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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. He was the astronomer at the Pontifical Gregorian University.In 1890, he founded his observatory, which he named "Collurania", equipping it with a 40 cm Cooke refractor, which he had purchased for £2000 (£210,652 at the 2020 equivalent) from the son of British Astronomer, James Wigglesworth (born, Wibsey 1815) and which had been situated in Scarborough, before being dismantled and moved to Teramo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenzo Cerulli has received more than 15,635 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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Over the past year Vincenzo Cerulli has had the most page views in the with 2,053 views, followed by Italian (1,750), and Luxembourgish (441). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (70.31%), Galician (42.54%), and Catalan (23.44%)

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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