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  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Formulated a heliocentric model of the universe.
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Astronomical and planetary observatiaons.
  • Galileo Galilie
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilie

    Improve the telescope.
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Laws of planetary motion.
  • Giovanni Cassini

    Giovanni Cassini

    Discovered 4 satellites of the planet Saturn work in the fields of astronomy and engineering.
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
  • Edmond Haley

    Edmond Haley

    Computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's comet.
  • Charles Messier

    Charles Messier

    Publishing an astronomical cataogue.
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Discovered Uranus.
  • Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne Jump Cannon

    Harvard dassification scheme.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    General theory of reativity.
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    established the field of extragalactic astronomy.
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    Search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    Discovery of the high sulface temperaures of Venus.
  • Stephen Hawking

    Collaborated with Roger Penrose on gravitational singularity theorems.