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Vera Fedorovna Gaza

Date of Birth: 17 (29) December 1899 Place of Birth:	St. Petersburg Date of Death:	3 October 1954 (54 years) Country:	Flag of the Soviet Union (1923-1955). Svg USSR The sphere of science:	astronomy Place of work:	Astronomical Institute, Pulkovo Observatory Alma mater :	University of Petrograd

Vera Fedorovna Gaza ( 17 (29) December  1899, St. Petersburg ) - 3 October 1954 ) - Soviet astronomer.

Biography In 1924 she graduated from the University of Petrograd. In one thousand nine hundred twenty-one - 1926 she worked at the Institute for Astronomy in 1926 - one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six years - in Pulkovo Observatory. In 1936 she was arrested in connection with the "Pulkovo affair" and released in 1940 year. In 1,940 - 1954 she worked at the Pulkovo Observatory Simeiz office (with 1945 - as part of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory ), in 1941 - 1945 years - in Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory. Buried in Leningrad at Pulkovo Cemetery.

The main scientific works devoted to spectroscopy study of stars and diffuse emission nebulae. In 1940 he discovered the changes in the spectrum of Gamma Cassiopeia at the moment of the shell around the star. Together with G. Shain A. The molecular spectra of carbon stars. Working in Simeize, with 1949 years been actively involved in the study of light diffuse nebulae. Found a large number of previously unknown nebulae, thus identified several new types of diffuse emission structures. Together with Shain studied the structure of nebulae, estimating their masses, elucidating the role of dust and gas in nebulae. In the Astronomical Institute of the elements involved in determining the orbits of minor planets. Participated in the expedition gravimetric Institute of Practical gravimetry ( 1929 ) and the expedition of the Pulkovo Observatory to observe the total solar eclipse ( 1936 ). Author (with Shain) "Atlas of diffuse gaseous nebulae" (1952).

Gaza named named a minor planet ( 2388 Gase ), open N. S. Black 13 March 1977 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.

References [ edit | edit source code ] Kolchinsky IG, Korsun, AA, Rodriguez MG Astronomers. Biographical Directory. Naukova Dumka, 1977. ]

http://www.astronet.ru/db/msg/1219569

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/womenastro/womenastro-fg.html link for library of congress.

http://www.gao.spb.ru/personal/neo/eng/general/p05.htm link to asteroid named after vera.

Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers edited by Thomas Hockey, Katherine Bracher, Marvin Bolt, Virginia Trimble, Richard Jarrell, JoAnn Palmeri, Jordan D. Marché, Thomas Williams, F. Jamil Ragep ISBN: 978-0-387-31022-0 (Print) 978-0-387-30400-7 (Online)

Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Page 185 By Lutz D. Schmadel Online ISBN 978-3-642-29718-2

( 2388) Gase [ 2.45, 0.18, 2.2] 1977 EA2. Discovered 1977 Mar. 13 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. ( Named in memory of Vera Fedorovna Gaze ( 1899- 1954), who worked at the Pulkovo and Sime¨ıs observatories on stellar spectroscopy and the study of diﬀuse nebulae. As a young assistant at the Astronomical Institute ( predecessor of ITA) in Leningrad she determined the orbits of minor planets. ( M 7783)
 * M 6052)

Evidence of trial? Just Russian wiki? Most info above links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge - intelligentsia