Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Astronomer
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Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
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Ibn Al-haytham (965-1040)
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
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William Herschel (1738-1822)
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James Van Allen (1914-2006)
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Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
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Clyde Tombaugh (1906-1997)
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Anders Celsius (1701-1744)
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Charles Smyth (1819-1900)
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Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913)
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David Meade
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Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
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James E. Keeler (1857-1900)
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Phil Plait, 60
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Gerry Neugebauer (1932-2014)
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Nasir Al-din Al-Tusi (1201-1274)
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Jan Oort (1900-1992)
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712)
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Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)
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George Mueller (1918-2015)
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Female Astronomers
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Ole Romer (1644-1710)
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Ormsby M. Mitchel (1810-1862)
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Harlow Shapley (1885-1972)
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David Rittenhouse (1732-1796)
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Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835-1910)
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A E Douglass (1867-1962)
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Norman Lockyer (1836-1920)
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John Herschel (1792-1871)
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Pavlos Kastanas
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Grote Reber (1911-2002)
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James Westphal (1930-2004)
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Brian O'Leary (1940-2011)
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Ernst Opik (1893-1985)
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Russell W. Porter (1871-1949)
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William Harkness (1837-1903)
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Edward Sabine (1788-1883)
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George Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974)
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Otto Wilhelm Von Struve (1819-1905)
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Jack Horkheimer (1938-2010)
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Stephen Thorsett, 60
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Florence Ray Moulton (1872-1952)
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L'udmila Pajdusakova (1916-1979)
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John Brashear (1840-1920)
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Khaled Saleh Al-Zaaq, 54
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