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Benjamin Jekhowsky

1881 - 1975

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Benjamin Jekhowsky (Russian: Вениамин Павлович Жеховский; born 1881 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia – died in 1975, Encausse-les-Thermes,France) was a Russian-French astronomer, born in Saint-Petersburg in a noble family of a Russian railroad official. After attending Moscow University, he worked at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1912. Later he worked at the Algiers Observatory (at the time, Algeria was a colony of France), where he became known as a specialist in celestial mechanics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Jekhowsky has received more than 15,647 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Benjamin Jekhowsky is the 432nd most popular astronomer (down from 419th in 2019), the 1,798th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,689th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 432 out of 644. Before him are Gustav Spörer, Adalbert Krueger, Joel Stebbins, Johann Gottfried Köhler, Fernand Courty, and Milorad B. Protić. After him are Cuno Hoffmeister, George Van Biesbroeck, George Herbig, William Frederick Denning, Dilhan Eryurt, and Odette Bancilhon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 169. Before him are Jetze Doorman, Madge Syers, Harry Edwin Wood, Mordecai Kaplan, Abdulla Shaig, and Patrick Ryan. After him are Francis Ford, Tommy Burns, Walter Krueger, Eugénie Cotton, Abram Deborin, and Eleanor Farjeon. Among people deceased in 1975, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 184. Before him are Bas Jan Ader, Max Gluckman, Piero Dusio, Syed Nazrul Islam, Rod Serling, and Valeri Popenchenko. After him are Nilo Murtinho Braga, Boris Babochkin, Marc Wright, Carl O. Sauer, Carl Silfverstrand, and Carlos Raúl Villanueva.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 1,798 out of 3,761. Before him are Yakov Sannikov (1780), Denis Urubko (1973), Isaak Zelensky (1890), Mikhail Voronin (1945), Alexander Popov (1971), and Andrei Tchmil (1963). After him are Aleksandra Beļcova (1892), Alexander Kalyagin (1942), Igor Ilyinsky (1901), Anna Yegorova (1916), Boris Chicherin (1828), and Rostislav Alexeyev (1916).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Benjamin Jekhowsky ranks 11. Before him are Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (1935), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), and Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854). After him are Alexander Voeikov (1842), Pelageya Shajn (1894), Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Matvey Gusev (1826), Vera Gaze (1899), and Pavel Shternberg (1865).

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