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Early Thinkers-Emma Anderson & Amelia Mazza

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  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    He was mostly known for the Heliocentrism Copernicus' Law.
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    He is know for his accurate astronomical and planetary observations.
  • Galileo Galilie
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilie

    He is known for the descriptions of the behavior of moving objects.
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

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

    Giovanni Cassini

    Known for his work in the feilds of astronomy & engineering - most notably discovered 4 satellites of the planet saturn & noted the divison of the rings of Saturn
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    He's most known for the Law of Gravition
  • Edmond Halley

    Edmond Halley

    Enlgish atronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meterorogist & physicist. Best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet
  • Charles Messier

    Charles Messier

    Messier Caalog- consits of nebulae & star clusters
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Discoverd Uranus, Discovered infrared raiation
  • Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne Jump Cannon

    Stellar classification- american author
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Kwon for man things. One is that he developed the general theory of relativity.
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    Hubble sequece- showing that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, impling the unverse is expanding.
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    SETI Drake education/ american astonomer & astrophysicist
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, & scientist. Commnicator in astronomy & natural sciences. Best knwn for his contributions to the scientific research of extraterrestriallife.
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    Hawking radiation, Phenrose- Hawking theorems