Michel Giacobini
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Michel Giacobini (1873 – 1938) was a French astronomer.
He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (parent body of the Giacobinids meteor shower) and 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak.
He worked at Nice Observatory until 1910, when he requested a transfer to the Paris Observatory. He volunteered for military service in World War I and suffered the effects of poison gas. He recovered and resumed his astronomical activities after the war.
External links
- Nice Observatory brief biography (http://www.obs-nice.fr/histoire-nice/giacobini.htm) (in French)