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Adams</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1876</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1956</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/766/000096478/"><font size=-1>George Biddell Airy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1801</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1892</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>British Astronomer Royal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/564/000097273/"><font size=-1>Giovanni Battista Amici</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Mar-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Italian astronomer, microscopist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/884/000087623/"><font size=-1>Anaxagoras</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 500 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 428 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Matter composed of infinite elements</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/929/000100629/"><font size=-1>Anders Jonas Ångström</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Aug-1814</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000032212/"><font size=-1>François Arago</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Feb-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Oct-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated earth magnetics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/763/000096475/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1799</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Durchmusterung</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/756/000096468/"><font size=-1>Aristarchus of Samos</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 310 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 230 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First heliocentrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/855/000117504/"><font size=-1>Walter Baade</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Mar-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>German-American observational astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000167576/"><font size=-1>Harold D. Babcock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jan-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1968</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/081/000167577/"><font size=-1>Horace W. Babcock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Sep-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Aug-2003</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Adaptive optics and the Babcock Model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/217/000100914/"><font size=-1>Jean-Sylvain Bailly</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1736</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Histoire de l'Astronomie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000100921/"><font size=-1>Francis Baily</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1774</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1844</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First to observe Baily's Beads</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/228/000100925/"><font size=-1>John Bainbridge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1582</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1643</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Description of the late Comet</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/922/000163433/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Banneker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1731</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1806</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First African-American astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/357/000163865/"><font size=-1>Edward Barnard</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Dec-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Self-taught scientist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000167626/"><font size=-1>David Bates</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Nov-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jan-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Atmospheric and interstellar physics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/059/000094774/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1846</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Pioneer in precision astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000167693/"><font size=-1>Ludwig Biermann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Jan-1986</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar winds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/203/000167699/"><font size=-1>Adriaan Blaauw</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolving galaxies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000167730/"><font size=-1>Bart Jan Bok</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Aug-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Bok globules</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000167775/"><font size=-1>Alec Boksenberg</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Mar-1936</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Image Photon Counting System</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000167783/"><font size=-1>John G. Bolton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Jul-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First Director of Parkes Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/868/000164376/"><font size=-1>George Phillips Bond</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-May-1825</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of astrophotography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/181/000101875/"><font size=-1>Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-May-1711</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Feb-1787</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Theoria philosophiae naturalis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/425/000164930/"><font size=-1>Nathaniel Bowditch</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Mar-1773</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Mar-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>American Practical Navigator</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000167822/"><font size=-1>Ira S. Bowen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Dec-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Feb-1973</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Debunked nebulium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/130/000102821/"><font size=-1>James Bradley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1693</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1762</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Aberration of Light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/559/000024487/"><font size=-1>Tycho Brahe</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Dec-1546</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1601</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Copper-nosed Danish astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000168033/"><font size=-1>Dirk Brouwer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Sep-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Jan-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Celestial mechanics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/540/000168036/"><font size=-1>Ernest W. Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Nov-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jul-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Tables of the Motion of the Moon</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000116172/"><font size=-1>Michael E. Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 1965</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Explorer of trans-Neptunian space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000168135/"><font size=-1>R. Hanbury Brown</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Optical intensity interferometer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/665/000029578/"><font size=-1>Giordano Bruno</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1548</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1600</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heretic cosmologist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/692/000168188/"><font size=-1>E. Margaret Burbidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synthesis of the elements in stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/736/000168232/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey Burbidge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jan-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasi-steady state cosmology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/689/000237975/"><font size=-1>Jocelyn Bell Burnell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jul-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of pulsars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/771/000168267/"><font size=-1>William W. Campbell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Apr-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jun-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Stellar Motions</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/466/000164971/"><font size=-1>Annie Jump Cannon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Dec-1863</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Census-taker of the sky</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/258/000095970/"><font size=-1>Giovanni Domenico Cassini</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jun-1625</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Sep-1712</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Italo-French astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000095974/"><font size=-1>Jacques Dominique Cassini</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jun-1748</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Oct-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Director, Observatoire de Paris</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/642/000087381/"><font size=-1>Anders Celsius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1701</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1744</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astronomer, invented centigrade scale</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/960/000099663/"><font size=-1>Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Oct-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Aug-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolutionary stages of stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/458/000179918/"><font size=-1>Sydney Chapman</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jan-1888</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/826/000168322/"><font size=-1>Carl Charlier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Apr-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Motion and the Distribution of the Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/824/000168320/"><font size=-1>Charles Chree</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-May-1860</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Geomagnetic phenomena</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/702/000167201/"><font size=-1>Alvan Clark</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Mar-1804</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Telescope maker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000168331/"><font size=-1>William W. Coblentz</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Sep-1962</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000029951/"><font size=-1>Nicolaus Copernicus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Feb-1473</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-May-1543</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heliocentrist, <i>De revolutionibus</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/052/000168545/"><font size=-1>Thomas George Cowling</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Jun-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cowling model</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/162/000168655/"><font size=-1>George Darwin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jul-1845</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Evolution of the Sun-Earth-Moon system</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000027942/"><font size=-1>Raymond Davis, Jr.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-2006</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detected solar neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/209/000168702/"><font size=-1>Willem de Sitter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-May-1872</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Nov-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Expanding space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/404/000097113/"><font size=-1>Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1749</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Histoire de l'Astronomie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/416/000097125/"><font size=-1>Joseph-Nicolas Delisle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1688</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1768</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founded St. Petersburg observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/210/000168703/"><font size=-1>Henri Alexandre Deslandres</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jul-1853</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Jan-1948</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spectroheliograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/521/000165026/"><font size=-1>Jeremiah Dixon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Aug-1733</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mason-Dixon Line</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/739/000167238/"><font size=-1>Henry Draper</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1837</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early astrophotographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/322/000168815/"><font size=-1>Frank W. Dyson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-May-1939</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Six pips on the BBC</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000225775/"><font size=-1>Wallace J. Eckert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jun-1902</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Aug-1971</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First scientist hired by IBM</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/366/000168859/"><font size=-1>Arthur Eddington</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1882</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1944</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Eddington luminosity</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/616/000169109/"><font size=-1>Robert Emden</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1862</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar structure</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000095540/"><font size=-1>Johann Franz Encke</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Sep-1791</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated comets and asteroids</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000095427/"><font size=-1>Eratosthenes</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>276 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>194 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First to measure the Earth</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/658/000096370/"><font size=-1>Eudoxus of Cnidus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 390 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 340 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Influential Greek mathematician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/095/000258318/"><font size=-1>Pierre Fatou</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Aug-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Complex analytic dynamics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000096439/"><font size=-1>John Flamsteed</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Aug-1646</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Dec-1719</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder of Greenwich Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/613/000169106/"><font size=-1>Alfred Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Mar-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Celestial spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/965/000099668/"><font size=-1>William A. Fowler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Element generation within stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/025/000029935/"><font size=-1>Galileo Galilei</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1564</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1642</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Copernican observational astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/451/000179911/"><font size=-1>Pierre Gassendi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-1592</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Oct-1655</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Exercitationes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/031/000027947/"><font size=-1>Riccardo Giacconi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Oct-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered cosmic X-ray sources</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000165032/"><font size=-1>James M. Gilliss</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Sep-1811</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Feb-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Founder, US Naval Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000213530/"><font size=-1>Bill Gordon</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Feb-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Designed Arecibo radio telescope</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/424/000050274/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Apthorp Gould</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1896</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>American astronomer and star-catalogist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/964/000169457/"><font size=-1>Jesse L. Greenstein</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of quasars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000169526/"><font size=-1>Stephen Groombridge</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Jan-1755</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Mar-1832</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><I>A Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/672/000036564/"><font size=-1>George Ellery Hale</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Jun-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Feb-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Palomar Observatory</i> founder, astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/591/000165096/"><font size=-1>Asaph Hall</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Oct-1829</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered the moons of Mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/608/000030518/"><font size=-1>Edmund Halley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1656</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Jan-1742</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Predicted return of Halley's Comet</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/076/000169566/"><font size=-1>James E. Hansen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Scientist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Greenhouse effect and global warming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000101723/"><font size=-1>Peter Andreas Hansen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Dec-1795</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Mar-1874</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Fundamenta nova investigationis</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000101729/"><font size=-1>Christopher Hansteen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1784</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied terrestrial magnetism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/620/000204008/"><font size=-1>Guillermo Haro</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1988</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Herbig-Haro objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/135/000169625/"><font size=-1>Martin Harwit</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1931</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Helium-cooled rockets and infrared spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/158/000169648/"><font size=-1>Chushiro Hayashi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jul-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Feb-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Big Bang astrophysicist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/192/000169682/"><font size=-1>Otto Heckmann</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1901</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-May-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Investigated cosmic expansion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/193/000169683/"><font size=-1>Louis Henyey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Henyey method</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/675/000096387/"><font size=-1>Heraclides Ponticus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Philosopher</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 388 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 315 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Perhaps an early heliocentrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000169687/"><font size=-1>George Herbig</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jan-1920</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Herbig-Haro objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/668/000096380/"><font size=-1>Caroline Herschel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1750</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Jan-1848</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astronomer, sister of William</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/054/000086793/"><font size=-1>John Herschel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1792</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered many moons of Saturn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/661/000096373/"><font size=-1>William Herschel</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1738</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Aug-1822</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mapped heavens, discovered Uranus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/225/000169715/"><font size=-1>Ejnar Hertzsprung</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Oct-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Oct-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hertzsprung-Russell diagram</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/649/000096361/"><font size=-1>Johannes Hevelius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1611</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jan-1687</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Selenographia</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/892/000099595/"><font size=-1>Antony Hewish</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of pulsars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000169840/"><font size=-1>George W. Hill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1838</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Apr-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/842/000103533/"><font size=-1>Hipparchus</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 190 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 120 BC</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cataloguer of stars, trigonometrist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/249/000248502/"><font size=-1>Jack Horkheimer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-1938</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Naked-eye astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/305/000102996/"><font size=-1>Jeremiah Horrocks</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1619</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-1641</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Observed transit of Venus</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/758/000113419/"><font size=-1>Fred Hoyle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1915</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Aug-2001</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Opposed the Big Bang but named it</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/673/000036565/"><font size=-1>Edwin Hubble</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Nov-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble's Law</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/389/000103080/"><font size=-1>William Huggins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-May-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spectrographic astronomy pioneer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/332/000087071/"><font size=-1>Christiaan Huygens</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1629</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jul-1695</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Wave theory of light</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/453/000169943/"><font size=-1>George Isaak</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Jun-2005</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Resonant scattering spectroscopy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/055/000204440/"><font size=-1>Karl Jansky</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Oct-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Feb-1950</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio waves from outer space</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000100637/"><font size=-1>Pierre Janssen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Feb-1824</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Dec-1907</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar observer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/326/000137912/"><font size=-1>Robert Jastrow</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Sep-1925</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Red Giants and White Dwarfs</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/093/000204478/"><font size=-1>James H. Jeans</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Sep-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Sep-1946</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Continuous creation theory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/657/000170147/"><font size=-1>Jacobus C. Kapteyn</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jan-1851</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1922</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Star streaming</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/961/000167460/"><font size=-1>James E. Keeler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1857</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Composition of Saturn's rings</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/342/000086084/"><font size=-1>Johannes Kepler</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Dec-1571</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Nov-1630</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Laws of Planetary Motion</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000027946/"><font size=-1>Masatoshi Koshiba</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Sep-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detected cosmic neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000170500/"><font size=-1>Robert P. Kraft</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Lick Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/370/000105055/"><font size=-1>Nicolas Louis de Lacaille</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-May-1713</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1762</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Coelum Australe Stelliferum</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000096366/"><font size=-1>Johann Heinrich Lambert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Aug-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Sep-1777</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Pyrometrie</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/042/000170529/"><font size=-1>Jonathan Homer Lane</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Aug-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-May-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gravitational equilibrium of the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/567/000212928/"><font size=-1>Andrew E. Lange</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Jan-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/670/000165175/"><font size=-1>Samuel P. Langley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Aug-1834</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Feb-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Heavier-than-air flying machine</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000170534/"><font size=-1>Henrietta Swan Leavitt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Dec-1921</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cepheid variable</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/060/000170547/"><font size=-1>Robert B. Leighton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Leighton dishes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/140/000170627/"><font size=-1>Armin O. Leuschner</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jan-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Apr-1953</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astronomer at Berkeley</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/174/000170661/"><font size=-1>Bertil Lindblad</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Jun-1965</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spiral structure of the galaxy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000206469/"><font size=-1>Bernard Lovell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Aug-1913</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Aug-2012</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio astronomer at Jodrell Bank</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000170711/"><font size=-1>Frank J. Low</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jun-2009</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000087078/"><font size=-1>Percival Lowell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Mar-1855</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Predicted existence of planet Pluto</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/232/000170719/"><font size=-1>Willem J. Luyten</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1899</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar mortician</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/233/000170720/"><font size=-1>Donald Lynden-Bell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/234/000170721/"><font size=-1>Bernard Lyot</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Feb-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Apr-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sandstorms on Mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/120/000227436/"><font size=-1>Geoffrey W. Marcy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Sep-1954</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discoverer of exoplanets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000165033/"><font size=-1>Charles Mason</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>Apr-1728</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1786</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Mason-Dixon Line</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/412/000170899/"><font size=-1>Harrie Massey</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-May-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Nov-1983</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>British National Committee for Space Research</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/010/000095722/"><font size=-1>Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Sep-1698</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Jul-1759</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Sur la figure de la terre</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000170983/"><font size=-1>Antonia Maury</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Mar-1866</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Jan-1952</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar classification</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/016/000095728/"><font size=-1>Johann Tobias Mayer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Feb-1723</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Feb-1762</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Kosmographische Nachrichten</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/695/000171182/"><font size=-1>Paul W. Merrill</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Aug-1887</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1961</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><I>S</i>-process of nucleosynthesis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/258/000206637/"><font size=-1>Charles Messier</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1730</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Apr-1817</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Cataloguer of M objects</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/607/000107286/"><font size=-1>John Michell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Geologist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1724</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Apr-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Phaenomena of Earthquakes</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/872/000171359/"><font size=-1>Rudolph Minkowski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-May-1895</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jan-1976</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Galaxies in collision</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/911/000171398/"><font size=-1>Marcel Minnaert</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Feb-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Oct-1970</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar spectrophotometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/676/000165181/"><font size=-1>Maria Mitchell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Aug-1818</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Jun-1889</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First American female astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000206729/"><font size=-1>August Möbius</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1790</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Sep-1868</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Möbius strip</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/810/000173291/"><font size=-1>Charlotte E. Moore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Sep-1898</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1990</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Technetium in the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/543/000026465/"><font size=-1>Patrick Moore</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>TV Personality</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Mar-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>BBC's <i>The Sky At Night</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000171525/"><font size=-1>William W. Morgan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Jan-1906</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jun-1994</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/061/000171545/"><font size=-1>Gerry Neugebauer</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1932</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Infrared astronomy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/473/000103164/"><font size=-1>Simon Newcomb</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Mar-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jul-1909</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Nautical Almanac</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/078/000171562/"><font size=-1>Seth Barnes Nicholson</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Nov-1891</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Jul-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Four satellites of Jupiter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/047/000102738/"><font size=-1>Wilhelm Olbers</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Oct-1758</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Mar-1840</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied asteroids, comets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/450/000024378/"><font size=-1>Barney Oliver</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-May-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1995</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>SETI researcher</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000104032/"><font size=-1>Jan Hendrik Oort</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Apr-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>5-Nov-1992</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Theory of the origin of comets</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/082/000171566/"><font size=-1>Ernst J. Öpik</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Oct-1893</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Sep-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Andromeda Nebula</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/113/000171597/"><font size=-1>Donald E. Osterbrock</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Jul-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Jan-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Director of Lick Observatory, 1973-81</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/291/000171775/"><font size=-1>Bohdan Paczynski</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Feb-1940</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Apr-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Gravitational microlensing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/474/000171958/"><font size=-1>Eugene Parker</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1927</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Solar winds</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/532/000172016/"><font size=-1>Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-May-1900</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Dec-1979</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hydrogen in the Sun</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/606/000172090/"><font size=-1>P. James E. Peebles</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Apr-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Galaxy formation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/729/000165234/"><font size=-1>Benjamin Peirce</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Mathematician</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Apr-1809</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jun-1880</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Idempotent and nilpotent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000029940/"><font size=-1>Nicholas Claude Fabri de Peiresc</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Dec-1580</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Jun-1637</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered Orion Nebula</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/935/000099638/"><font size=-1>Arno Penzias</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Apr-1933</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Detected primordial radiation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/211/000165713/"><font size=-1>Saul Perlmutter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1959</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/940/000100640/"><font size=-1>Edward Charles Pickering</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>19-Jul-1846</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Feb-1919</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Photometer inventor and surveyor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000172327/"><font size=-1>John S. Plaskett</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Nov-1865</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-Oct-1941</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Plaskett's star</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000029945/"><font size=-1>Ptolemy</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 87 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>c. 150 AD</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Egyptian geographer and astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/772/000099475/"><font size=-1>E. M. Purcell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Physicist</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Aug-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Nuclear magnetic resonance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/090/000172571/"><font size=-1>Grote Reber</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Dec-1911</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-2002</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>First radio astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/132/000172613/"><font size=-1>Martin Rees</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jun-1942</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>President of the Royal Society</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/937/000276109/"><font size=-1>Adam G. Riess</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1969</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accelerating expansion of the universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/172/000172653/"><font size=-1>David Rittenhouse</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Apr-1732</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1796</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Early Pennsylvania scientist and statesman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/308/000172789/"><font size=-1>Bruno Rossi</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Apr-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Nov-1993</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Rossi curve and magnetopause</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/214/000165716/"><font size=-1>Vera Rubin</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Jul-1928</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Structure of galaxies</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/646/000167145/"><font size=-1>Henry Norris Russell</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>25-Oct-1877</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Feb-1957</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Giant stars and dwarfs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/889/000099592/"><font size=-1>Martin Ryle</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>27-Sep-1918</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Oct-1984</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Radio astronomer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/324/000022258/"><font size=-1>Carl Sagan</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Nov-1934</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Dec-1996</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Popular astronomer, host of <i>Cosmos</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000172825/"><font size=-1>Edwin E. Salpeter</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Dec-1924</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Nov-2008</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quantitative electron microscopic autoradiography</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/375/000172856/"><font size=-1>Allan R. Sandage</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>18-Jun-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>13-Nov-2010</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Quasars and Hubble-Sandage variable stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000172886/"><font size=-1>Wallace Sargent</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Feb-1935</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astrophysicist at CalTech</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000095212/"><font size=-1>Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Mar-1835</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1910</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Discovered canals on Mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000172889/"><font size=-1>Frank Schlesinger</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1871</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Jul-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Stellar parallaxes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/982/000276154/"><font size=-1>Brian P. Schmidt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>24-Feb-1967</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Accelerating universe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000172907/"><font size=-1>Maarten Schmidt</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>28-Dec-1929</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Co-Discoverer of quasars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/713/000168209/"><font size=-1>Karl Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>9-Oct-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-May-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Black holes, Schwarzschild radius</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/733/000168229/"><font size=-1>Martin Schwarzschild</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-May-1912</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>10-Apr-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1><i>Structure and Evolution of the Stars</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000172988/"><font size=-1>Frederick Hanley Seares</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>17-May-1873</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Jul-1964</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Astronomer at Mt. Wilson Observatory</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/577/000173058/"><font size=-1>Michael Seaton</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Jun-1923</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-May-2007</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Opacity Project</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/649/000167148/"><font size=-1>Harlow Shapley</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>2-Nov-1885</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>20-Oct-1972</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Organizer of Heaven</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/655/000173136/"><font size=-1>Iosif S. Shklovskii</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Jul-1916</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Mar-1985</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/840/000173321/"><font size=-1>V. M. Slipher</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>11-Nov-1875</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>8-Nov-1969</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Interstellar dust</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/394/000027313/"><font size=-1>Gerald A. Soffen</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-Feb-1926</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>22-Nov-2000</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Viking I mission to mars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/580/000170070/"><font size=-1>Harold Spencer Jones</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>29-Mar-1890</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>3-Nov-1960</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>10th Royal Astronomer of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000173347/"><font size=-1>Lyman Spitzer, Jr.</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>26-Jun-1914</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>31-Mar-1997</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Father of space telescopes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000167467/"><font size=-1>Joel Stebbins</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>30-Jul-1878</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>16-Mar-1966</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Photoelectric photometry</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/142/000173620/"><font size=-1>Bengt Strömgren</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>21-Jan-1908</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>4-Jul-1987</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hydrogen stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/202/000097908/"><font size=-1>Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>15-Apr-1793</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>23-Nov-1864</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied double stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/143/000173621/"><font size=-1>Otto Struve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>12-Aug-1897</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>6-Apr-1963</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Hydrogen in the interstellar medium</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/206/000097912/"><font size=-1>Otto Wilhelm Struve</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>7-May-1819</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>14-Apr-1905</nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Studied double stars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/146/000173624/"><font size=-1>Rashid Sunyaev</a></td> <td><font size=-1><center><nobr>Astronomer</nobr></center></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr>1-Mar-1943</nobr></tt></td> <td align=right><tt><nobr> </nobr></tt></td> <td><font size=-1>Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/995/000099698/"><font size=-1>Joseph H. 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