Ileana Chinnici
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Book author,
BiographerIleana Chinnici | |
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| Education | University of Palermo, 1992 (degree in physics) |
| Occupations | Historian of astronomy
Book author, Biographer |
| Employer(s) | Paris Observatory, Palermo Astronomical Observatory |
| Known for | Research and adjunct astronomer |
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]
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]
