Ileana Chinnici
Italian astronomer
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Ileana Chinnici's Degrees
- Bachelors Physics University of Padua
- Masters Astronomy University of Padua
- PhD Astrophysics University of Bologna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. 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. She has also been an adjunct astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since approximately 2009.
Ileana Chinnici's Published Works
Published Works
- Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (2019) (22)
- 19TH CENTURY SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS IN ITALIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES (2000) (9)
- Angelo Secchi-L'avventura scientifica del Collegio Romano (2012) (8)
- The Relationship between the Ramsden Circles at Palermo and Dunsink (2009) (3)
- The Maker and the Scientist: The Merz-Secchi Connection (2017) (3)
- Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth Century Science (2021) (3)
- The Palermo Merz Equatorial Telescope. An Instrument, a Manuscript, Some Drawings. (2015) (2)
- Practicing Science and Faith: A Short History of the Vatican Observatory (2018) (2)
- Pietro Tacchini (1838-1905), a key-figure in the post-Unitarian Italian astronomy . (2006) (2)
- Astrum 2009 : astronomy and instruments : italian heritage four hundred years after Galileo (2009) (2)
- Pietro Tacchini’s activity as astronomer in the scientific correspondence kept at the UCEA (2009) (1)
- The Collection of historical instruments of Acoustics of the University of Palermo (2018) (1)
- The IAU Astronomical Archives Working Group. 2: progress report (2004) (1)
- DIVISION IX/COMMISSION 41/WORKING GROUP ARCHIVES (2008) (1)
- HISTORICAL ARCHIVES IN ITALIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORIES: THE "SPECOLA 2000" PROJECT<sup>1</sup> (2006) (1)
- A Society for a New Astronomy: Building a Network for Spectroscopic Research (2019) (0)
- Astronomy and correlated sciences in the Arabic Sicily⋆ (2018) (0)
- 11 Instruments on Movie Sets: A Case Study (2014) (0)
- Italian Astronomical Observatories and their Historical Instruments Collections (2015) (0)
- A Crucial Political Change: New Risks and Missed Opportunities (2019) (0)
- Contributions to Astrophysics and other Sciences (2019) (0)
- DIVISION XII / COMMISSION 41 / WORKING GROUP ARCHIVES (2008) (0)
- What about Early Astrophysics's Cradles Today? (2012) (0)
- A Rising International Career: Travels, Achievements, and Recognition (2019) (0)
- Astronomical collections in Observatories: promoting preventive conservation (2019) (0)
- Angelo Secchi: Portrait of a “Multi-versed” Jesuit Scientist (2021) (0)
- A Manuscript by Jesse Ramsden at Palermo Observatory (2011) (0)
- Establishing the New Collegio Romano Observatory: An Observatory for “Physical Astronomy” (2019) (0)
- A Controversial Personality: Secchi and the Scientific Debates of His Time (2019) (0)
- Astronomy and correlated sciences in the Arabic Sicily⋆ (2018) (0)
- Advisor to the Papal States: Science in the Service of the Public (2019) (0)
- A Century in Ferment (2019) (0)
- Secchi’s Scientific Legacy (2019) (0)
- The Experience of Exile: A Tragic Opportunity (2019) (0)
- Astronomical dialogues with learned ladies (2021) (0)
- Secchi’s Final Years: Uncertainty and Illness (2019) (0)
- Tracing Ramsden's ‘Plumbline Level’ (2011) (0)
- Secchi’s Early Life and Education: From Childhood to the Priesthood (2019) (0)
- Nineteenth-Century Comets: Studies and Observations in Sicily (2015) (0)
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