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Iosif Shklovsky

1916 - 1985

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Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Самуи́лович Шкло́вский; sometimes transliterated Josif, Josif, Shklovskii, Shklovskij) (1 July 1916 – 3 March 1985) was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. He is remembered for work in theoretical astrophysics and other topics, as well as for his 1962 book on extraterrestrial life, the revised and expanded version of which was co-authored by American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1966 as Intelligent Life in the Universe. He won the Lenin Prize in 1960 and the Bruce Medal in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iosif Shklovsky has received more than 90,369 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Iosif Shklovsky is the 293rd most popular astronomer (down from 241st in 2019), the 503rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 390th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 293 out of 644. Before him are John Michell, Aleksander Wolszczan, Albert George Wilson, Caterina Scarpellini, Rudolph Minkowski, and Zdeňka Vávrová. After him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Otto Lesser, Walter Lewin, Alfred Fowler, Michael van Langren, and Robert T. A. Innes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 136. Before him are Ingrid Vang Nyman, Gino Bianco, Benjamin Libet, Maurice Bavaud, Arno Peters, and Dorothy McGuire. After him are Jackie Gleason, Movita Castaneda, Rossano Brazzi, Charlie Christian, Sudirman, and José López Rega. Among people deceased in 1985, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 114. Before him are Pavel Batov, Sergei Gerasimov, Renato Castellani, Jock Stein, Salvador Espriu, and Francesca Bertini. After him are Dmitry Belyayev, Julia Robinson, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, René Barjavel, Ernest Nagel, and Henry Hansen.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 503 out of 1,365. Before him are Mischa Elman (1891), Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974), Nikolay Shmatko (1943), Aleksei Kapler (1904), Boris Kalamanos (1113), and Igor Moiseyev (1906). After him are Sergei Stanishev (1966), Mikhail Fridman (1964), Aleksandar Malinov (1867), Viktor Chukarin (1921), Petro Grigorenko (1907), and Iryna Melnykova (1918).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 5. Before him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), Klim Churyumov (1937), and Otto Struve (1897). After him are Viktor Knorre (1840), Grigory Shajn (1892), and Fyodor Bredikhin (1831).

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