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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Yusuke Hichihara
 JapanJapanese astronomer
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Pierre-Jules-Cesar Janssen
 FranceFrench astronomer
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Margaret Turnbull
 USAAmerican astronomer
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Jesse Leonard Greenstein
USA American astronomer
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Friedrich Bessel
 GermanyGerman astronomer and mathematician
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Fred Hoyle
 Great BritainBritish astronomer, author of several science fiction novels.
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William Crabtree
Great Britain An English astronomer and merchant of the early 17th century
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William Robert Brooks
USA American astronomer
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Aleksander Wolszczan
 PolandPolish astronomer.
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Georges Lemeiter
 BelgiumBelgian Catholic priest, astronomer and mathematician.
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George A.Van Biesbroeck
Belgium Belgian-American astronomer
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Hermann Joseph Klein
Germany German astronomer and meteorologist.
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Pierre Simon Laplace
France Astronomer, physicist, mathematician
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Germany Outstanding German scientist and publicist
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Alvan Clark
USA American optical designer and astronomer
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Adalbert Krueger
Germany German astronomer
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Dirk Brouwer
USA Dutch-born American astronomer
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Karl Schwarzschild
Germany German astronomer, one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics
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Bernard Yarnton Mills
 AustraliaAustralian astronomer.
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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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Frederik Kaiser
 NetherlandsDutch astronomer
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Friedrich Argelander
Germany German astronomer
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Harold Delos Babcock
USA American astronomer
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James Dunlop
Great Britain English astronomer.
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Vladimir Shkodrov
 BulgariaBulgarian astronomer
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Seth Shostak
USA Astronomer, SETI project participant.
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Percy Lowell
USA American astronomer
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Edmund Galley
Great Britain English astronomer, geophysicist (discovered Halley's Comet)
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Ejnar Hertzsprung
 DenmarkDanish astronomer.
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Harold Jeffreys
Great Britain English geophysicist and astronomer.
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Lawrence Hugh Aller
USA American astronomer.
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Arthur Auwers
Germany German astronomer
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David C. Jewitt
USA American astronomer, professor at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.
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Marc Kuchner
USA American astrophysicist, employee of the Goddard Space Flight Center
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Paul Guthnick
Germany German astronomer.
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George Phillips Bond
USA Son of American astronomer William Cranch Bond.
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Anders Celsius
 SwedenSwedish astronomer and meteorologist after whom the temperature scale is named
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Antonin Becvar
Czechoslovakian astronomer
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Philip Cowell
Great Britain English astronomer
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Heber Curtis
USA American astronomer
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Vasiliy Struve
 RussiaAstronomer, surveyor, academician
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Forest Ray Moulton
USA American astronomer, member of the US National Academy of Sciences
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Michael A'Hearn
USA American astrophysicist
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Paul Wild
 SwitzerlandSwiss astronomer.
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Benjamin Apthorp Gould
USA American astronomer.
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Richard Woolley
Great Britain English astronomer.
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Harlow Shapley
USA American astronomer
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Annie Jump Cannon
USA American astronomer
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Percival Lowell
USA American businessman, orientalist, diplomat, astronomer and mathematician
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Saymon Niukom
USA American astronomer who conducted fundamental studies of planetary motion
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