Alla Masevich

Alla Genrikhovna Masevich (October 9, 1918 — May 6, 2008) was a Soviet astronomer. She graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University. She served as assistant chairman of the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1952, and worked closely with Victor Ambartsumian. She became a professor of space geodesy at the Moscow Institute of Geodesy and Cartography in 1972.^[1]

She is known for her work in organizing groups to observe some of the first Russian satellites (1956–57).

References

↑ Lankford, John, ed. (1997). History of Astronomy An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. p. 320. ISBN 0-8153-0322-X.

Sources

Karl Ledersteger, in Astronomische und Physikalische Geodäsie (Erdmessung). Band V von Jordan-Eggert-Kneissl, Handbuch der Vermessungskunde. Verlag J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart 1969, DNB 456892842.
A.G.Massewitsch (1957): Aufbau und Evolution der Unterriesen
JPL-Datenbank: Asteroid 1904 Massevitch (1972 JM)

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