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I: Dad, why we are not following rules written in Old Testament?
He: Why should I live as was written 5000 years ago, if after this time civilization created so many great things?
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He: Intresting, from population of 6 billions living in World, only 10,000 are pushing progress by leading scientific research.
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He: For adult man the is no such thing as age… (Don’t use it as an excuse)
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He: It was language and communication skills that made our ancestors become humans.
Transition was incredibly rapid.
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This album is dedicated for my father who passed away on 05/02/08.
Izold Pustylnik was a very intellectual person, and a good father.
He was born in pre-WWII Odessa, USSR, in 1938.
During difficult years of war he and his mom were evacuated to the Caspian Sea area.
They had to move to new destinations every couple months to escape from Nazis.
After the war their returned to hometown to find out they had no place to live.
However, life went on. Izold finished high school in 1954 with silver medal.
In 1960 he graduated cum laude from Odessa University as an astronomer.
In 1962 Izold started working at Tyravere Observatory, where he had been working till his last day.
He had more than 200 scientific publications in astrophysics and astronomy.
Please visit his homepage:http://www.aai.ee/~izold/index1.html
Dear all, photos from this album can be copied, published and re/used, but only with reference to author and IzoldPustylnik
Stan
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IN MEMORIAM
IZOLD PUSTYLNIK И.Б.Пустыльник, Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник (17 March 1938 – 2 May 2008)
Izold Pustylnik, eminent astronomer and senior
research associate at the Tartu Observatory,
died on the early morning of May 2, 2008.
Izold Pustylnik was born on March 17, 1938
in the family of millers in Odessa, Ukraine.
There he graduated from the secondary school
with high grades and cum laude from Odessa
University. In 1962 he applied for a postgraduate
position at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy,
Academy of Sciences of the then Estonian
Soviet Socialist Republic. Remarkably, only
three months after starting his postgraduate
studies, Pustylnik delivered his first academic
seminar paper at the institute in the Estonian
language. His skills in acquiring new languages
were impressive: in the institute’s personnel records from 1992 Pustylnik has
rated his command of Russian, Estonian, English and Polish as excellent, and
Ukrainian, German and French as languages he could read and translate, and
Hungarian as the language he commanded at conversational level.
After his post-graduation studies, Pustylnik defended Candidate of Science
degree at the University of Tartu in 1958 and DSC at St Petersburg State University
in 1994.
During the entire time he worked at the Tartu Observatory, Pustylnik researched
close binary systems, because these stars, orbiting very close to each
other around a common centre of mass, help us learn more about stars than
can be done by studying single stars. He even defined a new stellar category –
gas-eclipsed close binaries, which are binaries orbiting around each other in
the common gas envelope. Though mainly a theoretician, Pustylnik was actively
and over a long period in his earlier academic career also involved in
observing binary systems.
In recent years Pustylnik took interest in famous astronomers and has
published, together with Vitalii Bronshten, a monograph on Ernst Julius Öpik,
one of the leading Estonian astronomers. Pustylnik also wrote about Stanislavs
Vasilevskii, the Latvian astronomer whose talent remained hidden in the tumult
of the 20th century, and investigated thoroughly the life and work of
http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol40/inmemoriam.pdf
148 http://www.folklore.ee/folklore
In memoriam
Erich Schoenberg, the Estonian astronomer who worked at the Tartu Old Observatory.
Pustylnik’s interests were not limited to the life and work of famous astronomers;
he also attempted to draw parallels between the views of ancient
astronomers and contemporary thought. At the 2002 Tallinn conference celebrating
the passing of 150 years from the measuring of long meridian arc
from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, which is now known as the Struve
Geodetic Arc and which is included into the UNESCO World Heritage List,
Izold Pustylnik analysed Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve’s geodetic and astronomical
measuring in the light of contemporary astronomical understanding.
In the mid-1970s, during the surge of national awakening in Estonia, astronomer
Heino Eelsalu began to trace Estonian national identity, almost lost
by then, and focused on the interpretation of various myths and archaeological
objects from astronomical viewpoint, laying thus a solid foundation for the
field of archaeoastronomy in Estonia. For many younger colleagues this opened
a new window to the world, and Eelsalu’s enthusiasm fired many, Pustylnik
among others. He was an active member of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy
in Culture) over many years, and had established contacts with scholars
of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy in the entire Europe. He became
one of the main organisers of the 2002 International Conference of SEAC,
which was held in Tartu, Estonia. At the conference he also delivered a weighty
paper ‘Does modern astrophysics widen the horizons of archaeoastronomy?’
(published in SEAC Proceedings, 2002).
Pustylnik’s fine language skills allowed him to cooperate with astronomers
of many countries of the world. His active lifestyle made him noticed and elected
in the boards of international organisations. For instance, Pustylnik was the
member of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society virtually since the establishment
of the society.
Pustylnik was also one of the main instigators of Euroscience Estonia. By a
cruel irony, Pustylnik was gone by the opening of the 2008 international seminar
which he had summoned. The seminar was dedicated to the astronomer
Ernst Christoph Friedrich Knorre who worked in Tartu before Struve’s era.
Izold Pustylnik will be deeply missed by the people of the Tartu Observatory.
He was a fine colleague and interlocutor on scientific issues and life in
general.
Tõnu Viik
I: Dad, why we are not following rules written in Old Testament?
He: Why should I live as was written 5000 years ago, if after this time civilization created so many great things?
************************************************************************************************************
He: Intresting, from population of 6 billions living in World, only 10,000 are pushing progress by leading scientific research.
***********************************************************************************************************
He: For adult man the is no such thing as age… (Don’t use it as an excuse)
***********************************************************************************************************
He: It was language and communication skills that made our ancestors become humans.
Transition was incredibly rapid.
***********************************************************************************************************
This album is dedicated for my father who passed away on 05/02/08.
Izold Pustylnik was a very intellectual person, and a good father.
He was born in pre-WWII Odessa, USSR, in 1938.
During difficult years of war he and his mom were evacuated to the Caspian Sea area.
They had to move to new destinations every couple months to escape from Nazis.
After the war their returned to hometown to find out they had no place to live.
However, life went on. Izold finished high school in 1954 with silver medal.
In 1960 he graduated cum laude from Odessa University as an astronomer.
In 1962 Izold started working at Tyravere Observatory, where he had been working till his last day.
He had more than 200 scientific publications in astrophysics and astronomy.
Please visit his homepage:http://www.aai.ee/~izold/index1.html
Dear all, photos from this album can be copied, published and re/used, but only with reference to author and IzoldPustylnik
Stan
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
IN MEMORIAM
IZOLD PUSTYLNIK И.Б.Пустыльник, Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник (17 March 1938 – 2 May 2008)
Izold Pustylnik, eminent astronomer and senior
research associate at the Tartu Observatory,
died on the early morning of May 2, 2008.
Izold Pustylnik was born on March 17, 1938
in the family of millers in Odessa, Ukraine.
There he graduated from the secondary school
with high grades and cum laude from Odessa
University. In 1962 he applied for a postgraduate
position at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy,
Academy of Sciences of the then Estonian
Soviet Socialist Republic. Remarkably, only
three months after starting his postgraduate
studies, Pustylnik delivered his first academic
seminar paper at the institute in the Estonian
language. His skills in acquiring new languages
were impressive: in the institute’s personnel records from 1992 Pustylnik has
rated his command of Russian, Estonian, English and Polish as excellent, and
Ukrainian, German and French as languages he could read and translate, and
Hungarian as the language he commanded at conversational level.
After his post-graduation studies, Pustylnik defended Candidate of Science
degree at the University of Tartu in 1958 and DSC at St Petersburg State University
in 1994.
During the entire time he worked at the Tartu Observatory, Pustylnik researched
close binary systems, because these stars, orbiting very close to each
other around a common centre of mass, help us learn more about stars than
can be done by studying single stars. He even defined a new stellar category –
gas-eclipsed close binaries, which are binaries orbiting around each other in
the common gas envelope. Though mainly a theoretician, Pustylnik was actively
and over a long period in his earlier academic career also involved in
observing binary systems.
In recent years Pustylnik took interest in famous astronomers and has
published, together with Vitalii Bronshten, a monograph on Ernst Julius Öpik,
one of the leading Estonian astronomers. Pustylnik also wrote about Stanislavs
Vasilevskii, the Latvian astronomer whose talent remained hidden in the tumult
of the 20th century, and investigated thoroughly the life and work of
http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol40/inmemoriam.pdf
148 http://www.folklore.ee/folklore
In memoriam
Erich Schoenberg, the Estonian astronomer who worked at the Tartu Old Observatory.
Pustylnik’s interests were not limited to the life and work of famous astronomers;
he also attempted to draw parallels between the views of ancient
astronomers and contemporary thought. At the 2002 Tallinn conference celebrating
the passing of 150 years from the measuring of long meridian arc
from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, which is now known as the Struve
Geodetic Arc and which is included into the UNESCO World Heritage List,
Izold Pustylnik analysed Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve’s geodetic and astronomical
measuring in the light of contemporary astronomical understanding.
In the mid-1970s, during the surge of national awakening in Estonia, astronomer
Heino Eelsalu began to trace Estonian national identity, almost lost
by then, and focused on the interpretation of various myths and archaeological
objects from astronomical viewpoint, laying thus a solid foundation for the
field of archaeoastronomy in Estonia. For many younger colleagues this opened
a new window to the world, and Eelsalu’s enthusiasm fired many, Pustylnik
among others. He was an active member of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy
in Culture) over many years, and had established contacts with scholars
of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy in the entire Europe. He became
one of the main organisers of the 2002 International Conference of SEAC,
which was held in Tartu, Estonia. At the conference he also delivered a weighty
paper ‘Does modern astrophysics widen the horizons of archaeoastronomy?’
(published in SEAC Proceedings, 2002).
Pustylnik’s fine language skills allowed him to cooperate with astronomers
of many countries of the world. His active lifestyle made him noticed and elected
in the boards of international organisations. For instance, Pustylnik was the
member of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society virtually since the establishment
of the society.
Pustylnik was also one of the main instigators of Euroscience Estonia. By a
cruel irony, Pustylnik was gone by the opening of the 2008 international seminar
which he had summoned. The seminar was dedicated to the astronomer
Ernst Christoph Friedrich Knorre who worked in Tartu before Struve’s era.
Izold Pustylnik will be deeply missed by the people of the Tartu Observatory.
He was a fine colleague and interlocutor on scientific issues and life in
general.
Tõnu Viik
