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Pelageya Shajn

1894 - 1956

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Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova (Пелагея Фёдоровна Шайн) (22 September 1894 – 27 August 1956), was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pelageya Shajn has received more than 18,264 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Pelageya Shajn is the 474th most popular astronomer (down from 433rd in 2019), the 1,994th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,769th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Pelageya Shajn ranks 474 out of 644. Before her are Schelte J. Bus, Hiroshi Kaneda, Holger Thiele, Royal Harwood Frost, Christian August Friedrich Peters, and Charlotte Moore Sitterly. After her are Forest Ray Moulton, Heinrich Kreutz, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Audouin Dollfus, Carl A. Wirtanen, and Arno Arthur Wachmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Pelageya Shajn ranks 218. Before her are Tommy Green, Billy Bishop, Renzo De Vecchi, Georgy Ivanov, Billy Gilbert, and Harry Cobby. After her are Paul Costello, Paul Peter Meouchi, Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson, Arthur Freed, James P. Johnson, and Abram Room. Among people deceased in 1956, Pelageya Shajn ranks 170. Before her are Johannes Gabriel Granö, E. A. Dupont, Billy Bishop, Tommy Johnson, Nikolai Panin, and Gerald Finzi. After her are Augustin Chantrel, Manilal Gandhi, Marie Juchacz, Jacques Moeschal, Pierre Allemane, and Lajos Asztalos.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pelageya Shajn ranks 1,994 out of 3,761. Before her are Igor Kvasha (1933), Majit Gafuri (1880), Vikenty Veresaev (1867), Tamara Moskvina (1941), Sainkho Namtchylak (1957), and Gennady Logofet (1942). After her are Tatyana Shchelkanova (1937), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Tamara Makarova (1907), Pyotr Novikov (1901), Yuri Baturin (1949), and Georgi Yumatov (1926).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Pelageya Shajn ranks 13. Before her are Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Benjamin Jekhowsky (1881), and Alexander Voeikov (1842). After her are Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811), Matvey Gusev (1826), Vera Gaze (1899), Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Lidiya Tseraskaya (1855).

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