Jaan Einasto

Jaan Einasto
Jaan Einasto with his Marcel Grossmann Award, 2009
Born
Jaan Eisenschmidt

(1929-02-23) 23 February 1929 (age 95)
Alma materUniversity of Tartu (Ph.D., 1955)
Known forPioneer in the branch of astronomy known as near-field cosmology[2]
AwardsEstonia National Science Award (1982, 1998, 2003, 2007)
Marcel Grossmann Award (2009)
Ambartsumian International Prize (2012)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology[1] (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology

Jaan Einasto (born 23 February 1929) is an Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the large-scale structure of the Universe.[3]

  1. ^ Tamme, Virge (2014-06-11). "Jaan Einasto received the Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize". ut.ee. University of Tartu. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Jaan Einasto". Physics Today (2): 9316. 23 Feb 2017. Bibcode:2017PhT..2017b9316.. doi:10.1063/PT.5.031422.
  3. ^ "Jaan Einasto". Physics Today (2): 9316. 2017. Bibcode:2017PhT..2017b9316.. doi:10.1063/PT.5.031422.