About Sergey Glazenap
Lived 1848 – 1937 (aged 88). Sergey Glazenap was a Russian astronomer, academic, beekeeper, university teacher and dean.
Sergey Pavlovich Glazenap (; 13(25) September 1848 - 12 April 1937) was a Russian and Soviet astronomer, honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Hero of Socialist Labor (1932). In some publications, particularly in the 19th century, his last name was given as S. de Glasenapp (in French) or von Glasenapp (in German).
He published Orbites des étoiles doubles du catalogue de Poulkova, a study of double stars, for which he was awarded the Valz Prize in 1890.
Glazenap crater on the Moon and the minor planet 857 Glasenappia have been named after him.
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Who was Sergey Glazenap?
Russian astronomer (1848-1937)
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Sergey Glazenap was born on 13 September 1848 in Vyshny Volotshyok County.
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Sergey Glazenap died on 12 April 1937 in Saint Petersburg.
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Sergey Glazenap was an astronomer, academic, beekeeper, university teacher and dean.
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Sergey Glazenap was Russian.
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