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Thales of Miletus (634-546 BC) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Thales.html

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Greek philosopher who is considered the founder of Greek science, mathematics, and philosophy.

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Sullivan, Woodruff (b. 1944) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Sullivan.html

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American astronomer and historian of radio astronomy.

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Struve, Otto (1897-1963) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Struve.html

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Russian-American astronomer who discovered interstellar calcium and hydrogen.

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Smith, F. Graham (b. 1923) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/SmithGraham.html

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Radio astronomer.

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Slipher, Vesto (1875-1969) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Slipher.html

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American astronomer . He was the first to obtain good photographs of Mars.

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Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Shapley.html

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American astronomer who discovered the galactic distance scale .

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Schwarzschild, Karl (1873-1916) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Schwarzschild.html

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German astronomer and physicist who developed the use of photography for measuring variable stars.

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Scheuer, Peter (b. 1930) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Scheuer.html

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German astronomer .

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Salomonovich, Alexander (b. 1916) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Salomonovich.html

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Russian radio astronomer .

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Sandage, Allan (b. 1926) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Sandage.html

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American astronomer who has made numerous observations to attempt to fix the value of the Hubble constant.

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Sagan, Carl (1934-1996) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Sagan.html

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American astronomer, author, and popularizer of science and astronomy.

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Ryle, Sir Martin (1918-1984) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/RyleMartin.html

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English radio astronomer .

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Gold, Thomas (1920) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Gold.html

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Austrian-British-American astronomer . He proposed that matter was continuously created in the expanding universe to keep the density constant (the Bondi-Gold steady-state cosmological model ).

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Halley, Edmund (1656-1742) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Halley.html

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English astronomer who discavery the comet of Halley , which he predicted would return again around 1758.

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Huggins, William (1824-1910) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/HugginsWilliam.html

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English astronomer who built a private observatory from which he studied spectra of nebulae, stars, planets, comets.

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Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Piazzi.html

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Italian astronomer who mapped the positions of 7,646 stars and discovered first asteroid.

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Ritchey, Georg (1864-1945) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Ritchey.html

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American astronomer who has built several telescopes.

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Riccioli, Giovanni (1598-1671) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Riccioli.html

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Italian astronomer and follower of the Ptolemaic system .

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Rheticus (1514-1574) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Rheticus.html

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Austrian mystic and Copernicus's only student and spokesman who published a popularization of Copernicus's theories .

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Regiomontanus (1436-1476) - English
URL: http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Regiomontanus.html

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German name: Johann Müller. German astronomer who revised the Alfonsine tables .

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