Sergey Nikolaevich Blazhko (Сергей Николаевич Блажко in Russian) (November 5(17), 1870 - February 11, 1956, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet astronomer, a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929). He was a graduate of Moscow University and held a number of positions there including head of the Moscow Observatory from 1920-1931. He discovered a secondary variation of the amplitude and period of some RR Lyrae stars and related pulsating variables, now known as the Blazhko effect.
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1870
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1956 (aged 85)
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