Boris Gerasimovich

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Boris Gerasimovich in 1926

Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (

astrophysicist
.

Biography

Gerasimovich was born in

Kharkiv University observatory. He became the director of the Pulkovo Observatory in 1933, but was arrested and executed during the Great Purge
. He had a daughter, Tatiana Borisovna Gerasimovich.

The crater

Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is also named after him.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Герасимович Борис Петрович". esu.com.ua. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  2. . Retrieved August 22, 2012.
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