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Feb 19, 1473
Nicholas Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model of the Earth. This model placed the at the center of the universe rather than the Earth. His book called, The Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, began the Copernican Revolution and contributed to the scientific revolution. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate astronomcal and planetary discoveries. He was a well known astronomer that became the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel the passion for exact facts. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilie
Galileo Galilie was and Italian physicist, mathmatician, astronomer, and philosopher. He played a major role in the scientific revolution. He improved the telescope and astronomical observations. He has been called the father of "modern observational astronomy." He confirmed that there were phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, and the analysis of sunspots. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johnannes Kepler was a German mathmetician, astronomer, and astrologer. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion. His works provided foundations for Isaac Newtons theory of universal gravitation. -
Giovanni Cassini
Giovanni was an Italian and French astronomer. He discovered the four satellites of rhe planet of Saturn and the rings of Saturn. -
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was a key figure in the scientific revolution. He formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation. It dominated the scientific views of the physical universe. It also demonstrated the motion of objects on Earth. -
Edmond Haley
Edmond Haley was an astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for computing the orbit of the Halley`s Comet. -
Charles Messier
Charles Messier was a French astronomer. He is well known for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of the nebulae and the star clusters. It helped astronomical observers. -
William Herschel
William Herschel was a Hanoverian-born British astronomer, technical expert and composer. He first became famous of the discovery of the planet, Uranus along with its major moons. He also discovered the two moons of Saturn. He became the first person to discvoer infrared radiation. -
Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer. She was involved in the development of the contemporary stellar classification. She also credited the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme. It was the first serious attempt to classifiy and organize stars based on their temperature. -
Albert Einstein
Albery Einstein was a German born theoretical physicist. He created the general theory of relativity. He is best known for his formula E= mc2. He recieved the 1921 Noble Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and the discovery of the law of photoelectric effect. -
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who played a huge role in the establishment of extragalastic astronomy. He is known as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century. He also created Hubble`s Law. -
Frank Drake
Frank Drake is an American astronomer and astophysicist. He is most noticed for being one of the pioneers in te search for the extraterrestrial intelligence. He was involved in the formation of the Drake Equation. He is the creator of the Arecibo Message. It is a digital encoding of an astronomical and biological description of the Earth. -
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He discovered the high surface temperatures of Venus. He also contributed to the research of extraterrestrial life. -
Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking is an English physicist and cosmologist. He collaborated the theory of gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity. He also came up with the theory of black holes.
