Milutin Milanković
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879–1958)
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He mapped why ice ages come and go. Milanković connected Earth's wobble through space to the march of glaciers across continents, anchoring climate science in celestial mechanics and giving his name to the orbital cycles that pace our planet's deep freeze and thaw.
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Born in Serbia in 1879, Milanković trained as a civil engineer and spent early years designing reinforced concrete structures across the Balkans, filing patents along the way. But his mind reached further: he turned to mathematics and astronomy, eventually joining the University of Belgrade as a professor of celestial mechanics. There he calculated how shifts in Earth's orbit and tilt alter the sunlight reaching its surface — the "Canon of the Earth's Insolation" — and used that framework to explain the ice ages written into rock. He extended the method to Mercury, Venus, Mars, and the Moon, f…
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