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Born December 11, 1863 • Dover • Delaware
Died April 13, 1941 (aged 77) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study classification • spectral type • stellar classification

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Pietro Angelo Secchi
Italian astronomer
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer
Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer
Pickering, Edward Charles
Edward Charles Pickering
American physicist and astronomer
Lewis Boss
American astronomer
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
John Flamsteed
British astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer
Johannes Hevelius.
Johannes Hevelius
Polish astronomer
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
Prussian astronomer
Johan Dreyer, c. 1910
Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer
Danish astronomer
Charles Messier
French astronomer

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