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In the 1930s Estonian government started a campaign to change German names to Estonian ones. So our family name was also changed. My father was a real patriot of Estonia, so he invented the name "Einasto", which is a permutation of "Estonia". The name was patented, so nobody else can have this name.
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Einasto showed in 1977 at a Symposium in Tallinn (Estonia) that the universe has a cell structure, in which the observed matter surrounds huge empty voids.
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Einasto married and had 3 children, 2 daughters and the youngest, a son. His daughter, Maret, is also an astrophysicist, who collaborates with her father.
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equivalent in 1955 and a senior research doctorate in 1972. From 1952, he has worked as a scientist at the Tartu
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de Swart, Jaco; Bertone, Gianfranco; van Dongen, Jeroen (28 February 2017). "How Dark Matter Came to Matter".
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EINASTO, JAAN; KAASIK, ANTS; SAAR, ENN (26 July 1974). "Dynamic evidence on massive coronas of galaxies".
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Since 1991 he is member of Academia Europaea. Since 1994 he is member of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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The large scale structure of the universe; Proceedings of the Symposium, Tallin, Estonian SSR
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Joever, Mihkel; Einasto, Jaan (1978). "Has the universe the cell structure?".
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Pioneer in the branch of astronomy known as near-field cosmology
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Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 2nd Class
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In 1974, in a seminal work with Kaasik and Saar at the
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https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1978IAUS...79..241J
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Tartu
Estonia
University of Tartu
Marcel Grossmann Award
Ambartsumian International Prize
Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Cosmology
Estonian
astrophysicist
large-scale structure
Universe
Tartu
University of Tartu
Ph.D.
Observatory
Cosmology
Astronomy
Physics
Estonian Academy of Sciences
Tallinn
Academia Europaea
European Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society
Tartu Observatory
dark matter
asteroid
11577 Einasto
Einasto Supercluster
galaxy supercluster

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