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William Herschel
William Herschel
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Henry Norris Russell
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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Harlow Shapley
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Michel Mayor
Swiss astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, detail of a lithograph by H. Mitreuter after a portrait by C.A. Jensen, 1844
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
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William Rutter Dawes
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Robert Grant Aitken
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