An incomplete list of famous astronomers, plus some cosmologists and astrophysicists. If you have more to add, /msg me. I've marked the ones yet to be noded, a service I hope you all will quickly make redundant.
569-475 -- Pythagoras 408-355 -- Eudoxus of Cnidus 384-322 -- Aristotle (Cosmologist?) 370-300 -- Callipus of Cyzicus (Nodeshell) 276-194 -- Eratosthenes ca. 190 -- Timocharis (Nodeshell) 190-120 -- Hipparchus BC ----------------------- AD 87-150 -- Claudius Ptolemaeus 370(?)-414 -- Hypatia 1394-1449 -- Ulugh Beg 1423-1461 -- Georg Peurbach 1436-1476 -- Regiomontanus (AKA Johann Müller) 1473-1543 -- Copernicus 1546-1601 -- Tycho Brahe 1548-1600 -- Giordano Bruno 1564-1642 -- Galileo Galilei 1571-1630 -- Johannes Kepler 1573-1624 -- Simon Marius (Nodeshell) 1602-1652 -- John Greaves 1611-1687 -- Johannes Hevelius 1625-1712 -- Giovanni Domenico Cassini 1629-1695 -- Christiaan Huygens 1632-1723 -- Christopher Wren 1638-1675 -- James Gregory (Optics) (Nodeshell) 1642-1727 -- Isaac Newton 1644-1710 -- Ole Christensen Rømer 1646-1719 -- John Flamsteed 1656-1742 -- Edmond Halley 1677-1756 -- Jacques Cassini 1682-1744 -- John Hadley (Nodeshell) 1695-1771 -- Henri Pitot 1701-1744 -- Anders Celsius (Nodeshell) 1711-1786 -- Thomas Wright (Cosmologist)(Nodeshell) 1713-1762 -- Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille 1714-1784 -- César François Cassini de Thury 1730-1817 -- Charles Messier 1736-1813 -- Joseph LaGrange 1738-1822 -- William Herschel 1746-1826 -- Giuseppe Piazzi 1748-1845 -- Jacques-Dominique Cassini 1749-1827 -- Pierre Laplace 1758-1840 -- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers (Nodeshell) 1784-1846 -- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1787-1826 -- Joseph von Fraunhofer 1789-1859 -- William Cranch Bond (Nodeshell) 1789-1875 -- Heinrich Schwabe (Nodeshell) 1791-1865 -- Johann Franz Encke 1799-1880 -- William Lassell (Nodeshell) 1801-1892 -- George Biddell Airy 1811-1877 -- Urbain Le Verrier (Nodeshell) 1812-1910 -- Johann Gottfried Galle (Nodeshell) 1814-1895 -- Daniel Kirkwood (Nodeshell) 1818-1889 -- Maria Mitchell 1819-1868 -- Jean-Bernard Foucault 1819-1892 -- John Couch Adams (Nodeshell) 1819-1896 -- Hippolyte Fizeau (Nodeshell) 1821-1894 -- Hermann von Helmholtz (Nodeshell) 1822-1875 -- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (Nodeshell) 1824-1910 -- William Huggins (Nodeshell) 1829-1907 -- Asaph Hall 1831-1879 -- James Clerk Maxwell (astrophysicist) 1835-1910 -- Giovanni Schiaparelli 1837-1882 -- Henry Draper (Nodeshell) 1848-1915 -- Margaret Huggins (Nodeshell) 1855-1916 -- Percival Lowell 1857-1923 -- Edward Emerson Barnard (Nodeshell) 1862-1932 -- Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier (Nodeshell) 1863-1941 -- Annie Jump Cannon 1865-1936 -- Johannes Franz Hartmann (Nodeshell) 1868-1921 -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt 1868-1938 -- George Ellery Hale (Nodeshell) 1873-1916 -- Karl Schwarzschild 1873-1967 -- Ejnar Hertzsprung (Nodeshell) 1875-1969 -- Vesto Slipher 1877-1957 -- Henry Norris Russell (Nodeshell) 1880-1919 -- Milan Rastislav Stefanik 1882-1945 -- Sir Arthur Eddington 1885-1972 -- Harlow Shapley 1889-1953 -- Edwin P. Hubble 1893-1960 -- Walter Baade 1895-1965 -- Bertil Lindblad (Nodeshell) 1900-1992 -- Jan Hendrik Oort 1904-1968 -- George Gamow (Cosmologist) 1905-1949 -- Karl Jansky 1905-1973 -- Gerard Peter Kuiper 1906-1997 -- Clyde Tombaugh 1908-1987 -- Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (Nodeshell) 1910-1995 -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Astrophysicist) 1912-1997 -- Martin Schwarzschild 1914----- -- James Van Allen 1915-2001 -- Fred Hoyle (Astrophysicist) 1923----- -- Patrick Moore 1926----- -- Allan Sandage 1930----- -- Frank Drake 1934-1996 -- Carl Sagan 1942----- -- Stephen Hawking (Cosmologist) 1943----- -- Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Nodeshell) 1962----- -- Heidi Hammel ????----- -- Jack Horkheimer --
Scientists > Astronomers
Astronomers On E2
This is the Astronomers Metanode, an index of writeups about astronomers (including: astronomers, astrophysicists, planetologists, etc.) on E2. This is a subnode of the top-level Scientists node, and is a collaborative effort by the usergroup E2science. To suggest additions or alterations, please /msg liveforever or E2_Science.
As*tron"o*mer (#), n. [See Astronomy.]
1.
An astrologer.
Shak.
2.
One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena.
An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.
© Webster 1913.
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