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About Sergey Blazhko
Sergey Nikolayevich Blazhko was a Russian and Soviet astronomer, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (1929). He was a graduate of Moscow State University and held a number of positions there including head of the Moscow Observatory from 1920-1931. He discovered a secondary variation of the amplitude and period of some RR Lyrae stars and related pulsating variables, now known as the Blazhko effect.
Everything about Sergey Blazhko →- Occupation
- astronomer, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- Born
- November 5, 1870
- Died
- February 11, 1956