Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (born November 6, 1781 in Voghera , † January 20, 1864 in Turin ) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.
In 1817 he married Alessandra Lagrange, the niece of the famous mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange , whose student he had been at the École polytechnique in Paris around 1800 . Plana worked for a long time as professor of astronomy and director of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino (Turin observatory) and as a senator.
In 1826 he became a corresponding and in 1860 a foreign member of the Académie des sciences . As a foreign member, he had been a member of the Royal Society since 1827 , and was awarded the Copley Medal in 1834. In 1832 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1835 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1837 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In December 1839 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg , and in 1864 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In addition, the lunar crater Plana was named after him.
Fonts
- Théorie du mouvement de la lune. Turin 1832, 3 volumes. (Digitized: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- Publications by GAA Plana in the Astrophysics Data System
- Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- Entry for Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo (1781 - 1864) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
- WT Lynn: Baron Plana The Observatory, Vol. 27 (1904), p. 132-132 (obituary, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment , editor Kostas Gavroglu, Springer, 1999, ISBN 978-94-011-4770-5 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-94-011-4770-5 , limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 190.
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SURNAME | Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian astronomer and mathematician |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1781 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Voghera |
DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 1864 |
Place of death | Turin |