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Early Thinker-Chloe and Karina

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  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 14, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    He formulated a helocentric model of the universe which placed the sun, rather than the earth, at the center.
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Using similair measurments he showed that comets were also not atmosperic phenomend.
  • Galileom Galilie
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileom Galilie

    The discovery of the four largest satellite of jupiter and an improved military campass and other instruments.
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    He did fundamentail work in the feild og optics. Invented am improved version of the refracting telescope.
  • Giovanni Cassini

    Giovanni Cassini

    Is known for his work in the fields of astronomy and engineering
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    He built the first practical retlecting teles cope and developed a theory of colur.
  • Edmond Haley

    Edmond Haley

    Is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous hailey's comet
  • Charles Messier

    Charles Messier

    Messier's first documented observation was that of the Mercury transit of 6 May 1753
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Discvered the Planet Uranus, along with two of its major moons.
  • Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne Jump Cannon

    Was instrumental in the develpoment of contemporary stellar clasification.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Developed the general theory of relativity on the two pillars of modern physics
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    Established the field of extragellactic astronomy
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    Mounted the first observations attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communication in 1960
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    Is best known for his contribution to the scientific research of extraterrestrial life
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    Was the first to set forth a cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quanttm mechanics