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Born January 15, 1944 • Glendale • California
Died June 10, 2017 (aged 73) • Santa Cruz • California
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George Ellery Hale
American astronomer
David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer and inventor
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
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John Stanley Plaskett
Canadian astronomer
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Roger Angel
American astronomer
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Horace Welcome Babcock
American astronomer
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Seth Carlo Chandler
American astronomer
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Harold Delos Babcock
American astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Telescope at Birr Castle
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse
Irish astronomer
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
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André-Louis Danjon
French astronomer
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
Amici, Giovanni Battista
Giovanni Battista Amici
Italian astronomer
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Giuseppe Campani
Italian inventor
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Georg von Reichenbach
German instrument maker

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