Charles Piazzi Smyth

Jan 3, 1819 - Feb 21, 1900

Charles Piazzi Smyth FRSE FRS FRAS FRSSA was an Italian-born British astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and, along with his wife Jessica Duncan Piazzi Smyth, his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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