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Born June 29, 1868 • Chicago • Illinois
Died February 21, 1938 (aged 69) • Pasadena • California
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1932)
Subjects Of Study magnetic field • sunspot
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer and inventor
Jerry Earl Nelson
American telescope designer and astronomer
Horace Welcome Babcock
American scientist
Harold Delos Babcock
American scientist
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
John Stanley Plaskett
Canadian astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
John Pond
British astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
Roger Angel
American astronomer
Steele MacKaye
American playwright
Seth Carlo Chandler
American astronomer
Seth Barnes Nicholson
American astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
John B. Goodenough
American physicist
George William Hill
American astronomer

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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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