Sergey Blazhko

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Sergey Nikolaevich Blazhko (Сергей Николаевич Блажко in Russian) (November 5(17), 1870 - February 11, 1956, Moscow) was a Soviet astronomer, a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929), and head of the Moscow Observatory from 1920-1931.[1] He discovered a secondary variation of the amplitude and period of some RR Lyrae stars and related pulsating variables, now know as the Blazhko effect.

Sergey Blazhko was awarded the USSR State Prize (1952), two Orders of Lenin, two other orders and numerous medals. A crater on the Moon is named after him.

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  1. ^ Kulikovsky, P.G. (1970-80). "Blazhko, Sergei Nikolaevich". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 195-197. ISBN 0684101149. 
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