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Born March 3, 1838 • New York City • New York
Died April 16, 1914 (aged 76) • Nyack • New York
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1909)
Subjects Of Study Moon • planet • space motion
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
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Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
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Robert Hooke
British scientist
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer
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Jeremiah Horrocks
British astronomer
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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Sir George Darwin
Sir George Darwin
British astronomer
Peter Andreas Hansen
Peter Andreas Hansen
German astronomer
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Geoffrey Marcy
American astronomer
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
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Wallace J. Eckert
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Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
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George Ellery Hale
American astronomer
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician

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