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Famous Scientists

By broganroles
  • Nov 23, 1473

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Nicholas Copernicus (1473 -1543) was a Polish astronomer, well known for his Copernican theory
  • Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.
  • Nov 23, 1564

    Galilei Galileo

    (1564-1642) an Italian physicist and astronomer
  • Nov 23, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Established the most exact astronomical tables then known; established the three laws of planetary motion.
    1571-1630

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Sir Isaac Newton
    1643-1727
    Developed theories of gravitation and mechanics, and invented differential calculus.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879.

  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer who profoundly changed the understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way

  • Claudius Ptolemy

    Claudius Ptolemy ; c. AD 90 – c. AD 168), was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer