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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
Copernicus said that Earth is a planet and the sun is at the center of the solar system. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Tycho made more precise observations than any that were previously made. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
he was an italian scientist. Galileo described the moving objects. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
He discovered the three laws of planetary motion. -
Giovanni Cassini
He discovered 4 satalittes on Saturn and the division of the rings. -
Sir Issac Newton
He was the first one to come up with the law of universal gravitaton. -
Edmond Halley
He is known for Halleys comet. -
Charles Mesier
He was a french astronomer. he is known for the messier catalog of star clusters and nebulae. -
William Herschel
He discovered Uranus. He also discovered infared radiation. -
Anne Jump Cannon
Anne and Edward Pickering created the Harvard classification scheme which classified stars. -
Albert Einstein
He was a physicist. He is known for E=mc^2 and the theory of relativity. -
Edwin Hubble
In 1929 Hubble discovered the red shift. This is known as Hubbles Law. -
Frank Drake
He is known for the Drake equation and SETI which searched for extraterrestrial life. -
Carl Sagan
He is known for SETI. -
Stephen Hawking
He worked with Roger Penrose on theroms and he discovered that black holes emit radiation. This is called Hawking radiation.
