Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
Astronomer
1781 – 1864
Who was Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana?
Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana was an Italian astronomer and mathematician.
Plana was born in Voghera, Italy to Antonio Maria Plana and Giovanna Giacoboni. At the age of 15 he was sent to live with his uncles in Grenoble to complete his education. In 1800 he entered the École Polytechnique, and was one of the students of Joseph-Louis Lagrange. Jean Fourier, impressed by Plana's abilities, managed to have him appointed to the chair of mathematics in a school of artillery in Piedmont in 1803, which came under the control of the French in 1805. In 1811 he was appointed to the chair of astronomy at the University of Turin thanks to the influence of Lagrange. He spent the remainder of his life teaching at that institution.
Plana's contributions included work on the motions of the Moon, as well as integrals, elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics, and geodesy. In 1820 he was one of the winners of a prize awarded by the Académie des Sciences in Paris based on the construction of lunar tables using the law of gravity. In 1832 he published the Théorie du mouvement de la lune. In 1834 he was awarded with the Copley Medal by the Royal Society for his studies on lunar motion.
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- Born
- Nov 6, 1781
Voghera - Also known as
- Плана, Джованни Антонио Амедео
- Nationality
- Italy
- Profession
- Education
- École Polytechnique
- Died
- Jan 20, 1864
Turin
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on July 23, 2013
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