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Early Thinkers ~ Jake and Molly

  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Stated that the Planets revolve around the Sun as a pose to revolving around the Earth
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Made the most accurate celestial observations of his time
  • Galileo Galilei
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Made significant improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Created the laws for planetary motion
  • Giovanni Cassini

    Giovanni Cassini

    Known for Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft that was launches in 1997 which continues to transmit images from Saturn
  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton

    Wrote "Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy"
  • Edmond Halley

    Edmond Halley

    English astronomer who is known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halleys Comet.
  • Charles Messier

    Charles Messier

    French astronomer known for astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 10 messier objects.
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Discovered Uranus and its two moons, Titania and Oberon
  • Anne Jump Cannon

    Anne Jump Cannon

    Development of contemporary stellar classifications
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Theoreticla Physicist; theory of reletivity and modern physics
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    Establishing the field of extragalactical astronomy; one of the most important cosmologist
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    Founded SETI and created the Arecibo Message
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    Discovered high surface temperatures on Venus; most widely known for research of extra terrestrial life
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    Came up with theories for general reletivity