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Antonio Abetti

1846 - 1928

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Antonio Abetti (19 June 1846 – 20 February 1928) was an Italian astronomer. Born in San Pietro di Gorizia (Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. He was married to Giovanna Colbachini in 1879 and they had two sons. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Abetti has received more than 21,240 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Antonio Abetti is the 73rd most popular astronomer (up from 164th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 31st in 2019) and the most popular Slovene Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Antonio Abetti ranks 73 out of 644. Before him are Abu Hanifa Dinawari, Arthur B. McDonald, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, John Flamsteed, Jacques Cassini, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. After him are James Bradley, Walter Baade, Fritz Zwicky, Stephen Gray, David Fabricius, and George Darwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1846, Antonio Abetti ranks 15. Before him are Buffalo Bill, Wladimir Köppen, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, Naim Frashëri, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, and Gaston Maspero. After him are Eusebi Güell, Nectarios of Aegina, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, Anna Dostoevskaya, Vasily Dokuchaev, and Émile Gallé. Among people deceased in 1928, Antonio Abetti ranks 19. Before him are Franz Stuck, Thomas Hardy, Italo Svevo, Giovanni Giolitti, Myrtle Corbin, and Stjepan Radić. After him are Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Luigi Cadorna, H. H. Asquith, Reinhard Scheer, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Antonio Abetti ranks 9 out of 340. Before him are France Prešeren (1800), Slavoj Žižek (1949), Jože Plečnik (1872), Hugo Wolf (1860), Santorio Santorio (1561), and Milan Kučan (1941). After him are Hemma of Gurk (980), Edvard Kardelj (1910), Franz Miklosich (1813), Janez Drnovšek (1950), Aleksander Čeferin (1967), and Ivan Cankar (1876).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Slovenia

Among astronomers born in Slovenia, Antonio Abetti ranks 1. 

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