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# Famous Astronomers

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- [Caroline Herschel](https://famousastronomers.org/caroline-herschel/) - Born: Mar 16, 1750 in Hanover, Germany Died: Jan 9, 1848 (at age 97) in Hanover, Germany Nationality: German Famous For: discovery of comets Awards: Astronomical Society (1828), Prussian Gold Medal for Science (1846) Caroline Herschel was an astronomer in the late 18th and early 19th centuries who lived in both England and Germany. Her
- [Johannes Kepler](https://famousastronomers.org/johannes-kepler/) - Born: Dec 27, 1571 in Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt, Germany Died: Nov 15, 1630 (at age 58) in Regensburg, Electorate of Bavaria, HRE, present-day Germany Nationality: German Famous For: Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Kepler conjecture Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who formulated three laws of planetary motion, which were indispensable
- [Tycho Brahe](https://famousastronomers.org/tycho-brahe/) - Born: Dec 14, 1546 in Knutstorp Castle, Scania, Denmark, Denmark–Norway Died: Oct 24, 1601 (at age 54) in Prague, Holy Roman Empire Nationality: Danish Famous For: accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe first became interested in astronomy when he realized that it could accurately predict the eclipse of the
- [Charles Messier](https://famousastronomers.org/charles-messier/) - Born: Jun 26, 1730 in Badonviller, France Died: Apr 12, 1817 (at age 86) in Paris, France Nationality: French Famous For: Messier catalog Awards: Cross of the Legion of Honor Charles Messier came to be known across the scientific community of Europe as "The Ferret of Comets." That is because as a French astronomer, he
- [William Herschel](https://famousastronomers.org/william-herschel/) - Born: Nov 15, 1738 in Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire Died: Aug 25, 1822 (at age 83) in Slough, England Nationality: German, British Famous For: Discovery of infrared radation & Uranus, deep sky surveys In 1781, the German-English astronomer William Herschel sent shockwaves through the world of science when he discovered the planet Uranus. Since
- [Stephen Hawking](https://famousastronomers.org/stephen-hawking/) - Born: Jan 8, 1942 in Oxford, England Nationality: British Famous For: A Brief History of Time, Hawking radiation, Singularity theorems Awards: Albert Einstein Award (1978), Wolf Prize (1988), Prince of Asturias Award (1989), Copley Medal (2006), Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009), Special Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) Stephen Hawking is a renowned theoretical physicist and astronomer.
- [Pierre-Simon Laplace](https://famousastronomers.org/pierre-simon-laplace/) - Born: Mar 23, 1749 in Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France Died: Mar 5, 1827 (at age 77) in Paris, France Nationality: French Famous For: Black holes, Bayesian probability, Laplace's equation, Laplace distribution, and many others Pierre-Simon Laplace, also known as Marquis de Laplace, was a French astronomer and mathematician who became famous for his theory regarding the
- [Nicolaus Copernicus](https://famousastronomers.org/nicolaus-copernicus/) - Born: Feb 19, 1473 in Torun, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland Died: May 24, 1543 (at age 70) in Frombork, Prince-Bishopric of Warmia, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland Nationality: Polish Famous For: Heliocentrism, Copernicus' Law Nicolaus Copernicus was a German-Polish astronomer who helped found the discipline of astronomy when he posited that the earth was not
- [Michael E Brown](https://famousastronomers.org/michael-e-brown/) - Born: Jun 5, 1965 Nationality: American Famous For: "killing" Pluto Awards: Feynman Prize (2007), Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2012) Michael E. Brown was born on June 5th, 1965. He is a famous astronomer known for his work on distant objects (beyond Neptune) orbiting the sun. His biggest achievement is the discovery of the dwarf planet
- [Joseph-Louis Lagrange](https://famousastronomers.org/joseph-louis-lagrange/) - Born: Jan 25, 1736 in Turin, Piedmont-Sardinia Died: Apr 10, 1813 (at age deadAGE) in Paris, France Nationality: Italian, French Famous For: Analytical mechanics, Celestial mechanics, Mathematical analysis, Number theory Awards: Grand Croix (1813), French Academy of Sciences (1764) Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born on January 25, 1736, in the city of Turin, located in Italy.
- [Johann Gottfried Galle](https://famousastronomers.org/johann-gottfried-galle/) - Born: Jun 9, 1812 in Radis, Germany Died: Jul 9, 1910 (at age 98) in Potsdam, Germany Nationality: German Famous For: Discovery of Neptune Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer. He was the first person to view planet Neptune and actually know that he was looking at the planet. Early Life Galle was born
- [Fritz Zwicky](https://famousastronomers.org/fritz-zwicky/) - Born: Feb 14, 1898 in Varna, Principality of Bulgaria Died: Feb 8, 1974 (at age 75) in Pasadena, California, USA Nationality: American, Swiss Famous For: Dark Matter, Supernovae, Galaxies, Neutron stars Awards: President's Medal of Freedom (1949), Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1972) Fritz Zwicky was a Swiss astronomer who worked most of
- [Edwin Hubble](https://famousastronomers.org/edwin-hubble/) - Born: Nov 20, 1889 in Marshfield, Missouri, U.S. Died: Sep 28, 1953 (at age 63) in San Marino, California Nationality: American Famous For: Hubble sequence Awards: Legion of Merit 1946, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1940, Franklin Medal 1939, Bruce Medal 1938 Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer who played a vital role
- [Edmund Halley](https://famousastronomers.org/edmund-halley/) - Born: Nov 8, 1656 in Haggerston, Shoreditch, London, England Died: Jan 14, 1742 (at age 85) in Greenwich, London, England Nationality: English, British Famous For: Halley's Comet Edmund Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician who was brought up in a wealthy family. His father was a soap maker from the Derbyshire family at a
- [Christiaan Huygens](https://famousastronomers.org/christiaan-huygens/) - Born: Apr 14, 1629 in the Hague, Dutch Republic Died: Jul 8, 1695 (at age 65) in the Hague, Dutch Republic Nationality: Dutch Famous For: Titan, explaining the rings of Saturn, centrifugal force, Huygens-Fresnel principle, wave theory, and many others Christiaan Huygens was a natural philosopher and mathematician from the Netherlands. He was notably known
- [Carl Sagan](https://famousastronomers.org/carl-sagan/) - Born: Nov 9, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Died: Dec 20, 1996 (at age 62) in Seattle, Washington, U.S. Nationality: American Famous For: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Cosmos Awards: NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (1977), Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1978), Oersted Medal (1990) Carl Sagan, an astronomer, cosmologist,
- [Annie Jump Cannon](https://famousastronomers.org/annie-jump-cannon/) - Born: Dec 11, 1863 in Dover, Delaware Died: Apr 13, 1941 (at age 77) Nationality: American Famous For: Stellar classification Awards: Henry Draper Medal (1931) Annie Jump Cannon was a Delaware-born astronomer who discovered at least 300 variable stars. These are stars that change their brightness or magnitude over time. These discoveries made Cannon a
- [Thomas Gold](https://famousastronomers.org/thomas-gold/) - Born: May 22, 1920 in Vienna, Austria Died: Jun 22, 2004 (at age 84) in Ithaca, New York Nationality: Austrian, British, American Famous For: Steady state theory, origin of abiogenic petroleum Awards: John Frederick Lewis Award (1972), Humboldt Prize (1979), Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985) Thomas Gold was an astrophysicist and a
- [Galileo Galilei](https://famousastronomers.org/galileo-galilei/) - Born: Feb 15, 1564 in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy Died: Jan 8, 1642 (at age 77) in Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy Nationality: Italian Famous For: Kinematics, Dynamics, Telescopic observational astronomy, Heliocentrism Galileo Galilei was born on February 15 1564, in Pisa, Italy. When he was 17 years old, his parents sent him
- [Jocelyn Bell Burnell](https://famousastronomers.org/jocelyn-bell-burnell/) - Born: July 15, 1943 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Nationality: Northern Irish Famous For: Discovery of first 4 pulsars Awards: The Herschel Medal (1989), Fellow of the Royal Society (March 2003), Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2007) Some say that Jocelyn Bell Burnell made the greatest discovery concerning astronomy in the
- [George Gamow](https://famousastronomers.org/george-gamow/) - Born: Mar 4, 1904 (O.S. Feb 20) in Odessa, Russian Empire Died: Aug 19, 1958 (at age 64) in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. Nationality: Russian, American Famous For: Big Bang, Gamow factor, Gamow–Teller transition, Alpher–Bethe–Gamow paper, Alpha decay Awards: Kalinga Prize (1956) George Gamow was a Ukrainian-American cosmologist and a theoretical physicist. He was also an
- [Clyde Tombaugh](https://famousastronomers.org/clyde-tombaugh/) - Born: Feb 4, 1906 in Streator, Illinois Died: Jan 17, 1997 (at age 90) in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. Nationality: American Famous For: Discovery of Pluto Pluto used to be the ninth plant in the solar system until it was demoted to a dwarf planet several years ago. Its demotion happened less than a

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