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

• 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.