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Early Thinkers - Dylan Pond

  • Nicolas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus

    Copernicus said that Earth is a planet and the sun is at the center of the solar system.
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho made more precise observations than any that were previously made.
  • Galileo Galilei
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    he was an italian scientist. Galileo described the moving objects.
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    He discovered the three laws of planetary motion.
  • Giovanni Cassini

    Giovanni Cassini

    He discovered 4 satalittes on Saturn and the division of the rings.
  • Sir Issac Newton

    Sir Issac Newton

    He was the first one to come up with the law of universal gravitaton.
  • Edmond Halley

    Edmond Halley

    He is known for Halleys comet.
  • Charles Mesier

    Charles Mesier

    He was a french astronomer. he is known for the messier catalog of star clusters and nebulae.
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    He discovered Uranus. He also discovered infared radiation.
  • Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne and Edward Pickering created the Harvard classification scheme which classified stars.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    He was a physicist. He is known for E=mc^2 and the theory of relativity.
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    In 1929 Hubble discovered the red shift. This is known as Hubbles Law.
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    He is known for the Drake equation and SETI which searched for extraterrestrial life.
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    He is known for SETI.
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    He worked with Roger Penrose on theroms and he discovered that black holes emit radiation. This is called Hawking radiation.