Ileana Chinnici

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.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3] She has also been an adjunct astronomer with the Vatican Observatory since approximately 2009.^[2]

Books

Chinnici's books include:

L'osseruatorio astronomico di Palermo, la storia e gli strumenti (with Giorgia Foder Serio, Flaccovio Ed., 1997)^[4]
La carte du ciel: Correspondence inédite conservée dans les archives de l’Observatoire de Paris (edited, Paris Observatory, 1999)^[5]
Alle origini dell'astrofisica italiana: Il carteggio Secchi–Tacchini 1861–1877 (with Antonella Gasperini, Fond. Giorgio Ronchi, 2013)^[6]
Merz Telescopes: A global heritage worth preserving (edited, Springer, 2017)^[7]
Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (Brill, 2019)^[8]
Angelo Secchi and Nineteenth Century Science: The Multidisciplinary Contributions of a Pioneer and Innovator (edited with Guy Consolmagno, Springer, 2021)

References

^ Seitzer, Patrick (12 October 2020), "Ileana Chinnici Receives 2021 Osterbrock Book Prize for Biography of Angelo Secchi", News, American Astronomical Society, retrieved 2022-05-23
^ ^a ^b Macke, Br. Robert (13 October 2020), "Specola Adjunct Scholar Chinnici Wins Osterbrock Book Prize", Sacred Space Astronomy, Vatican Observatory
^ Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum, retrieved 2022-05-23
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Review of L'osseruatorio astronomico di Palermo:
- Miniati, Mara (1998), Nuncius, 13 (2): 763–764, doi:10.1163/182539198x00905{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of La carte du ciel:
- Bigg, Charlotte (March 2001), The British Journal for the History of Science, 34 (1): 119–120, doi:10.1017/S000708740036424X, JSTOR 4028056{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Evans, James (March 2005), "Review", Isis, 96 (1): 126–127, doi:10.1086/433013, JSTOR 10.1086/433013
- Jones, Derek (2002), "The history behind the history", Astronomy and Geophysics, 43 (5): 31, Bibcode:2002A&G....43e..31C
- Nikoloff, Ivan (2002), Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 5 (2): 197, Bibcode:2002JAHH....5..197N{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Review of Alle origini dell'astrofisica italiana:
- Gariboldi, Leonardo (September 2014), Isis, 105 (3): 651, doi:10.1086/679154, hdl:2434/541508, JSTOR 10.1086/679154{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of Merz Telescopes:
- Gabor, Paul (November 2018), Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 21 (2–3): 255–256, Bibcode:2018JAHH...21..255G{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- McKim, Richard (2017), The Observatory, 137: 247–248, Bibcode:2017Obs...137..242.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Witt, Volker (September 2017), Sterne und Weltraum, 56 (9): 88–89, Bibcode:2017S&W....56i..88W{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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Reviews of Decoding the Stars:
- Euvé, François (2020), Revue des Questions Scientifiques, 191 (1–2): 228–230{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Graney, Christopher M. (Summer 2020), "Modern European", The Catholic Historical Review, 106 (3): 496–498
- Orchiston, Wayne (April 2020), Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 23 (1): 227–228, Bibcode:2020JAHH...23..227O{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
- Pasachoff, Naomi (October 2019), "In the footsteps of Galileo: raising the twenty-first-century profile of Father Angelo Secchi", Metascience, 29 (1): 77–80, doi:10.1007/s11016-019-00470-6
- Udías, Agustín, S.J. (January 2020), Journal of Jesuit Studies, 7 (2): 319–322, doi:10.1163/22141332-00702011{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)