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Spanish astronomers by century (7 C). Astronomers from Catalonia (1 C, 5 P) 0–9. Medieval Spanish astronomers (3 C, 11 P) A. Spanish astrophysicists (14 P)
Guillem Anglada-Escudé (born 1979), is a Spanish astronomer. [1] [2] In 2016, he led a team of astronomers under the Pale Red Dot campaign, [3] which resulted in the confirmation of the existence of Proxima Centauri b, the closest potentially habitable extrasolar planet to Earth, followed by the publication of a peer-reviewed article in Nature.
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.
He wrote some books popularizing astronomy, and was first president of the Spanish and American Astronomical Society (Spanish: Sociedad Astrónomica de España y América; S.A.D.E.Y.A.). He discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solà , and co-discovered the non-periodic comet C/1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solà); he is also credited by the Minor ...
21st-century Spanish astronomers (12 P) This page was last edited on 18 July 2021, at 06:08 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
José Joaquín de Ferrer y Cafranga (Pasaia, October 26, 1763 – Bilbao, May 18, 1818) was a Spanish Basque astronomer. In 1779, aged 17, he was on board the Gipuzcoana Company's Nuestra Señora de la Asunción off Cape St Vincent when the vessel was captured by the British. After surviving captivity with the help of his family, he undertook ...
Espinosa is a Spanish astronomer working in particular in the field of active galaxies, star formation and the high redshift universe as well as in instrumentation. From September 1, 2019, to 2021, he was the Assistant Secretary General of the International Astronomical Union, replacing Ian Robson. [1]
Álvaro López-García (1941-2019) was a Spanish astronomer, professor of astronomy at University of Valencia and director of the Valencia University Observatory during the years 1968-2000. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was a specialist in astrometry and the dynamics of minor planets , and had discovered numerous of these bodies since the early 1980s, in ...