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Great Astronomers in History

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The Standards

In chronological order

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Aristotle

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  • Greece
  • 384 - 322 BCE

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Aristarchus

  • Greece
  • 310 - 230 BCE

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Eratosthanes

  • Greece
  • Died 194 BCE

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Hipparchus

  • Greece
  • 190 - 120 BCE

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Ptolomy

  • Greece
  • 90 - 168 CE

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Nicolaus Copernicus

  • Poland
  • 1473 -1543 CE

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Tycho Brahe

  • Denmark/Czech Republic
  • 1546 - 1601 CE

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Galileo Galilei

  • Italy
  • 1564 - 1643 CE

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Johannes Kepler

  • Germany
  • 1571 - 1630 CE

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Isaac Newton

  • England
  • 1643 - 1727 CE

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Charles Messier

  • France
  • 1730 - 1817 CE

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William Herschel

  • Germany/England
  • 1738 - 1822 CE

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Edwin Hubble

  • United States
  • 1889 - 1953 CE

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Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias

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  • United States
  • Penzias born 1933 CE
  • Wilson 1927 - 2002 CE

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Lesser Known Astronomers

Also in chronological order

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Gan De

  • China
  • 4th Century BCE

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Hypatia

  • Greece
  • 350? - 415 CE

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Al-Battani

  • Persia
  • 858 - 929 CE

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Caroline Herschel

  • German
  • 1750 - 1848

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Annie Jump Cannon

  • United States
  • 1863 - 1941

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt

  • American
  • 1868 - 1921

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Josep Comas i Solà

  • Spain
  • 1868 - 1937

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Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin

  • British & American
  • 1900 - 1979

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  • India/United States
  • 1910 - 1995 CE

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Margaret Burbidge

  • England
  • 1919 - 2020

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Vera Rubin

  • United States
  • 1928 - 2016

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Arthur BC Walker

  • United States
  • 1936 - 2001

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George Carruthers

  • United States
  • 1939 - 2020

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Silvia Torres-Peimbert

  • Mexico
  • Born 1940

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

  • British
  • Born 1943

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Neil De Grasse Tyson

  • United States
  • Born 1958

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Saul Perlmutter

  • United States, Jewish
  • Born 1958

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Takaaki Kajita

  • Japan
  • Born 1959

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Jane Luu

  • South Vietnam/United States
  • Born 1963

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Beth Brown

  • United States
  • 1969 - 2008

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Your Name Here

  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School
  • Born 2002 or so

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