# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mikheil-vashakidze
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:43:49.166Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mikheil-vashakidze"
name: "Mikheil Vashakidze"
slug: "mikheil-vashakidze"
description: "Mikheil Alexandres dze Vashakidze was a Soviet astronomer, who worked in the Abastumani astrophysical observatory (Georgia) from 1936 to 1956. He and Victor Alekseyevich Dombrovsky both discovered independently the polarized nature of radiation from the Crab Nebula in 1952 and 1953, which was caused by synchrotron radiation."
tagline: "Soviet and Georgian astronomer (1909-1956)"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1909-08-15"
deathDate: "1956-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             2.571428571428571
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Вашакідзе Михайло Олександрович"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump