Viktor Safronov

1917 - 1999

country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia

native language: Russian

languages spoken, written or signed: Russian

educated at: Moscow State University, MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics

award received: Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, Leonard Medal

Viktor Sergeevich Safronov (Russian: Ви́ктор Серге́евич Сафро́нов) (born Velikie Luki; 11 October 1917 in Russia – 18 September 1999 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet astronomer who put forward the low-mass-nebula model of planet formation, a consistent picture of how the planets formed from a disk of gas and dust around the Sun. Source: Wikipedia (en)