Antonio Abetti
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Antonio Abetti | |
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Born | |
Died | 20 February 1928 | (aged 81)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Padua |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy |
Institutions | Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri |
Antonio Abetti (19 June 1846 – 20 February 1928) was an Italian astronomer.
Born in San Pietro di Gorizia (Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. He was married to Giovanna Colbachini in 1879 and they had two sons.[1] He died in Arcetri.
Work
Abetti mainly worked in positional astronomy and made many observations of minor planets, comets, and star occultations. In 1874 he was part of an expedition led by Pietro Tacchini to observe a transit of Venus with a spectroscope.[2] Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and a professor at the University of Florence. He refurbished the observatory at Arcetri by installing a new telescope.
Honors
- Member of the Accademia dei Lincei.
- Member of the Royal Astronomical Society.
- The crater Abetti on the Moon is named after both Antonio and his son Giorgio Abetti.
- The minor planet 2646 Abetti is also named after Antonio and his son.[2]
References
- ^ "Antonio Abetti". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 89 (4): 325–327. February 1929. Bibcode:1929MNRAS..89R.325.. doi:10.1093/mnras/89.4.325a.
- ^ a b "Abetti, Antonio", Christof A. Plicht, p. 6, in The Biographical Dictionary of Astronomers, eds. Thomas Hockey et al., Springer: New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7.
External links
- Biography of Abetti Archived 2008-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
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