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Born October 25, 1877 • Oyster Bay • New York
Died February 18, 1957 (aged 79) • Princeton • New Jersey
Notable Works “Astronomy”
Subjects Of Study Hertzsprung-Russell diagram • binary star • eclipsing variable star • spectroscopic binary star • stellar evolution

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A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram plotting stars by absolute magnitude and spectral type, showing regions for main sequence stars, white dwarfs, giants, and supergiants, with color gradients from blue (hot and bright) to red (cool and dim). The Sun is marked along the main sequence.
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Robert Grant Aitken
American astronomer
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Viktor Ambartsumian
Viktor Ambartsumian
Armenian astronomer
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astronomer
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astronomer
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Harlow Shapley
American astronomer
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
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William W. Coblentz
American scientist
Adams, Walter
Walter Adams
American astronomer
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
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Michel Mayor
Swiss 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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Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī
Syrian-born theologian, mathematician, and jurist

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