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Caterina Scarpellini

1808 - 1873

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Caterina Scarpellini (29 October 1808 – 28 November 1873) was an Italian astronomer who discovered a comet and as a meteorologist she established a station in Rome in the 1850s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Caterina Scarpellini has received more than 13,639 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Caterina Scarpellini is the 373rd most popular astronomer (up from 417th in 2019), the 3,195th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,112th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 373 out of 531Before her are Dilhan Eryurt, Carl A. Wirtanen, Peter van de Kamp, Forest Ray Moulton, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, and Frank Schlesinger. After her are Herbert Friedman, Harry Edwin Wood, Frank Elmore Ross, Harold Spencer Jones, Benjamin Markarian, and Dorothea Klumpke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 49Before her are Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Michael William Balfe, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Sofia Adlersparre, Johann Benedict Listing, and Pyotr Chikhachyov. After her are Constantin Negruzzi, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Edward Manning, Rodolfo Amando Philippi, John Taylor, and Antonio Arenas. Among people deceased in 1873, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 51Before her are Christopher Hansteen, Edwin Landseer, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Eugène Flachat, Spyridon Trikoupis, and Charles Dupin. After her are Francis Marrash, Fyodor Vasilyev, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Salmon P. Chase, Odilon Barrot, and Alexei Fedchenko.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 3,195 out of 4,668Before her are Renato Rascel (1912), Mario David (1934), Guido Castelnuovo (1865), Alahis (700), Pasqualino De Santis (1927), and Giuseppe Piermarini (1734). After her are Tommaso Salvadori (1835), Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna (1850), Antonio Pietrangeli (1919), Jason Connery (1963), Giuseppe Signori (1968), and Learco Guerra (1902).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Caterina Scarpellini ranks 21Before her are Giovanni Battista Donati (1826), Niccolò Zucchi (1586), Giorgio Abetti (1882), Geminiano Montanari (1633), Luigi Carnera (1875), and Elia Millosevich (1848). After her are Barnaba Oriani (1752), Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819), Luciano Tesi (1931), and Andrea Boattini (1969).