# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-de-sanctis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:36:24.887Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-de-sanctis"
name: "Giovanni de Sanctis"
slug: "giovanni-de-sanctis"
description: "Giovanni de Sanctis is an Italian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino in Turin, Italy. His name is sometimes spelt DeSanctis, particularly in the Minor Planet Circulars. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of 42 numbered minor planets, most of which he discovered at ESO's La Silla site in northern Chile in the early 1980s."
tagline: "Italian astronomers"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/De_Sanctis_Giovanni.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.846153846153846
  historical:           8.938661333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Giovanni de Sanctis"
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    title: "Giovanni de Sanctis"
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    title: "Giovanni de Sanctis"
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    title: "Ջովաննի Դե Սանկտիս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giovanni De Sanctis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump