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Milutin Milankovic

Also Known As Milutin Milankovic
Climatologist

A Serbian geophysicist and astronomer who calculated, decades before ice cores could confirm it, how small cyclical wobbles in Earth's orbit and tilt pace the rhythm of ice ages, the Milankovitch cycles that remain the accepted explanation for the Pleistocene's glacial and interglacial swings. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1879-05-28 1
Birth Year
1879 1
Death Date
1958-12-12 1
Death Year
1958 1
Birthplace
Dalj, Austria-Hungary (present day Croatia) 1
Death Place
Belgrade 2
Nationality
Austria-Hungary 2
Nationality
Kingdom of Yugoslavia 2
Nationality
Serbian 1
Defining Contribution
Working through the 1920s, provided a definitive quantitative analysis of how cyclical variations in Earth's orbit and axial tilt combine to change the distribution of solar radiation across latitudes and seasons, an explanation for long-term climate change and the timing of ice ages now known as Milankovitch cycles. 1
Milutin Milankovic
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Milankovitch Cycles

Milutin Milankovic
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Concepts Credited

Milankovitch Cycles, Concepts
Source Milankovitch Cycles (Wikipedia)

Works In

Climatology, Disciplines
Source Milutin Milankovic (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Serbia

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Source Milutin Milankovic (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
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Milutin Milanković (sometimes anglicised as Milutin Milankovitch; Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Миланковић, pronounced [milǔtin milǎːnkoʋitɕ]; 28 May 1879 – 12 December 1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, university professor, popularizer of science and academic.
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1. Milutin Milankovic (Wikipedia)
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was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer, university professor, popularizer of science and academic.
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2. Milutin Milankovic (Wikidata)
  • P20 (place of death)
    died in Belgrade
  • Wikidata item aliases (en) [1]
    also known as Milutin Milankovic
  • P27 (country of citizenship) [1]
    citizen of Austria-Hungary
  • P27 (country of citizenship) [2]
    citizen of Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  • P19 (place of birth) [1]
    born in Dalj
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Wikidata: Milutin Milankovic
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