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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 November 1781
- Died
- 20 January 1864
- Place of birth
- Voghera
- Place of death
- Turin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Plana
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Occupation
- astronomer, mathematician, university teacher, politician
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Awards
- Copley Medal, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Lalande Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Order of the Iron Crown (Austria), Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- birth name
- Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)
- doctoral advisor
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Joseph Fourier
- educated at
- École polytechnique, Lycée Stendhal
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Italian
- member of
- Royal Society, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of Turin, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- name in native language
- Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
- notable work
- Théorie du mouvement de la Lune
- place of burial
- Monumental Cemetery of Turin
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