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Created: 5.7.2011
Updated: 20.8.2015

Biography
MALINA MALCHEVA DIMITROVA POPOVA
(7 February 1922 – 14 March 2011)

Born: in Parvenets vilage, near Plovdiv.

Education:

    Malina Popova studied physics in the Sofia University. During that time she organised students montгly astronpomical bulletin. She was the first Bulgarian women awarded PhD in astronomy by the Sofia University (1 July 1949).

    She specialized in Sonnenberg Observatory, Germany (1961).

Research:

    In Germany she found 40 new variable stars. She determined KR from Auriga (constellation) as a new type star.

Professional experience:

    Malina Popova was assistant in the Department of Astronomy (1945 – 1953).

    She works in the Section of Astronomy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Physical Institute (1953) as a scientific secretary (1958 – 1977) and director (1977 – 1979).

Awards:

    Prof. M. Popova is awarded with: medal "Kopernicus" by the Polish Academy of Sciences, "Kiril and Methodiy" І rank.

Publications:

М. Попова, , PhD, научен ръководител проф. Н. Бонев, Софийски университет (1949).

References:

  1. Проф. дфн Малина Димитрова Попова (7 февруари 1922 – 14 март 2011), Светът на физиката (2) с. 231 (2011)

  2. Л. Спасов, Г. Камишева (съст.), Милко Борисов за себе си и другите за него, БАН, София (2008) с. 72, с. 76

  3. T. Petrova, 110th Anniversary of the First Bulgarian Astronomic Observatory with the Sofia University, Bulgarian Diplomatic Review, 1 October 2004

  4. А. Ваврек, Г. Камишева, Присъждане на докторска научна степен по физика в Софийския университет до 1950 г., Светът на физиката, (1999), кн. 2, с. 130–134

  5. Department of Astronomy, Sofia University

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