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Ivan Yarkovsky

1844 - 1902

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Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky (Polish: Jan Jarkowski) (24 May 1844, Asveya, Vitebsk Governorate – 22 January 1902, Heidelberg) was a Polish–Russian civil engineer. Born to a Polish family in Asveya (Russian Empire, now Belarus), he worked for a Russian railway company and was obscure in his own time. Beginning in the 1970s, long after Yarkovsky's death, his work on the effects of thermal radiation on small objects in the Solar System (e.g., asteroids) was developed into the Yarkovsky effect and the YORP effect, thanks to his rediscovery by Estonian astronomer Ernst J. Öpik. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Yarkovsky has received more than 14,368 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ivan Yarkovsky is the 189th most popular engineer (down from 153rd in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Belarus and the 3rd most popular Belarusian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 189 out of 389. Before him are Giuseppe Colombo, Sergei Tumansky, Michele Besso, Michel Chevalier, Emily Warren Roebling, and Gene Kranz. After him are Kelly Johnson, Genichi Taguchi, Jorge Chávez, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Eugen Sänger, and Alexander Lodygin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 62. Before him are Béhanzin, Kuroki Tamemoto, Tivadar Puskás, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Gustave Schlumberger, and Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. After him are Catherine Breshkovsky, Gyula Benczúr, Sanford B. Dole, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Konstantin Savitsky, and Andrew Lang. Among people deceased in 1902, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 40. Before him are Marie Alfred Cornu, Walter Hauser, Cato Maximilian Guldberg, Ernst Schröder, Fyodor Stravinsky, and Lazarus Fuchs. After him are Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Saigō Jūdō, Gustave Trouvé, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Kálmán Tisza, and Filippo Marchetti.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 100 out of 368. Before him are Pola Raksa (1941), Sergei Tumansky (1901), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), Nahum Goldmann (1895), Radasłaŭ Astroŭski (1887), and Pyotr Klimuk (1942). After him are Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), Ivonka Survilla (1936), Jerzy Giedroyc (1906), Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982), and Vasily Ignatenko (1961).

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Among ENGINEERS In Belarus

Among engineers born in Belarus, Ivan Yarkovsky ranks 3. Before him are Pavel Sukhoi (1895), and Sergei Tumansky (1901).

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