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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 83,729 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Iosif Shklovsky is the 241st most popular astronomer (down from 231st in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 362nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 241 out of 531Before him are Rudolph Minkowski, Didier Queloz, Halton Arp, James Edward Keeler, Johannes Schöner, and Wilhelm von Biela. After him are Cleostratus, Freimut Börngen, Nevil Maskelyne, Josep Comas i Solà, Fred Lawrence Whipple, and William Cranch Bond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 123Before him are Sangoulé Lamizana, Ruth Handler, Ramón José Velásquez, Morris West, Halil İnalcık, and Jackie Gleason. After him are Ingrid Vang Nyman, Charlie Christian, David White, Jurij Brězan, Erik Nilsson, and Ri Jong-ok. Among people deceased in 1985, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 93Before him are Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, André Hunebelle, Taizo Kawamoto, Stefan Bellof, Johanna Wolf, and Géza Toldi. After him are Élias Sarkis, Susanne Langer, Márton Bukovi, Paul Castellano, Omayra Sánchez, and Georgia Hale.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 393 out of 1,083Before him are Maria Dobroniega of Kiev (null), Oleh Protasov (1964), Pavel Rybalko (1894), Leonid Kizim (1941), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), and Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974). After him are Nikolai Linevich (1839), Kazimierz Bartel (1882), Isaac Boleslavsky (1919), Pyotr Koshevoy (1904), Israel Zolli (1881), and Georgy Voronoy (1868).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Ukraine

Among astronomers born in Ukraine, Iosif Shklovsky ranks 4Before him are Otto Struve (1897), Svetlana Gerasimenko (1945), and Tamara Smirnova (1935). After him are Klim Churyumov (1937), Viktor Knorre (1840), Fyodor Bredikhin (1831), and Grigory Shajn (1892).