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 | |||
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Name | Birthday | Nationality | Bio |
Jabir Ibn Hayyan | 721 | Iranian | Jabir Ibn Hayyan was a medieval era polymath |
Isaac Newton | January 4, 1643 | British | Isaac Newton was an English scientist and mathematician, who discovered gravitation and Newtonian Mechanics |
Giovanni Domenico Cassini | June 8, 1625 | Italian | Giovanni Cassini was a 17th century Italian mathematician, astronomer and astrologer |
Brahmagupta | 598 | Indian | Brahmagupta was a highly accomplished ancient Indian astronomer and mathematician |
Henrietta Swan Leavitt | July 4, 1868 | American | Henrietta Swan Leavitt was an American astronomer |
Carl F. Gauss | April 30, 1777 | German | Carl F |
Galileo Galilei | February 15, 1564 | Italian | Galileo Galilei was an Italian Astronomer and Scientist |
Omar Khayyam | May 18, 1048 | Iranian | Omar Khayyám was an extremely talented and famous Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet |
Tycho Brahe | December 14, 1546 | Danish | Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman who made important contributions to astronomy |
Hipparchus | 190 BC | Greek | Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician |
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Otto Wilhelm von Struve was a 19th century Russian astronomer who pioneered the study of double stars
Anders Celsius
Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer and physicist who proposed the Celsius temperature scale and founded the Uppsala Observatory
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was one of the greatest scientists to be born in Ireland
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Johann Heinrich Lambert was a Swiss mathematician, astronomer, physicist, and philosopher
J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer and ufologist
William Gilbert
William Gilbert was a distinguished astronomer and physician
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman who made important contributions to astronomy