Timeline of Scientists that contributed to cosmology

  • Period: 1500 to

    Cosmology

  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus

  • Tycho Brahe

  • Johannes Kepler

  • Issac newton

  • Pierre-simon Laplace

  • William Herschel

  • Percival Lowell

    Founded Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff which led to the discovery of Pluto
  • Henrietta Leavitt

    2,400 variable stars between 1907 and 1921
  • Willem de Sitter

  • Albert Einstein

  • Harlow Shapley

  • Georges Lemaître

  • Edwin Hubble

  • Fred Hoyle

  • Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson

  • Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson