Astronomers And Cosmologists
31 entries in the Astronomers And Cosmologists compendium.
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Anania Shirakatsi7th-century Armenian polymath, father of exact sciences in Armenia.Anders CelsiusSwedish astronomer who proposed the centigrade temperature scale.Anton PannekoekDutch astronomer and council communist theorist.Aristarchus of SamosAncient Greek astronomer who first proposed a Sun-centered universe.Arthur EddingtonEnglish astrophysicist who confirmed general relativity and studied stellar interiors.CallippusGreek astronomer who refined planetary spheres and the calendar.Charles MessierCharles Messier (1730–1817) was a French astronomer best known for compiling a catalogue oClyde TombaughAmerican astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.Allan SandageAmerican astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble conArno Allan PenziasCo-discoverer of cosmic microwave background radiation.Hugh Everett IIIAmerican physicist who proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.Jan OortDutch astronomer who provided early evidence for dark matter.Jane LuuJane X. Luu (born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems enginJohann Gottfried GalleFirst to view Neptune, validating celestial mechanics.Johannes HeveliusLunar topographer, comet discoverer, and brewer of Gdańsk.Johannes KeplerGerman polymath who formulated laws of planetary motion.John FlamsteedJohn Flamsteed, born in 1646 in Denby, Derbyshire, was the only son of a maltster. EducateKarl SchwarzschildGerman physicist who gave the first exact solution to general relativity.Jim PeeblesCanadian-American cosmologist; Nobel laureate for theoretical cosmology.Didier QuelozSwiss astronomer who co-discovered the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.Edward Charles PickeringDirector of Harvard College Observatory who oversaw the Harvard Computers.Ejnar HertzsprungDanish astronomer who co-created the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.Fred HoyleEnglish astronomer who co-founded stellar nucleosynthesis theory.Friedrich Wilhelm BesselGerman astronomer who first measured the distance to a star.Fritz ZwickySwiss astronomer who pioneered dark matter and supernova theory.George Ellery HaleFounder of Mount Wilson Observatory and builder of the Hooker Telescope.Georges LemaîtreBelgian priest and physicist who proposed the Big Bang theory.Giovanni Domenico CassiniItalian-French astronomer who discovered four moons of Saturn and its ring division.Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias OlbersGerman astronomer who discovered asteroids and formulated Olbers's paradox.Henrietta Swan LeavittDiscovered the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars.Henry Norris RussellAmerican astronomer who co-created the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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