Astronomy
Discover a comprehensive list of notable individuals who have made significant contributions to astronomy. From renowned scientists and astronauts to influential astronomers and astrophysicists, this category showcases the brilliance behind astronomical discoveries and advancements.
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt
 USAAmerican astronomer
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Nikola Bonev
 BulgariaBulgarian astronomer.
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Hermann Goldschmidt
 FranceGerman astronomer and artist
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Alvan Graham Clark
USA American astronomer and telescope maker
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Iohann Bode
 GermanyGerman astronomer, member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, founder of the Berlin Astronomical Yearbook. (53)
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Tomasz Zebrowski
 LithuaniaAstronomer and mathematician
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Vera Rubin
USA American astronomer
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Horace Welcom Babcock
USA American astronomer
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Andre-Louis Danjon
France French astronomer.
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Jacques Vallee
France French-American scientist of various profiles: astronomer, astrophysicist, mathematician-programmer, businessman
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Charles-Eugene Delaunay
France French astronomer and mathematician
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Percival Lowell
USA American businessman, orientalist, diplomat, astronomer and mathematician
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John Herschel
 Great BritainEnglish astronomer and physicist
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Fritz Zwicky
USA Swiss-born American astronomer
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Cesar Francois Cassini
France French astronomer and surveyor
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Paulius Slavenas
 RussiaSoviet and Lithuanian astronomer, mathematician, historian and philosopher of science
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Jacques Cassini
France French astronomer
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James Dunlop
Great Britain English astronomer.
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Asaph Hall
USA American astronomer
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Antonio Cagnoli
 ItalyItalian astronomer.
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Jan Heweliusz
 PolandPolish astronomer, telescope designer
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Alexander Bogorodsky
Soviet astronomer
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
USA Anglo-American astronomer and astrophysicist
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Yi Xing
 ChinaChinese astronomer, mathematician, engineer and Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty
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Edmund Galley
Great Britain English astronomer, geophysicist (discovered Halley's Comet)
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Andre Couder
France French astronomer.
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Vladimir Albitsky
Soviet astronomer
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John Brashear
USA American astronomer and instrument maker
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Hermann Joseph Klein
Germany German astronomer and meteorologist.
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Henri Debehogne
 BelgiumBelgian astronomer
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Friedrich Bessel
Germany German astronomer and mathematician
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Abd Al-Vahid
 TurkeyBorn in Mashhad, Iran, died in Kutahya, Türkiye - Turkish astronomer.
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Gennadiy Pinigin
Russia Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.
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Klavdiy Ptolemey
 GreeceAncient Greek scientist.
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Alvan Clark
USA American optical designer and astronomer
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Eusebio Kino
Italy Italian missionary, monk of the Jesuit Order, astronomer, cartographer, geographer
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Nikolay Copernicus
Poland Polish astronomer, creator of the heliocentric system of the world, philosopher, physician
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Christian Ludwig Ideler
Germany German astronomer
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Vera Gaze
Soviet astronomer
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Maria Mitchell
USA American astronomer.
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Henri Alexandre Deslandres
France French astronomer
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Nikolay Donic
 RomaniaRussian, Romanian and French astronomer.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
USA Theoretical astrophysicist
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Nur ad-Din Al-Bitruji
 DiveFamous Arab astronomer
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Germany Outstanding German scientist and publicist
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Genry Dreper
USA American astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Pioneer of the widespread use of astronomy in the United States
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Samuel Pierpont Langley
USA American astronomer, physicist, and pioneer of aeronautics.
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Leo Goldberg
USA American astronomer.
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Stephen Groombridge
Great Britain British astronomer, star cataloguer
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Percy Lowell
USA American astronomer
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