Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion (née Renaudot) (31 May 1877 – 28 October 1962) was a French astronomer. She worked at the Camille Flammarion Observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, and was General Secretary of the Société Astronomique de France.
She published work in the changing surface features of Mars,[1][2][3][4][5] the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, and observations of other planets, minor planets and variable stars and recorded astronomy-related activities and events in numerous articles.[6]
Family[]
Born as Gabrielle Renaudot, her parents were Jules Renaudot, a sculptor, and Maria-Veronica Concetta Latini, who was Italian (d1900).[7] Her brother was the artist Paul Renaudot.[7]
She married Camille Flammarion, who also was an accomplished astronomer. She was his second wife. Flammarion's first wife, Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo, died in 1919.[8]
Honors[]
A crater on Mars, Renaudot, is named in her honor,[9] and her first name was the basis for naming the asteroid 355 Gabriella.
References[]
- ^ Flammarion, G. Camille (1927). "L' "Oeil" de Mars". L'Astronomie. 41: 165–167. Bibcode:1927LAstr..41..165F. ISSN 0004-6302.
- ^ Flammarion, Gabrielle Camille; Quenisset, F. (1924). "La Planete Mars". L'Astronomie. 38: 417–424. Bibcode:1924LAstr..38..417F. ISSN 0004-6302.
- ^ Flammarion, Camille; Flammarion, Gabrielle; Quenisset, F. (1924). "La Planete Mars". L'Astronomie. 38: 354–357. Bibcode:1924LAstr..38..354F. ISSN 0004-6302.
- ^ Flammarion, Camille; Flammarion, Gabrielle C.; Quenisset, F. (1924). "La Planete Mars". L'Astronomie. 38: 313–323. Bibcode:1924LAstr..38..313F. ISSN 0004-6302.
- ^ Flammarion, Gabrielle Camille; Renaudot, G. (1920). "Meteorologie Martienne". L'Astronomie. 34: 377–379. Bibcode:1920LAstr..34..377F. ISSN 0004-6302.
- ^ "NASA/ADS". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gotlieb, Marc, The Deaths of Henri Regnault, 2016 p90
- ^ "Flammarion, Nicolas Camille", Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014, p373
- ^ Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - Renaudot
- Arend, S. (1962). "In Memoriam: Gabrielle Flammarion". Ciel et Terre (in French). 78: 377–378. Bibcode:1962C&T....78..377. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- "Hommage à Mme G. Camille Flammarion". L'Astronomie (in French). 76: 279–280. 1962. Bibcode:1962LAstr..76..279.
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