Giovanni Battista Donati: Facts & Related Content

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Born December 16, 1826 • PisaItaly
Died September 20, 1873 (aged 46) • FlorenceItaly
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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer
Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
Otto Struve
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist
David H. Levy
Canadian astronomer and science writer
Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert
Belgian astronomer
John Bainbridge
English astronomer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
Henry Draper
American astronomer
Alexis Bouvard
French astronomer
Wilhelm, Freiherr von Biela
Austrian astronomer

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