Tateos Artemjevich Agekian (Armenian: Թադևոս Արտեմի Աղեկյան, Russian: Татеос Артемьевич Агекян, 12 May 1913, Batumi – 16 January 2006, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet astrophysicist of Armenian descent, and one of the pioneers of Russian and world Stellar dynamics. Has found two evolutionary sequences of stellar systems: nearly spherical and strongly flattened. Suggested essentially new method to investigate the structure and kinematics of the Milky Way Galaxy. Found a new estimate for the dissipation rate in stellar clusters. Gave an exhaustive analysis of the photogravitational interaction between stars and gas clouds. A planet (3862, "Agekian") was named in honor of Tateos Artemjevich.
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12 March 1913 Batum, Russian Empire
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2006 (aged 92) Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Zodiac | Pisces |
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