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Valsassina is a valley in the Alps of Lombardy, northern Italy, within the province of Lecco.
It is included between the Grigne range from West, and the Bergamo Prealps which, in a half-circle stretching from North to East, separate it from the valley of the area of Bergamo and the Valtellina. Valsassina also reaches the Lecco's branch of Lake Como at Lecco itself and Bellano.
The valley is run by the Pioverna stream, which flows from the Grigne to the Lake Como.
Coordinates: 45°58′59″N 9°24′00″E / 45.983°N 9.400°E / 45.983; 9.400
Roberto Abraham (b. 1965, Manila, Philippines) is a Canadian astronomer and is Professor of Astronomy at the University of Toronto and a E.W.R. Steacie Fellow. Educated at UBC (BSc) and Oxford (DPhil), Abraham did post-doctoral work at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and the Royal Greenwich Observatory..
Abraham's career has been notable for his contributions via non-parametric statistics to galaxy morphological classification, especially at high-redshift and early work on the Hubble Deep Field. He was one of the leaders of the "Gemini Deep Deep Survey" which led to several notable results on early galaxies including the evolution of elliptical galaxies. In 2011 Abraham won the P.G. Martin award of the Canadian Astronomical Society.
Abraham current serves the astronomical community by participating on the James Webb Space Telescope Advisory Committee and is Honorary President of the Toronto Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.