Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky
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Aristarkh Apollonovich Belopolsky (Аристарх Аполлонович Белопольский) (July 13 1854 (OS: July 1) – May 16 1934) was a Russian astronomer.
He was born in Moscow and got his degree at Moscow University in 1876. In 1878 he became the assistant of Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin at Moscow Observatory. In 1888 he joined the staff of Pulkovo Observatory.
He worked in spectroscopy and discovered a number of spectroscopic binaries. Among others, he discovered that Castor B was a spectroscopic binary with a period of 2.92 days.
He was a good friend of Oskar Backlund, and when the latter died in 1916, he succeeded him as director of Pulkovo Observatory. However he resigned in 1918, because he did not like the administrative burden.
Belopol'skiy crater on the Moon is named after him.
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Obituaries
- [ApJ 80 (1934) 81]
- [MNRAS 95 (1935) 338]
- [Obs 57 (1934) 204] (one sentence)
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