V.P. Tsesevich: the formation of personality
Journal Title: Eminak - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
In 2017 it is celebrated 110 years since the birth of one of the most famous Ukrainian astronomer, the founder of Odessa school of researchers of variable stars, the director of the Odessa Astronomical Observatory (1944-1983), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Vladimir Platonovich Tsesevich. The scientific heritage of V.P. Tsesevich, consisting of more than 730 scientific works, requires a thorough comprehension and systematization. In particular, the initial stages of his scientific activity, when there was a becoming of V.P. Tsesevich as a personality and scientist, require the further research. In the article it is presented the analysis of the early period of scientific activity of V.P. Tsesevich, disclosed conditions of formation of a scientific world outlook and the further development of the scientist as a researcher and personality. V.P. Tsesevich was born in Ukraine. The childhood of the future scientist was held first in Odessa, then in Petrograd (Leningrad), where V.P. Tsesevich received his primary and higher education. The decisive influence on the formation of a scientific outlook of V.P. Tsesevich was made by Russian Society of Amateurs of Universe Sciences and by working in the Research Institute of Lesgaft in the laboratory of his future supervisor in graduate of Leningrad University – famous astrophysicist G.A. Tikhov. During the working in the department of variable stars of RSAUS, the member of which V.P. Tsesevich began in 1921, there were formed the scientific interests of the scientist, were made the first scientific publications, was happened its formation as a scientist and expert in the field of variable stars. However, it should be noted that at an early stage of scientific activity V.P. Tsesevich defined the vector of his research interest in the direction of Odessa – the city where he spent his childhood and where the scientist was destined to achieve scientific peaks.
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Iryna Hrushytska
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