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Charles Piazzi Smyth

1819 - 1900

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Charles Piazzi Smyth (3 January 1819 – 21 February 1900) was a British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Piazzi Smyth is the 500th most popular astronomer (down from 464th in 2019), the 3,675th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,717th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 500 out of 644. Before him are Luciano Tesi, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, Forest Ray Moulton, Margaret Harwood, and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs. After him are Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Robert H. McNaught, Edwin Foster Coddington, Frederik Kaiser, William Henry Smyth, and Ruby Payne-Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 85. Before him are Ernst Falkbeer, Louise Otto-Peters, Julia Ward Howe, Jean-Augustin Barral, James Spriggs Payne, and José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco. After him are Joseph Bazalgette, George Salmon, Ion Emanuel Florescu, Narcyza Żmichowska, William Powell Frith, and William Muir. Among people deceased in 1900, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 88. Before him are John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Dankmar Adler, Antoine Vollon, Hannibal Goodwin, Nicolae Crețulescu, and Albert Samain. After him are Tomás Gomensoro Albín, Victoire Léodile Béra, George Grove, Ernest Dowson, József Szlávy, and Raimundo Andueza Palacio.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 3,676 out of 5,161. Before him are Jovanotti (1966), Giovanni Zucchi (1931), Giorgio Scarlatti (1921), Giacomo Capuzzi (1929), Maurizio Arena (1933), and Giuseppe Merisi (1938). After him are Tiziano Ferro (1980), Romanino (1485), Iginio Straffi (1965), Elena Sofia Ricci (1962), Gabriele Tarquini (1962), and Carlo Luigi Spegazzini (1858).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Charles Piazzi Smyth ranks 26. Before him are Guido Bonatti (1210), Niccolò Zucchi (1586), Caterina Scarpellini (1808), Ercole Dembowski (1812), Elia Millosevich (1848), and Luciano Tesi (1931). After him are Giuseppe Asclepi (1706), Barnaba Oriani (1752), Maura Tombelli (1952), Stefano Sposetti (1958), and Andrea Boattini (1969).

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