Asteroids named after people called Eugenio

(15620) Beltrami

Eugenio Beltrami (1835-1900) was an Italian mathematician who held professorships at Pisa, Pavia and Rome. He contributed to the differential geometry of curves and surfaces, particularly the pseudosphere of constant negative curvature as a model of Lobachevskian geometry.Discovered 29 April 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott

(22379) Montale

Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century. He was the Literature Nobel Prize laureate in 1975 for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions.Discovered 10 February 1994 by Farra d'Isonzo, Farra d'Isonzo

(55854) Stoppani

In 1905 Eugenio Stoppani (1850-1917) erected a mountain refuge, now the site of the Sormano Observatory, in the place where his father Edoardo Stoppani (1818-1892) died accidentally. Antonio Stoppani (1824-1891) (probably a distant relative) was a distinguished palaeontologist.Discovered 8 November 1996 by Cavagna, M., Chiavenna, P., Sormano

(79826) Finardi

Eugenio Finardi (b. 1952) is a famous Italian blues and pop rock singer. He is a great lover of astronomy and he has composed many popular space-related songs.Discovered 17 November 1998 by V. Goretti, Pianoro