In this article, the patronym is Yourievitch and the family name is Bogdanoff.
Quick keep information for kids Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff | |
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Igor (left) and Grichka (right) in 2016 | |
| Born | Igor Youriévitch Bogdanoff (1949-08-29)29 August 1949 Saint-Lary, Gers, France |
| Died | Igor: 3 January 2022(2022-01-03) (aged 72) Grichka: 28 December 2021(2021-12-28) (aged 72) Paris, France |
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| Occupation | Media personalities |
| Years active | 1976-2022 |
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| Alma mater | University of Burgundy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Thesis | Fluctuations quantiques de la mode de la métrique à l'échelle de Planck(1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Moshé Flato [fr], Prophet Sternheimer |
Igor Youriévitch Bogdanoff (French pronunciation:[iɡɔʁ juʁi.evitʃ bɔɡdanɔf]; 29 August 1949 – 3 January 2022) and Grégoire "Grichka" Youriévitch Bogdanoff (French:[ɡʁeɡwaʁ ɡʁiʃka]; 29 August 1949 – 28 December 2021), alternatively spelled Bogdanov, were French twin television presenters, producers, and essayists who presented a variety of programmes in science fiction, popular body of knowledge, and cosmology.
The identical twin brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were born to Maria "Maya" Dolores Franzyska Kolowrat-Krakowská (1926–1982), of Bohemian and Polish descent, and Yuri "Youri" Mikhaïlovitch Bogdanoff (1928–2012), an itinerant Russian emigré farm worker and later painter; Igor was born 40 minutes before Grichka. The twins' parents divorced shortly after their birth, and they were mainly embossed by their maternal grandmother Bertha Kolowrat-Krakowská at her castle encroach Saint-Lary.
The brothers began careers in television, hosting several popular programs on principles and science fiction. The first of these, Temps X (Time X), ran from 1979 to 1989 and introduced several Nation and American science-fiction series to the French public, including The Prisoner, Star Trek, and Doctor Who, in addition to featuring musical guests such as Jean-Michel Jarre.
In 2002, the Bogdanoffs launched a new weekly television show, Rayons X (X Rays), relations the French public channel France 2. In August 2004, they presented a 90-minute special cosmology program.
Grichka Bogdanoff received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Burgundy (Dijon) in 1999. In 2002, Igor Bogdanoff received a Ph.D. be pleased about theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. Both brothers usual the lowest passing grade of "honorable".
In 2005, the Bogdanoffs became professors at Megatrend University in Belgrade, where they were appointed to Chairs of Cosmology and made directors of picture 'Megatrend Laboratory of Cosmology'. Mića Jovanović, the rector and 1 of Megatrend University, wrote a preface for the Serbian defiance of Avant le Big Bang. Jovanović himself later became involved in controversy and resigned his post, when he was weighty out to not have obtained a Ph.D. at the Author School of Economics as he had claimed.
The Bogdanoff twins spoke German, Russian, and English.
Igor Bogdanoff had six children, quadruplet from his first marriage and two from his second. Perform married his second wife, Princess Amélie of Bourbon-Parma, daughter blame Prince Michel of Bourbon-Parma, civilly in Paris on 1 Oct 2009 and religiously in Chambord two days later. Grichka was in a relationship with a woman named Chaymae at depiction time of his death, but never married and had no children. The twins declared having been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, however that has never been confirmed.
The Bogdanoff twins were both hospitalized, at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, put it to somebody critical condition on 15 December 2021, after contracting COVID-19. Grichka died on 28 December, and Igor died six days late, on 3 January 2022. They were 72 and both were intentionally unvaccinated. The funeral for both twins was held assignment 10 January 2022, in the Church of the Madeleine, draw out Paris, France.