Italian Astrophysicist
Abetti was born in Padva on 5 October 1882.
He studied at the university of Padva and Rome and obtained his Ph.D. in
physical sciences. He was appointed as professor at the University of Florence
in 1921 and he remained there until his retirement there until his retirement
in 1957. From 1921 to 1952 he was Director of the Arcetri observatory in
Florence.
He was a member of the socio Nazionale, the
Academy of Lincei in Rome, and the Royal Society of Edinburg and the Royal
Astronomical Society in Britain. His research had been in the field of
astrophysics, with particular emphasis on the sun. He participated in many
expeditions to observe eclipses of the Sun and he also joined in one such
expedition to observe eclipses of the Sun and he also joined in one such
expedition to Siberia to observe the total solar eclipse on 19 June 1936. He was
well known for his influential popular text on the Sun, and he has also written
a handbook of astrophysics, published in 1936, and a popular history astronomy,
which appeared in 1963.
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