astronomers library
Astronomers have contributed greatly to our understanding of physics and motion. In this section you can learn all about famous astronomers and what each of them has contributed to our understanding of space.
Featured Article: David H. Levy
Levy, David H. (1948) is an amateur astronomer who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet. See more »
Rosse, Earl of
Rosse, William Parsons, Third Earl of (1800-1867), a British astronomer and engineer.
See more »Russell, Henry Norris
Russell, Henry Norris (1877-1957), a United States astronomer. About 1913 he and Ejnar Hertzsprung independently noted certain relationships between stars that resulted in the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, a method of classifying stars.
See more »Sagan, Carl
Sagan, Carl (19341996), a United States scientist and author. He was a leading popularizer of science, appearing frequently on television and writing many best-selling books.
See more »Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio
Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginia (18351910), an Italian astronomer. He is best known for his studies of Mars, begun in 1877, in which he described in detail the Martian canals.
See more »Shapley, Harlow
Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972), a United States astronomer. His studies of stars in globular clusters and of Cepheid variable stars led to a new understanding of the structure of the universe.
See more »Sitter, Willem de
Sitter, Willem de (18721934), a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in applying Albert Einstein's theory of relativity to astronomy and developed a model of an expanding, curved universe.
See more »Slipher, Vesto Melvin
Slipher, Vesto Melvin (18751969), a United States astronomer. He made perhaps more basic contributions in various fields of astronomy than any of his contemporaries, Slipher is best known for his fundamental spectroscopic discoveries, especially of the rotations and atmospheres of planets.
See more »Struve, Otto
Struve (STROO veh), Otto (1897 - 1963) was a Kussian-born American astronomer who belonged to a family of distinguished scientists that included six astronomers over four generations, he being the last.
See more »Theodore Von Krmn
Von Kármán, Theodore (1881-1963) was a Hungarian-born American physicist and engineer who made great contributions to the field of aerodynamics and rocket technology.
See more »Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Tsiolkovsky (or Ziolkovsky), Konstantin Eduardovich (18571935), a Russian rocket pioneer who is generally regarded as the father of space travel.
See more »William Wallace Campbell
Campbell, William Wallace (1862-1938), an American astronomer, made important measurements of the motion of stars.
See more »Young, Charles Augustus
Young, Charles Augustus (18341908), a United States astronomer noted for his spectroscopic studies of the sun.
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