Dmitrij F. Lupishko (born 1942) is a Ukrainian astronomer, founder of the Kharkiv

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science school, head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets at Kharkiv Observatory (1989-2012),Dmitrij F. Lupishko
Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University recipient of the

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Biography

Dmitrij Lupishko was born on February 15, 1942, in the village of Koshary,

Sumy Oblast Sumy Oblast (), also known as Sumshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presid ...

. In 1969, he graduated from the School of Physics of

Kharkiv State University The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second old ...

and entered graduate school under the guidance of academician

Nikolai P. Barabashov Nikolai Pavlovich Barabashov (; ; March 30, 1894 – April 29, 1971) was a Soviet astronomer. Barabashov was born in Kharkov, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1919; served as ...

, but in 1971 Barabashov died. In 1975, Dmitry Lupishko defended his PhD thesis "Absolute integral and surface photometry of

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in the opposition of 1971". In 1999 he defended his

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dissertation "

Photometry Photometry can refer to: * Photometry (optics), the science of measurement of visible light in terms of its perceived brightness to human vision * Photometry (astronomy), the measurement of the flux or intensity of an astronomical object's electr ...

and

polarimetry Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is done on electromagnetic waves that have traveled through or ha ...

asteroids An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...

: results of observations and data analysis". From 1993 to 2006, he was the head of the Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets at the Institute of astronomy.Лупішко Дмитро Федорович
Енциклопедія сучасної України Having started his scientific career with the research of

, he eventually began to study asteroids. In 1984, he created and headed the asteroids working group at the

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. In the following years, Dmitrij Lupishko organized and held four meetings of this working group, as well as two all-USSR seminars. Later, he organized international workshops "Polarimetry of Comets and Asteroids" (1997) and "Photometry and Polarimetry of Asteroids" (2003) at Kharkiv Observatory. In asteroid physics, Dmitrij Lupishko studied the laws of light scattering by asteroid surfaces and discovered several new polarization effects. He showed that the surfaces Of

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s are not purely metallic, but contain a significant part of

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s. He improved the values of asteroid diameters and

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s obtained by the infrared space telescope

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. Dmitrij Lupishko also created the polarimetric asteroid database, which is now a part of the

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.Бакіров В. С. (ред.). Лупішко Дмитро Федорович // Професори Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Біобібліографічний довідник. — Харків : ХНУ ім. В. Н. Каразіна, 2009. — С. 191. — 700 прим.

Honours and awards

Kharkiv Department of Asteroids and Comets

(2010). * M. P. Barabashov Prize of the

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(1988). * Asteroid

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is named after the scientist.3210 Lupishko (1983 WH1)
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References

Sources

* Бакіров В. С. (ред.). Лупішко Дмитро Федорович // Професори Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Біобібліографічний довідник. — Харків : ХНУ ім. В. Н. Каразіна, 2009. — С. 191. — 700 прим.
Лупішко Дмитро Федорович
Енциклопедія сучасної України
Dmitrij F. Lupishko
Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University
Lupishko, Dimitrij F.
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