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Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov

1875 - 1960

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Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov (Russian: Гавриил Адрианович Тихов, 1 May 1875 – 25 January 1960) was a Soviet astronomer who was a pioneer in astrobiology and is considered to be the father of astrobotany. He worked as an observer at the Pulkovo Observatory from 1906 until 1941. After undertaking an expedition to Alma-Ata to observe the solar eclipse of September 21, 1941, he remained and became one of the founders of the Kamenskoe Plateau Observatory, the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, and the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. G. A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov has received more than 21,735 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov is the 518th most popular astronomer, the 179th most popular biography from Belarus and the 2nd most popular Belarusian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov ranks 518 out of 644. Before him are Edwin Foster Coddington, Wilhelm Anderson, John Dobson, John Broughton, Hans-Emil Schuster, and Agnes Mary Clerke. After him are Minoru Honda, María Teresa Ruiz, John N. Bahcall, Erika Böhm-Vitense, Korado Korlević, and Okuro Oikawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov ranks 181. Before him are Angeliki Panagiotatou, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Andreas Michalakopoulos, Eddie Polo, Shaqe Çoba, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. After him are Prithvi Bir Bikram Shah, Émile Wegelin, Jean-Guy Gautier, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Charles Perrin, and Sigurður Eggerz. Among people deceased in 1960, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov ranks 207. Before him are John Rupert Firth, Julie Vinter Hansen, Dudley Nichols, Erik Lindahl, Aneurin Bevan, and Otto Nilsson. After him are Thalia Flora-Karavia, August Gailit, Alfred E. Green, Gustaf Lindblom, Giles Gilbert Scott, and Karl Gustafsson.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov ranks 179 out of 368. Before him are Iosif Kheifits (1905), Wilhelm Anderson (1880), Aleksandr Dedyushko (1962), Andrey Melnichenko (1972), Mikhail Myasnikovich (1950), and Aryna Sabalenka (1998). After him are Leonard Chess (1917), Maja Berezowska (1893), Alyona Lanskaya (1985), Viktar Babaryka (1963), Valentina Stenina (1934), and Darya Domracheva (1986).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Belarus

Among astronomers born in Belarus, Gavriil Adrianovich Tikhov ranks 2. Before him are Wilhelm Anderson (1880).

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