Astronomers And Cosmologists 25-37
12 entries in the Astronomers And Cosmologists compendium.
Astronomers And Cosmologists 25-37 — Era Chart
Didier QuelozSwiss astronomer who co-discovered the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.Edward Charles PickeringDirector of Harvard College Observatory who oversaw the Harvard Computers.Ejnar HertzsprungDanish astronomer who co-created the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.Fred HoyleEnglish astronomer who co-founded stellar nucleosynthesis theory.Friedrich Wilhelm BesselGerman astronomer who first measured the distance to a star.Fritz ZwickySwiss astronomer who pioneered dark matter and supernova theory.George Ellery HaleFounder of Mount Wilson Observatory and builder of the Hooker Telescope.Georges LemaîtreBelgian priest and physicist who proposed the Big Bang theory.Giovanni Domenico CassiniItalian-French astronomer who discovered four moons of Saturn and its ring division.Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias OlbersGerman astronomer who discovered asteroids and formulated Olbers's paradox.Henrietta Swan LeavittDiscovered the period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars.Henry Norris RussellAmerican astronomer who co-created the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.
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