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Mikhail Ostrogradsky

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Ukrainian mathematician (1801-1861)

ScientistsLived 1801 to 1861 · aged 60
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry.

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A 2 hryvna commemorative coin minted by the National Bank of Ukraine in 2001.A 2 hryvna commemorative coin minted by the National Bank of Ukraine in 2001.Commemorative plaque in Poltava on the last house where Ostrogradsky resided.Commemorative plaque in Poltava on the last house where Ostrogradsky resided.Ostrogradsky's grave in the village of Pashenivka, where he was born.Ostrogradsky's grave in the village of Pashenivka, where he was born.

Awards 4

Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 1st class
Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Scientists born in the 1800s 6

Matthias Jacob Schleiden57.6Moritz von Jacobi55.6Gustav Fechner58.0Charles Wheatstone55.6William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse55.0Thomas Graham54.6

About this person

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky, also known as Mykhailo Vasyliovych Ostrohradskyi, was a Russian Imperial mathematician, mechanician, and physicist of Ukrainian Cossack ancestry. Ostrogradsky was a student of Timofei Osipovsky and is considered to be a disciple of Leonhard Euler, who was known as one of the leading mathematicians of Imperial Russia.

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deceased
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Lived 1801 to 1861 · aged 60
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