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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Saymon Niukom
 USAAmerican astronomer who conducted fundamental studies of planetary motion
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Jorge Sahade
 ArgentinaArgentine astronomer.
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Cesar Francois Cassini
 FranceFrench astronomer and surveyor
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Marie Charles Damoiseau
France French astronomer.
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Giuseppe Piazzi
 ItalyItalian astronomer, monk of the Theatines
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Georges Lemeiter
 BelgiumBelgian Catholic priest, astronomer and mathematician.
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Horace Welcom Babcock
USA American astronomer
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
USA Dutch-American astronomer
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Nikolay Copernicus
 PolandPolish astronomer, creator of the heliocentric system of the world, philosopher, physician
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Carlyle Beals
 CanadaCanadian astronomer
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Paul Wild
 SwitzerlandSwiss astronomer.
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Fritz Zwicky
USA Swiss-born American astronomer
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William Crabtree
 Great BritainAn English astronomer and merchant of the early 17th century
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Vera Gaze
Soviet astronomer
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David Fabricius
 GermanyGerman astronomer, discoverer of the first variable star
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Giovanni Inghirami
Italy Italian astronomer
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Vladimir Albitsky
Soviet astronomer
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Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell
Great Britain English astronomer.
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Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Bohnenberger
Germany German astronomer and mathematician.
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Ejnar Hertzsprung
 DenmarkDanish astronomer.
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Bart Jan Bok
USA American astronomer of Dutch origin.
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Hipparkh
 GreeceAncient Greek scientist, one of the founders of astronomy
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Edmund Galley
Great Britain English astronomer, geophysicist (discovered Halley's Comet)
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Sergey Vsekhsviatsky
Soviet astronomer
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Pierre Simon Laplace
France Astronomer, physicist, mathematician
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Peter Ganzen
Germany Famous German astronomer.
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Andrew Graham
 IrelandIrish astronomer
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Percy Lowell
USA American astronomer
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Arthur Auwers
Germany German astronomer
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Eugene Joseph Delporte
Belgium Belgian astronomer.
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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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Yohann Galle
Germany German astronomer who discovered the planet Neptune in 1846 using coordinates calculated by the Frenchman Le Verrier.
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Baldassarre Capra
Italy 17th century astronomer
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Giuseppe Maria Asclepi
Italy Italian astronomer.
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Andre Lallemand
France French astronomer
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Bogdan Shveytser
 RussiaRussian astronomer and astrometrist.
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Gan De
 ChinaChinese astronomer
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Alvan Graham Clark
USA American astronomer and telescope maker
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Ludwig Biermann
Germany German astronomer
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Andre-Louis Danjon
France French astronomer.
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Johan August Hugo Gylden
 SwedenFinnish-Swedish astronomer
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Giovanni Battista Hodierna
Italy Italian astronomer
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William Henry Fox Talbot
Great Britain English physicist, chemist and master of photography
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Mikhail Grachev
Russian astronomer and surveyor
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Seth Nicholson
USA American astronomer who discovered several of Jupiter's moons and asteroids
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Nostradamus
France French physician, soothsayer, astrologer, physician-in-ordinary to Charles IX
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Laszlo Detre
 HungaryHungarian astronomer
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Andre Couder
France French astronomer.
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Geoffrey Burbidge
Great Britain Anglo-American astronomer
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Harold Jeffreys
Great Britain English geophysicist and astronomer.
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