Viktor Safronov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet astronomer
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Place of Birth: Velikiye Luki, Pskov Oblast, Russia
About Viktor Safronov
- Viktor Sergeevich Safronov (Russian: ??´???? ?????´???? ?????´???) (born Velikie Luki; 11 October 1917 in Russia – 18 September 1999 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet astronomer who put forward the low-mass-nebula model of planet formation, a consistent picture of how the planets formed from a disk of gas and dust around the Sun.
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