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Born December 8, 1795 • Tønder • Denmark
Died March 28, 1874 (aged 78) • Gotha • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1850)
Subjects Of Study orbit • planet

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Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
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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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
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George William Hill
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
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Geoffrey Marcy
American astronomer
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Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer
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Michel Mayor
Swiss astronomer
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
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Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
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William Rutter Dawes
British astronomer
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Pierre Mechain
French scientist
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
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George Ellery Hale
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