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Place of Birth: Tartu, Livonia Governorate, Sweden
About Jaan Einasto
- Jaan Einasto (born 23 February 1929, in Tartu) is an Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the large-scale structure of the Universe.Born Jaan Eisenschmidt in Tartu, the name "Einasto" is an anagram of "Estonia" (it was chosen by his patriotic father in the 1930s to replace the family's German name).
- He attended the University of Tartu, where he received the Ph.D.
- equivalent in 1955 and a senior research doctorate in 1972.
- From 1952, he has worked as a scientist at the Tartu Observatory (1977–1998) Head of the Department of Cosmology; in 1992-1995, he was Professor of Cosmology at the University of Tartu.
- For a long time, he was Head of the Division of Astronomy and Physics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in Tallinn.
- Einasto is a member of the Academia Europaea, the European Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society; he has received three Estonian National Science Awards. 1947 Tartu Secondary School No.
- 1 1952 University of Tartu 1955 Cand.Sc.
- in physics and mathematics 1972 D.Sc.
- in physics and mathematics 1992 Professor 1991 Member of Academia Europaea 1994 Member of the Royal British Society of AstronomyThe asteroid 11577 Einasto, discovered in 1994, is named in his honour. In 1974, in a seminal work with Kaasik and Saar at the Tartu Observatory, Einasto argued that "it is necessary to adopt an alternative hypothesis: that the clusters of galaxies are stabilised by hidden matter." This was a key paper in recognizing that a hidden matter, i.e., dark matter, could explain observational anomalies in astronomy.
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