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Isaac Newton
3 Laws of Motion -
Pierre Simon Laplace
Discovered the moons around Uranus -
William Herschel
Made the Analytic theory of probability -
accepted by the International Committee of Photographic Magnitudes
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completes his General Theory of Relativity.
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Wrote to Eddington abouot new breakthrough
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became director of the Leiden Observatory.
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Discovered the farther a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it appears to move away
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discovery of Pluto
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Lemaître found an important inhomogeneous solution of Einstein's field equations describing a spherical dust cloud
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showed that the cores of stars will evolve to temperatures of billions of degrees
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Arno Penzias and Rober Wilson
Used a large antenna to map the stars of the Milky way