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THE ASTRONOMERS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short biographies illustrating the major works and ideas of some of history's greatest astronomers and astrophysicists. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Click on a name to go to biographical information. A link that is not working is still under construction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tycho Brahe 1546-1601 |
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 |
Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 |
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Giordano Bruno 1548-1600 |
Edmund Halley 1656-1742 |
Percival Lowell 1855-1916 |
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell 1943- |
Stephen Hawking 1942- |
Charles Messier 1730-1817 |
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Annie Jump Cannon 1863-1941 |
Sir William Herschel 1738-1822 |
Isaac Newton 1642-1727 |
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Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 |
Edwin Hubble 1889-1953 |
Claudius Ptolemy 2nd Century C.E. |
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Albert Einstein 1879-1955 |
Christiaan Huygens 1629-1695 |
Carl Sagan 1934-1996 |
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