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Scientist whose area of research is astronomy.
Famous astronomers include:
A
- John Couch Adams (Britain, 1819-1892)
B
- Johann Bayer (Germany, 1572-1625)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (Germany, 1784-1846)
- Tycho Brahe (Denmark, 1546-1601)
C
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini (France, 1625-1712)
- Bonaventura Cavalieri (Italy, 1598-1647)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland, 1473-1543)
D
- Galileo Galilei (Italy, 1564-1642)
G
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (Germany, 1777-1855)
H
- Asaph Hall (USA, 1829-1907)
- Hipparchus (Nicea, c. 190-120 B.C.)
- Fred Hoyle (United Kingdom, 1915-2001)
- Edwin Powell Hubble (USA, 1889-1953)
- Christiaan Huygens (Netherlands, 1629-1695)
K
- Johannes Kepler (Germany, 1571-1630)
- Kidinnu (Babylon, c. 400-310 B.C.)
- Gerard Kuiper (Netherlands & USA, 1905-1973)
L
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (France, 1713-1762)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert (Germany, 1728-1777)
- Pierre Simon Laplace (France, 1749-1827)
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt (USA, 1868-1921)
- Percival Lowell (USA, 1855-1916)
N
- Nabu-rimanni (Babylonia, c. 560-480 B.C.)
- Isaac Newton (United Kingdom, 1643-1727)
- Peter Nilson (Sweden, 1937-1998)
P
- Ptolemy of Alexandria (Roman Egypt, c. 85-165)
R
- Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller, Germany, 1436-1476)
- Erasmus Reinhold (Prussia, Germany 1511-1553)
- Grote Reber (USA, 1911- )
S
- Carl Sagan (USA, 1934-1996)
- Harlow Shapley, (USA, 1885-1972)
T
- Clyde Tombaugh (USA, 1906-1997)