Stanislaus Vasilevskis

Staņislavs Vasiļevskis (1907–1988) was a Latvian astronomer. He was an assistant professor (docent) at the University of Latvia and an employee (staff member) of the University of California (1949–1988).^[1] He was one of the signatories of the Latvian Central Council Memorandum of March 17, 1944.

Staņislavs Vasiļevskis
Born	(1907-07-20)July 20, 1907 Ilūkste county, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died	July 1, 1988(1988-07-01) (aged 80) Palo Alto, California, United States
Citizenship	Latvia, USA
Alma mater	University of Latvia
Occupation(s)	Astronomer, Staff member

Biography

Born on July 20, 1907, in Laucesa Parish, in the Jeruzaleme home, into the family of a dairy farmer.^[2] He studied at Daugavpils 1st Secondary School (graduated 1925). He studied at the University of Latvia (graduated 1939), worked as a privatdozent (unpaid lecturer/assistant professor), and later as an associate professor. In 1939, he pursued further studies at Leiden University.

At the end of World War II, he went into exile to Munich, Germany, and in 1949, to the US, where he worked at the University of California's Lick Observatory. He died on July 1, 1988, in Palo Alto, California.^[3]

Memorial

On May 3, 1978, American astronomer Arnold Klemolat at the U.S. Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California named the asteroid after S. Vasiļevskis as 2014 Vasilevskis (provisional designation 1973 JA).^[4]