Samoilova-Yakhontova Natalia Sergeevna

Definition: Soviet astronomer.
Years of life: 1896-
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Born in 1896 in Kharkov. She studied at the Higher Women's Bestuzhev Courses in St. Petersburg, in 1917 she transferred to Kharkov University, which she graduated in 1919. Since 1922, she was a computer scientist at the Astronomical Institute (now the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the USSR Academy of Sciences), from 1936 to 1942 she was in charge of the theoretical sector astronomy and celestial mechanics of the same institute. During the Great Patriotic War she worked at the State Optical Institute. Since 1945 - Head of the Department of Minor Planets and Comets of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy. Since 1946 - professor.
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