Tateos Agekian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tateos Agekian

Soviet and Russian astronomer of Armenian descent

Date of Birth: 12-May-1913

Place of Birth: Batumi, Adjara, Georgia

Date of Death: 16-Jan-2006

Profession: astronomer, physicist

Nationality: Russia, Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Tateos Agekian

  • Tateos Artemjevich Agekian (Armenian: ?????? ?????? ???????, Russian: ?????? ?????????? ??????, 12 May 1913, Batumi – 16 January 2006, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet astrophysicist of Armenian descent, and one of the pioneers of Russian and world Stellar dynamics.
  • Has found two evolutionary sequences of stellar systems: nearly spherical and strongly flattened.
  • Suggested essentially new method to investigate the structure and kinematics of the Milky Way Galaxy.
  • Found a new estimate for the dissipation rate in stellar clusters.
  • Gave an exhaustive analysis of the photogravitational interaction between stars and gas clouds.
  • A planet (3862, "Agekian") was named in honor of Tateos Artemjevich.

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