Giorgio Abetti
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Life
He was born in
Collegio Romano observatory
in Rome as an assistant astronomer.
In the
First World War he served in the Corps of Engineers with the Italian Army.[2]
In 1921 he succeeded his father as the director of the
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, and continued until 1957. From 1925 he was also a professor at the University of Florence, and continued in this capacity until 1957.[1]
Giorgio Abetti is noted for having led expeditions to observe
University of Cairo in 1948–49. He was the vice president of the International Astronomical Union in 1938, and received the Medaglia d'argento from the Italian Geographic Society (1915), the Premio reale from the Accademia dei Lincei (1925), and the Janssen medal (1937).[1]
In 1937, Abetti received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society.
The crater
2646 Abetti
are named to honor both him and his father.
He died in Florence on 24 August 1982.[3]
Bibliography
He is the author of several popular works on astronomy.
- Handbook of Astrophysics
- Nebulae and Galaxies
- Solar Research
- Stars and Planets
- The Exploration of the Universe
- The History of Astronomy (1952, English edition)
- The Sun (1957)
References
- ^ a b c d G. Godoli ABETTI, Giorgio. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian)
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Bibcode:1984QJRAS..25...98H.
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