Ileana Chinnici

Ileana Chinnici
Education	University of Palermo, 1992 (degree in physics)
Occupations	Historian of astronomy Book author, Biographer
Employer(s)	Paris Observatory, Palermo Astronomical Observatory
Known for	Research and adjunct astronomer

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]}

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:

• L'osseruatorio astronomico di Palermo, la storia e gli strumenti (with Giorgia Foder Serio, Flaccovio Ed., 1997) ^[4]
• La carte du ciel: Correspondence inédite conservée dans les archives de l’Observatoire de Paris (edited, Paris Observatory, 1999) ^[5]
• Alle origini dell'astrofisica italiana: Il carteggio Secchi–Tacchini 1861–1877 (with Antonella Gasperini, Fond. Giorgio Ronchi, 2013) ^[6]
• Merz Telescopes: A global heritage worth preserving (edited, Springer, 2017) ^[7]
• Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (Brill, 2019) ^[8]
• Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth Century Science: The Multidisciplinary Contributions of a Pioneer and Innovator (edited with Guy Consolmagno, Springer, 2021)

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. 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:
   • Miniati, Mara (1998), Nuncius, 13 (2): 763–764, doi:10.1163/182539198x00905
5. Reviews of La carte du ciel:
   • Bigg, Charlotte (March 2001), The British Journal for the History of Science, 34 (1): 119–120, doi:10.1017/S000708740036424X, JSTOR   4028056
   • Evans, James (March 2005), "Review", Isis, 96 (1): 126–127, doi:10.1086/433013, JSTOR   10.1086/433013
   • Jones, Derek (2002), "The history behind the history", Astronomy and Geophysics, 43 (5): 31, Bibcode:2002A&G....43e..31C
   • Nikoloff, Ivan (2002), Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 5 (2): 197, Bibcode:2002JAHH....5..197N
6. Review of Alle origini dell'astrofisica italiana:
   • Gariboldi, Leonardo (September 2014), Isis, 105 (3): 651, doi:10.1086/679154, hdl: 2434/541508 , JSTOR   10.1086/679154
7. Reviews of Merz Telescopes:
   • Gabor, Paul (November 2018), Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 21 (2–3): 255–256, Bibcode:2018JAHH...21..255G
   • McKim, Richard (2017), The Observatory, 137: 247–248, Bibcode:2017Obs...137..242.
   • Witt, Volker (September 2017), Sterne und Weltraum, 56 (9): 88–89, Bibcode:2017S&W....56i..88W
8. Reviews of Decoding the Stars:
   • Euvé, François (2020), Revue des Questions Scientifiques, 191 (1–2): 228–230
   • Graney, Christopher M. (Summer 2020), "Modern European", The Catholic Historical Review, 106 (3): 496–498
   • Orchiston, Wayne (April 2020), Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 23 (1): 227–228, Bibcode:2020JAHH...23..227O
   • Pasachoff, Naomi (October 2019), "In the footsteps of Galileo: raising the twenty-first-century profile of Father Angelo Secchi", Metascience, 29 (1): 77–80, doi:10.1007/s11016-019-00470-6
   • Udías, Agustín, S.J. (January 2020), Journal of Jesuit Studies, 7 (2): 319–322, doi: 10.1163/22141332-00702011

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