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Feb 19, 1473
Nicholas Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus produced the Heliocentric Model of the solar system, to which the catholic church responded by banning his works -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was known for his planetary observations. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo is known for discovering four of the Jovian moons. He also observed the Moon, drawing it's many craters and eventually studied sunspots. Which caused him to learn the hard way that studying the sun would lead to blindness. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler created the Laws of Planetary motion. -
Giovanni Cassini
Cassini discovered Saturn moons Iapetus and Rhea. He also discovered what is now known as the cassini division in saturn's rings. -
(Sir) Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton is most widely known for his laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation. He remains one of the most widely known people in history. -
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley is known for computing the orbit of the comet now named after him, Halley's Comet. Most people know of him due to this comet's name but ironically and contrary to popluar belief, he didn't actually discover the comet. -
Charles Messier
Charles Messier is known for his astronomical catalogue. He also discovered various things previously unknown to people, now called Messier Objects. One such object is the Ring Nebula. -
William Herschel
Discovered the planet Uranus and it's moons Titania and Oberon. He also discovered infrared radiation and the NGC 2683 Galaxy. -
Anne Jump Cannon
She was known for her stellar classification. Sadly, not many people today know her name or what she did. -
Albert Einstein
Einstein, probably the most widely known name on Earth is famous for his general theory of relativity and othersuch brilliance. -
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble is today known to most people as being the person the Hubble Space Telescope was named after. He researched the velocity of galaxies and found that they increase with the distance from Earth. He was a major part of Extragalactical Astronomy. -
Franklin Drake
Frank Drake was the founder of SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) and created the Drake Equation. The Drake Equation predicts the number of habitable worlds and possible amount of intelligent alien civilizations. -
Carl Sagan
Known for so many things. His TV series, Cosmos, his work on the Pioneer Plaque, Voyager and the Golden Record. Worked out the surface temperature of Venus and research of Extraterrestrial life. -
Stephen Hawking
One of the most brilliant scientists alive, he is known for his theories on Gravitational Singularities, quantum mechanics and black hole radiation. (Hawking Radiation)
