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Giovanni Battista Donati

1826 - 1873

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Giovanni Battista Donati (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista doˈnaːti]; 16 December 1826 – 20 September 1873) was an Italian astronomer. Donati graduated from the university of his native city, Pisa, and afterwards joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Battista Donati has received more than 23,383 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Giovanni Battista Donati is the 242nd most popular astronomer (up from 253rd in 2019), the 2,527th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,593rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Italian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Giovanni Battista Donati ranks 242 out of 644. Before him are Agrippa, Cleostratus, Johannes Schöner, Thomas Gold, Guillaume Le Gentil, and George Mary Searle. After him are Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Jean Fernel, Wilhelm von Biela, César-François Cassini de Thury, Oenopides, and Vesto Slipher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Giovanni Battista Donati ranks 29. Before him are Cetshwayo kaMpande, Walter Bagehot, Stephen Foster, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Gustave Moynier, and William Waddington. After him are Hormuzd Rassam, Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, Charles Barbier de Meynard, Franz Grashof, and Karl Gegenbaur. Among people deceased in 1873, Giovanni Battista Donati ranks 35. Before him are Wilhelm Marstrand, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Adam Sedgwick, Ferdinand David, and Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen. After him are Louis Le Chatelier, Bénédict Morel, Francis Garnier, Hermann Hankel, Malek Jahan Khanom, and Paweł Strzelecki.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Donati ranks 2,527 out of 5,161. Before him are Giuseppe Giacosa (1847), Barbara Longhi (1552), Armando Trovajoli (1917), Vespasiano I Gonzaga (1531), Luigi Bertolini (1904), and Piero Marini (1942). After him are Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720), Davide Ghirlandaio (1452), Giovanni Visconti (1290), Marco I Sanudo (1200), Luigi Cremona (1830), and Greta Scacchi (1960).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Italy

Among astronomers born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Donati ranks 14. Before him are Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598), Girolamo Fracastoro (1476), Angelo Secchi (1818), Annibale de Gasparis (1819), Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658), and Margherita Hack (1922). After him are Giovanni Domenico Maraldi (1709), Guido Bonatti (1210), Niccolò Zucchi (1586), Luigi Carnera (1875), Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio (1330), and Caterina Scarpellini (1808).

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