THE ASTRONOMERS
Short biographies illustrating the major works and ideas of some of history's greatest astronomers and astrophysicists.
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Tycho Brahe
1546-1601
Galileo Galilei
1564-1642
Johannes Kepler
1571-1630
Giordano Bruno
1548-1600
Edmund Halley
1656-1742
Percival Lowell
1855-1916
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1943-
Stephen Hawking
1942-
Charles Messier
1730-1817
Annie Jump Cannon
1863-1941
Sir William Herschel
1738-1822
Isaac Newton
1642-1727
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473-1543
Edwin Hubble
1889-1953
Claudius Ptolemy
2nd Century C.E.
Albert Einstein
1879-1955
Christiaan Huygens
1629-1695
Carl Sagan
1934-1996
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