Zinaida Aksentyeva Explained

Zinaïda Aksentieva
Birth Name:Аксентьєва Зінаїда Миколаївна
Birth Date:July 25, 1900
Birth Place:Odessa, Russian Empire
Death Place:Poltava, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Education:Odessa Institute of Public Education
Occupation:Astronomer, Geophysicist
Nationality:Soviet

Zinaïda Mikolaïevna Aksentieva (Ukrainian: Зінаїда Миколаївна Аксентьєва; July 25, 1900 – April 8, 1969)[1] was a Ukrainian/Soviet astronomer and geophysicist.[2] [3]

Life

Aksentieva or Aksentyeva was born in Odessa in 1900. She graduated from Odessa Institute of Public Education in 1924. She worked on mapping gravity and her observatory was one of the first to be able to accurately find the centre of the earth. She worked in Poltava Observatory. She became the observatory director in 1951. Her areas of study were tidal deformation of the earth and gravimeter Earth profiles.

She has a crater on Venus that is named in her honour.[4] The scientist was the first to organize a study of slope fluctuations at great depths in the mines of Kryvorizhye, Donbass, and Carpathians, and the first in the USSR to observe tidal changes in gravity using a gravimeter. Together with like-minded people, she prepared a general program of stars for latitudinal observations in Poltava and Irkutsk, information about which was sent to the central international time bureau.Aksentieva died in 1969 in Poltava where her observatory was.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bergeron, Jacqueline. Reports on Astronomy. 2012-12-06. Springer Science & Business Media. 9789401111003. en.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=3vNLAAAAMAAJ Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 1919-1979:
  3. Book: The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System. registration. 337. Zinaida Aksentyeva.. Greeley. Ronald. Batson. Raymond. 2001-11-29. Cambridge University Press. 9780521806336. en.
  4. http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/2129/report.pdf Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature 1994
  5. https://poltava-name.com/uk/eternal-1611-zhinka-shho-vse-zhyttya-prysvyatyla-poltavskij-gravimetrychnij-observatoriyi-zinayida-aksentyeva