Benjamin Jekhowsky

Beniamin Schechowski Pavlovich (Russian Вениамин Павлович Жеховский; * 1881 in Warsaw, at that time Russia, † after 1953 ) was a Russian-Polish- French astronomer.

After 1934 he began to sign his scientific work as Benjamin de Jekhowsky. The Minor Planet Center honors his discoveries under the name "B. Jekhovsky " ( with a V ). In modern English translation, one would write him Zhekhovskii or Zhekhovsky.

After attending the University of Moscow, he worked from 1912 at the Paris Observatory. Later he went to the Observatoire de astronomique Bouzareah as Algeria was a colony of France. He was a renowned specialist in celestial mechanics.

Schechowski discovered numerous asteroids and the asteroid 1606 Jekhovsky was named after him.