Английская Википедия:Alla Masevich
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Alla Genrikhovna Masevich (Шаблон:Lang-ru; 9 October 1918 — 6 May 2008) was a Soviet and Russian astronomer. She graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University. She served as deputy chairman of the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1952, and worked closely with Viktor Ambartsumian. She became a professor of space geodesy at the Moscow Institute of Geodesy and Cartography in 1972.[1]
She is known for her work in organizing groups to observe some of the first Russian satellites (1956–57). Masevich was the Russian delegate to the International Astronautical Federation Congress following the 1957 Sputnik launch and presented a paper on optical tracking of satellites.[2]
Career
From 1952 to 1987 she held the prestigious position of Deputy Chairman of the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.[3] During her tenure at the Academy, she led a team in 1957 to monitor Soviet satellites which included Sputnik.
In 1961 she visited London and, with Sir Patrick Moore, gave a talk at the Royal Festival Hall.
In 1987 she left the Academy to become Chairman of the Astrosoviets, the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.[3][4]
Awards and honors
- Foreign membership into the United Kingdom’s Royal Astronomical Society (1963)[3]
- Galaber Medal of the International Astronautic Federation[5]
Personal life
She was born in Tiflis as the eldest child of Natalia Zhgenti, a Georgian nurse, and Genrikh Masevich, a lawyer.[6] Masevich married Iosif Friedlander and they had one daughter together, Natasha Friedlander.[3]
References
Sources
- Karl Ledersteger, in Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie (Erdmessung). Band V von Jordan-Eggert-Kneissl, Handbuch der Vermessungskunde. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 1969, DNB 456892842.
- A.G.Massewitsch (1957): Aufbau und Evolution der Unterriesen
- JPL-Datenbank: Asteroid 1904 Massevitch (1972 JM)
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