Milutin Milanković
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Milutin Milanković was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, climatologist, geophysicist, civil engineer and popularizer of science.
Milutin Milanković, c. 1924
The house in Dalj in which Milanković was born today houses the Cultural and Scientific Center "Milutin Milanković"
Milanković as a student
One of the 17 Milankovitch bridges on the railway line through the Nisevac gorge in Serbia.
Milankovitch cycles
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Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and named after the Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he hypothesized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession combined to result in cyclical variations in the intra-annual and latitudinal distribution of solar radiation at the Earth's surface, and that this orbital forcing strongly influenced the Earth's climatic patterns.
Tabernas Desert, Spain: Cycles can be observed in the colouration and resistance of different sediment strata
420,000 years of ice core data from Vostok, Antarctica research station, with more recent times on the left.