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Born December 12, 1803 • Braintree • England
Died December 3, 1882 (aged 78) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study Neptune
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
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John Couch Adams
British astronomer
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
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Heinrich Louis d’Arrest
German astronomer
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Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-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
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, 1967
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astronomer
John D. Barrow
John D. Barrow
British astrophysicist
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
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Roger Angel
American astronomer
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Thomas Gold
British astronomer

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