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Vincenzo Cerulli

1859 - 1927

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Vincenzo Cerulli (20 April 1859 – 30 May 1927) was an Italian astronomer and founder of the Collurania-Teramo Observatory in Teramo, central Italy, where he was born. He earned a degree in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome in 1881, and continued his studies at the University of Berlin. Cerulli compiled a star catalog with Elia Millosevich. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenzo Cerulli has received more than 16,860 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vincenzo Cerulli is the 462nd most popular astronomer (down from 410th in 2019).

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Vincenzo Cerulli ranks 462 out of 644. Before him are Alfred Schmitt, Michael E. Brown, David Todd Wilkinson, Geoffrey Burbidge, Guillermo Haro, and Tsutomu Seki. After him are Luciano Tesi, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Stephen P. Synnott, Mary Adela Blagg, Alexander Voeikov, and Schelte J. Bus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Vincenzo Cerulli ranks 121. Before him are Pandeli Evangjeli, Stefan Toshev, Karel Halíř, Cecilia Grierson, Nathaniel Lord Britton, and George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.. After him are Carrie Chapman Catt, Anatole Le Braz, Alfredo Baquerizo, Theobald Smith, Cass Gilbert, and Victor Herbert. Among people deceased in 1927, Vincenzo Cerulli ranks 118. Before him are Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Leonard Nelson, John Henry Davies, Marie Spartali Stillman, Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, and J. B. Bury. After him are Feliciano Viera, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Franz Mertens, Kristian Prestrud, Reginald Dyer, and Klaus Berntsen.

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