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Feb 19, 1473
Nicholas Copernicus
He was mostly known for the Heliocentrism Copernicus' Law. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
He is know for his accurate astronomical and planetary observations. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilie
He is known for the descriptions of the behavior of moving objects. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
He discovered the three laws of planetary motion. -
Giovanni Cassini
Known for his work in the feilds of astronomy & engineering - most notably discovered 4 satellites of the planet saturn & noted the divison of the rings of Saturn -
Sir Isaac Newton
He's most known for the Law of Gravition -
Edmond Halley
Enlgish atronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meterorogist & physicist. Best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet -
Charles Messier
Messier Caalog- consits of nebulae & star clusters -
William Herschel
Discoverd Uranus, Discovered infrared raiation -
Anne Jump Cannon
Stellar classification- american author -
Albert Einstein
Kwon for man things. One is that he developed the general theory of relativity. -
Edwin Hubble
Hubble sequece- showing that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, impling the unverse is expanding. -
Frank Drake
SETI Drake education/ american astonomer & astrophysicist -
Carl Sagan
American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, & scientist. Commnicator in astronomy & natural sciences. Best knwn for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestriallife. -
Stephen Hawking
Hawking radiation, Phenrose- Hawking theorems
