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1826, Dec 161852-18731873, Sep 20
an Italian astronomer on the staff of the Observatory of Florence (later its director) and pioneered spectroscopy of comets to determine their physical composition.
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06/02/1858-Giovanni Battista Donati first sees his namesake Comet
09/28/1858-Donati's comet (named after its discoverer, ) becomes first to be photographed
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Giovanni Battista Donati1826, Dec 161852
 
18731873, Sep 20

Carl Friedrich Gauss1777, Apr 301798
 
18541855, Feb 23
 a German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, alg...
August Ferdinand Mobius1790, Nov 171816
 
18581868, Sep 26
 a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of the Möb...
A. Laurentunknown1850
 
1859unknown
 a French amateur astronomer who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a re...
Giuseppe Asclepi17061760
 
1861776
 an Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Colle...
James Ferguson [4]1797, Aug 311847
 
18601867, Sep 26
 an American astronomer and engineer (he helped build the Erie canal) born in Scotland who made th...
Jean Chacornac1823, Jun 211853
 
 
18601873, Sep 23
 a French astronomer, born in Lyon, died in St Jean en Royans. Working in Marseille and Paris, he ...
Christopher Hansteen1784, Sep 261806
 
18611873, Apr 11
 a Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist, best known for his mapping of Earth's magneti...
Hermann Goldschmidt1802, Jun 171820
 
18621866, Apr 26
 a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a ...
Johann Franz Encke1791, Sep 231816
 
18631865, Aug 26
 a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander1799, Mar 221823
 
18631875, Feb 17
 a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and d...
Heinrich d'Arrest1822, Aug 131846
 
18641875, Jun 14
 a German astronomer, born in Berlin, involved in the search for Neptune, discovered a comet, and ...
William Rutter Dawes1799, Mar 191849
 
18641868, Feb 15
 an English astronomer who made extensive measurements of double stars as well as observations of ...
George Phillips Bond1825, May 201850
 
18651865, Feb 17
 an American astronomer. He was the son of William Cranch Bond. Some sources give his year of birt...
John Herschel1792, Mar 71816
 
18671871, May 11
 an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer, and...
David Rittenhouse1732, Apr 81750
 
1871796, Jun 26
 a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrum...
James Challis1803, Dec 121825
 
18701882, Dec 3
 an English clergyman, physicist and astronomer. Plumian Professor and director of the Cambridge O...
Theodor Brorsen1819, Jul 291844
 
18701895, Mar 31
 a Danish astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of five comets, including the lost period...
Sir Edward Sabine1788, Oct 141818
 
18711883, Jun 26
 an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th President of the...
Mary Fairfax Somerville1780, Dec 261811
 
18721872, Nov 29
 a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was disco...
Charles-Eugene Delaunay1816, Apr 91855
 
 
18721872, Aug 5
 a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both ...
Anders Jonas Angstrom1814, Aug 131839
 
18731874, Jun 21
 a Swedish physicist and one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. Intrigued by terrestr...
Richard Christopher Carrington1826, May 261848
 
18731875, Nov 27
 an English amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of ...
Peter Andreas Hansen1795, Dec 81820
 
18741874, Mar 28
 a danish astronomer. In 1838 he published a revision of the lunar theory, entitled Fundamenta nov...
Wilhelm Tempel1821, Dec 41850
 
18801889, Mar 16
 a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870...
George B. Airy1801, Jul 271822
 
18811892, Jan 21
 an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievement...
Thomas William Webb1807, Dec 141829
 
18851885, May 19
 a British astronomer. Through his career T. W. Webb served as a clergyman at various places inclu...
Benjamin Apthorp Gould1824, Sep 271844
 
18851896, Nov 26
 a pioneering American astronomer. He is noted for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering ...
Alvan Clark1804, Mar 81830
 
18871887, Aug 19
 an American astronomer and telescope maker. He was a portrait painter and engraver (c.1830s-1850s...
Ernest Mouchez1821, Aug 241843
 
18871892, Jun 29
 a French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Ca...
John Couch Adams1819, Jun 51835
 
18881892, Jan 21
 a British mathematician and astronomer. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence ...
Maria Mitchell1818, Aug 11835
 
18881889, Jun 28
 an American astronomer who, in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result b...
Annibale de Gasparis1819, Nov 91849
 
18891892, Mar 21
 an Italian astronomer who discovered nine asteroids. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomi...
Daniel Kirkwood1814, Sep 271839
 
18951895, Jun 11
 an American astronomer. Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland to John and Agnes (née Hop...
John Russell Hind1823, May 121840
 
18951895, Dec 23
 an English astronomer. Hind is notable for being one of the early discoverers of asteroids. He al...
Herve Faye1814, Oct 11834
 
18971902, Jul 4
 a French astronomer, who studied comets, discovering several. His work covered the entire field o...
Johann Gottfried Galle1812, Jun 91835
 
18971910, Jul 10
 a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who was the first person to vi...
Lewis A. Swift1820, Feb 291843
 
18991913, Jan 5
 an American astronomer. He discovered or co-discovered a number of comets. In 1878 he believed he...
Andrew Graham1815, Apr 81848
 
19031907, Nov 5
 an Irish astronomer/computer. He discovered the asteroid 9 Metis in 1848 whilst employed at Markr...
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