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Grigory Shajn

1892 - 1956

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Grigory Abramovich Shajn (Russian: Григорий Абрамович Шайн) (April 19, 1892 – August 4, 1956) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G. Shajn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grigory Shajn has received more than 17,072 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Grigory Shajn is the 410th most popular astronomer (up from 480th in 2019), the 719th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 724th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Grigory Shajn ranks 410 out of 644. Before him are Lyudmila Karachkina, Frank Elmore Ross, Ludwig Biermann, Elizabeth Roemer, Otto Heckmann, and Hugo Gyldén. After him are Harold Spencer Jones, Harold D. Babcock, Catherine Cesarsky, William Rutter Dawes, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, and Giuseppe Asclepi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Grigory Shajn ranks 213. Before him are Emma Tillman, Mykhaylo Semenko, Gaetano Belloni, James Van Fleet, Henry Macintosh, and Alexander Chervyakov. After him are Wendell Willkie, Walter Bathe, Vilmos Apor, Gerhard Rohlfs, Graciliano Ramos, and Jaan Kikkas. Among people deceased in 1956, Grigory Shajn ranks 148. Before him are Benjamin Glazer, Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, David Seymour, Albert Kluyver, Flora Sandes, and Preston Tucker. After him are Louis Bromfield, Louis Calhern, César Espinoza, Fanny Durack, Doca, and Pyotr Konchalovsky.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Grigory Shajn ranks 719 out of 1,365. Before him are Emanuel Ax (1949), Margarita Aliger (1915), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), Stanisław Mazur (1905), Hermann Kesten (1900), and Volodymyr Lytvyn (1956). After him are Kateryna Yushchenko (1919), Mykola Zerov (1890), Emma Andijewska (1931), Serhiy Shaptala (1973), Eduard Mudrik (1939), and Anatoliy Konkov (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Grigory Shajn ranks 7. Before him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Klim Churyumov (1937), Otto Struve (1897), Iosif Shklovsky (1916), and Viktor Knorre (1840). After him are Fyodor Bredikhin (1831).

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