A Serbian geophysicist and astronomer who calculated, decades before ice cores could confirm it, how small cyclical wobbles in Earth's orbit and tilt pace the rhythm of ice ages, the Milankovitch cycles that remain the accepted explanation for the Pleistocene's glacial and interglacial swings.
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BirthplaceDalj, Austria-Hungary (present day Croatia) 1 Defining ContributionWorking through the 1920s, provided a definitive quantitative analysis of how cyclical variations in Earth's orbit and axial tilt combine to change the distribution of solar radiation across latitudes and seasons, an explanation for long-term climate change and the timing of ice ages now known as Milankovitch cycles. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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