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The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
Paul Davies (1946–) developed a vacuum model that explains microwave background fluctuation, studies time's arrow, and has written many popular-press books; Marc Davis (1947–) was lead astronomer of a survey of 50,000 high-redshift galaxies
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The Astronomers Monument pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time: Hipparchus (fl. 150 BC), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), Isaac Newton (1642–1727), William Herschel (1738–1822).
Biruni is one of the best-known early physicists . Abu sahl Al-Quhi – İran (born 940) Xiaoyi Bao – Canada; Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States (born 1931) Tom Baehr-Jones – United States (born 1980) John Norris Bahcall – United States (1934–2005) Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003) Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904 ...
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s ...
Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...
Hubble's hypothesis was opposed by many in the astronomy establishment of the time, in particular by Harvard University–based Harlow Shapley. Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on November 23 , 1924, [ 27 ] then presented them to other astronomers at ...