Vasily Fesenkov
Vasiliy Grigorievich Fesenkov (
astrophysicist
.
Biography
He was born in
USSR Academy of Sciences. He was the first to make a study of Zodiacal light using photometry
, and suggested a theory of its dynamics.
He founded the Astrophysical Institute in Alma-Ata (currently Almaty) and was its director until his retirement in 1964. Fesenkov was also a member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.
He worked on
Sikhote-Alin Meteorite
that fell in 1947.
Fesenkov was awarded three Orders of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner and various medals. The lunar crater Fesenkov is named after him, as is a crater on Mars. A
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh is named after him.[2]
He died in Moscow.
Bibliography
- Life in the universe by A. Oparin and V. Fesenkov, New York, Twayne Publishers, 1961
- Soviet IGY studies in zodiacal light by Fesenkov V.G., New York, U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, 1959
References
- ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
- ISBN 3-540-00238-3.
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