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I.S. Shklovskii

Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky
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Born 1 July 1916
Hlukhiv, Russian Empire (Present-day Ukraine)
Died 3 March 1985(1985-03-03) (aged 68)
Moscow, Soviet Union (Present-Day Russia)
Citizenship Soviet Union
Fields Astrophysics
Radio Astronomy
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Institutions Russian Space Research Institute
Moscow State University
Sternberg Astronomical Institute
Alma mater Moscow State University
Notable students Solomon Borisovich Pikelner
Nikolai Kardashev
Notable awards Lenin Prize
Bruce Medal


Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Самуи́лович Шкло́вский; sometimes transliterated Josif, Josif, Shklovskii, Shklovskij) (July 1, 1916 – March 3, 1985) 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.

He won the Lenin Prize in 1960 and the Bruce Medal in 1972. Asteroid 2849 Shklovskij and the crater Shklovsky (on the Martian moon Phobos) are named in his honor. He was a Corresponding Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences beginning in 1966.

Shklovsky was born in Hlukhiv, a city in the Ukrainian part of the Russian Empire, into a poor Ukrainian Jewish family. After graduating from the seven-year secondary school, he worked as a foreman on building Baikal Amur Mainline. In 1933 Shklovsky entered the Physico-Mathematical Faculty of the Moscow State University.

There he studied until 1938, when he took a Postgraduate Course at the Astrophysics Department of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute and remained working in the Institute until the end of his life. He died in Moscow, aged 68.


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