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Born 1767 • London • England
Died September 7, 1836 (aged 69) • Blackheath • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1823)
James Bradley
James Bradley
English astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
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George Ellery Hale
American astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
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John Flamsteed
British astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
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John Goodricke
English astronomer
Sir George Darwin
Sir George Darwin
British astronomer
William Huggins
William Huggins
English astronomer
Edward Sabine
Edward Sabine
British astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
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Malcolm Longair
British 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

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