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Fyodor Bredikhin
Fyodor Bredikhin
Фёдор Бредихин
	Bredikhin c. 1890s
Born	26 November 1831; Mykolaiv, Russian Empire
Died	1 May 1904 (aged 72); Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Alma mater	Imperial Moscow University (1855)
	Scientific career
Fields	Astronomy
Institutions	Imperial Moscow University; Pulkovo Observatory

Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (Russian: Фёдор Александрович Бредихин, 8 December [O.S. 26 November] 1831 – 14 May [O.S. 1 May] 1904) was a Russian astronomer. His surname is sometimes given as Bredichin in the literature, and non-Russian sources sometimes render his first name as Theodor.

Career

In 1857 he joined the staff of the observatory at Moscow University, becoming its director in 1873.^[1] In 1890 he became director of Pulkovo Observatory (until 1894) and in the same year became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He studied the theory of comet tails, and also studied meteors and meteor showers.

Legacy

The asteroid 786 Bredichina and the crater Bredikhin on the Moon are named after him. The F. A. Bredikhin Prize [ru] is awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

References

^ Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

Bibliography

Imperial Moscow University: 1755-1917: encyclopedic dictionary. Moscow: Russian political encyclopedia (ROSSPEN). 2010. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-5-8243-1429-8 – via A. Andreev, D. Tsygankov.

External links

Obituary AN 165 (1904) 351/352 (in German)
Obituary MNRAS 65 (1905) 348

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[1] Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

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