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Also Known As Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Born March 16, 1750 • Hannover • Germany
Died January 9, 1848 (aged 97) • Hannover • Germany

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Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
James Bradley
James Bradley
English astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
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Regiomontanus
German mathematician
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Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
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Maria Kirch
German astronomer
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, detail of a lithograph by H. Mitreuter after a portrait by C.A. Jensen, 1844
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Russian astronomer

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