John S. Paraskevopoulos
John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (June 20, 1889 – March 15, 1951) also known as John Paras, was a Greek and South African astronomer.
He was born in
He worked as an assistant of Prof. Demetrios Eginitis at the National Observatory of Athens, and in 1919, he went to the US with a two-year fellowship, spending part of that time working at Yerkes Observatory. There he met and married Dorothy W. Block. In 1921, he returned to Athens where he became head of the astronomy department of the National Observatory of Athens with a goal to build a large telescope in Greece. However, due to the war between Greece and Turkey during that period and the political instability that followed it soon became evident that the large telescope for the observatory would not materialise.
In September 1923 Dr Paras accepted an offer from Dr
He co-discovered a couple of comets, including C/1941 B2 (de Kock–Paraskevopoulos), which became visible with naked eye. The crater Paraskevopoulos on the Moon is named after him.
References
- ^ "Astronomy Tree - Timoleon Argyropoulos". academictree.org. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
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Obituaries
- JRASC 45 (1951) 126 (one paragraph)
- MNRAS 112 (1952) 277
- Nature 167 (1951) 753
- Obs 71 (1951) 88 (one line)
- PASP 63 (1951) 212 (one paragraph)
- Sky and Telescope 10 (1951) 169