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Peter Andreas Hansen, detail from a lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann, 1856
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Born December 8, 1795 • Denmark
Died March 28, 1874 (aged 78) • Gotha • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1850)
Subjects Of Study orbit • planet

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Peter Andreas Hansen, detail from a lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann, 1856
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Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
George William Hill
American astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Geoffrey Marcy
American astronomer
Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer
Michel Mayor
Swiss astronomer
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
William Rutter Dawes
British astronomer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
George Ellery Hale
American astronomer

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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.
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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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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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