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Giuseppe Armellini
was born in Rome on 23rd October 1887.
He graduated in Engineering (1910) and Maths (1912) at the University of Rome.
After spending a couple of year at the astronomic observatories of Paris and Meudon, Armellini won the competition for the chair of Theoretical Mechanics at the Politecnico di Torino (1915). After going to Pisa (1920), Armellini taught Astronomy and Sky Mechanics and he established the small astronomic Observatory of Pisa University.
In 1922 he was called in Rome as a teacher of Astronomy and manager of the astronomic Observatory in Campidoglio (that in 1936 was moved to Monte Mario).
As far as the planetary cosmogony is concerned, Armellini was famous for a new law on distances of planets from the Sun, the simplest and most exact law up to now.
He was a cooperator of the Enciclopedia Italiana (Italian Encyclopoedia). Armellini was a member of different Italian and foreign Academies: he was a Member of the National Academy of of the Lincei, the Pontificial Academy, the National Society of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of Turin.
The scientist died in Rome in 1958.
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