Early Thinkers- Chris McFadden

  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Known for making the model of the universe with the sun placed in the middle
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    known for his accurate and comprehensive astronoid phemetry observations
  • Galilieo Galilie
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galilieo Galilie

    Known for inventing a very good astronomical telescope
  • johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    johannes Kepler

    Known for laws of planetary motion
  • Giovanni Cassinni

    Giovanni Cassinni

    Known for discovering the diurnal rotation of Venus
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    Known for the laws of motion and universal gravitation
  • Edmond Haley

    Edmond Haley

    Known for computing orbit of the oponymous haley's comet
  • Charles Messier

    Charles Messier

    Known for astronomical catalog consisting of hebulae and star cluster that are known as the 110 messier objects
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Known for being the founder of sidereal astronomy of the systematic observation of the heavens
  • Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne Jump Cannon

    Responsible for the classification of many stars
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Known for developing the theory of relativity
  • edwin Hubble

    edwin Hubble

    Known for showing the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    Known for being the first pioneer in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    Author of development of the universe and theory
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    Known for his extensive research of black holes