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Categories: 1819 births, English people of Italian descent, 19th-century Neapolitan people, Articles with Musée d'Orsay identifiers, People educated at Bedford School
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Charles Piazzi Smyth  Piazzi Smyth
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Charles Piazzi Smyth was an Italian-born British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Wikipedia
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Charles Piazzi Smyth was an Italian-born British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Wikipedia
Scottish astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
English astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
British astronomer (1817-1900) Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Keith Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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EDUCATED AT
University of Edinburgh
Bedford School
EMPLOYER
University of Edinburgh
FAMILY NAME
Smyth
FATHER
William Henry Smyth
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
GIVEN NAME
Charles
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Royal Museums Greenwich
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Royal Society of Edinburgh
OCCUPATION
anthropologist
astronomer
writer
photographer
painter
PLACE OF BIRTH
Naples
PLACE OF DEATH
Ripon
POSITION HELD
Astronomer Royal for Scotland
RESIDENCE
Naples
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Warington Wilkinson Smyth
Henry Augustus Smyth
SPOUSE
Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth
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