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Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Самуи́лович Шкло́вский; sometimes transliterated Josif, Josif, Shklovskii, Shklovskij) (1 July 1916 – 3 March 1985) was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.
Iosif Shklovskii was a Soviet scientist who made significant contributions to solar, stellar, and extraterrestrial research. He received the Bruce Medal in 1972 and wrote popular books on cosmic rays and intelligent life in the universe.
Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky, a man who had a significant and often decisive influence on modem astrophysics was born in the town of Glukhov in Ukraine, then a part of the Russian Empire, on 1 July 1916.
Jul 1, 2017 · On July 1, 1916, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky was born. Shklovsky identified the continuum radiation of the Crab Nebula as synchrotron radiation, and he linked x-ray stars to binary systems containing a neutron star.
Theoretical astrophysicist Iosif S. Shklovsky was one of the most remarkable personalities and scholars among the Soviet astronomy community of his time. He chose as his own most important contributions the derivation of a reliable distance scale for planetary nebulae and the recognition that the emission from the Crab Nebula is synchrotron ...
Mar 6, 1985 · Iosif S. Shklovsky, an internationally known Soviet astrophysicist and early champion of the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, died in Moscow on Sunday. He was 68 years old.
Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. He is remembered for work in theoretical astrophysics and other topics, as well as for his 1962 book on extraterrestrial life, the revised and expanded version of which was co-authored by American astronomer Carl Sagan in 1966 as Intelligent Life in the Universe.
