloz, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Reinhard Genzel, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, and Victor Ambartsumian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Svetlana Gerasimenko ranks 94. Before her are Linda Harrison, George Alencherry, Joël Robuchon, Eizo Yuguchi, Türkan Şoray, and Frans Sammut. After her are Dirk Benedict, Van Morrison, Pete Townshend, Ferdi Tayfur, Jacqueline du Pré, and Richard Thaler. Among people deceased in 2025, Svetlana Gerasimenko ranks 53. Before her are Oliviero Toscani, Jules Wijdenbosch, Joseph Nye, Hugo Gatti, David Lodge, and Jair da Costa. After her are Sam Nujoma, Alasdair MacIntyre, Lalo Schifrin, Georgios Roubanis, Ferdi Tayfur, and Muhammadu Buhari.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Svetlana Gerasimenko ranks 150 out of 1,365. Before her are Jan Łukasiewicz (1878), Euphrosyne of Kiev (1130), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Alfred Redl (1864), Dimitri Tiomkin (1894), and Mikhail Kirponos (1892). After her are Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Stanisław Żółkiewski (1547), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Vsevolod I of Kiev (1030), Serge Lifar (1904), and Leo Kanner (1894).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Svetlana Gerasimenko ranks 1. After her are Otto Struve (1897), Tamara Smirnova (1935), Fyodor Bredikhin (1831), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), Klim Churyumov (1937), Viktor Knorre (1840), and Grigory Shajn (1892).

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