Giovan Battista Donati
1826–73
Italian astronomer. Director of the observatory of Florence from 1864. Used spectroscopy to study the physical composition of comets.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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