Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion

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, 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.

Family Born as Gabrielle Renaudot, her parents were Jules Renaudot, a sculptor, and Maria-Veronica Concetta Latini, who was Italian . Her brother was the artist Paul Renaudot.

Honors and awards 1948 - Prix d'Aumale of the Académie des sciences An impact crater on Mars, Renaudot, was named in her honor by the International Astronomical Union, and her first name was the basis for naming the asteroid 355 Gabriella.