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Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille15th March 1713; Rumigny, Ardennes, France.21st March 1762; Paris, France.FranceCompilation of a Catalogue of Stars in the Southern Hemisphere - 'Coelum australe stelliferum (1763)'. Naming of 15 New Southern Constellations.More...
Albert Einstein14th March 1879; Ulm, Germany18th April 1955; Princeton, New Jersey, USA.USASpecial and General Theories of Relativity; Revision of Newton's Laws of Gravity.More...
Anders Jonas Angstrom13th August 1814; Medelpad, Sweden.21st June 1874; Uppsala, Sweden.SwedenSpectroscopy, Unit of Wavelength of LightMore...
Annie Jump Cannon11th December 1863; Dover, Delaware, USA.13th April 1941; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.USASpectral Classification of Stars: O, B, A, F, G, K, M.More...
Arthur Stanley Eddington28th December 1882; Kendal, England.22nd Ovember 1944; Cambridge, England.EnglandStructure of StarsMore...
Caroline Herschel16th March 1750; Hanover, Germany.9th January 1848; Hanover, Germany.GermanyAssisted her brother William Herschel in compiling a Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. This formed the basis of the Dreyer's HGC.More...
Charles Messier26th June 1730, Badonviller, Lorraine, France.April 12th 1817, Paris, France.FranceComet Hunter (13 original discoveries, 7 independent discoveries); Deepsky Observations which produced his famous 'Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters'.More...
Christiaan Huygens14th April 1629; The Hague; Netherlands.8th July 1695; The Hague, Netherlands.NetherlandsDiscovered true nature of Saturn's Rings in 1655; formulated the Wave Theory of Light; Derived the formula for periodic motion of a Pendulum.More...
Claudius Ptolemy90 AD; Egypt168 AD; Alexandria, Egypt.GreeceAlmagest, Ptolemaic System - Geocentric Theory of the Universe.More...
Daniel Kirkwood27th December 1814; Harford County, Maryland, USA.11th June 1895; Riverside, California, USA.USADiscovery of the Kirwood Gaps in the Asteroid Belt in 1857, and the correct interpretation of their origin - perturbations, resulting from orbital resonances with Jupiter.More...
Edmond Halley8th November 1656, Haggerston, Shoreditch, London, England14th January 1742, Greenwich, London, England.EnglandProposed the idea of Periodic Comets;predicted the return of Halley's Comet; produced the first Chart of Magnetic Declination and the first ever Meteorological Chart.More...
Edward Charles Pickering19th July 1846; Boston, Massachusetts, United States.3rd February 1919; Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesUSAPioneer in the use of Stellar Spectroscopy. Recruitment of women Astronomers when Director of Harvard Observatory, including Annie Jump Canon and Henrietta Leavitt; Discovery of White Dwarf Stars.More...
Edward Walter Maunder12th April 1851; London, England21st March 1928; London, EnglandEnglandPioneer of Solar Physics, in particular Sunspots. Discoverer of the 11 Year Solar Magnetic Cycle. The period of low sunspot activity in the period 1645 to 1715 is known as the Maunder Minimum.More...
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