Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion | |
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Born | Gabrielle Renaudot 31 May 1877 |
Died | 28 October 1962 | (aged 85)
Nationality | French |
Spouse | Camille Flammarion |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy |
Institutions | Camille Flammarion Observatory |
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]
Born as Gabrielle Renaudot, her parents were Jules Renaudot, a sculptor, and Maria-Veronica Concetta Latini, who was Italian ( d. 1900). [7] Her brother was the artist Paul Renaudot. [7]
She married Camille Flammarion, who was also an accomplished astronomer. She was his second wife. Flammarion's first wife, Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo, died in 1919. [8]