Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
Born
Gabrielle Renaudot

(1877-05-31)31 May 1877
Died28 October 1962(1962-10-28) (aged 85)
NationalityFrench
SpouseCamille Flammarion
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
InstitutionsCamille 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]

Family

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]

Honors and awards

References

  1. Flammarion, G. Camille (1927). "L' "Oeil" de Mars". L'Astronomie. 41: 165–167. Bibcode:1927LAstr..41..165F. ISSN 0004-6302.
  2. Flammarion, Gabrielle Camille; Quenisset, F. (1924). "La Planete Mars". L'Astronomie. 38: 417–424. Bibcode:1924LAstr..38..417F. ISSN 0004-6302.
  3. Flammarion, Camille; Flammarion, Gabrielle; Quenisset, F. (1924). "La Planete Mars". L'Astronomie. 38: 354–357. Bibcode:1924LAstr..38..354F. ISSN 0004-6302.
  4. Flammarion, Camille; Flammarion, Gabrielle C.; Quenisset, F. (1924). "La Planete Mars". L'Astronomie. 38: 313–323. Bibcode:1924LAstr..38..313F. ISSN 0004-6302.
  5. Flammarion, Gabrielle Camille; Renaudot, G. (1920). "Meteorologie Martienne". L'Astronomie. 34: 377–379. Bibcode:1920LAstr..34..377F. ISSN 0004-6302.
  6. "NASA/ADS". ui.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  7. 1 2 Gotlieb, Marc, The Deaths of Henri Regnault, 2016 p90
  8. "Flammarion, Nicolas Camille", Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2014, p373
  9. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences (juillet - décembre 1948), p. 1301.
  10. Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - Renaudot


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