List of Famous people with last name Shajn

Pelageya Shajn

First Name Pelageya

Born on April 19, 1894

Died on August 27, 1956 (aged 62)

Born in Russia

Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn, née Sannikova, was a Russian astronomer in the Soviet Union, and the first woman credited with the discovery of a minor planet, at the Simeiz Observatory in 1928. Pelageya also discovered numerous variable stars and co-discovered the periodic, Jupiter-family comet 61P/Shajn–Schaldach. She was married to prominent Soviet astronomer Grigory Shajn.

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Grigory Abramovich Shajn

First Name Grigory

Born on April 7, 1892

Died on August 4, 1956 (aged 64)

Grigory Abramovich Shajn was a Soviet/Russian astronomer. In modern English transliteration, his surname would be given as Shayn, but his astronomical discoveries are credited under the name G. Shajn. Nonetheless, his last name is sometimes given as Schayn.

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