Famous Astronomers - List of Famous Astronomers - page 2

Kids have always looked up at the sky and wondered what those glimmering lights, lighting up the night sky are? Some of these kids grow fascinated by the glimmering lights and grow up to make these lights their life’s work. We call them astronomers; people who study the stars, planets, galaxies and even the asteroids. These scientists have existed for countless years and have made a considerable impact on the world we live in; it was the Mayan astronomers who gave us the famous Mayan calendar according to which, the world would have ended on the 21st of December 2012. It was astronomers who first suggested the theory that the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around and the earth was not the center of the universe or our galaxy, for that matter. The invaluable work that astronomers do is dedicated to better understanding the universe, of which the earth is a part. This work has, at times, incurred the wrath of the people because at one time the understanding of the science was not as explicit as it is today and neither was the awareness about it.

The Most Famous Astronomers

NameBirthdayNationalityBio
Jabir Ibn Hayyan721IranianJabir Ibn Hayyan was a medieval era polymath
Isaac NewtonJanuary 4, 1643BritishIsaac Newton was an English scientist and mathematician, who discovered gravitation and Newtonian Mechanics
Giovanni Domenico CassiniJune 8, 1625ItalianGiovanni Cassini was a 17th century Italian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
Brahmagupta598IndianBrahmagupta was a highly accomplished ancient Indian astronomer and mathematician
Henrietta Swan LeavittJuly 4, 1868AmericanHenrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer
Carl F. GaussApril 30, 1777GermanCarl F
Galileo GalileiFebruary 15, 1564ItalianGalileo Galilei was an Italian Astronomer and Scientist
Omar KhayyamMay 18, 1048IranianOmar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet
Tycho BraheDecember 14, 1546DanishTycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman who made important contributions to astronomy
Hipparchus190 BCGreekHipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer

FrenchMarch 23, 174994 views

Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī

Al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer

Persian780128 views

Otto Wilhelm von Struve

Otto Wilhelm von Struve was a 19th century Russian astronomer who pioneered the study of double stars

GermanMay 7, 1819107 views

Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer and physicist who proposed the Celsius temperature scale and founded the Uppsala Observatory

SwedishNovember 27, 1701132 views

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Sir William Rowan Hamilton was one of the greatest scientists to be born in Ireland

IrishAugust 4, 1805191 views

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Johann Heinrich Lambert was a Swiss mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher

FrenchAugust 26, 1728148 views

J. Allen Hynek

Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer and ufologist

AmericanMay 1, 1910250 views

Aryabhata

Aryabhata was an ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer

Indian476194 views

William Gilbert

William Gilbert was a distinguished astronomer and physician

BritishMay 24, 1544128 views

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman who made important contributions to astronomy

DanishDecember 14, 1546261 views