Astronomers And Cosmologists 1-24
19 entries in the Astronomers And Cosmologists compendium.
Astronomers And Cosmologists 1-24 — Era Chart
Anania Shirakatsi7th-century Armenian polymath, father of exact sciences in Armenia.Anders CelsiusSwedish astronomer who proposed the centigrade temperature scale.Anton PannekoekDutch astronomer and council communist theorist.Aristarchus of SamosAncient Greek astronomer who first proposed a Sun-centered universe.Arthur EddingtonEnglish astrophysicist who confirmed general relativity and studied stellar interiors.CallippusGreek astronomer who refined planetary spheres and the calendar.Charles MessierHis work helped astronomers distinguish between permanent and transient diffuse objects inClyde TombaughAmerican astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.Allan SandageAmerican astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble conArno Allan PenziasCo-discoverer of cosmic microwave background radiation.Hugh Everett IIIAmerican physicist who proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.Jan OortDutch astronomer who provided early evidence for dark matter.Jane LuuJane X. Luu (born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems enginJohann Gottfried GalleFirst to view Neptune, validating celestial mechanics.Johannes HeveliusLunar topographer, comet discoverer, and brewer of Gdańsk.Johannes KeplerGerman polymath who formulated laws of planetary motion.John FlamsteedHe is best known for his posthumously published star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, andKarl SchwarzschildGerman physicist who gave the first exact solution to general relativity.Jim PeeblesCanadian-American cosmologist; Nobel laureate for theoretical cosmology.
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