Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion

Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
Born	Gabrielle Renaudot (1877-05-31)31 May 1877
Died	28 October 1962(1962-10-28) (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]

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

• 1948 - Prix d'Aumale of the Académie des sciences^[9]
• An impact crater on Mars, Renaudot, was named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union,^[10] and her first name was the basis for naming the asteroid 355 Gabriella.

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. 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

• Arend, S. (1962). "In Memoriam: Gabrielle Flammarion". Ciel et Terre (in French). 78: 377–378. Bibcode:1962C&T....78..377. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
• "Hommage à Mme G. Camille Flammarion". L'Astronomie (in French). 76: 279–280. 1962. Bibcode:1962LAstr..76..279.