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| Carl Gustav Witt | Person |
Carl Gustav Witt (October 29 1866 – January 3 1946) was a German astronomer.
He discovered two asteroid, most notably 433 Eros, the first known asteroid with an unusual orbit occasionally approaching the Earth's (today it is classified as an Amor...
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| John Flamsteed |
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John Flamsteed FRS (19 August,1646 - 31 December,1719) was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal.
Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, and was educated at Derby School, in St Peter's Churchyard, Derby, near where his...
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| Isaac Newton |
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Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (; 4 January 1643 31 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, is considered to be the...
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| Edmond Halley |
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Edmond Halley FRS (November 8, 1656 – January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.
Halley was born in Haggerston, Shoreditch, England, the son of a wealthy soapboiler. As a child, Halley...
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| Nicolaus Copernicus |
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Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19 1473 – May 24, 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium...
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| Galileo Galilei |
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Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and...
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| Ptolemy |
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Klaúdios Ptolemaĩos; after 83 – ca. 168 AD), known in English as Ptolemy , was an ancient mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer. He lived in Roman Egypt, and was probably born there in a town in the...
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| Johannes Kepler |
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Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 – November 15 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his eponym laws of planetary motion, codified by later...
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| Patrick Moore |
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Sir Alfred Patrick Caldwell-Moore, CBE, HonFRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923 in Pinner) known as Patrick Moore, is an English amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television...
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| Tycho Brahe |
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Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14 1546 – October 24 1601), was a Danish nobleman famed for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Hailing from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day...
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| Carl Sagan |
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Carl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural science. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
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| Stu Megan |
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Stu , took a break from his retirement, and as a consultant, helped with the Quality Assurance testing of.... Metaweb!
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| Giuseppe Piazzi |
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Giuseppe Piazzi (July 7 1746 - July 22 1826) was an Italian Theatine monk, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo ...
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| Stephen Thorsett |
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Stephen Erik Thorsett (b. December 3, 1964 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American professor and astronomer. His research interests include radio pulsars and gamma ray bursts. He is best known for measurements of the masses of neutron star and for...
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| Max Tegmark |
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Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he belongs to the scientific directorate of the ''Foundational Questions Institute''. Currently, he...
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| William Herschel |
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Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering Uranus. He also discovered infrared radiation and made many other discoveries in astronomy...
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| Urbain Le Verrier |
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Person | Neptune |
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (March 11, 1811 – September 23, 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for his part in the discovery of Neptune.
Le Verrier was born in Saint-Lô, France, and studied...
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| Francesco de Vico | Person |
Father Francesco de Vico (aka de Vigo) (May 19, 1805 – November 15, 1848) was an Italian astronomer at Vatican Observatory, and also a Jesuit priest. His name is also written De Vico and even DeVico.
He discovered or co-discovered a number of comet...
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| John Tebbutt | Person |
John Tebbutt (May 25 1834 – November 29 1916) was an Australian astronomer, credited with discovering the "Great Comet of 1861" (C/1861 J1).
Tebbutt was born at Windsor, New South Wales, the only son of John Tebbutt, then a prosperous store keeper....
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| Honoré Flaugergues | Person |
Honoré Flaugergues (May 16 1755–November 26 1835 or November 20 1830) was a French astronomer.
(Note, different sources give different years of death).
He discovered the "Great Comet of 1811" (C/1811 F1), and independently co-discovered the "Great...
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| Richard Martin West | Person |
Richard Martin West (born 1941) is a Danish astronomer working at the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
He discovered numerous comet, including the spectacular "Comet West" (C/1975 V1) and the periodic comets 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura and 123P...
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| Lewis E. Snyder |
Professor Lew Snyder is well known for his discoveries of numerous interstellar molecules which include formaldehyde and acetic acid.
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| Clyde Tombaugh |
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Person | Pluto |
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4,1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer.
Tombaugh is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, but also discovered many asteroid, and called for serious scientific research of...
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| Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers |
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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (October 11, 1758 – March 2, 1840) was a German physician and astronomer.
Olbers was born in Arbergen, near Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he began practicing...
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| Duncan Waldron | Person |
J. Duncan Waldron is a photographer, amateur astronomer, artist, and furniture designer-in-waiting.
Duncan Waldron was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His first job was creating high quality reproductions of astronomical plates for the Royal Observatory...
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| Eugene Merle Shoemaker |
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Eugene Merle Shoemaker (or Gene Shoemaker) (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was one of the founders of the fields of planetary science.Born in Los Angeles, California, he is best known for co-discovering the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with his wife...
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| Carolyn S. Shoemaker |
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Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker (born June 24, 1929, in Gallup, New Mexico) is a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and is the widow of the late Eugene Shoemaker.
Shoemaker holds the record for most comet discovered by an individual. She...
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| David H. Levy |
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David H. Levy (born 1948) is a Jewish Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
Levy was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 22,...
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| Richard Huziak | Person |
Canadian amateur astronomer, Richard Huziak, born 1957, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada, the namesake of asteroid 4143 Huziak, is a former president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Saskatoon Centre, and a prominent member of the American...
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| Takao Kobayashi | Person |
is an amateur Japan astronomer and currently works at the Oizumi Observatory.
He has discovered more than 2000 asteroid using CCD technology, including the Amor asteroid 7358 Oze, , and about nine Trojan asteroid. He also discovered the periodic...
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| Corot |
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COROT (COnvection ROtation and planetary Transits) is a space mission led by the French Space Agency (CNES) in conjunction with the European Space Agency (ESA) and other international partners. The mission has two objectives: to search for...
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| Cyril V. Jackson | Person |
Cyril Jackson (December 5 1903 – February 1988) was a South Africa astronomer.
He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911.
He worked at Union Observatory in Johannesburg from 1928 to 1947 (IAU...
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| Robert T. A. Innes |
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Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes (November 10 1861 Edinburgh – March 13 1933) was a Scottish-South Africa astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary star. He was also the first astronomer to have seen the Great...
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| Harry Edwin Wood | Person |
Harry Edwin Wood (February 3 1881–February 27 1946) was a South Africa astronomer.
Born in Manchester, England, in 1906 he was appointed Chief Assistant at the Transvaal Meteorological Observatory, which soon acquired telescope and became known as...
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| Willem Hendrik van den Bos | Person |
Willem Hendrik van den Bos (Sep 25 1896, Rotterdam – Mar 30 1974) was a Dutch-South Africa astronomer. At least one source refers to him as Van der Bos, but this seems to be an error.
He initially worked at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands,...
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| William Stephen Finsen | Person |
William Stephen Finsen (July 28 1905 – May 16 1979) was a South Africa astronomer.
He discovered a number of double star and took many photographs of Mars. He developed the Finsen eyepiece interferometer to measure very close double stars. He was...
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