Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior
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Brazilian engineer and astronomer
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Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior's Degrees
- Bachelors Engineering Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Why Is Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior was a Brazilian astronomer, engineer and university professor during the latter half of the 19th century. Almeida was part of a commission tasked with calculating the stellar parallax of the Sun during the 1874 transit of Venus. Almeida was an important figure in the development of cinematography and he was the first known Brazilian to visit Japan and publish a book about his sojourn in China and Japan.
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