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Giuseppe Piazzi

1746 - 1826

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Giuseppe Piazzi (US: PYAHT-see, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈpjattsi]; 16 July 1746 – 22 July 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S. Vaiana. He is perhaps most famous for his discovery of the first dwarf planet, Ceres. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Piazzi is the 27th most popular astronomer, the 502nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 535th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Astronomer.

Giuseppe Piazzi is most famous for discovering the first asteroid, Ceres, in 1801.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 27 out of 644. Before him are Avempace, Aryabhata, Caroline Herschel, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, and Charles Messier. After him are Neil deGrasse Tyson, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Riccardo Giacconi, Charles Greeley Abbot, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 6. Before him are Francisco Goya, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Gustav III of Sweden, Carlo Buonaparte, and Tadeusz Kościuszko. After him are Gaspard Monge, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Robert R. Livingston, Maurice Benyovszky, William Jones, and Sophia Magdalena of Denmark. Among people deceased in 1826, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Carl Maria von Weber. After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer, John VI of Portugal, Philippe Pinel, René Laennec, Joseph Proust, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, and Stamford Raffles.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 502 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Anterus (180), Christine de Pizan (1365), Giovanni Trapattoni (1939), Pope Stephen VII (850), Charles I of Hungary (1288), and Pietro Badoglio (1871). After him are Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (1416), Marcello Malpighi (1628), Tiberius Claudius Nero (-85), Pope John III (520), Renzo Piano (1937), and Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giuseppe Piazzi ranks 4. Before him are Galileo Galilei (1564), Giordano Bruno (1548), and Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625). After him are Riccardo Giacconi (1931), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Angelo Secchi (1818), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), and Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658).

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