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Caterina Scarpellini

1808 - 1873

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Caterina Scarpellini (29 October 1808 – 28 November 1873) was an Italian astronomer and meteorologist who discovered a comet and as a meteorologist she established a station in Rome in the 1850s. She published more than fifty notes and reports over twenty years, and was rewarded with a silver medal by the Italian government. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Caterina Scarpellini is the 328th most popular astronomer (down from 290th in 2019), the 2,859th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,872nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 328 out of 644. Before her are Oenopides, Christoph Arnold, Edward Sabine, Takeshi Urata, George Van Biesbroeck, and Brian G. Marsden. After her are Freimut Börngen, John Machin, Allan Sandage, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Maria Clara Eimmart, and Franz Kaiser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 41. Before her are Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, John Scott Russell, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Emma Darwin, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, and Prince Frederick of Württemberg. After her are Karl Friedrich Lessing, August von Werder, Auguste Franchomme, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Pyotr Chikhachyov, and James Nasmyth. Among people deceased in 1873, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 44. Before her are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Auguste von Harrach, Ferdinand David, Hermann Hankel, and Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann. After her are Malek Jahan Khanom, Bénédict Morel, Spyridon Trikoupis, Prince Adalbert of Prussia, Johann Jakob Kaup, and Louis Le Chatelier.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 2,859 out of 5,161. Before her are Giuseppe Cavanna (1905), Marilù Tolo (1944), Raffaello Giovagnoli (1838), Ippolito Rosellini (1800), Luciana Paluzzi (1937), and Marino Grimani (1532). After her are Alice (1954), Cristoforo Madruzzo (1512), Ariobarzanes III of Cappadocia (-100), Laura Biagiotti (1943), Tiziano Terzani (1938), and Titta Ruffo (1877).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 22. Before her are Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709), Geminiano Montanari (1633), Giorgio Abetti (1882), Luigi Carnera (1875), Guido Bonatti (1210), and Niccolò Zucchi (1586). After her are Ercole Dembowski (1812), Elia Millosevich (1848), Luciano Tesi (1931), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819), Giuseppe Asclepi (1706), and Barnaba Oriani (1752).

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