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Angelo Secchi

1818 - 1878

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Angelo Secchi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈandʒelo ˈsekki]; 28 June 1818 – 26 February 1878) was an Italian Catholic priest and astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angelo Secchi has received more than 109,432 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Angelo Secchi is the 105th most popular astronomer (down from 90th in 2019), the 1,374th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,237th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Astronomer.

Angelo Secchi was an Italian astronomer who was most famous for developing the Secchi disk, a tool used to measure water clarity.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Angelo Secchi ranks 105 out of 644. Before him are Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Reinhard Genzel, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Adelard of Bath, and Annie Jump Cannon. After him are Jean Picard, Petrus Plancius, James Van Allen, Henry Norris Russell, Karl Ludwig Harding, and William Huggins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Angelo Secchi ranks 24. Before him are Thomas Mayne Reid, Hermann Kolbe, Mary Todd Lincoln, Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria, Amalia of Oldenburg, and François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville. After him are Frederick Douglass, Zachris Topelius, Emperor Norton, Francesco Crispi, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, and Richard Jordan Gatling. Among people deceased in 1878, Angelo Secchi ranks 18. Before him are Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Antoine César Becquerel, Elias Magnus Fries, Nikolay Nekrasov, and Queen Cheorin. After him are Henri Victor Regnault, Mariam Baouardy, Mercedes of Orléans, Carlo Blasis, Władysław Tarnowski, and John Russell, 1st Earl Russell.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Angelo Secchi ranks 1,374 out of 5,161. Before him are Musa of Parthia (-40), Franco Alfano (1875), Claudio Magris (1939), Gaius Asinius Pollio (-76), Alessandro Nesta (1976), and Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (1382). After him are Vonones I (-100), Nanni Moretti (1953), Quintus Hortensius (-114), Saint Silvia (515), Arnold of Brescia (1100), and Giovanni Boldini (1842).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Angelo Secchi ranks 10. Before him are Giuseppe Piazzi (1746), Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835), Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397), Riccardo Giacconi (1931), Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), and Girolamo Fracastoro (1476). After him are Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), Margherita Hack (1922), Giovanni Battista Donati (1826), Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709), and Guido Bonatti (1210).

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