Who is Milankovitch, Milutin M. (1879–1958) Serbian Mathematician, Physicist

Milutin Milankovitch was born and educated

in Serbia and was appointed to a chair in the University

of Belgrade in 1909, where he taught courses in mathematics,

physics, mechanics, and celestial mechanics. He is well known

for his research on the relationship between celestial mechanics

and climate on the Earth, and he is responsible for developing

the idea that rotational wobbles and orbital deviations

combine in cyclic ways to produce the climatic changes on the

Earth. He determined how the amount of incoming solar radiation

changes in response to several astronomical effects such

as orbital tilt, eccentricity, and wobble. These changes in the

amount of incoming solar radiation in response to changes in

orbital variations occur with different frequencies, and they

produce cyclical variations known as Milankovitch cycles.

Milankovitch’s main scientific work was published by the

Royal Academy of Serbia in 1941, during World War II in

Europe. He was able to calculate that the effects of orbital

eccentricity, wobble, and tilt combine every 40,000 years to

change the amount of incoming solar radiation, lowering temperatures

and causing increased snowfall at high latitudes. His

results have been widely used to interpret the climatic variations

especially in the Pleistocene record of ice ages, and also

in the older rock record.

See also CLIMATE CHANGE; MILANKOVITCH CYCLES.

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