Secchi, ANGELO

Secchi, ANGELO, astronomer, was born at Reggio, 29th June 1818, and trained as a Jesuit, became professor of Physics at Washington, United States, and in 1850 at the Collegio Romano, and director of the Roman observatory, where he laboured till his death, 26th February 1878. His chief discoveries were in the region of spectrum analysis and solar physics; and, besides some 300 papers, he published in French Le Soleil (1870), and in Italian L'Unità delle Forze Fisiche (1869) and Le Stelle (1877).