List of Popular Astronomers

Joseph Jrme Lefranois de Lalande was a French astronomer, freemason and writer.....
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Halton Christian Chip Arp was an American astronomer. He was known for his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a nonstandard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift.....
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He has been called the father of observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, and the father of science. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter , and the observation and analysis of sunspots.....
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Edmond Halley, FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halleys Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed.....
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Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist as well as the older brother of William Henry Pickering.....
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General Sir Edward Sabine KCB PRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist,explorer, soldier and the 30th President of the Royal Society.....
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Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century. Hubble is known for showing that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, implying the universe is expanding, known as Hubbles law although this relation had been discovered previously by Georges Lematre, who published his work in....
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Georges Henri Joseph douard Lematre 17 July 1894 20 June 1966 was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven. He proposed the theory of the expansion of the universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubbles law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubbles article. Lematre also proposed what became known as the Big....
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Sir George Biddell Airy KCB PRS was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, a method of solution of twodimensional problems in solid mechanics and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian. His reputation has been tarnished by allegations that, through his inaction, Britain lost the opportunity of priority in ....
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Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Frisian amateur astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Frisia Province in the Netherlands. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world.....
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Sir George Howard Darwin KCB FRS FRSE was an English barrister, astronomer and mathematician.....
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David Rittenhouse was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United States Mint.....
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George Driver Pinky Nelson, born July 13, 1950 , is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and a former NASA astronaut.....
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Giovanni Battista Riccioli was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.....
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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian.....
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Bartholomeus Jan Bart Bok was a Dutchborn American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer. He is best known for his work on the structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, and for the discovery of Bok globules, which are small, densely dark clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen silhouetted against brighter backgrounds. Bok suggested that these globules may be in the process of contracting, before forming into stars.....
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Francis Baily was an English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of Bailys beads during an eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society, as one of the founders and president four times.....
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Ole Christensen Rmer was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. In scientific literature alternative spellings such as Roemer, Rmer, or Romer are common.....
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Paolo Frisi was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.....
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Sidney Charles Bartholemew Ben Gascoigne AO was a New Zealandborn Australian optical astronomer and expert in photometry who played a leading role in the design and commissioning of Australias largest optical telescope, the AngloAustralian Telescope, one of the worlds most important astronomical facilities. Born in Napier, New Zealand, Gascoigne trained in Auckland and at the University of Bristol, before moving to Australia during World War II to work at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at M....
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