Alexander Vyssotsky

Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Высо́тский, 23 May 1888 – 31 December 1973) was a Russian-American astronomer. Born in Moscow, in 1923 he moved to the United States, where he eventually became professor at the University of Virginia and vice-president of the American Astronomical Society.^[2]

During his 35 years at the

Vyssotsky spent his youth in Moscow, Russia, where he worked in a major observatory. He served in the Russian army and took part in World War I, where he used his knowledge of French, English and German to translate intercepted radio communications. After the October Revolution he joined the anti-communist White movement, and after its defeat escaped to Turkey and then to Tunisia, where he worked as a science teacher.^[1] In 1923 he moved to the United States, where in 1929 he married a fellow astronomer Emma Vyssotsky. She was his lifelong scientific collaborator. They had one son, Victor A. Vyssotsky, a mathematician and computer scientist who was involved in Multics project and created the Darwin computer game.^[2]

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External links

• Articles by Vyssotsky. adsabs.harvard.edu