Ileana Chinnici

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Ileana Chinnici is an Italian historian of astronomy, book author, and biographer, whose biography of Angelo Secchi won the 2021 Osterbrock Book Prize of the American Astronomical Society. [1] [2]

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Education and career

Chinnici earned a degree in physics in 1992 from the University of Palermo with a dissertation concerning Italian astronomer Pietro Tacchini, supervised by Giorgia Foderà. After working as a secondary school teacher, and a visiting position at the Paris Observatory, she joined the Palermo Astronomical Observatory as a research fellow in 1995, and became curator of the observatory's museum of astronomy in 1996. Since 2004 she has been a research astronomer at the observatory, in charge of museum activities. [3] She has also been an adjunct astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since approximately 2009. [2]

Books

Chinnici's books include:

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References

  1. ↑ Seitzer, Patrick (12 October 2020), "Ileana Chinnici Receives 2021 Osterbrock Book Prize for Biography of Angelo Secchi", News, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-05-23
  2. 1 2 Macke, Br. Robert (13 October 2020), "Specola Adjunct Scholar Chinnici Wins Osterbrock Book Prize", Sacred Space Astronomy, Vatican Observatory
  3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum , retrieved 2022-05-23
  4. ↑ Review of L'osseruatorio astronomico di Palermo:
  5. ↑ Reviews of La carte du ciel:
  6. ↑ Review of Alle origini dell'astrofisica italiana:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Merz Telescopes:
  8. ↑ Reviews of Decoding the Stars:
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