Bogorodsky Alexander Fedorovich General data:
11.09.1907 - 10.12.1984
Place of birth: Gorlovka city, Russian Empire (since 1991 Donetsk region, Ukraine)
Studied in: North Caucasus State University (since 2006, the Pedagogical Institute of the Federal State Technical University of Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don city) (1931);
Key interests: history of astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, solar physics, general theory of relativity, astronomy, space missions, solar corona, nebulae and galaxies. PhD Thesis: The propagation of light in a gravitational field (1936 ); ScD Thesis: Einstein's field equations and their application in astronomy (1965 );
Biography:
He was born September 11,(according to the Gregorian calendar or August 29 according to the Julian calendar) 1907 in Gorlovka city of Russian Empire (since 1991, Donetsk region of Ukraine) in the family of railway employees. His childhood and youth passed in Taganrog.
In 1931 he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Pedagogical North Caucasus Industrial Institute in Rostov-on-Don and received a teaching position in physics and mathematics at one of the Taganrog schools, which was the beginning of his pedagogical activity.
During the years 1933-1936 he was a post-graduate student of the astronomer GA Tikhov of the Leningrad Institute of Natural Sciences. Lesgaft, under whose direction he wrote a Ph.D. thesis entitled "The Propagation of Light in a Gravitational Field", which was defended in 1936, worked at the Institute's Astrophysics Laboratory,
After defending his PhD thesis, he took part in an expedition from observations of total solar eclipse.
During 1938-1941 he was a doctoral student at the Pulkovo Observatory, where he worked during 1938-1944. It should be noted that the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the USSR against Nazi Germany, which was part of World War II, and the evacuation to Tatarstan hindered the defense of the dissertation.
In the summer of 1944, he arrived in Kiev at the invitation of All Saints, first as a teacher, and later during 1945-1963 he worked as an assistant professor, and then during 1963-1973 he was professor of the department of astronomy and head of the astrophysics department of the Astronomical Observatory of the T, G. Shevchenko Kyiv State University, and from 1953 to 1972 Director of the Kiev Astronomical Observatory.
In 1965 he defended his doctoral thesis "Einstein's Field Equation and their Application in Astronomy".
With his arrival at the Observatory of T. G. Shevchenko Kiev State University, research into the physics of the sun, as well as theoretical works on astrophysics and relativity began to develop. In the run-up to the International Geophysical Year, two country stations with laboratory and living quarters, as well as pavilions for observation installations, were set up near the Foresters and Tripoli villages for the observation of meteors. New equipment was purchased for the observatory: the photospheric-chromospheric telescope, meteor patrols, radar equipment for meteor observations, astronomical clocks, chronographs, measuring and computing machines and other instruments. A horizontal telescope was created at the observatory for spectrophotometric studies of the Sun.
At Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, he taught courses in theoretical astrophysics, theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics, stellar astronomy, internal structure and evolution of vision, magnetic hydromechanics, general theory of relativity, cosmology and other.
He died on December 10, 1984 in Kyiv.
The name of the scientist is planet No. 3885, which was discovered on April 25, 1979 by M. S. Chernikh who was fellow of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.
He made a major contribution to the development of research in relativistic astrophysics and relativity in the 1960s. His scientific interests were the general theory of relativity and its application in astronomy, astrophysics, history of astronomy. The scientific heritage of the scientist has about 100 articles and 2 monographs.
He gave the most complete solution to Kepler's relativistic problem, on the basis of which he developed an exhaustive classification of the orbits of test particles and light in the Schwarzschild gravitational field. the scientist also substantiated the ambiguity of Einstein's field equations, performed pioneering studies on covariant integration of tensor equations, developed a simple method of integrating Einstein's equations for a system of point masses; gave a comprehensive analysis of issues such as the Zeeliger paradox, the role of the principle of equivalence as the main physical premise of the general theory of relativity, the problem of privileged frames of reference and the justification of the Copernicus system. As early as 1959, he was one of the first to consider relativistic effects in the movement of artificial satellites of the Earth.
In addition to the problems of general theory of relativity, the scientist was engaged in various questions of the physics of the Sun and planetary nebulae. It is worth mentioning the Bogorodsky-Khinkulova formula for the distribution of electron concentration in the solar corona.
Main publications:
1. Богородский А. Ф. Всемирное тяготение. -К.: Наук. думка, 1971. -352с.
2. Богородский А. Ф., Чернега Н. А. Роберт Филиппович Фогель (1859—1920) // Историко-астрономические исследования.—1966.—Вып. 9.—С. 211—234.
3. Богородский A.Ф. Уравнения поля Эйнштейна и их применение в астрономии. Киев: Изд-во Киевского ун-та, 1962 - 197 с.
4. Богородский A.Ф. Уравнения поля Эйнштейна и их применение в астрономии. Киев: Изд-во Киевского ун-та, 1962 - 197 с.
Sources:
1 Колчинский И. Г., Корсунь А. А., Родригес М. Г. Астрономы: Биографический справочник. — Киев: Наук. думка, 1986.—510 с.-С.42-43
2 Осипов О. К., Хміль С. В. Олександр Федорович Богородський // Астрономічна обсерваторія Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка. 160 років / відп. ред. В. М. Єфіменко. – Київ, 2005. – 260 с.- C.102-107
3 Казанцева Л. В., Кислюк В. С. Київське вікно у Всесвіт: Історія Київської астрономічної обсерваторії в контексті історії розвитку національної та світової науки. — Київ: Наш час, 2006.—C.183
4 Енциклопедія українознавства. Словникова частина (ЕУ-II). — Париж, Нью-Йорк, 1955. — Т. 1. — С. 69-78.
