He is credited with the discovery of 74 asteroids, and notably 951 Gaspra and 762 Pulcova. The Minor Planet Center credits his discoveries under the name G. N. Neujmin, and his surname appears this way in the literature. However, the modern English transliteration of his name would be Neuymin.
In the United States, his writings on distributism Distributism, also known as distributionism and distributivism, is an anti-capitalist economic philosophy formulated by such Catholic thinkers as G. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of social justice theoretically articulated by the Roman Catholic Church.
According to distributism, the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the populace, rather than being centralized under the control of a few state bureaucrats (some forms of socialism) or a minority of resource-commanding individuals (capitalism).
His most well-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown Father Brown is a fictional detective created by English novelist G. Chesterton and who stars in five volumes of in total 48 short stories, later compiled in five books.