Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos

Pol Swings: Quick Facts

Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last updated

Facts

Also Known As Polidore F. F. Swings
Born September 24, 1906 • Belgium
Died October 28, 1983 (aged 77)
Subjects Of Study Swings effect • comet • spectroscopy • star

Photos

Swings, Pol
See All Images →
default image
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
default image
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
American astrophysicist
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer
default image
Robert Emden
Swiss astronomer
default image
Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Painting of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wearing a black robe with a white ruffled collar and a gold chain necklace with a large pendant.
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Robert Burns Woodward, 1966
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
default image
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
France A. Córdova
France A. Córdova
French-born American astrophysicist
Viktor Ambartsumian
Viktor Ambartsumian
Armenian astronomer
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astronomer